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New College Tourney Latest Effort By MLB To Push Amateur Baseball

MLB in February will hold a newly created college baseball tournament involving some of the top programs in the country, part of an ongoing effort for the league to work more closely with amateur levels of baseball. The new MLB4 tournament will involve Vanderbilt, Virginia, TCU and Cal State-Fullerton playing six total games from Feb. 15-17 at Salt River Fields at Talking Stick in Scottsdale, Ariz. The event, which will be shown on MLB Network and MLB.com, ties into what is traditionally the opening weekend of the NCAA baseball season with multiple tournaments occurring around the country. To that end, the league will also hold its Andre Dawson Classic that same weekend at its New Orleans MLB Youth Academy featuring eight other college teams, seven of which are from HBCU programs. Cal State-Fullerton is the alma mater of MLB Exec VP/Baseball & Softball Development Tony Reagins, who will oversee MLB4.

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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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