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Leagues and Governing Bodies

IT TAKES TWO: WNBA ANNOUNCES LOBO AND SWOOPES SIGNINGS

     WNBA President Val Ackerman announced U.S. Gold Medalists
Rebecca Lobo and Sheryl Swoopes have signed contracts to play in
the inaugural season of the WNBA, the women's pro basketball
league to debut in June '97.  Terms of the deals were not
disclosed (WNBA).
     NBA AT 50: The CHICAGO TRIBUNE's Sam Smith concluded his
"NBA at 50" series today with a look at the league's future under
the header, "Despite League's Boom, Fears Over Future Mount."
Pacers coach Larry Brown: "I'm fearful we're going to have the
movement with free agency that's affected baseball.  Where you're
not knowing from year to year who's on which teams.  Fans develop
a relationship with players and you can lose that continuity."
NBA Deputy Commissioner Russ Granik: "Nothing has happened in the
last year (with salaries) that makes any more problem than
there's ever been.  But next summer will be an important test to
see whether the teams can be fiscally responsible or not."
Smith, on the NBA: "It's much wealthier and healthier than it
ever imagined it could be, still capable of procreating and still
vibrant.  But age doesn't always bring wisdom.  And the NBA may
have outsmarted itself with its phenomenal growth" (CHICAGO
TRIBUNE, 10/23).

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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