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Leagues and Governing Bodies

League Notes: New Zealand Horse Racing Industry Ramps Up Drug Testing

New Zealand's horse racing industry "is ramping up" its NZ$50,000 ($39,000)-a-year random drug testing of jockeys. The industry's Racing Integrity Unit, established three years ago, "tested 224 jockeys over the last horse racing season." Four riders "returned positive results for cannabis and were banned for two months" and fined NZ$200 (NEW ZEALAND HERALD, 11/4). ... As National Rugby League bosses begin work on a blueprint for expanding the competition to 18 teams, "they should look beyond Brisbane and Perth and consider sides from the Pacific nations and England -- possibly to be based in those cities." The NRL "is due to make a decision within the next 12 months on whether to expand the premiership in 2017." Officials "are currently looking at the structures of existing clubs to devise an ideal model for any new team." A list of requirements "will be drawn up for bid teams to meet and the NRL is expected to decide where it wants clubs to be based before inviting applications" (SYDNEY MORNING HERALD, 11/3). ... The Int'l Volleyball Federation (FIVB) Congress limited FIVB presidents to serving a maximum of two terms (an initial term of eight years followed by a four year term). With 210 of the 220 member federations represented at the Congress in Sardinia, the amendment was passed with 157 votes, more than the two thirds majority required (FIVB).

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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