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Event Notes: More Than 2,000 Athletes Arrive In PyeongChang For 2013 Special Olympics

Approximately 2,300 athletes have gathered in the South Korean ski resort of PyeongChang for the 2013 Special Winter Olympics, "with Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi to attend" Tuesday's Opening Ceremony. The eight-day event will see athletes from 110 countries competing in disciplines including alpine and cross-country skiing, figure and short-track speed skating, hockey and snowboarding (AFP, 1/28). ... The flame that will light the 27th Universiade or World Student Games in Kazan, Russia this summer has landed in the Far Eastern city of Vladivostok ahead of National Students' Day, "before beginning its journey across Russia's nine time zones." The torch for the Kazan 2013 Universiade was lit on July 12 in Paris -- the city that hosted the first World Student Games, in '23 (RUSSIA TODAY, 1/28). ... Spain won the Int'l Handball Federation's Men's World Championship for the second time in its history on Sunday after beating Denmark 35-19 in the final (MARCA, 1/28).

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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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