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Gary Bettman Says NHL Has Seen Overall Increase In Concussions

NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman in a press conference before Saturday’s All-Star SuperSkills Competition said a league-wide survey of injuries from this season showed an overall increase in concussions. Bettman said concussions caused by fighting and "inadvertent contact" have risen substantially, while concussions caused by blind-side hits to the head – made illegal last year by the league's controversial Rule 48 – have decreased. Sources said the BOG will likely decide whether or not to add more teeth to the rule at the springtime meeting.

Bettman also touched on several proposed team sales and other franchise issues. See today’s issue of THE DAILY for more from his press conference and complete All-Star weekend coverage.

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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