Menu
Sports Industrialists

NAMES IN THE NEWS

          SHAQUILLE O'NEAL is among the artists featured on Jive
     Records' "Jive's Unreleased Masters for the Children's
     Health Fund," due November 25 (USA TODAY, 9/29)....MICHAEL
     JORDAN was in the gallery at the Ryder Cup (N.Y. TIMES,
     9/28)....CBS' JIM NANTZ was profiled by Dave Ruden in
     Sunday's N.Y. TIMES.  CBS Sports President Sean McManus, on
     Nantz: "If he is underrated, I think he will be much less so
     after the Olympics" (N.Y. TIMES, 9/28)....Padres Owner JOHN
     MOORES made a $6M contribution toward new athletic
     facilities at San Diego State Univ. (UNION-TRIBUNE,
     9/26)....Seahawks Owner PAUL ALLEN "has embarked on a $250
     million project to buy and restore the Union Station in
     Seattle, across the train tracks from where his new football
     stadium will be built" (Portland OREGONIAN, 9/26).

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.

Shareable URL copied to clipboard!

https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Daily/Issues/1997/09/29/Sports-Industrialists/NAMES-IN-THE-NEWS.aspx

Sorry, something went wrong with the copy but here is the link for you.

https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Daily/Issues/1997/09/29/Sports-Industrialists/NAMES-IN-THE-NEWS.aspx

CLOSE