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Padres P CRAIG STAMMEN has been named winner of the Bob Feller Act of Valor Award for his "continued support of the military" during a virtual broadcast on Thursday. Stammen became a sports ambassador for the United Heroes League, which "provides sports equipment and camps, subsidizes fees and offers tickets and experiences to military children." He also has become the "jet fuel behind opportunities for military families through the Padres" (SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE, 11/20).

ACCESS DENIED: The USOPC ethics panel has declared former U.S. swimmer ANNE WARNER CRIBBS "ineligible to hold office with the U.S. Olympian and Paralympian Association, an influential alumni group." The ethics panel found Cribbs, who is former USA Table Tennis Chair and San Francisco Bay Area Sports Organizing Committee President & CEO, "is not eligible to be a USOPA officer based on the representations she made about her medal status." Cribbs has referred to herself for decades as an Olympic Gold medalist. She swam in the preliminary round of the 4x100 meter medley relay at the '60 Olympic Games but "did not compete in the final where the U.S. team was victorious" (ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER, 11/20).

LIKE FINE WINE: Saints and Pelicans Owner GAYLE BENSON's Twelfth Labor Wine Company has "been in the works for years," and now she is "bringing [it] to fruition." It was a project that her late husband TOM BENSON began before his death in '18. The first wines from Twelfth Labor are "slated to start appearing in stores and restaurant wine lists" next month. Initially, they will be available "only in the New Orleans area" (New Orleans ADVOCATE, 11/20).

NAMES: Prairie View A&M University, an HBCU in Prairie View, Texas, announced a $400,000 donation from golfer CAMERON CHAMP's Cameron Champ Foundation and Chevron Corporation to "establish two scholarship funds for student-athletes on its men's and women's golf teams" (GOLFWEEK.com, 11/19)....NHL Kings LW TREVOR MOORE and D MATT ROY were "on hand as the NHL squad teamed up with Wells Fargo to 'Team Up For Tech,' a new effort to help meet the education needs of underserved young people, most of whom are engaged in distance learning during the pandemic" (PASADENA STAR NEWS, 11/20)....Sporting KC MF ROGER ESPINOZA is "leading a group" of other Honduran MLS players to "help raise awareness and provide aid to Honduras in the wake of Hurricanes Eta and Iota." Hurricane Eta hit land in Central America on Nov. 3, "causing approximately $5 billion worth of damage to Honduras." Just two weeks later Hurricane Iota hit across the same area (K.C. STAR, 11/20).

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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