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KeyBank Arena Gameday Employees Paid For Canceled Sabres Games

Game-day employees at KeyBank Center "will be compensated" for Sabres games canceled as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, according to Lance Lysowski of the BUFFALO NEWS. A source said that employees "scheduled to work the Sabres' final six home games will be paid Friday, providing financial relief for part-time workers in security, ticket takers, ushers and freelance broadcast workers." Pegula Sports & Entertainment has "followed through with a similar plan following the cancellation" of three NLL Buffalo Bandits games at KeyBank Center, seven AHL Rochester Americans games and four NLL Rochester Knighthawks games in Blue Cross Arena (BUFFALO NEWS, 6/5).

SBJ Morning Buzzcast: March 25, 2024

NFL meeting preview; MLB's opening week ad effort and remembering Peter Angelos.

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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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