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League Notes: Badminton World Federation To Introduce New Technology

Badminton is set to "introduce technology to review disputed line-calls." The Badminton World Federation said that "a test set-up will be used at next month's Sudirman Cup in Malaysia before the new system goes live at the Indonesian Open in September" (XINHUA, 4/17). ... The Pakistan Tennis Federation said on Tuesday that "The International Tennis Federation has agreed to hear an appeal by Pakistan against the awarding of their Davis Cup Asia-Oceania Group 11 tie to New Zealand" (GULF NEWS, 4/17). ... The Int'l Cricket Council has allocated $422,000 for the Afghanistan Cricket Board from its Targeted Assistance and Performance Programme (PTI, 4/17). ... In response to media reporting of an internal memo about Lance Armstrong’s 1999 Tour de France corticosteroid test results, the Int'l Cycling Union (UCI) has published a comprehensive briefing document on its website (UCI).

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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