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     GOLFWEEK's Dave Shedloski reports a deal is nearly finalized
for the Compaq World Putting Championship by Dave Pelz to be
televised on ESPN in a series of six shows over four hours.  Walt
Disney World is among the possible sites (GOLFWEEK, 7/20)....The
Wisconsin Sports Network, owned and operated by Group W Sports
Marketing, can now be seen in nearly 350,000 homes
(GWSM)....GolfWeb has set up a page for British Open Champion Tom
Lehman, where readers can send a personal congratulations through
e-mail.  The site is located at
http://www.golfweb.com/congrats/96open.html.  GolfWeb broke its
all-time record July 19 with more than 1.75 million hits
(GolfWeb)....Dennis Rodman made a two-hour appearance hawking
Bulls paraphernalia on Home Shopping Network last week.  Rodman,
on NBA free agency:  "This league is going to be in trouble in
two years" (ST. PETE  TIMES, 7/22)....Media General is buying
Park Acquisitions, parent of the media conglomerate Park
Communications for $710M in cash.  Park owns 10 network
affiliated TV stations, 28 daily newspapers and 82 weekly
newspapers ("NBR," PBS, 7/22).  The deal will "greatly expand the
media company's presence in the Southeast" (WASHINGTON POST,
7/23)

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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