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NASCAR today unveiled an updated Xfinity Series logo to be used starting with the '18 season (TWITTER.com, 9/19).

The USWNT tonight "should play before its largest crowd" since '15 when it hosts New Zealand at Nippert Stadium. A "crowd of more than 30,000 is expected" (SOCCERAMERICA.com, 9/19).

Michael Phelps will lead Nulo Pet Food's "We Decide" marketing campaign alongside Redskins LB Ryan Kerrigan and Canadian figure skater Kaetlyn Osmond (Nulo).

The Cavaliers and Cleveland Clinic have extended their long-term partnership with a new multiyear agreement, as the company has been the team's official healthcare provider sine '93 (Cavs).

The Suns have partnered with ride-sharing service Lyft for the '17-18 season (Suns).

The cover of SI this week features Hornets C Dwight Howard. The Dodgers and Indians share the cover of ESPN The Magazine for the publication's MLB Playoffs issue (THE DAILY).

        

SBJ Morning Buzzcast: March 25, 2024

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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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