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NASCAR Chair & CEO Brian France today said that the sanctioning body "won't change its new championship format." France said the format instituted last season is "overwhelmingly popular" with fans and resulted in "perhaps the best Chase ever" (AP, 1/26).

Royal Dutch Football Association Chair Michael van Praag today “entered the FIFA presidential election race.” Van Praag, “the biggest challenger” to FIFA President Sepp Blatter, became the first candidate to “announce he has the required nominations from five of FIFA’s 209 member federations” (AP, 1/26).

Joe Gibbs Racing announced that GameStop will sponsor the No. 20 NASCAR Xfinity Series Toyota driven by Erik Jones for 10 races in ’15. This season marks GameStop’s eighth year partnering with JGR (JGR).

The MLB Cardinals announced that Busch Stadium will host the U.S. women's national soccer team's first domestic match of '15, an April 4 contest against New Zealand. FS1 will telecast the match (Cardinals).

PGA Tour Superstore has signed a multiyear partnership with Golf Channel that includes a brand integration program and media buy (PGA Tour Superstore).

Extreme Networks today announced that it will be the official WiFi analytics provider of Super Bowl XLIX, where its Purview platform will be used to monitor and measure the mobile fan experience during the game (Extreme Networks).

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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