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The NBA House at the Rio Games, a free interactive experience that showcased the league, won the the Rio Chamber of Commerce's Award for Best Hospitality during the Olympics, as voted by fans. More than 80,000 fans attended NBA House over the course of 12 days (THE DAILY).

GAME FACE: The Tennessee athletic department is "teaming with DISH, The Pat Summitt Foundation and IMG College-Vol Network to develop the initiative 'Get Your Game Face On!'" Created to "bring awareness to the fight against Alzheimer's," the fundraiser begins at the Florida-UT football game on Sept. 24 at Neyland Stadium. DISH will "provide all 102,455 fans in attendance with custom eye-black stickers featuring the PAT SUMMITT signature 'P' and the branded 'Tennessee' trademark" (Knoxville NEWS SENTINEL, 9/16).

FILM ROOM: Raptors President & GM MASAI UJIRI's "GIANTS OF AFRICA" documentary screens Friday night at Ryerson Theatre as part of of the Toronto Int'l Film Festival's Docs Program (TORONTO SUN, 9/16)....Pro Football HOFer TERRY BRADSHAW will appear in the upcoming comedy “BASTARDS,” which stars ED HELMS and OWEN WILSON (DEADLINE.com, 9/15)....The film "MUNICH '72 AND BEYOND," which gives an account of the Olympic massacre and 43-year fight for recognition by the victims' families, was named Best Documentary at the L.A. Int'l Short Film Festival (L.A. Shorts Fest).

NAMES: DraftKings on Thursday released a video of Patriots TE ROB GRONKOWSKI, RB LEGARRETTE BLOUNT and CB MALCOLM BUTLER “playing ice cream men handing out free ‘Foxboro Farms’ ice cream on the streets of Boston this past summer” (BOSTON HERALD, 9/16)....The new Kent & Curwen collection "will make its retail debut in November, and "no one is more enthusiastic than DAVID BECKHAM, who’s not only invested the brand but is more than happy to front it too." Kent & Curwen is Beckham’s "only apparel line" (WWD.com, 9/16)....Pro Football HOFer FRANCO HARRIS’ line of Franco’s Italian Army Gridiron Sausages will debut Sunday at Heinz Field at a price of $10-12 (PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW, 9/16)....Celtics Managing Partner & CEO WYC GROUSBECK was spotted Friday morning at LaGuardia Airport’s Terminal C (THE DAILY)....Pacers C MYLES TURNER has “joined the Advisory Board of the Indianapolis-based Dropping Dimes Foundation” (INDYSTAR.com, 9/15).

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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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