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SEC Commissioner GREG SANKEY's "loyalty to the conference cannot be questioned after he decided to skip attending the final round of the Masters to be in Columbia, South Carolina helping the Gamecocks celebrate their women’s basketball national championship." South Carolina AD RAY TANNER said, "(He) had first-row seats on the 18th hole at the Masters, but chose to be with us" (GRIDIRONNOW.com, 4/10).

ROAD TRIP: Golf Channel is taking the British Open's Claret Jug on a coast-to-coast U.S. tour starting this Thursday to promote the July 20-23 golf major. Working in partnership with the R&A, the tour begins at Universal Hollywood and ends at Universal Orlando on July 5, two weeks before the tournament. In between, the trophy will appear in more than a dozen cities at events including MLB and MLS games, Topgolf locations, Taste of Charlotte, the Lincoln Park Wine Festival, Texas Scottish Festival and Las Vegas Foodie Fest (John Ourand, Staff Writer).


JOINING FORCES: As HB2 talks between North Carolina Gov. ROY COOPER and Republican legislative leaders stalled, an informal group of six execs "came to Raleigh to help broker the deal, which partially repealed HB2 while limiting local nondiscrimination ordinances" until '20. One of the individuals that was involved in negotiations was Hornets President & COO FRED WHITFIELD (Raleigh NEWS & OBSERVER, 4/11).

YOU ARE MY NUMBER ONE: High school P HUNTER GREENE of Sherman Oaks, Calif., is "widely projected to go in the top two picks in the June 12-14 amateur draft," and is expected to "use CAA Sports as his pre-draft adviser." Univ. of Louisville P/1B BRENDAN MCKAY will also get “strong consideration" for the No. 1 pick, and California-based agency Sosnick Cobbe & Karon is "said to be advising" him (PIONEERPRESS.com, 4/9).

OUTSIDE THE LINES: MY Entertainment is teaming up with Suns C TYSON CHANDLER to develop a new reality TV series taking viewers behind-the-scenes into the world of fashion in sports. Chandler will serve as an executive producer and make appearances on the show, which will focus on his design stylist and fashion consultant, BROWNE ANDREWS (THE DAILY)....Bengals QB A.J. MCCARRON and DE MICHAEL JOHNSON are "co-owners of the first 'build-your-own' sushi bar" in Tuscaloosa, where McCarron attended Alabama (CINCINNATI.com, 4/10).

NAMES
: Two families who have been at the forefront of Rutgers' Big Ten Build campaign are "stepping up their support again." JEFF and AMY TOWERS as well as RON and JOANNA GARUTTI both "pledged on Twitter on Sunday night to match all donations to the fundraising initiative dollar-for-dollar up to $100,000 for the next 24 hours" (NJ.com, 4/9)....The latest ESPN "30 for 30" highlighting Kentucky men's basketball coach JOHN CALIPARI had a preview screening at the Kentucky Theater in Lexington last night. The audience of invited guests of about 700 "saw part biography, part airing of grievances, part high praise, part condemnation" (LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, 4/11)....The NHL Rangers on Sunday night "presented this year’s Steven McDonald Extra Effort Award to MATS ZUCCARELLO, who was given the honor for the second straight season and the third time in four years." The late STEVEN MCDONALD was an NYPD officer who was "paralyzed from the neck down in a Central Park shooting" (N.Y. DAILY NEWS, 4/10)....After his Cavaliers were "stunned by the Hawks" on Sunday, LEBRON JAMES "jetted to Miami to blow off steam" facing the Heat last night. Sources said that James "was at the Fontainebleau’s popular LIV Sunday party" with teammates J.R. SMITH, IMAN SHUMPERT and TRISTAN THOMPSON (NYPOST.com, 4/10)....Lions QB MATTHEW STAFFORD and his wife KELLY "welcomed twin daughters" on March 31 (FREEP.com, 4/9). 

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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