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49ers Aligning With City Of S.F. To Bring 50th Super Bowl To Santa Clara Stadium

The 49ers will not "be counting on Santa Clara to lead their pitch to host Super Bowl 50," as the club is "teaming up with San Francisco to bring the NFL's golden anniversary title game" to its new South Bay stadium, according to Mike Rosenberg of the SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS. The agreement is part of a new deal struck last week to "allow the franchise to escape its lease" at Candlestick Park in '14, when the 49ers are slated to begin playing in Santa Clara. Rosenberg wrote, "That's not the only way Silicon Valley's new football fiance is keeping its gaze on the City by the Bay," as the 49ers will "give Candlestick Park employees a leg-up over South Bay workers for many jobs in the new stadium." A term in the pact between S.F. and the team "gives jobs at the new Santa Clara stadium to as many as 500 concessions employees at Candlestick, dropping the number of total available positions at the new field by as much as 19 percent." Santa Clara officials "had cited job opportunities for locals as a main reason" for approving the $1.2B project." Santa Clara City Council member Jamie McLeod said, "It directly contradicts what the team committed to." Rosenberg writes along with the team keeping the S.F. designation in its name, the South Bay region "always will have to share ownership of the adored NFL franchise" (SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS, 5/12).

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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