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League Notes: National Anti-Doping Agency 'Unlikely' To Test Indian Olympic Boxer

Olympic Bronze Medalist Vijender Singh is unlikely to be tested by the National Anti-Doping Agency "despite claims by his sparring partner Ram Singh that the star boxer consumed small amounts of heroin." Sources said that Vijender's case "was a matter to be investigated by the police and the anti-doping agency has no role in this" (PTI, 3/10). ... South Korea's top men’s professional basketball league "will play out the season despite the cloud of a match-fixing scandal involving an active coach." Korean Basketball League Commissioner Han Sun-kyo, "convened an emergency board meeting Friday to discuss fallouts from the match-fixing allegations" surrounding Dongbu Promy Head Coach Kang Dong-hee. Han: "We will continue on with the season as we normally would" (YONHAP, 3/8). ... The Board of Control for Cricket in India has revoked Praveen Kumar's suspension, "which he received following a violation of the players' code of conduct in a Corporate Trophy game last month" (PAKISTAN TODAY, 3/9).

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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