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          TV MONITOR: Last night's 10:00pm ET 60-minute edition     of FSN's "National Sports Report" led with a preview of the     Mets-Cardinals NLCS, followed by the firing of Blue Jays     manager Jim Fregosi.  The first non-MLB report, at 7:17 into     the broadcast, was Heat C Alonzo Mourning possibly needing a     kidney transplant.  "NSR" had 6:14 of total MLB coverage.      Last night's 11:00pm ET 30-minute edition of CNN/SI's     "Sports Tonight" led with Mourning, followed by an update on     the health of Celtics F Paul Pierce.  The first non-NBA     report, at 4:20, was Fregosi.  "Sports Tonight" had 5:03 of     total MLB coverage.  Last night's 11:00pm ET 60-minute     edition of ESPN's "SportsCenter" led with Stars-Hurricanes,     followed by Oilers-Canadiens.  The first non-NHL report, at     5:15, was a Hawks-Magic preseason game.  "SportsCenter" had     9:54 of total MLB coverage (THE DAILY).          THE BUZZ ON FANBUZZ: ESPN.com Mall has added TeamStore     at ESPN.com, which is powered by FanBuzz.com (FanBuzz.com).      CBS MarketWatch's John Thorsberg wrote that FanBuzz.com     "will do approximately" $10M in revenue this year.  It     handles online sales of more than 15 teams and league     clients like the NHL, the White Sox and the MLB Giants.      FanBuzz.com co-Founder Scott Killian: "No consumers know who     FanBuzz.com is, but that's OK.  We power other brands,     teams, leagues, schools, media partners and even     manufacturers.  We are here to enable other already     established brands" (CBS MarketWatch, 10/7).          NOTES: ABC's "MNF" coverage, featuring Buccaneers-     Vikings, averaged a 14.9/25 national Nielsen rating, making     it the highest rated "MNF" broadcast since Week 1's 15.3/26     featuring Broncos-Rams (HOUSTON CHRONICLE, 10/11).  "MNF"     averaged 22 million viewers and a 9.7/25 in the 18-49 adults     demo (HOLLYWOOD REPORTER, 10/11)....The Grizzlies reached a     three-year partnership with CISL-AM to carry all games     during the 2000-01 season.  CISL is the No. 2 AM station in     British Columbia.  The deal also calls for a promotion     alliance with CISL's sister station, the No. 1 station in     Vancouver (Grizzlies)....FSN's coverage of 96 Tigers regular     season games in 2000 averaged a 3.1 local cable rating     (57,350 HHs) in the Detroit area, up 19% from last year's     2.6 (FSN)....USA TODAY's David Lieberman reports that bids     "were due Tuesday" for "struggling" Times Mirror Magazines.      The sale "may bring as much as" $500M.  Tribune Co. "likely     will pick a winner this week" (USA TODAY, 10/11).

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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