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MLB Prepping For Tomorrow's Annual Jackie Robinson Day Festivities

MLB tomorrow will commemorate the 64th anniversary of Jackie Robinson breaking baseball's color line with a wide collection of initiatives encompassing on-field events, community functions, and TV and online extensions. Every player in the league tomorrow will again wear Robinson's No. 42, the third consecutive year that has been done. A new website, IAm42.com, will debut for Jackie Robinson Day, featuring in part videos from 64 current and former MLB players discussing the legacy and impact of the late HOFer, with the number 64 specifically chosen to tie into the current anniversary number. Players participating in that effort include fellow HOFers Andre Dawson, Lou Brock and Ernie Banks, Yankees Ps CC Sabathia and Mariano Rivera and Mets 3B David Wright. MLB Network Saturday will air a new MLB Productions special, "Letters From Jackie: The Private Thoughts of Jackie Robinson," featuring personal letters he sent during his lifetime, including ones to Branch Rickey and Martin Luther King Jr. Though Jackie Robinson Day commemorations will be held tomorrow in every MLB ballpark, the hub of the in-venue events will be at Yankee Stadium, where Robinson's widow, Rachel, will appear along with a group of Tuskegee Airmen. Before the Rangers-Yankees game, Robinson and MLB execs will also appear in Newark for a ceremony for that city's Reviving Baseball In Inner Cities (RBI) program, as well as at another event in Brooklyn for the league's Breaking Barriers youth essay contest.

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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