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The Good Stuff: Alonzo Mourning Breaks Ground On Affordable Housing Project

Basketball HOFer ALONZO MOURNING on Monday broke ground on a $22.8M “affordable housing project” in Miami. Construction “has already started” for the Courtside Family Apartments in the Overtown neighborhood (MIAMI HERALD, 6/23)....The Hornets on Monday joined with FS Carolinas/SportSouth and Bank of America in its “Swarm to Serve” effort. The three groups worked on three separate projects “to benefit military personnel.” The service projects “consisted of refurbishing the veteran’s center at Central Piedmont Community College, packing care kits for local veterans in need and helping make home repairs for a local veteran in the community” (CHARLOTTE OBSERVER, 6/23)....The Jewish Museum Milwaukee has a summerlong exhibit sponsored by the Brewers called "Chasing Dreams," which “celebrates diversity in professional baseball.” Former MLB Commissioner BUD SELIG, along with his wife, SUE, and Brewers Owner MARK ATTANASIO and his wife, DEBBIE, are “honorary chairs on the exhibit's committee.” Notable names “will be at the museum this summer for baseball-related panels” (MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL, 6/23)....Time Warner Cable’s News NY1 affiliate today at the N.Y. Stock Exchange recognized 25 high school students who excel in academics, athletics and the community as part of the 16th Scholar Athlete of the Week luncheon. Former NBAer JOHN STARKS was on hand to help honor the students. Each athlete featured will be given a $1,000 scholarship (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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