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Bay Area Continues Soccer Push With MLS All-Stars Game At Avaya

The Bay Area's "summer of soccer" continues tonight with Arsenal taking on the MLS All-Stars at Avaya Stadium at 9:00pm ET, adding to events including Copa America Centenario and Int'l Champions Cup matches. The star power "has helped bolster the Bay Area's reputation as one of the nation's premier soccer hubs" and the opening of Levi's Stadium and Avaya in the past two years "provided two stadiums worthy of major events." Former USMNT player Landon Donovan said, "It's no coincidence people want to come here. They want to come where they know people will support it" (SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS, 7/28).

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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