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Football Notes: Prince Ali Bin Al-Hussein Says He Will Stay In Running For FIFA Presidency

FIFA presidential candidate Prince Ali bin al-Hussein said that he will stay in the running for the FIFA presidency after "reports he could drop out." He had been quoted as saying he, along with candidates Michael van Praag and Luís Figo, "could consider a single rival to incumbent Sepp Blatter." But he said that he has had "good reactions from the governing bodies he has visited before the election" on May 29. Prince Ali: "I will continue the race until the end" (BBC, 5/5). ... As China carries out a reform plan unveiled in late March, Chinese football has "achieved some good results in Asia." Guangzhou Evergrande climbed to the first position in Asia in the world club rankings released on Tuesday, while Beijing Guo'an was ranked 19th (XINHUA, 5/5). ... The Football League said on Monday that relegated League Championship side Blackpool's final Championship fixture against Huddersfield Town, which was abandoned soon after halftime following crowd protests, "will not be replayed." Saturday's match was abandoned in the 48th minute, with the score at 0-0, "after hundreds of Blackpool fans invaded the pitch and refused to leave in a protest against the club's owners, the Oyston family" (REUTERS, 5/4). ... Ceará state "announced the damage" of 1,580 broken chairs at the Arena Castelão after this weekend's Campeonato Cearense. The damage from the "acts of vandalism" totaled R$500,000 ($163,000) (ESTADÃO, 5/4). 

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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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