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Quaker Oats Leveraging NFL Tie-In With Super Bowl Sweepstakes

Pepsi's Quaker Oats unit is leveraging its NFL ties this season with a sweepstakes that offers a top prize winner the right to run the game ball onto the field before the start of Super Bowl XLVII. Aiming at six- to 13-year-olds and their moms, the contest asks consumers to go to a website and join the NFL's Play60 initiative, which is attempting to fight childhood obesity by encouraging them to get 60 minutes of exercise daily. Marketing support from the NFL's official hot cereal sponsor includes web video from Colts QB Andrew Luck and POS.

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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