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CBS Preps For Third Time Airing NFL Regular-Season London Game

CBS will be working its third NFL regular-season game broadcast in London with Sunday's Patriots-Rams contest, and CBS Coordinating & Lead NFL Producer Lance Barrow said that "things are going smoothly" with preparations. Barrow added that the "NFL and those on site do a good job of making it work from a broadcasting standpoint in a venue more commonly associated with soccer and rugby matches." He said that cameras "will be in the same positions viewers are accustomed to for NFL telecasts" (STLTODAY.com, 10/26).

Events continue throughout the weekend leading into the game. The NFL will host a fan rally Saturday at Trafalgar Square, followed by the "London Bash" night event presented by Virgin Atlantic and Barclaycard at Under the Bridge on Chelsea FC Fulham Road. On gameday, the league is hosting a tailgate event outside Wembley Stadium, with a more exclusive hospitality event at Wembley's Great Hall (THE DAILY).

Meanwhile, The Patriots held a Friday walkthrough "in a most unusual place" – London's Hyde Park. Buckinghamshire resident Mike Simpson-Jones said, "I’m walking through and see a lot of guys in gray suits and I kind of think it has something to do with American football" (ESPNBOSTON.com, 10/26).

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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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