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Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Yankess Will Play Home Games At Six Different Sites In '12

With a $40M renovation of PNC Field "forcing them out of their ballpark in 2012, the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Yankees will spend much of next season playing their home games in Western New York," according to Mike Harrington of the BUFFALO NEWS. In conjunction with the Triple-A Int'l League, the Yankees on Friday "announced six sites for their home games." Establishing Western New York as its home base for the year, Scranton "will play 37 games at Frontier Field in Rochester," seven at Dwyer Stadium in Batavia and six at Coca-Cola Field in Buffalo. The team also will  play 10 "home" games in Syracuse, eight in Lehigh Valley and four in Pawtucket. The Yankees had "hoped to put the 72 'home' games at an independent league ballpark in Newark, N.J., but the New York Mets nixed that idea last week, citing territorial rights." Buffalo Bisons VP & GM Mike Buczkowski said that the Int'l League "is still finalizing details on how costs will be broken down for things such as umpires, hotels and baseballs that are normally provided by the 'home' team" (BUFFALO NEWS, 10/1). Rochester Red Wings GM Dan Mason said that the Scranton games in Rochester "will be run by the Wings staff, and Rochester Community Baseball will keep 100 percent of the profits." Red Wings CEO Naomi Silver said, "This is an opportunity to make some money. We'll at least break even. We wouldn't do it if we didn't feel fans would come out" (DEMOCRAT & CHRONICLE, 10/1).

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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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