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Record Turnout Expected For MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference

The seventh MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference opens today with organizers expecting an event-record attendance of more than 2,700 people, up from 2,200 last year and nearly twice the level of two years ago. Scheduled speakers include NBA Deputy Commissioner & COO Adam Silver, MLBAM President & CEO Bob Bowman, ESPN President John Skipper, Astros President & CEO George Postolos, Dodgers President & CEO Stan Kasten, Ticketmaster North American President Jared Smith and the N.Y. Times' Nate Silver, among many others.

German software giant SAP at the conference today will announce the creation of a new football scouting solution designed to aid teams in identifying and acquiring talent. The 49ers, which already have signed SAP as a founding partner for the team's forthcoming new stadium in Santa Clara, are the debut client of SAP Scouting, with the team using it to help prepare for next month's draft.

SBJ Morning Buzzcast: March 25, 2024

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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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