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Year In Review 2013

Keep It Short And Sweet: Notable Tweets Of 2013, Part II

FIFA's SEPP BLATTER: "In my address to the CAF Congress, I put a special focus on FIFA's fight against racism. We must eradicate this scourge!"

Reuters' KAROLOS GROHMANN: "The #Hoeness tax evasion affair will have a major effect on #FCBayern even if #Sammer denies it. Hoenes is the face/soul of Bayern."

ESPN's DARREN ROVELL: "Great year and half at the top level for melting pot in sports: Owner of Pakistani descent in NFL, now owner of Indian descent in NBA."

BBC's PHIL MCNULTY: "The new Maracana actually has the appearance and colour scheme of Kiev's Olympic Stadium - but this is still a magical place."

TV presenter GARY LINEKER: "If Messi is not incarcerated in Spain I fancy in 13 months time Argentina may well be World champions."

The AP's STEPHEN WADE: "Note to fifa: getting around recife a nightmare. New stad an hour from center thru pot-holed traffic inferno."

Reuters' ANDREW DOWNIE: "Stadium not even half full for Nigeria-Uruguay in #Salvador. Fans reportedly can't get past the protests outside. #Confedschaos"

Sochi 2014 Organizing Committee President & CEO DMITRY CHERNYSHENKO: "Our ambition to conquer Space 1st time ever in the Olympic history becomes reality. #Sochi2014's Torch Relay will reach the open space!"

TV presenter GARY LINEKER: "Reports that Messi has settled with the tax authorities and will pay €15m...the highest ever for a footballer. Can't stop breaking records."

London Times' KEVIN EASON: "Wow. I see that Man Utd has announced Aeroflot as their official carrier. Wow. They have obviously never flown Aeroflot"

ABC Grandstand's Senior Sport Broadcaster CLINT WHEELDON: "One of the many impressive things about the Tour de France riders is how they restrain themselves from punching some of the spectators."

LIGA MX: "¡Le damos la bienvenida a @BBVABancomer! ¡Una alianza que fortalecerá cada una de las áreas de nuestro Futbol! #LigaBancomerMX" ("We welcome BBVA Bancomer! An alliance that will strengthen every area of our football! #LigaBancomerMX")

ESPN's ADRIAN HEALEY: "Most of the football world (except EPL) takes a winter (Dec/Jan) break. Why not play a World Cup then? Players would be fresher.."

London Daily Telegraph's PAUL HAYWARD: "The Football League will be on Sky Sports until 2018 and is now sponsored by Sky Bet. TV and bookmaking: a very modern marriage."

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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