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Going Off The Grid: Execs Pick CFP Champion, Give Predictions On Tiger's Return To Golf

"Going Off The Grid" is a weekly survey of sports execs and personalities offering their thoughts on a handful of pressing (and trivial) issues in sports and pop culture. This week, panelists pick their CFP National Champion and discuss the Giants' handling of QB Eli Manning.

  • Raptors VP/Basketball Operations & Player Development Teresa Resch
    – Finds the royal family fascinating, especially with Prince Harry’s recent engagement to Meghan Markle.
  • NBC Sports Philadelphia VP/Marketing Cynthia Weiss
    – Enjoys the Eagles' end zone celebrations and Joel Embiid's tweets.
  • Whitecaps Dir of Corporate Partnerships Phil Adams
    – Enjoys the latest surge in superhero movies.
  • Allstate Marketing Manager of Sponsorships Kevin Heerdegen
    – He totally owns the fact that he watches the Bachelor/Bachelorette.
Going Off The Grid
  Winner of CFP Championship Tiger Woods wins how many events next year? Giants' handling of Eli Manning was... Favorite Monopoly piece?  Athlete poised for success on-screen?

Resch
Clemson Unfortunate Thimble. My mom taught me how to sew Serena Williams

Weiss
Oklahoma
0 Similar to trading Donovan McNabb on Easter Sunday Thimble
Stephen Curry

Adams
Clemson
One, and dare I say it's a major?
Delicate and a no-win situation

Top Hat -- It's distinguished

J.J. Watt

Heerdegen
Oklahoma In golf speak, it's a water hazard (none)
Botched

Howitzer -- because it's cool to say

Joel Embid's Twitter account

Do you want to get your thoughts in the Grid? If so, shoot an e-mail to jcarpenter@sportsbusinessdaily.com.

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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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