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League Notes: Sharapova To Learn French Open Eligibility On May 15

Maria Sharapova will learn on May 15 whether she can compete at the French Open after her drugs ban, French tennis officials said Thursday, "insisting the absence of pregnant Serena Williams would have no bearing on their decision." Two-time Roland Garros champion Sharapova "controversially returns next week from a 15-month drugs ban" at the Women's Tennis Association Stuttgart Grand Prix. French Tennis Federation President Bernard Giudicelli said last month that the organization "faced a moral dilemma" and "hinted he was against it" (AFP, 4/20).

Alcohol consumption has been officially banned in MotoGP since '04 but organizers are "planning a fresh way to guarantee the safety of their racers by implementing random breathalyzer tests on race weekends." The FIM approved the '17 medical code that will select three participants for tests without prior notification. A result of 0.10 grams of alcohol per liter of blood is the "upper limit" (MARCA, 4/20).

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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