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Tony Stewart will not drive in Saturday’s Irwin Tools Night Race at Bristol Motor Speedway, sitting “out his third consecutive” NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race since his Aug. 9 dirt track incident that resulted in the death of Kevin Ward Jr. (CHARLOTTE OBSERVER, 8/21).

Anheuser Busch-InBev is “down to three finalists in its domestic media agency search.” OMD, MediaCom and Spark “remain contenders.” Starcom has “handled research and media planning” for AB-InBev since '11 (ADWEEK.com, 8/20).

The Double-A Texas League Frisco RoughRiders announced that the team's sale to a group led by former MLB Rangers CEO Chuck Greenberg has closed (Frisco RoughRiders).

The UConn men's basketball team yesterday announced deals for home-and-home series with Ohio State and Arizona in an effort to “play a strong out-of-conference schedule” (HARTFORD COURANT, 8/21).

A crowd of 9,992 attended last night’s Switzerland-U.S. int’l friendly at WakeMed Soccer Park in Cary, N.C., setting a state record for an int’l women’s soccer match (Raleigh NEWS & OBSERVER, 8/21).

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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