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Event Notes: IPC Athletics To Host First Asia-Oceania Championships In '16

IPC Athletics, the int'l federation for para-athletics, announced that Dubai will stage the first IPC Athletics Asia-Oceania Championships from March 3-8, 2016. The event is part of IPC Athletics' strategy to give para-athletes more opportunities and is expected to attract 600 athletes from 45 countries (IPC Athletics). ... Ireland will make increasing the "spirit of co-operation among sporting bodies" a "key part" of its bid to host the 2023 Rugby World Cup. Croke Park will be one of six Gaelic Athletic Association grounds that will "form part of a bid likely to be submitted within the next two months." GAA Head Of Community Development in Ulster Ryan Feeney said, "To host the World Cup would be very positive for the whole of Ireland and the GAA would be glad to be part of that." Competition for Ireland is "likely to come" from South Africa, Argentina and the U.S. The 2019 Rugby World Cup will be held in Japan (LONDON TIMES, 10/25).

GOING INDOORS: Glasgow hopes to bring the European Indoor Athletics Championships to Scotland in '19. The Emirates Arena is the proposed venue and Glasgow expects to be UK Athletics' sole nominee. The venue hosted badminton and cycling at the 2014 Commonwealth Games and will stage the Int'l Invitation match in late January. The city is also bidding to host the figure skating World Championships in '17 and 2016 Olympic swimming trials (BBC, 10/24). ... Infront Sports & Media has rolled out its new mass participation running series for amateur runners in China. The inaugural events have been staged in Beijing in August and in Shanghai in October. The "Happy 10K," held across five major cities in China, is proving popular with participants and regional media. Leading brands have also taken up sponsorship opportunities. Coca-Cola, headphone maker Jabra, nutritional supplement maker Met-Rx and sportswear maker ODLO have engaged in fan activation (Infront Sports & Media).

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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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