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"Our coaching staff doesn't focus on what we don't have when it comes to some of the budgets and facilities we're up against. We focus on what we can control" – Union College AD Jim McLaughlin, on the 2,100-student school in Schenectady, N.Y. making it to this weekend's Frozen Four (PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, 4/10).

“The stability of this organization is there right now and mediocrity is not something that acceptable to them and that’s probably what I like and respect the most about them, about the owners” – Devils President, CEO & GM Lou Lamoriello, on the state of the franchise (NORTHJERSEY.com, 4/10).

“I hate that they keep changing everybody before anyone has a chance to grab a hold of something and make something happen” – Actress Jennifer Garner, who plays a Browns exec in the movie “Draft Day,” on the instability of the NFL team (“The Morning Show,” CBS Radio, 4/10).

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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