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This week on Forbes:
(1) Former Marlins Owner Is Not Done Beating Up Miami-Dade County;
(2) Why Major League Baseball May Soon Be Defending A Collusion Case;
(3) Conor McGregor May Get Knocked Out In New Trademark Disputes;
(4) MLB’s Off-Season: Boycotting, Collusion And Alternative Spring Training Talks

This week on Inc.:
(1) Money Doesn’t Buy Success With Super Bowl Ads;
(2) How a London-Based Company is Attempting to Revolutionize the Health and Fitness Industry;
(3) Why ESPN’s New OTT Service May End up Being a Huge Bust

And as always, the weekly wrap-up:

Basketball

• The agent is alleged to have used government money on beverages, food and gambling [Report: FBI agent in college basketball corruption probe accused of misconduct].
• Wonder how this may affect Pitino’s pending lawsuits [Source, documents bolster Rick Pitino’s account of Coach 2 calls with Adidas executive].
• It looks like Rose’s representatives did a good job negotiating this deal [Adidas’ partnership with NBA star Derrick Rose hasn’t gone to plan].

Football

• A little bit on one of the more prominent female NFL agents [Meet one of the few NFL female agents].
• His agent Bob LaMonte terminated their relationship immediately thereafter [Josh McDaniels’ last-second decision to spurn the Colts for the Patriots is starting to have some repercussions in the NFL].

Baseball

• Scott Boras is not thrilled with teams stockpiling rosters of younger, lower-cost rosters [In Slow Market, Boras Says MLB Needs More Incentive to Win].

Soccer

• It was found Premier League clubs paid £220m in agents’ fees during the 2016-17 season [Time to curb big bucks football agents make from transfer fees].