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     In Indianapolis, Robin Miller writes he believes Valvoline
ending its relationship with the Indianapolis Motor Speedway
"because it was tired of being jerked around by the Speedway and
it refused to pay Masters prices for the Nike Tour" (INDIANAPOLIS
STAR-NEWS, 3/20)....Fila stock was up 2 5/8, closing at 23 1/8,
as Goldman Sachs added the company to its recommended list
("NBR," PBS, 3/19)....Phil Mushnick writes on potential marketing
fallout from Dennis Rodman's fifth suspension:  "The thing to
watch now, if you really want to gauge where we're at and where
we're headed, is what the Nikes and Pizza Huts do" (N.Y. POST,
3/20).... Anheuser-Busch will launch three ad campaigns at the
end of the month:  freshness labels on Budweiser, Bud Ice and Bud
Light cans and bottles; a corporate identity campaign with theme,
"It'd be weird without beer"; the centennial of its Michelob
brand (AD AGE, 3/18 issue)....MCI today will unveil a new
corporate logo, replacing their tangerine colored mark with a
"button-down navy blue" MCI with an orange star burst above (USA
TODAY, 3/20)....Blockbuster Entertainment CEO Steven Berrard has
resigned to rejoin Wayne Huizenga as President and COO of Auto
Nation USA (N.Y. TIMES, 3/20).

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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