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Topps has expanded its Topps Now on-demand card service to include a new fantasy sports element. The newly created Topps Now Future cards will offer prizes including autographed and rare cards if the team depicted on the limited edition Future cards wins the ’19 World Series. Topps Now Future packs will sell in sets of three randomly selected cards for $12 and feature players from all 30 MLB teams (Eric Fisher, THE DAILY).

MAKING AN IMPRESSION: In Austin, Paul Thompson noted TaylorMade "brought a two-story trailer" that is 20 feet tall by 14 feet wide to the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play. The truck will "travel to various stops on the PGA Tour" this season to "build and repair clubs for TaylorMade's tour players." The truck "made its public debut in Austin -- a spectacle of branding more typical during South by Southwest than a golf tournament" (BIZJOURNALS.com, 3/25).

JUST A SHIRT FROM AKRON: In Cleveland, Troy Smith noted LeBron James recently "took to social media to promote a T-shirt" that will benefit the I Promise School, which James opened in Akron for at-risk students. The shirt James promoted on his Instagram is "called 'Just a Kid From Akron' and features that famous phrase over an illustration of James in his St. Vincent-St. Mary High School jersey" (CLEVELAND.com, 3/25).

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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