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Sources said that Tulsa AD Derrick Gragg is a "top candidate" for the same position at Arkansas (ARKANSASONLINE.com, 11/30).

Lagardere Sports' Tim Mickelson will "no longer be representing" golfer Jon Rahm. Lagardere Golf Division President Steve Loy now "will represent Rahm" with a pair of associates -- Jeff Koski in the U.S. and Jamie Evans in Europe -- "handling daily affairs" (GOLFDIGEST.com, 12/1).

NBC Sports Digital on Thursday for the opening round of the Hero World Challenge, which saw the return of Tiger Woods, saw 8.1 million live streaming minutes. That one-day figure alone would rank No. 6 this year among four-day tourney numbers on the NBC platform. A four-day streaming total for the Hero World Challenge is likely to end up above The Players Championship and Presidents Cup, but still below the Open Championship (Austin Karp, Assistant Managing Editor).

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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