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NAMES IN THE NEWS

     "Wayward hoops fans have jammed the phone lines" all week at
UNLV ticket offices to pledge season ticket purchases if coach
ROLLIE MASSIMINO leaves the school.  450 callers pledged $450,000
total and one man put down $10,000 cash "in anticipation" of
Massimino's removal (PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, 10/14)....New CBS/Fox
Video's Sport and Fitness Products Marketing Dir LAURA SULLIVAN
is developing promo activities for sports and fitness titles,
including a January release of "Lucky Vanous:  The Ultimate Fat-
Burning Workout."  LUCKY VANOUS is the Diet Coke model and
Sullivan hopes the video will elicit soft drink and calendar
promos (BRANDWEEK, 10/10 issue)....JACK NICKLAUS was in Little
Rock this week to announce he will build a golf course on the
grounds of the proposed Harrah's Music Resort.  The resort
includes a casino and will be voted on through a constitutional
amendment in this November's election (ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE,
10/13)....

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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