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NAMES IN THE NEWS

     Eagles President HARRY GAMBLE resigned to become the NFL's
Coordinator of Football Ops and Club Relations.  Gamble will join
Jerry Seeman, Supervisor of NFL officials, in fielding complaints
from head coaches about officiating (S.A. Paolantonio,
PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, 3/31)....MSG President DAVE CHECKETTS is
interviewed in CRAIN's NEW YORK BUSINESS's 10th Anniversary issue
(CRAIN'S NEW YORK, 3/27). ....CHUCK DALY will offer Warriors
President ANDY DOLICH candidates for their search for a
VP/Basketball Ops, but "didn't sound ready to pursue the job"
(SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS, 3/31)....JOHN LEHR has been named
VP/Business Affairs and General Counsel of the new IHL club in
L.A. (L.A. IHL).... Hope Beckham, Inc., the Atlanta sports
marketing and media firm and owners of the Silver Bullets
announced:  DEBRA LARSON joins as team Dir of P.R.; NIRVA MILARD
is the team's new publicist; GREG COHN is the new Dir of FL
Operations;  LAWTON LOGAN is Asst Marketing Manager; MIKE KING is
the Merchandise Manager; BILLY HICKS joins Hope-Beckham as
Director of Operations for the Mediterranean Baseball League
(Hope Beckham)....BO JACKSON's guest spot in Friday's episode of
CBS' "Diagnosis Murder" was profiled on "extra" ("extra," 3/30).

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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