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Event Notes: Russia Deputy Transport Minister Puts Plan Into Gear

Russia Deputy Transport Minister Nikolay Asaul said that Russia is "forging ahead with its transport infrastructure build whether there is a crisis within FIFA or not." Asaul: "Football has no impact on our technical preparations. We are fully in line with the schedule we have prepared. There is a single integrated masterplan to develop our infrastructure. The political storm has no impact on our transport operations" (INSIDE WORLD FOOTBALL, 6/12). ... InfrontRingier Sports & Entertainment Switzerland is set to launch this year's Tour de Suisse -- acting as the new event organizer and marketing partner as part of a major partnership with Swiss Cycling. This year's Tour de Suisse is the first time that InfrontRingier will handle full event operations. Approximately 300 people will be working on the ground across the nine stages of the event to ensure its success and appeal to an anticipated 1 million spectators, as well as to TV viewers in approximately 110 countries and territories (Infront). ... The 2015 Race Of Champions will take place Nov. 20-21 at the Stadium at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, the home of the 2012 Olympics. The former Olympic Stadium will now stage its fastest ever race after it saw off contenders from all over the world to host the event. The Race Of Champions is an annual end-of-season contest that has been held for more than 25 years. It brings together drivers from motor sport's major disciplines -- including F1, World Rally, Le Mans, MotoGP, Nascar, IndyCar and the X-Games -- and has them compete in identical machinery (Race of Champions).

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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