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Leagues and Governing Bodies

League Notes: Australian Football League's Integrity Unit Swells To 15 Full-Time Staff

The Australian Football League's "powerful integrity unit has swelled to 15 full-time staff, four medical consultants and nine casual security officers." Former Victoria Police homicide squad senior detective Tony Keane heads the department responsible for policing gambling, doping, illicit drug use, ground security, the salary cap and player behavior and associations. Three other "ex-cops and a former unsworn police intelligence analyst are also full-time members" of the 28-person AFL integrity body -- the biggest in Australian team sport (HERALD SUN, 12/3).

As "concerns about sledging in the Ashes increase," England head coach Trevor Bayliss called for stump microphones to be turned down "so fans would not be able to hear exchanges between players on the pitch." Bayliss: "I don’t think anyone has to listen to what is being said. ... I don’t think that’s necessarily a thing for young kids watching" (London TELEGRAPH, 12/3).

Romania’s anti-doping laboratory in Bucharest "had its accreditation provisionally suspended due to non-compliance," the World Anti-Doping Agency said on Thursday. The suspension "will remain in place pending disciplinary proceedings being carried out by an independent committee" (REUTERS, 11/30).

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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