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Vice President MIKE PENCE "received a positive response as he arrived" at Sunday's Indianapolis 500. While Pence was "booed by small sections of the crowd of about 300,000, there also were sustained cheers for the Indiana native" (USA TODAY, 5/29). WWE's RIC FLAIR, Mötley Crüe's NIKKI SIXX and Holocaust survivor EVA MOZES KOR were "some of the most well-known faces in the crowd" at the Indy 500, along with actors JAKE GYLLENHAAL and JEFFREY DEAN MORGAN (ESPN.com, 5/28).

STAR-STUDDED LINEUP: NFL Commissioner ROGER GOODELL and NBC's AL MICHAELS will be "among the featured speakers June 15 for Rams All-Access at the Coliseum." The annual dinner event staged by the L.A. Sports & Entertainment Commission "allows fans to meet and take photos with current and former Rams players, coaches and executives." Among those also "scheduled to attend" is Rams Exec VP/Football Operations & COO KEVIN DEMOFF (LATIMES.com, 5/26).

GIVING THANKS: Now-former UNLV AD TINA KUNZER-MURPHY "took to social media" last week to "thank supporters and tout her accomplishments over the past four years." In a "Rebel Report" email newsletter sent to UNLV donors and alumni and posted on UNLVRebels.com, Kunzer-Murphy wrote it was "an honor" to serve as AD at her alma mater. Kunzer-Murphy stepped aside after Memorial Day weekend to "shift to a fundraising role with the Rebel Athletic Fund" (LAS VEGAS SUN, 5/27).

NAMES: The Indians unveiled a statue of Baseball HOFer FRANK ROBINSON on Saturday prior to the team's game against the Royals. Robinson "became the first African-American manager" in MLB with the Indians (AP, 5/27)....KAREEM ABDUL-JABBAR appeared on last night's episode of ABC's "THE BACHELORETTE" to "judge the basketball skills of RACHEL LINDSAY's suitors," just months after he accused the show of "damaging romance in America" (N.Y. DAILY NEWS, 5/30).

IN MEMORY: Baseball HOFer JIM BUNNING, who "later forged a second career as a fervently conservative and often cantankerous Republican representative and senator from Kentucky, died on Friday in the Fort Thomas, Ky., area." He was 85. Bunning is the only Baseball HOFer to have "served in Congress." He was elected to Congress in ‘86 and "served six terms in the House. He was elected to the Senate in '98 and re-elected in '04 (N.Y. TIMES, 5/28)....Judge ROBERT PARINS, the Packers' first full-time President, died Friday night in Village of Hobart, Wis., at the age of 98. Parins was elected team President in ‘82, 16 years after he was voted to the Packers BOD (MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL, 5/28).

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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