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The Dodgers have invited VIN SCULLY and his wife, SANDI, to "watch this year's playoff games from a suite." The couple "leaves early to avoid having to navigate the traffic in the concourses and on the freeways, and to make sure to get home in time to see the end of the game." Scully said, "I'm looking at a game sideways. My entire life I would look at the game from behind home plate" (L.A. TIMES, 10/17).

FOOD RUNNER: Delaware North Chief Customer Officer RICK ABRAMSON ran a time of two hours, 22 minutes and 26 seconds in Sunday's Detroit Free Press Half-Marathon. The race takes runners through the streets of Detroit and into Windsor, Ontario, before re-entering U.S. soil. Abramson has taken up running again after bouncing back from Stage 4 tongue cancer, first detected in '13. Abramson after the event said, "I ran a half-marathon about 30 years ago, so my time was a little better back then. I’ve also run various other races through the years." For Sunday's race, Abramson wore a Tigers hat, Red Wings shirt and Pistons shorts, representing the three local clients served by his firm. The Tigers are Delaware North's oldest sports account, dating to '30 at Navin Field. Abramson’s oldest daughter, MARY, joined him in the half-marathon (Don Muret, Staff Writer).

NAMES: Hornets President & COO FRED WHITFIELD has been named the Economic Growth Champion of the Year by the Charlotte Chamber for his "work in brokering a deal" to repeal HB2, the city's controversial bathroom law. Whitfield was recognized last night "during a celebration at the Mint Museum Uptown" (CHARLOTTE OBSERVER, 10/17)....The Louisville Athletic Association yesterday voted unanimously to "terminate" the contract of men's basketball coach RICK PITINO, which had $46M left on it. In an attempt to save Pitino's job, his attorney "turned over the results of a lie detector test taken by the coach" to the association, but it was "unmoved" (Louisville COURIER-JOURNAL, 10/17)....Six Ohio State football players yesterday “visited patients” at the James Cancer Hospital in Columbus (COLUMBUS DISPATCH, 10/17)....Former F1 CEO BERNIE ECCLESTONE is “relocating to Switzerland.” Ecclestone “owns a hotel in the Swiss ski resort of Gstaad, among other business interests, and has had residence for nearly 30 years.” Meanwhile, he said that F1 Owner Liberty Media was “not keen for him to attend races and he could understand that.” However, an F1 spokesperson said that was "not the case" (REUTERS, 10/16)....DALE EARNHARDT JR. and his wife, AMY, are “expecting their first child soon.” The couple announced it will be a girl (CHARLOTTE OBSERVER, 10/17).

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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