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Olympic Notes: RFET Appoints Madrid 2020 Venue As Its Headquarters

The Spanish Tennis Federation (RFET), in support of Madrid's bid to host the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games, has chosen "Madrid's Magic Box" (Caja Mágica) as its new coaching headquarters. The Caja Mágica has also been proposed as a venue for the men's and women's tennis tournaments during the Games. The coaching and research department of the RFET will open its offices this month (Madrid 2020). ... FIBA plans to ask the IOC to add four men's teams to the basketball competition at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games, "and introduce the 3-on-3 game as a medal event." The global basketball governing body says that its "ruling board will request a 16-team men's competition being played in two arenas instead of one." FIBA "introduced the 3-on-3, half-court version of basketball for men and women at the 2010 Singapore Youth Olympics" (AP, 11/14).

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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.

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