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Packers QB Aaron Rodgers said that he "does not particularly enjoy the experience of wearing a microphone for games but he feels obliged to the league and NFL Films." Rodgers: "NFL and (NFL) Films have the power, I guess you could say, to try and make you do it. ... I love watching it on TV and watching other people do it, but haven’t felt great about doing it personally because I want everything to be authentic" (JSONLINE.com, 10/2).

NAMES & FACES: Former CSN New England anchor and reporter Carolyn Manno has signed a multiyear deal with NBC Sports Group and will serve as a reporter on NBC's "Football Night in America." In addition, she will cover college football and college basketball, host NBC Sports Group's MLS coverage and SportsDesk updates, and serve as a correspondent for action sports coverage, including the Dew Tour. Manno also will have roles with NBC's coverage of the '14 Sochi Games and with NBC Sports Radio Network (NBC)....Media training and crisis counsel firm Everything is on the Record named ESPN NBA reporter Ric Bucher Partner and Trainer (John Ourand, THE DAILY). Bucher on Twitter feed said, "And for those asking with the @EIOTR announcement: yes, still plan to work for ESPN. Just not as extensively or exclusively" (TWITTER.com, 10/2).

DUST OFF THE SWEATER VEST: Former Ohio State Univ. football coach Jim Tressel has joined Cleveland's WKYC-NBC as a special contributor. WKYC's "A Moment With Jim Tressel" will air each Wednesday during the station's 7:00pm ET newscast. WKYC President & GM Brooke Spectorsky in a statement said Tressel's "motivational speeches and best- selling books will be the basis" of the segments (WKYC).

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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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