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IMG yesterday announced that it has signed golfer YANI TSENG for management and marketing representation. IMG will oversee Tseng's interests in these areas with a focus on North America and Europe. The firm will work with Tseng's current management firms -- Nihao and Tseng Yani Int'l -- for opportunities in Asia. Tseng currently has deals with Adams Golf, Oakley, Lacoste and Titleist. IMG Senior VP & Managing Dir of Americas CLARKE JONES will be her main agent, with IMG Golf's KEVIN HOPKINS in support. IMG also has signed South African golfer BRANDON STONE, who is turning pro after being named ’13 NCAA Freshman of the Year at the Univ. of Texas (THE DAILY).

CHARITY STRIPE: The D'Backs have raised $57,000 to help tornado victims in Oklahoma. The funds were raised via personal donations by players, an online auction with game-used and autographed items from D'Backs players and a 50-50 raffle supported by D'Backs players' wives (D'Backs)....Browns WR DAVID NELSON "missed the past couple weeks of organized team activities because he was out of town ... establishing an orphan-care ministry in Haiti with help from his brothers PATRICK and DANIEL" (AKRON BEACON JOURNAL, 6/5)....Orioles Owner PETER ANGELOS donated $1M to his alma mater, the Univ. of Baltimore School of Law, to “support an academic partnership with the state’s four historically black colleges and universities” (BALTIMORESUN.com, 6/4). 

NAMES: Platinum Equity Partners Chair & CEO and Pistons Owner TOM GORES, is “planning to open an investment office in Southeastern Michigan in the next three to six months” (CRAINSDETROIT.com, 6/4)....The OHL on Monday named Plymouth Whalers President, GM & coach MIKE VELLUCCI Exec of the Year for '12-13 (CRAINSDETROIT.com, 6/3)....Legendary Entertainment, which produced the JACKIE ROBINSON biopic "42," has "picked up the rights to the book 'ONE SHOT AT FOREVER' by CHRIS BALLARD and has set WES JONES to pen the script." MIKE TOLLIN and Warriors co-Owner PETER GUBER will serve as Producer and Exec Producer, respectively (HOLLYWOODREPORTER.com, 6/4)....The PGA Tour FedEx St. Jude Classic last night presented Memphis-based WHBQ-AM host GEORGE LAPIDES with a lifetime achievement award "in recognition of his more than five decades covering the tournament" for newspaper, television and radio (Memphis COMMERICAL APPEAL, 6/5)....U.S. skier LINDSEY VONN on Monday “had to undergo a mandatory drug test” for the IOC “while in a couture gown” at the Council of Fashion Designers of America Awards (N.Y. POST, 6/5)....Nationals 1B ADAM LAROCHE appeared in a PSA about child safety for Take25.org in honor of last week’s National Missing Children’s Day (WASHINGTONPOST.com, 6/4).

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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