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Golf HOFer JACK NICKLAUS and wife, BARBARA, who chairs the North Palm Beach-based Nicklaus Children’s Health Care Foundation, yesterday announced a $60M pledge to Miami Children’s Health System. The Miami-based pediatric hospital system will "change its name" to Nicklaus Children’s Hospital, effective in March. Two pediatric medical centers in Broward County are "named for famous athlete-philanthropists: Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital in Hollywood, and Chris Evert Children’s Hospital" in Ft. Lauderdale. But Nicklaus' "will be the first in Miami" (MIAMI HERALD, 2/4).

AWARDS & HONORS: Wizards and Capitals Owner TED LEONSIS on Monday received the U.S. Sports Academy's Theodore Roosevelt Meritorious Achievement Award in DC. The award is given annually to an individual who has excelled as a contributor to both sport and society over at least a decade (U.S. Sports Academy)....Nike CEO MARK PARKER was named the Portland Business Journal's CEO of the Year (PORTLAND BUSINESS JOURNAL, 1/30 issue). 

NAMES: ECW Press of Toronto this week released "BLACK ICE: THE VAL JAMES STORY," about the first U.S.-born black NHLer. James and author JOHN GALLAGHER co-wrote the book, which "includes graphic descriptions of racist behavior directed at James" (N.Y. TIMES, 2/4)....Bears WR BRANDON MARSHALL was seen in NFL Commissioner ROGER GOODELL's suite on Sunday during Super Bowl XLIX. An NFL spokesperson said that Marshall "attended the Super Bowl in a separate suite near the commissioner's, and that Marshall stopped by [to] say hello" (CHICAGOTRIBUNE.com, 2/3)....South Carolina women’s basketball coach DAWN STALEY has been “sworn in as an Honorary Deputy with the Richland County Sheriff’s Department” (South Carolina)....Season 10 of “THE REAL HOUSEWIVES OF ORANGE COUNTY” will feature the spouses of Angels LF JOSH HAMILTON and former MLBer JIM EDMONDS (SI.com, 2/3)....Bucks F KENYON MARTIN has put his Woodland Hills, Calif., home on the market for $1.85M (LATIMES.com, 2/3)....Golfer HUNTER MAHAN “has sold his golf course home” in Coto de Caza, Calif., for $1.68M. Mahan “put the home on the market in November” for $1.799M after paying $1.52M for the property in ’08 (LATIMES.com, 2/3).

IN MEMORY: Golf HOFer CHARLIE SIFFORD, the “first African-American to play on the PGA Tour,” died yesterday in Cleveland at 92. His son, CHARLIE JR., said that he had “suffered a minor stroke three weeks ago.” Sifford in November “received the Presidential Medal of Freedom” (CHARLOTTE OBSERVER, 2/4). Sifford "went on to win two titles" on Tour and was inducted into the HOF in '04 (OREGONLIVE.com, 2/3). 

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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