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Weekend Briefs

The AFL completed the sale of the Chicago Rush to a new ownership group led by Testarossa Entertainment President & CEO Julee White (AFL). News of the deal was first reported by CRAIN'S CHICAGO BUSINESS.

South Africa's government Friday revealed it had "spent more" than $3B on the '10 World Cup, and in return "gained an 'intangible legacy' from the first world soccer showpiece in Africa" (AP, 11/23).

Three of today's NFL games are "blacked out in their local TV markets." Those games are the Ravens-Chargers, Falcons-Bucs and Raiders-Bengals (PRO FOOTBALL TALK, 11/23).

ESPN’s Adam Schefter reported the NFL "is unlikely to challenge, or change, the [coach Jim] Schwartz challenge replay rule that helped cost the Lions a game on Thanksgiving Day." Schefter: "The league will consider and is likely to change it during the offseason but not in-season” (“Sunday NFL Countdown,” ESPN, 11/25).

A few hours before kickoff of the Florida-Florida State game Saturday, a group of Florida State officials and boosters broke ground on a $15M indoor practice facility (TALLAHASSEE DEMOCRAT, 11/24).  

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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