Menu
Download the app

SBJ subscribers – Enhance your experience with the revamped iOS app

Sports Industrialists

NAMES IN THE NEWS

          DENNIS RODMAN attended Planet Hollywood's recent
     opening in Montreal ("ET," 7/29)....JACKIE JOYNER-KERSEE was
     a guest on "The Magic Hour" last night, and described how
     she has handled the relationship with her husband BOB
     KERSEE, who also served as her manager/trainer: "When we
     leave the track, we have our confrontations.  When we go
     home, Bobby still takes the trash out on Mondays and
     Thursdays" ("The Magic Hour," 7/29)....The NHLPA GOLF
     CLASSIC held in Ontario on July 27th raised more than
     $200,000 which will be distributed to Ronald McDonald
     Children's Charities and the NHLPA Alumni Association's
     "Players Helping Players Fund" (NHLPA)....The Yankees will
     allow 10-year-old JAMIE LYNN BENCE of WI to sing the
     national anthem at Yankee Stadium on August 26.  The Yankees
     were the only MLB team that had not agreed to let Bence sing
     before a game, saying they needed to review her requests. 
     But after a "barrage of telephone calls from newspapers and
     television and radio stations," the Yankees "capitulated"
     and allowed her to perform (MIL. JOURNAL SENTINEL, 7/30). 

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/1998/07/30/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/1998/07/30/Sports-Industrialists/NAMES-IN-THE-NEWS.aspx

CLOSE