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     The plight of the Carolina Panthers tickets sales is the
focus of Tom Sorensen's column in today's CHARLOTTE OBSERVER.  As
of today, Panther fans will fill an average of about 47,000 of
the 76,000 seats at Clemson's Memorial Stadium.  Sorensen
speculates the team could sell as many as 10,000 individual seats
this week on the heels of their win Saturday over the Jaguars,
but that they need another strong performance in exhibition or
the regular season to get a  "jolt" in tickets sales (CHARLOTTE
OBSERVER, 7/31).... Yankees Owner George Steinbrenner sympathizes
with the Twins' "bad stadium lease" and says he could guarantee
enough votes from fellow owners to allow Twins Owner Carl Pohlad
to move the team.  But the Twins owner said he has no plans to
move his franchise (Sid Hartman, Minneapolis STAR TRIBUNE,
7/31)....Atlanta-based Hope-Beckham, which works as "senior
advisors" to Virginia Baseball Club Inc., the group trying to
bring an MLB team to Northern VA, is profiled in the ATLANTA
CONSTITUTION.  Hope-Beckham Co-Chair Bob Hope said at a meeting
in VA last week, "the consensus was within six months a team will
move.  I am not sure baseball wants that to happen, but you have
financial conditions of some teams pushing it to happen" (ATLANTA
CONSTITUTION, 7/30).... Arena Football Commissioner Jim Drucker
said that regardless of who buys the for-sale Miami Hooters,
Miami Arena will have an AFL team next season (MIAMI HERALD,
7/29).

SBJ Morning Buzzcast: March 25, 2024

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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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