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Key Safety Issues In Play As NFL, NFLPA Reps Meet Around Combine

The NFL scouting combine begins tonight at Lucas Oil Stadium, but meetings between league and NFLPA officials in Indianapolis today "will shape the NFL far more immediately." The annual gathering "will focus on whether to eliminate some of the low blocks that risk injury to the legs of defensive players, suggestions for further adjusting kickoff rules and the league’s decision to have independent neurologists on the sideline to consult on head injuries" (N.Y. TIMES, 2/20).

NFL Network for its on-site coverage of the combine will "do everything but mike any of the 333 players expected to attend." NFL Network Senior Coordinating Producer Mike Muriano: "They don't want anything to possibly alter their performance. But our camera mics get up-close sounds. That's particularly good with the bench-press tests" (USA TODAY, 2/20).

SBJ Morning Buzzcast: March 25, 2024

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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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