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MLB Ends Pursuit Of $10M Baseball, Softball Academy In Birmingham

MLB "no longer wants to build" a $10M baseball and softball academy at Birmingham's George Ward Park and has "instead turned its attention to a baseball complex" in Vero Beach, Fla., according to Beahm & Johnson of AL.com. MLB Exec VP/Baseball & Softball Development Tony Reagins in an email wrote, "We believe the youth of Birmingham would benefit from our programs, however the timing is not right and quite frankly may never be." Birmingham City Councilor Valerie Abbott said she "wasn't terribly surprised" by MLB's decision. Abbott: "I've spoken with Tony Reagins a large number of times. He said he was appalled at Birmingham politics and some of the comments made during the process" (AL.com, 4/17).

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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