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The NFL Giants today announced that Quest Diagnostics is the new naming-rights partner for their practice facility, which will now be called the Quest Diagnostics Training Center. This comes one day after a report that the team's four-year deal with Timex had ceased (THE DAILY).

76ers and MLS DC United investor Erick Thohir is “close to clinching a deal” to buy a majority stake in Italian Serie A club Inter Milan (REUTERS, 7/24).

The IAAF said that it will have a “sophisticated anti-doping program” that will include “comprehensive blood testing” in place for next month’s World Championship in Moscow (AP, 7/24).

Nets President & CEO Brett Yormark calls himself “a bit of a meticulous dresser” as he is featured in a WALL STREET JOURNAL story on fashion in the workplace under the header, “When The Boss Sets The Style” (WALL STREET JOURNAL, 7/25).

The St. Paul City Council yesterday unanimously approved $9M to “plug a funding gap” in the $63M budget for the independent American Association St. Paul Saints’ proposed downtown ballpark (Minneapolis STAR TRIBUNE, 7/25).

Ascent Solar Technologies has agreed to become a “Hometown Sponsor” of the Broncos in a deal that includes in-stadium advertising at Sports Authority Field at Mile High and promotional rights for the company’s EnerPlex photovoltaic modules (Ascent Solar Technologies).

Tag Heuer is running a full-page ad in today’s N.Y. Times that features tennis player Maria Sharapova (THE DAILY).

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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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