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NAMES IN THE NEWS

     NBPA President BUCK WILLIAMS, on the current labor
negotiations: "They take us for granted like all we can do is
play the game.  It's an attitude that has developed early on that
has to be changed. ... We care just as much about professional
basketball as Mr. Stern does. ... It would be foolish not to
wonder where basketball is headed and not be prepared because the
climate of professional sports has really changed" (MCCLATHCY
NEWS, 12/16).  Heavyweight Champ GEORGE FOREMAN will host the
final telecast of "Saturday Night Live" tomorrow on NBC....GRANT
HILL tells USA WEEKEND how he was "offended" during college
recruiting by Georgetown, his first choice, when he was asked to
read pages from a book out loud (USA TODAY, 12/16).

SBJ Morning Buzzcast: March 25, 2024

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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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