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Musician NICOLA BENEDETTI, singer EMELI SANDE and golfer COLIN MONTGOMERIE, have "already given their backing" to Scottish Government plans to set up a Scotland House facility at the London Games. Sports Minister SHONA ROBINSON said the London Olympics was a "huge opportunity to showcase Scotland to a global audience." Scotland House will be in Pall Mall, close to both the British Business Embassy and the Scotland Office at Dover House (AYRSHIRE POST, 7/8). ...  Pushing back an offer to end his career where it all started at Serie A football club SS Lazio, ALESSANDRO "SANDRO" NESTA was formally introduced Friday as a Major League Soccer Montreal Impact player. It is "rare" when a World Cup winner, double UEFA Champions League winner and three-time Serie A champion joins MLS (TSN, 7/7).

SALE'S TIPS: In London, Charlie Sale reported that the All England Club wanted to make sure "there is no known friction" among Royal Box guests, which "might explain why two days separated the invites" for England and Wales Cricket Board Chair GILES CLARKE and IMG Senior Exec ANDREW WILDBLOOD. The pair recently settled a "highly acrimonious, multi-million-pound libel battle surrounding a breakaway Twenty20 competition, with both sides somehow claiming comprehensive victory" (DAILY MAIL, 7/5). ... Wimbledon runner-up ANDY MURRAY has frequently changed advisers, coaches and agents during his career, but has always kept the same wealth management adviser, NEIL GRAINGER of Talent Financial, who also looks after retired tennis player TIM HENMAN's finances (DAILY MAIL, 7/5).

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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