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National Basketball League To Play Regular Season Games Five Days A Week In '15-16

The National Basketball League "will play regular season matches five days a week from Wednesday to Sunday in a bid to slot neatly" into the Australian Football League and National Rugby League offseasons, while taking on cricket's Big Bash League in mid-summer, according to Adrian Warren of the SYDNEY MORNING HERALD. The revised schedule starting in October will feature 7:30pm games on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights "plus games on Sunday afternoon and evening." NBL officials "are confident their revamp will succeed even though they acknowledge the midweek scheduling of games will result in a clash with the wildly popular BBL T20 tournament as well as some A-League matches in December and January." New NBL Exec Dir Larry Kestelman said, "We are positioning the NBL to be the number one entertainment sport in Australia and New Zealand" (AAP, 7/23).

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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