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CRISTIANO RONALDO was crowned the best men's football player in the world "for the second year running" at FIFA's The Best awards gala on Monday. LIONEL MESSI, who has won the Ballon d'Or five times, and NEYMAR were runners-up for the award "voted for by national team coaches and captains plus the media and fans." Real Madrid's ZINEDINE ZIDANE won the men's manager of the year trophy (SYDNEY MORNING HERALD, 10/24). ... Former world snooker champion STUART BINGHAM has been banned for six months for "betting breaches." Bingham, 41, was found guilty of breaking World Professional Billiards & Snooker Association rules on "betting on matches involving himself and other players." The world No. 10 must also pay £20,000 ($26,300) in costs (BBC, 10/24). ... Wallabies fullback ISRAEL FOLAU rejected a short-term contract, understood to be worth A$500,000 ($388,800), to play in Japan. Instead, he is "opting to spend some much needed time with his fiancee," Silver Fern MARIA TUTAIA. Folau earns more than A$1M ($777,600) annually on his Australian Rugby Union contract (STUFF, 10/24).

SMITH DEFENDS GAYLE: West Indies cricketer CHRIS GAYLE's teammate DWAYNE SMITH admitted he texted the word "sexy" to a female massage therapist a day before she alleges "Gayle exposed himself to her in a Sydney dressing room while Smith was present." But Smith told the NSW Supreme Court on Tuesday that Gayle had not exposed himself to the woman and "that's something you would remember" if it did happen. Gayle is suing Fairfax Media for defamation over a series of articles published in the Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and the Canberra Times between January 6 and January 9, 2016, which alleged he exposed himself to a team massage therapist during the 2015 Cricket World Cup (SMH, 10/24).

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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