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     The Packers have filed a $1.5M grievance against hold-out
tight end Keith Jackson and the NFLPA.  Jackson's attorney called
it a "thinly veiled threat designed to persuade him to report"
(MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL, 8/24). ...Arena Football is profiled
by Roger Thurow in this morning's WALL STREET JOURNAL.  Thurow
writes Arena football "has grown up to become a respectable
commodity, particularly sought after by owners of professional
teams in other sports who also own arenas they need to fill
during the summer" (WALL STREET JOURNAL, 8/24)....NEW YORK
magazine's Richard Turner writes on the state of horse racing:
"Telegenic and interactive, horse racing looked like a sure bet
in the dawning electronic age. But it was passed in the stretch"
(NEW YORK, 8/28 issue)...MLB's Public Relations Manager Jim Small
was interviewed by KYODO NEWS.  Small spoke on Hideo Nomo and
suggested a baseball "World Cup" with a U.S. team playing other
nations in an int'l tournament (KYODO NEWS, 8/24).

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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