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Vikings Hire Icon Venue Group As Owner's Rep For New $975M Stadium

The Vikings have hired Denver-based Icon Venue Group as their owner’s representative for the new $975M NFL stadium to be built in downtown Minneapolis, according to the architectural and engineering services proposal posted online yesterday by the Minnesota Sports Facilities Authority. Icon will work with the Vikings’ internal development group headed by real estate firm Garden Homes Development Project Exec Don Baker. Vikings Owner the Wilf family also owns Garden Homes Development. Jim Cima, who the Vikings recently hired as senior project manager, also is part of the group. Icon has served in a similar role for Farmers Field, the $1B NFL stadium proposed for downtown L.A. Icon is co-owned by AEG, the developer of Farmers Field. In addition, Icon President & CEO Tim Romani was Exec Dir of the Metropolitan Football Stadium District in Denver at the time Sports Authority Field at Mile High was in development. The RFP lists Sept. 14 as the deadline to select an architect.

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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