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Welcome back to The Varsity, my twice-weekly newsletter on all the sotto voce conversations insidiously occuring in the owners’ boxes. As you read this, I should be sipping an Old Fashioned at Puck’s third anniversary party on the lower east side of Manhattan. We’re ringing in the occasion at Nine Orchard, an impossibly chic hotel that would never let Marchand in. Hopefully I’ll be seeing some of you august lettermen and letterwomen tonight.
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Welcome back to The Varsity, my twice-weekly newsletter on all the sotto voce conversations insidiously occuring in the owners’ boxes. As you read this, I should be sipping an Old Fashioned at Puck’s third anniversary party on the lower east side of Manhattan. We’re ringing in the occasion at Nine Orchard, an impossibly chic hotel that would never let Marchand in. Hopefully I’ll be seeing some of you august lettermen and letterwomen tonight…

On yesterday’s episode of The Varsity podcast, WaPo’s Ben Strauss and I went deep on ESPN’s strategy. Meanwhile, be sure to look for my conversation with the Premier Lacrosse League’s Paul Rabil this weekend. Rabil offers a high-level strategic view on how to launch a new league in the era of niche sports.

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