Welcome to the latest issue of The Varsity, my twice-weekly private email on the inside story animating the business of sports and the egos who run it. I’m sending this today from the Acela after a couple days’ worth of meetings in New York.

Thanks for the overwhelmingly positive feedback on my last story about the NBA rights lottery. The battle between Zaz and Brian Roberts for the “B package” is truly turning out to be one of the great stories of our time… Oh, also: Stop forwarding this email to your colleagues who pretend they can’t afford Puck! (You know what you pay them, and how much Horace Mann and Harvard-Westlake cost per year!) The next culprit we identify will get a parcel with Marchand’s lithographs from his Blue period.

Okay, let’s get started!