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Heat Managing General Partner and Carnival Chair MICKY ARISON, along with his wife, MADELEINE, have "pledged more than" $1M to bushfire disaster relief in Australia. The couple's donation will "accompany another $250,000 from the Carnival Foundation and five of the cruise company's other brands" (MIAMI HERALD, 1/10)....Appalachian State AD DOUG GILLIN's contract extension adds "two more years to his deal, locking him in" through '24, along with "roughly a 60 percent increase to his base salary and doubling of his annual retention bonus." Gillin will "make $450,000 in base salary this year," and he will see a 4.5% increase "with every year going forward" (WINSTON-SALEM JOURNAL, 1/10)....Two companies owned by Rams Owner STAN KROENKE have "sued an insurance firm over the cleanup of arsenic-contaminated soil at the sprawling development the billionaire is building in Inglewood." TKG Management and Pincay Re LLC allege that Chubb Custom Insurance Company "refused to pay the bulk" of a $5M policy "covering environmental cleanup costs" at the site of the new SoFi Stadium (L.A. TIMES, 1/10)....Steelers QB BEN ROETHLISBERGER "awarded a grant" to the Sacramento PD that has "allowed it to add one new dog to its K-9 unit" (SACRAMENTO BEE, 1/10).

IN MEMORY: Longtime Denver Post sports writer IRV MOSS, whom many "considered to be the encyclopedic authority on Colorado sports," died Wednesday at 85 of "complications from esophageal cancer." Moss, who was with the Post for 60 years, had a "front-row seat" to the debut of the Nuggets and Rockies franchises (DENVER POST, 1/10).

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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