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Leagues and Governing Bodies

League Notes: Singapore Match-Fixer Sentenced To Four Years In Prison

A supervisor at a construction company with a match-fixing history "was sentenced to four years in jail on Monday for bribing a foreign coach and players in Singapore in an attempt to rig a preliminary Southeast Asian Games match." Rajendran R. Kurusamy, 55, "pleaded guilty to meeting Timor Leste's team manager, Orlando Marques Henriques Mendes, in Singapore on May 28 with the help of an Indonesian referee and a former Timor Leste player." All four men "were arrested by the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau" (AP, 9/22). ... The World Anti-Doping Agency and the General Administration of Sport of China signed a memorandum of understanding that will help track and eliminate the illegal manufacture and supply of performance-enhancing drugs and raw materials for the production of PEDs in China. The partnership signifies a breakthrough in the joint law enforcement-anti-doping effort to clamp down on the illegal production of PEDs in China. Under the agreement, WADA and Interpol will be instrumental in providing information to Chinese law enforcement organizations so that illegal manufacturers and suppliers of PEDs across China can be targeted and dismantled (WADA).

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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