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SPORTING NEWS' Michael McCarthy cited sources as saying that ESPN is "poised to slash" an estimated $80M in salaries and other costs in the coming weeks. The third round of layoffs in two years at the Disney-owned sports network is "expected to come down after Thanksgiving and before Christmas." Previously, ESPN "laid off 100 mostly on-air anchors/reporters/hosts this April" (SPORTINGNEWS.com, 11/20).

GO BIG OR GO HOME: The BIG3 and Fox Sports yesterday announced coverage plans for the league's second season, with live coverage on tap for the entire 10-week '18 slate. The games will air on Friday nights starting June 22, with six windows on FS1 and four windows on Fox. Each week, the league will play four games back-to-back, three of which will be broadcast live by Fox Sports and streamed concurrently on Fox Sports Go. The championship game will air Aug. 24 (Fox Sports).

TAKING A NEW PATH? In Pittsburgh, Tim Benz noted free agent 2B Neil Walker "has his eyes on broadcasting in his post-MLB playing life." Walker "provided the football color commentary" on AT&T SportsNet for the WPIAL high school championship game. Walker before the broadcast said, "This is definitely something I'd be interested in when my career is done" (TRIBLIVE.com, 11/19).

KILLING THE CLUTTER: In S.F., Bruce Jenkins wrote at halftime of Thursday night’s Rocket-Suns game on TNT, the “Inside the NBA” crew "devoted a five-minute segment to shameless advertising for American Express and something called 'Shop Small,'" with Shaquille O’Neal "bestowing gifts" upon fellow co-hosts Charles Barkley, Kenny Smith and Ernie Johnson. The crew thinks it can "get away with anything (festive eating is always in play), when in fact their audience is recoiling in disdain." People should "try watching ESPN’s weekday show, 'The Jump.'" It has the "same brand of high-quality analysis without the clutter" (S.F. CHRONICLE, 11/20).

SBJ Morning Buzzcast: March 25, 2024

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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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