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MARKETPLACE ROUND-UP

          IN THE PIT: Beverage Source Worldwide, manufacturer of
     Rawlings Sports Drink, has joined the NASCAR Busch Grand
     National Series (BGN) Pontiac team as a major associate
     sponsor to display its Rawlings brand Thirst Quencher.  The
     team plans to compete in 24 BGN events this year (Beverage
     Source Worldwide)....Raybestos, the official brakes of
     NASCAR, will become the title sponsor of NASCAR's Northwest
     Tour, which will now be called the Raybestos Brakes
     Northwest Series (NASCAR)....Driver Darrell Waltrip, who
     signed a sponsorship deal with Speedblock, Inc. in January,
     said he was "terminating the contract effective immediately"
     because the company "grossly failed" to fulfill the terms of
     the deal.  Waltrip did not elaborate.  OH-based Speedblock,
     manufacturer of home building systems, and company President
     Dick Haas were unavailable for comment (LAS VEGAS SUN,3/11).
          NOTES: SporTVision, a company started by the people who
     invented the FoxTrax glowing puck, is featured in USA TODAY. 
     SporTVision's new basketball invention, called AIR F/X, uses
     optical sensors mounted behind each backboard and on two TV
     cameras positioned around the arena.  The sensors measure a
     player's trajectory and height off the floor.  USA TODAY's
     Kevin Maney writes that Turner Sports "is the broadcaster
     most interested in using it" (USA TODAY, 3/12).

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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