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"It's sort of unprecedented where we own the game and we're going to place the game in a bowl, so there's a level of complexity that goes with anything that's new and different" – SEC Commissioner Mike Slive, on the conference meeting with Big 12 officials about a site for the inaugural Champions Bowl in '14 (Nashville TENNESSEAN, 10/11).

"We don't want to be the ones who quit on this team and this league and cause it to fold. But we're hearing there's a possibility it could fold" – Las Vegas Locos TE Spencer Havner, on the viability of the UFL (SACRAMENTO BEE, 10/11).

"It might be the most attention we've had since Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr" – Weehawken (N.J.) Mayor Richard Turner, whose town hosted the famous Hamilton-Burr duel in 1804, on a portion of the proposed F1 Grand Prix of America running through the municipality (WSJ.com, 10/10).

"I felt like a quarterback trying to take his team in for a score – you want to hush your fans for being too loud. But we appreciate the fans" – A's DH Seth Smith, who played QB at Ole Miss, on the crowd noise at O.co Coliseum almost distracting him during his ninth-inning at-bat in yesterday's ALDS Game Four against the Tigers (SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS, 10/11).

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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