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NFLPA Assistant Exec Dir George Atallah said that the union has asked the Patriots to "repair what it believes to be a field that poses an injury risk to players" at Gillette Stadium. The NFLPA was "expecting that the field, which was susceptible to having cleat marks left in the surface, was improved" before today's game against the Texans (ESPN.com, 9/24).

Free agent WR Victor Cruz worked with Yahoo Sports' live streaming coverage as a content creator for today's Ravens-Jaguars game in London (Yahoo).

Former NFLer Vince Wilfork was at today's Texans-Patriots game "tailgating as part of a promotion involving Kingsford Charcoal" (BOSTONSPORTSJOURNAL.com, 9/23).

MLB Giants President Larry Baer said that the team is having "internal discussions on how to extend the protective netting" behind homeplate at AT&T Park and "hope to announce something next week" (SFGATE.com, 9/22).

A woman in the stands at Guaranteed Rate Field on Friday was "hit in the mouth by a foul ball." The White Sox said that she "refused treatment" (SUNTIMES.com, 9/23).

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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