- Longtime sports agency and NBC Sports exec Bob Basche, renowned for developing and coining the term “Breakfast at Wimbledon," died recently after a battle with throat cancer, writes SBJ's Terry Lefton in an obit. Basche penned a op-ed for SBJ in 2009 on the 30th anniversary of "Breakfast at Wimbledon," writing in part, "Six months before Wimbledon, our production team ... was running a brainstorming production seminar on how we would change our approach at Wimbledon for a live audience and at the unheard of hour of 9 a.m. on the East Coast. With this early time in mind, I casually mentioned that I guess it would just be 'Breakfast at Wimbledon.' There was silence in the conference room while everyone digested this perfect promotional tag, and the rest is history."
- The end of the Paris Olympics took a bite out of the NFL’s Week 1 preseason audience, with games on NFL Network down 14% from last year and down 12% from two years ago (excluding HOF Game for all years), notes SBJ's Austin Karp.
