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In St. Paul, Andy Greder notes the Univ. of Minnesota's Athletes Village is growing "closer to completion," with video boards "lit outside the main entrance" on Wednesday. UM AD Mark Coyle said that the new space "remains on schedule" for an early '18 opening, with fundraising for the project up to 63% of the cost ($105M of $166M) after a "few big donations the past few months." The 336,000-square-foot area will "include academic, leadership and nutrition areas for all athletes, plus practice facilities for the football team and men’s and women’s basketball teams" (ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS, 12/1).


THAT'S GOOD FOOD
: The Dodgers and concessionaire Levy Restaurants have announced a long-term extension of the partnership throughout Dodger Stadium, effective immediately. Terms of the deal were not announced. Levy began working with the Dodgers in ’00 and took over full ballpark concessions in ’05. The news comes as the Giants announced they are parting ways with Centerplate regarding concessions at AT&T Park (THE DAILY).

ONE SEARCH IS OVER: Tennessee-based Cope Architecture has been "selected as the designer" for renovations to the Univ. of Tennessee's Neyland Stadium that could cost up to $340M. A Cope Architecture spokesperson said that the company "expects to begin design work next month." Cope said that the "current approved budget for the project" is $106M, pending approval of the $340M figure by the State Building Commission (Knoxville NEWS SENTINEL, 11/29).

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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