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MLS Facility Notes: Taylor Twellman Says Orlando City Sets Precedent For MLS

ESPN's Taylor Twellman in a Q&A with the ORLANDO SENTINEL's Alicia DelGallo said Orlando City SC is "going to be a measuring block for how you build a soccer-specific stadium." He said the club's home is "going to be a real soccer and soccer-only stadium, and I think that’s going to be extremely unique." Twellman said Orlando City Stadium is "not built for the extracurricular." Twellman: "It’s simply built for the home games. Because as great as that atmosphere’s been the past two years, they’ve struggled at home, and so this is built for a home-field advantage. ... It’s built to keep the heat in. The supporters are going to be extremely imposing on every team coming in" (ORLANDO SENTINEL, 3/3).

FOOTBALL MEETS FUTBOL: In L.A., Nick Green noted for the first time since Chivas USA disbanded in '14, the Galaxy are sharing their home turf, this time with the Chargers. The Chargers will "soon be spraying NFL markings" on StubHub Center's "lush sod with lumbering football players tear chunks out of it." Green: "Let’s hope the Chargers spend some of the money from those $3,700 season tickets on looking after the turf." Stadium officials have "reassured soccer fans everything will be hunky dory." Green: "But frankly I’ll believe it when I don’t see it" (L.A. DAILY NEWS, 3/2).

THE GREAT WALL: In Toronto, Kurt Larson notes Toronto FC's new Wall of Honour was unveiled on Thursday. Constructed outside Gate 1 at BMO Field, it "pays tribute to individual achievements while also recognizing moments in club history." In a nod to TFC's past, the new Wall of Honour also "tips its hat to Toronto Metros-Croatia," the '76 Soccer Bowl champions and the "last professional soccer team in Toronto to win a league title" (TORONTO SUN, 3/3).

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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