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In DC, Jorge Castillo cites a source as saying that Wizards President Ernie Grunfeld is "under contract for next season ... which strongly suggests that he will return for his 14th season" in charge of the team's basketball operations. Despite this season most likely ending "without a playoff berth," Grunfeld is now the NBA's "fifth longest-tenured" chief exec (WASHINGTON POST, 4/6).

CROWD WITH PRIDE: In Orlando, Alicia DelGallo notes the NWSL Orlando Pride yesterday "launched #FilledWithPride," a hashtag that will be used to help "break the NWSL attendance record of 21,114 people" for the team's home opener April 23 against the Houston Dash. The previous record was set last year on July 22 "when the Seattle Reign FC traveled to face Portland Thorns FC" (ORLANDO SENTINEL, 4/6). 

WATCH & LEARN: A WASHINGTON POST editorial noted the Indians have "officially demoted Chief Wahoo" as their primary logo. The "grinning, red-faced caricature that so many people see as an insult to Native Americans is on his way to being completely dropped, though not not quickly enough." The editorial: "Let's hope his inevitable demise opens the eyes of Washington's football team to the reality that it needs to drop its offensive name" (WASHINGTON POST, 4/5). 

SBJ Morning Buzzcast: March 25, 2024

NFL meeting preview; MLB's opening week ad effort and remembering Peter Angelos.

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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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