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Metallica Rocks The Bronx For Mariano Rivera's Yankee Stadium Sendoff

The Yankees held a pregame celebration today in honor of P Mariano Rivera's final regular-season home game, and Metallica "showed up to perform Rivera’s signature entrance song, 'Enter Sandman,' live from the bullpen." Rivera’s jersey was "officially retired by the Yankees" and N.Y. Mayor Michael Bloomberg "named the day in his honor" (USATODAY.com, 9/22). Pregame ceremonies also featured the unveiling of a Jackie Robinson plaque in Monument Park, with Robinson's family in attendance. The Yankees presented Rivera with a $100,000 check to the Mariano Rivera Foundation (TWITTER.com, 9/22).

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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