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done with the calls by Aug.
15.”
Besides receiving the
Dick Schaap Memorial
Award from fellow ESPN
journalist Jeremy Schaap,
Dick Schaap’s son, at the
Greenberg Invitational,
Schefter participated in a
sports panel with seven-
time Cy Young Award
winner Roger Clemens and
Jeremy Schaap, an 11-time
Emmy Awards winner.
Detroit radio and
television personality Mike
Stone was the sports panel
moderator.
Clemens was presented
the Hank Greenberg
Memorial Lifetime
Achievement Award at the
Greenberg Invitational by
Steve Greenberg, Hank
Greenberg’s son.
Brown has been in the
same fantasy football league
with business associates
and friends since the
early 1990s. The league is
unofficially known as FFL
Detroit.
There are 20 teams in the
league. Most of the team
owners have been the same
through the years.
Brown’s team name is the
Bloody Gloves.
“That’s a reference to the
OJ (Simpson) trial, which
was big news back when we
started the league. I’ve kept
the name, even though a lot
of people today probably
don’t understand it,” he
said.
Brown’s only league
championship came in
2001. But he’s been in the
championship round about
a half-dozen times.
The league draft is
normally held on the
Wednesday before the
Thursday opening night
NFL game. What happens
if draft Wednesday falls on
Rosh Hashanah?
“If that happens, the date
of the draft is changed,”
Brown said. “There are
three Jewish guys in the
league including myself,
so everyone makes
accommodations.”
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to stevestein502004@yahoo.com.
ESPN’s Adam Schefter (bottom left) answers a fantasy football
question during a Zoom call won in an auction by Jason Brown
(top left).
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