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Levy Restaurants today announced the launch of E15, a subsidiary that uses advanced analytics services to optimize the fan experience and the financial performance of sports and entertainment venues. Jaime Faulkner will serve as CEO of the Chicago-based venture (Levy Restaurants).

The LPGA today announced that Japan- and South Korea-based food conglomerate Lotte has extended its title sponsorship of the Lotte Championship in Honolulu for three years through '17 (LPGA).

A new set of marks were unveiled today for Holy Cross athletics (Holy Cross).

The NFL and ESPN today announced a deal making the net the league’s only pay-TV broadcast partner in Brazil through '16 (ESPN).

Palisades Arcadia Baseball partner Nick Sakellariadis today confirmed that his group "closed late last week" on its purchase of the Single-A Midwest League Dayton Dragons from Mandalay Baseball Properties (BIZJOURNALS.com, 8/19).

SBJ Morning Buzzcast: March 25, 2024

NFL meeting preview; MLB's opening week ad effort and remembering Peter Angelos.

Big Get Jay Wright, March Madness is upon us and ESPN locks up CFP

On this week’s pod, our Big Get is CBS Sports college basketball analyst Jay Wright. The NCAA Championship-winning coach shares his insight with SBJ’s Austin Karp on key hoops issues and why being well dressed is an important part of his success. Also on the show, Poynter Institute senior writer Tom Jones shares who he has up and who is down in sports media. Later, SBJ’s Ben Portnoy talks the latest on ESPN’s CFP extension and who CBS, TNT Sports and ESPN need to make deep runs in the men’s and women's NCAA basketball tournaments.

SBJ I Factor: Nana-Yaw Asamoah

SBJ I Factor features an interview with AMB Sports and Entertainment Chief Commercial Office Nana-Yaw Asamoah. Asamoah, who moved over to AMBSE last year after 14 years at the NFL, talks with SBJ’s Ben Fischer about how his role model parents and older sisters pushed him to shrive, how the power of lifelong learning fuels successful people, and why AMBSE was an opportunity he could not pass up. Asamoah is 2021 SBJ Forty Under 40 honoree. SBJ I Factor is a monthly podcast offering interviews with sports executives who have been recipients of one of the magazine’s awards.

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