Menu
Download the app

SBJ subscribers – Enhance your experience with the revamped iOS app

Media

Media Notes

ESPN’s Trevor Matich noted that Univ. of Texas football coach Mack Brown is “not down on the Longhorn Network” despite his comments earlier this week, as Brown also mentioned the “good things that it provides.” Matich said, "They're in the second year now of a 20-year run, so they've made some adjustments as they've seen how it's affected the program." The net this year "restricted a little bit of the access of the cameras to meeting rooms so that they can just focus on football sometimes in certain sensitive meetings and it doesn't feel like a TV show so much." Matich noted Brown sees LHN "as a very positive long-term thing for the program," but the net and the football program "will need over the next couple of years to shake out the logistics” ("College Football Live," ESPN, 10/24).

HELP WANTED: THE BIG LEAD's Jason McIntyre cites sources as saying that ESPN "tried to hire Yahoo NBA columnist Adrian Wojnarowski to beef up its basketball reporting" after NBA writer Ric Bucher took a new position last month. A source said that Wojnarowski "decided to stay at Yahoo." Bucher also has a "new gig" as a radio host with KGMZ-FM in S.F. He said that "there's a chance he could return to ESPN as an independent contractor beginning January 1" (THEBIGLEAD.com, 10/24).

RE-RUN SEASON: ESPN.com's Dan Rafael noted HBO's "24/7" reality series will "yet again" feature boxers Manny Pacquiao and Juan Manuel Marquez "as they prepare for their fourth fight against each other" on Dec. 8. This year's show will be a "four-part series," and debuts Nov. 17 (ESPN.com, 10/24).

GAME BOY: USA TODAY's Brett Molina wrote 2K Sports' recent "NBA 2K13" release "continues to cement the series as one of the best sports video games available." The pace of the game "has picked up ... so expect more opportunities to push the fast break." Also, for the first time, voice controls "have been enabled for Kinect owners, allowing them to bark out plays to virtual teammates" (USA TODAY, 10/24).

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.

Shareable URL copied to clipboard!

https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Daily/Issues/2012/10/25/Media/Media-Notes.aspx

Sorry, something went wrong with the copy but here is the link for you.

https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Daily/Issues/2012/10/25/Media/Media-Notes.aspx

CLOSE