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SEC's Sankey Shows Leadership Through Complexities Of Pandemic

SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey addressed the challenges his conference has faced regarding COVID-19, saying they are "not any different from the challenges we faced in March when we had to stop a basketball tournament or interrupt baseball, softball and tennis." Sankey in an interview on ESPN's "College GameDay" said, "This has been a season of adjustment, and flexibility is the key word for us all." ESPN’s Kirk Herbstreit said of Sankey, “You have to be really impressed with his steady hand as a leader, because if you look around the country, leadership in this particular area is lacking. And as far as college football is concerned, universally, it’s been lacking going back to March, April and May.” Herbstreit added, “With Greg, you just feel like he hasn’t panicked. When the world around him has gotten everybody all concerned, he just kind of righted the ship with great leadership” (“College GameDay,” ESPN, 10/17).

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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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