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HBO's "Real Sports" To Examine Cost, Corruption Around Sochi On 200th Episode

The 200th episode of HBO’s “Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel” premieres tonight with a report on corruption and the $50B cost of the '14 Sochi Games. Former Russia Deputy Prime Minister Boris Nemstov tells reporter Bernard Goldberg of the $50B expense, “If you calculate the cost of previous Winter Olympics, altogether it’s cheaper then [Russia President Vladimir Putin’s] Olympic Games.” The “Real Sports” report states that Putin is the culprit for the elaborate spending. Goldberg in his narration of the piece said, “Sochi is one of President Putin’s favorite vacation spots, a resort town that has long been a getaway for Russia’s elite -- going all the way back to Stalin and Khrushchev. The message (Putin) wants to send with these Winter Games is clear: that he heads up a strong, modern Russia capable of putting on the biggest show in all of sports.” A 30-mile road and rail line from Sochi to the mountains where the skiing events will take place is said to have cost $9B. Former chess champion and longtime Putin critic Garry Kasparov said he is not proud of the Olympics being held in his homeland. Kasparov: “Picking Sochi and organizing everything there against all the odds, against the nature, against the interest of people who live there, that’s about Putin. That’s about his regime. That’s about stealing money. It’s not about Russia.” The episode debuts tonight at 10:00pm ET on HBO and will be reaired frequently on HBO’s networks during the next two weeks.

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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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