
National sports business insider and founder of the ‘Extra Points’ newsletter Matt Brown (middle) joined Ku’ulei Agbayani (right) and Paul Brecht (left) on Wednesday, October 30 for an in-studio interview about his time in Hawai’i. | Photo Credit: Ku’ulei Agbayani, HSRN
‘Extra Points’ founder Matt Brown joins Wake Up in the Den
BY PAUL BRECHT | HONOLULU
PUBLISHED OCTOBER 30, 2024
HONOLULU – What really are the hurdles (and helps) Hawai’i has in the college athletics landscape?
Matt Brown, founder of the ‘Extra Points’ newsletter and a national sports business insider, joined Wake Up in the Den with Ku’ulei Agbayani on Wednesday to discuss some of what he found during his visit to the islands about the off-the-field challenges that Hawai’i has faced as an athletic department.
Originally from Ohio, Brown has spent decades doing different jobs to help him provide a unique perspective on college athletics and the inner workings of the NCAA’s business side of operations. He has traveled all over the country, discussing many of the forgotten details of college sports in his ‘Extra Points’ newsletter.
He talks more about his background, multiple stories about Hawai’i athletics that he was working on during his time in Honolulu and pulled back the curtain on the process of EA Sports’ College Football 25 that put together one of the most anticipated games in recent memory.
You can subscribe to his newsletter – ‘Extra Points’ – by click on the link below.
LINK: EXTRA POINTS HOME PAGE
Brown provides a free subscription option, with access to a pair of newsletters each week, and a paid subscription option that provides up to four newsletters per week about the various details of college sports across the nation.
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