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Franchise Notes: Former Swansea City Directors Get Day In Court

Two former EPL side Swansea City directors have been "given a court date for their unfair dismissal claim against the club." Former Legal Dir Steve Penny and former Finance Dir Don Keefe left the club in '16 "following Americans Jason Levien and Steve Kaplan's takeover." The Wales Employment Tribunal hearing will be held at Cardiff and the Vale Magistrates Court on Dec. 8. Swansea declined to comment (BBC, 10/30).

Players from Chinese third division side Meixian Techand secured a "huge payday after securing promotion" to League One. As a reward, the squad was "endowed with a bonus pool" of 20M yuan ($3M) after beating Shenzhen Ledman in the playoffs on Sunday. Meixian "came close to winning promotion last season after going unbeaten throughout the regular campaign only to lose in the playoffs" (ESPN.com, 10/31).

Croatian First Football League side Dinamo Zagreb signed a strategic partnership with China's Chengdu Sports Industry. The state-run company focuses on organizing sporting events and constructing infrastructure projects. The partnership involves the Dinamo Youth Academy organizing football camps in China and Dinamo youth players participating in friendly matches and tournaments in China (Dinamo Zagreb). 

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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