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Lions To Offer Free Wi-Fi Network To Fans Beginning This Weekend

The Lions will offer fans "improved wireless Internet access starting this weekend as they partner with Verizon Wireless to offer the first free Wi-Fi network among professional Michigan sports teams," according to Michael Martinez of the DETROIT NEWS. The Lions on Thursday said that the "high-density Wi-Fi system -- available only to Verizon Wireless customers, at least for now -- will be unveiled at Saturday's home game" against the Falcons, and will be available "at all Ford Field events." The system, "designed and paid for by Verizon Wireless, supplements its traditional cell sites that provide wireless coverage in and around Ford Field." Previously, the "dense populations at games resulted in poor connectivity and scant cellphone reception." Verizon Wireless Network Operations Dir Mark Emerick said that the company "approached the Lions about the project" in April '11. Emerick added that the company "is in talks" with the Pistons and Tigers about providing similar networks. Ford Field will become the ninth NFL venue "with its own wireless network" (DETROIT NEWS, 12/21).

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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