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A trio of unions is "throwing their weight behind" the MLS proposal to build a 25,000-seat soccer-specific stadium in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park. The endorsement, expected to be announced today, "marks the first organized labor support for the plan" (N.Y. DAILY NEWS, 2/7).

Filmmaker Barry Levinson penned an Op-Ed piece for today's Baltimore SUN on the late Art Modell relocating the Browns to Baltimore in '96. Levinson writes, "If not for one man, none of this would have been possible. If not for one man, there would be no Ravens football team" (Baltimore SUN, 2/7).

An estimated crowd of 30,000 attended yesterday's Honduras-U.S. FIFA World Cup qualifier at Estadio Olímpico Metropolitano in San Pedro Sula, Honduras (FOXSPORTS.com, 2/6).

An estimated crowd of 10,000 attended an int'l friendly between Colombia and Guatemala at Sun Life Stadium (MIAMI HERALD, 2/7).

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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