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Event Notes: Beijing To Host Men's Curling Championship's Debut In Pacific-Asia Region

The World Curling Federation has announced Beijing as the host of the 2014 World Men's Curling Championship, which will take place March 29 - April 6, 2014. The event will mark the first time that a the championship has been staged in the Pacific-Asia area (WCF). ... Representatives from the National Federations and cities of Budapest, Hungary; Tokyo, Japan; Gwangju, South Korea; and a city yet to be confirmed in China met on Wednesday in Lausanne, Switzerland for a meeting on the bidding procedure for the Int'l Swimming Federation (FINA) World Championships in '19 and potentially '21. The four potential bidders have until April 4 to present a formal bid to the organization, which will on July 19 announce the winner (FINA). ... Rules "will be more stringent" at the upcoming World Baseball Classic "in consideration of the workload on pitchers." Fox Sports revealed that pitchers will be limited to 65 pitches for the first round, 80 for the second and 95 in the semifinals and final (KYODO, 1/17).

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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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