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Wheels & Deals: Tony Stewart Headlines New Driver-Heavy Coca-Cola Spot

USA TODAY's Nate Ryan reports NASCAR driver and team owner Tony Stewart "will be in the driver's seat of a commercial Coca-Cola will launch during Sunday's Daytona 500 that will feature a heavy social media component." The ad shoot, "which occurred last month at Charlotte Motor Speedway," includes drivers Danica Patrick, Joey Logano, Ryan Newman, Greg Biffle and Denny Hamlin. It is titled "Family Road Trip," and features "moments that were ad-libbed between takes of an ad in which Stewart drives his peers in an SUV" (USA TODAY, 2/22).

FIT FOR THE KING: Martinsville Speedway and STP on Thursday announced a multiyear deal for title sponsorship of the track's NASCAR Sprint Cup Series spring race, making it the STP Gas Booster 500. At the race, which this year will be held on April 7, STP also will serve as a co-primary sponsor (along with Jani-King) of Richard Petty Motorsports' No. 43 Ford driven by Aric Almirola. The paint scheme will commemorate the first time the STP logo was on Richard Petty's car in '72 (THE DAILY).

EXPLODING ONTO THE SCENE: Daytona Int'l Speedway announced that its July 5 NASCAR Nationwide Series race will be rebranded as the Subway Firecracker 250. The track's annual summer Sprint Cup race held some version of the "Firecracker" moniker in its title from the inaugural race in '59 until '88. The summer Nationwide race at DIS had been called the Subway Jalapeno 250 since '09 (THE DAILY).

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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