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NAMES IN THE NEWS

     Former Pirates pitcher and broadcaster JIM ROOKER has ended
his Congressional bid after his nominating petitions were
challenged (Pittsburgh TRIBUNE-REVIEW, 2/23)....HALLE BERRY
announced that her three-year marriage with Braves OF DAVID
JUSTICE is over (ATLANTA CONSTITUTION, 2/23).... Former Rams' GM
DON KLOSTEMAN is named in a multi-million dollar sexual
harassment suit from his one-year stint as President of the firm
managing Hollywood Park's casino (L.A. TIMES, 2/22)....IOC
Marketing Dir MICHAEL PAYNE and ESPN/ Chilton Sports Poll Exec
Dir RICHARD LUKER are among the speakers who have been added to
address Sports Summit Europe on March 7-8 in Amsterdam (Sport
Summit Europe).

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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