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MLB Marketplace Roundup: Hamilton, Wilson Promote Head & Shoulders' "Whiff-a-Thon"

ESPN.com's Patrick Dorsey noted Angels P C.J. Wilson and RF Josh Hamilton, along with Steelers S Troy Polamalu, last Friday "took part in a Los Angeles-based event promoting Head & Shoulders' new 'Whiff-a-Thon' to benefit Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities." The company will donate $1 "for each MLB whiff this season" (ESPN.com, 4/1).

THE NEW MILKMAN? Muscle Milk parent company CytoSport yesterday announced a deal with Dodgers P Clayton Kershaw. The deal includes a program in which Muscle Milk will donate $100 for every strikeout he throws during a given period to Kershaw's Challenge, a charity benefiting at-risk children. Kershaw will appear in L.A.-specific marketing and will be one of the brand's marquee national athletes. Muscle Milk also has a deal with the Dodgers (Muscle Milk).

I LOVE GOOOOOLD! The Giants on April 7 will wear specially designed jerseys from Majestic and caps from New Era embossed in gold to commemorate their '12 World Series Championship (MLB).

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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