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Bud Selig Says MLB Will Not Interrupt Schedule To Help Get Baseball Back Into Olympics

MLB “won't change its schedule to boost the sport's chances of getting back into the Olympics,” according to Ronald Blum of the AP. MLB Commissioner Bud Selig on Thursday said, "Look, we can't stop our season in August. We just can't. You can't say to your fans: 'We'll see you in the next period of time. Your club loses some players but yours doesn't.'" He said of MLB taking a break for Olympic play, "Do I wish I could? Yes. But is it practical? No." Meanwhile, Selig “once again insisted he will not accept a new contract when his current term expires in December 2014.” MLB’s security officials also “met Thursday but Selig said no changes are expected in the rules on bags fans can bring to ballparks, generally limited to 16 inches by 16 inches by eight inches.” He said of the Boston Marathon bombings, "I wouldn't say that Boston has changed anything. Each club makes its own decision" (AP, 4/25). Selig said that he “expects to visit Chicago in May to get an update" on Cubs Chair Tom Ricketts’ plan to renovate Wrigley Field. In Chicago, Chris De Luca notes Selig is “particularly eager to see how Ricketts plans to install a giant video screen at the old ballpark.” Selig: “I have to see the final plans. They haven’t divulged them yet. I really don’t know what’s going up. I think a lot of people want to see those plans” (CHICAGO SUN-TIMES, 4/26).

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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