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Laugh Track: Injury List

NBC’s Jimmy Fallon said, “I saw that two new axe-throwing bars will open in Boston this year. That’s right, Boston is getting a new bar where people can try axe throwing. So far, all the customers give it one-and-a-half thumbs up.” Fallon: “Sunday is the AFC Championship Game between the Patriots and the Jaguars, but I saw that Tom Brady injured his hand. People said, ‘What happened?’ He said, ‘You know that new axe-throwing bar?’” 

WWE Chief Brand Officer Stephanie McMahon, Exec VP/Talent, Live Events & Creative Paul "Triple H" Levesque and wrestlers The New Day participated in a Tag-team Lip-Sync Battle (“The Tonight Show,” NBC, 1/18).

 

TBS’ Conan O’Brien said, “Relations with North Korea are thawing a bit. North Korea announcing it will send a group of citizens called the cheering squad to next month's Winter Olympics. That’s very nice to send a cheering squad along, very nice. Many of them are expected to actually compete in a new event called the 400-meter defection.” O’Brien: “Professional race car driver Danica Patrick is dating again after breaking up with her previous boyfriend, a NASCAR driver. When asked why that relationship didn't work out, Patrick explained, ‘We were just going around in circles’” (“Conan,” TBS, 1/18).

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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