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Rob Manfred Intends To Sit With Pete Rose To Discuss Reinstatement

MLB will have an on-field ceremony tonight prior to the All-Star Game in Cincinnati to reveal the results of its Franchise Four promotion, in which fans selected the four most impactful players in each club’s history. Pete Rose will be part of the ceremony as one of the designees for the host club Reds. MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred said he intends to meet soon with Rose regarding his bid for reinstatement from a lifetime ban from baseball, and that MLB continues to review documents from the '89 John Dowd investigation that led to Rose’s ban.

“Mr. Rose deserves an opportunity to tell me whatever he wants me to know about the issues,” Manfred said. MLBPA Exec Dir Tony Clark said he was “disheartened” that Rose is now far more known among fans for the ban than being the sport’s all-time hit leader. “It’s disheartening that at this point, we’re still talking about it,” he said.

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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