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QuintEvents and the UFC have partnered to launch a new website, UFCVIPExperience.com, to accomodate demand for specialty ticket packages to UFC events (QuintEvents).

Rogers Communications today announced plans for Scotiabank Hockey Day in Canada. The 15th annual NHL broadcast will be hosted from Halifax on Feb. 14 (Rogers).

BodyArmor sports drink today announced that it has signed U.S. women's national soccer team F Sydney Leroux as an endorser and brand stakeholder. She will be the drink's first female endorser (BodyArmor).

Golfer Lizette Salas is taking part in the Toyota Drive for Success program and will earn funds for the Hispanic Scholarship Fund with any birdie, eagle or hole-in-one while playing LPGA events for the remainder of the '14 season (Toyota).

California state lawmakers today honored Oscar De La Hoya for his "leadership and contributions to the state," highlighted by the creation of Golden Boy Promotions. State Sen. Kevin de Leon and former Assembly Speaker John Perez issued proclamations feting De La Hoya (AP, 6/26).

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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