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Franchise Notes: McLaren To Have Revised Honda Engine For '17 Formula 1 Season

McLaren "will have a revised Honda engine this season as the former world champions seek to push their way back among Formula One's frontrunners." McLaren Technical Dir Tim Goss: "For 2017, the Honda engine architecture and layout have been altered to serve both for performance and packaging needs. The new power unit takes much of the learning from the past two seasons, but has been specifically redesigned for this season." McLaren is the only team using the Japanese engines (REUTERS, 1/6).

FA Women's Super League 1 side Sunderland Ladies will "revert to part-time status after three years employing some full-time players." The Lady Black Cats finished seventh in the league last year and fourth in '15 after promotion in '14. A club statement said, "Having a mix of full-time and part-time players was not working as effectively as the club, and indeed the players, had envisaged" (BBC, 1/5).

Fans of League Two side Morecambe paid £1,000 ($1,200) for the fine and costs imposed on Manager Jim Bentley by the FA. The 40-year-old "was given the fine and a two-match touchline ban after being sent to the stands" during the game against Cheltenham on Dec. 17. The club is currently "under serious financial pressure" and operating under a transfer embargo (BBC, 1/8).

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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