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Phoenix FC finds home at ASU

Phoenix FC finds home at Arizona State
Phoenix FC, a franchise member of the USL Pro league, announced an agreement with Arizona State University to play home games at Sun Devil Soccer Stadium in Tempe starting with the club’s inaugural season this year. At a news conference Dec. 11 (from left): Steve Patterson, ASU VP for university athletics; Dave Robertson, Phoenix FC coach; Tim Thomas, Phoenix FC president; and Rui Filipe Bento, Phoenix FC general manager.
Photo by: STEVE RODRIGUEZ / ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY


Big Papi swings for the fairways

The fifth annual David Ortiz Celebrity Golf Classic presented by Vitaminwater took place Dec. 6-9 at Cap Cana in the Dominican Republic. Proceeds from the event, held at the Sanctuary Resort and Punta Espada Golf Club in Punta Cana, benefit the David Ortiz Children’s Fund, which provides pediatric health care to children in New England and the Dominican Republic. With the Red Sox’s Ortiz (center) are Radegen Sports Management team members (from left) Jonathan Lampert, director of client marketing; Alex Radetsky, president and founder; Joe Sullivan, VP of operations; and Angelo Solomita, VP of business and legal affairs.
Photos by: CHAZ NIELL


Bilas talks hoops at Wendy's HQs

ESPN basketball analyst Jay Bilas recently traveled to Wendy’s headquarters in Dublin, Ohio, for an event to celebrate the beginning of college basketball and a new agreement between ESPN, the Los Angeles Athletic Club and Wendy’s around the John R. Wooden Award. From left: Emil Brolick, Wendy’s Corp. CEO; Bilas; Eric Johnson, ESPN EVP of multimedia sales; Sean Hanrahan, ESPN SVP of marketing solutions; Craig Bahner, Wendy’s Corp. CMO; Steve Hathaway, Los Angeles Athletic Club president; and Tricia Betron, ESPN SVP of multimedia sales.
Photos by: ESPN

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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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