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          DEALS: Visa USA and USA Hockey officially announced a
     partnership for the '98 Olympics that offers Visa category
     exclusivity and establishes Visa as the "Preferred Card" of
     the U.S. Olympic Ice Hockey team through the 2002 Olympics
     in Salt Lake City (Visa). (SEE THE DAILY, 9/3/97, FOR MORE).
          NFL: NBC "has only one minute" of fourth-quarter ad
     time left for Super Bowl XXXII, according to USA TODAY's
     Dottie Enrico.  Enrico also notes that pre-game ad time
     "just before kick-off" is going for the "premium price" of
     $600,000 to $700,000 per 30-second spot (USA TODAY, 9/17).
          GENERAL: ProServ has relocated its offices from VA to
     DC.  It is now located at 1620 L St. NW (WASHINGTON BUSINESS
     JOURNAL, 9/15 issue)....Sports Illustrated has made its
     first foray into trading cards, choosing Fleer for its '97
     SI World Series Fever baseball cards (Fleer).



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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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