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In Memory: SBJ/SBD Remembers Sports Business Figures Who Passed Away In '17

SBJ/SBD remembers those from the sports business realm who passed away in '17. 

  • Chuck Blazer, former U.S. Soccer, CONCACAF and FIFA exec
  • Frank Broyles, former Arkansas coach and AD
  • Frank Deford, SI writer; radio and TV commentator
  • Lou Duva, boxing promoter
  • Katy Feeney, former MLB Senior VP and SBJ "Game Changer" in '12
  • Ed Garvey, former NFLPA Exec Dir
  • Dallas Green, former Cubs President & GM
  • Mike Ilitch, Red Wings and Tigers Owner and SBJ "Champion" in '14
  • Hootie Johnson, former Masters and Augusta National Golf Club Chair
  • Jerry Krause, former Bulls GM
  • David Modell, former Ravens President
  • John David Molson, former Canadiens Owner & Chair
  • Don Ohlmeyer, Emmy-winning TV exec and SBJ "Champion" in '12
  • Neal Patterson, Sporting K.C. co-Owner
  • Jimmy Piersall, former White Sox broadcaster
  • Dan Rooney, Steelers Owner
  • Harry Scott Sr., Turner Scott Motorsports co-Owner
  • Joan Tisch, NFL Giants co-Owner
  • Gary Wadler, former WADA Chair
  • Chuck Wielgus, USA Swimming Exec Dir
  • Robert Yates, NASCAR HOFer, engine builder and team owner

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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