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U.K. Sport Announces $43M Lottery Campaign To Help Lure 70 Major Sports Events

U.K. Sport has announced a £27M ($42.8M) national lottery campaign to bring more than 70 major sporting events to Great Britain over the next six years, which "it believes will cement the legacy of the London 2012 Games," according to James Riach of the London GUARDIAN. The proposal includes 36 world and European championships. U.K. Sport has scored the athletics' 2017 World Championships, which it regards as the "jewel in the crown." Other "flagship events" include the 2013 Triathlon World Championships, to be held in London's Hyde Park, and Glasgow's 2015 Artistic Gymnastics World Championships. U.K. Sports Minister Hugh Robertson revealed that the government "would consider a bid" to host the semifinals and final of Euro 2020, while a bid for a European Olympic Games "could be a possibility should such a competition emerge." Robertson said, "I want to keep the momentum generated by London 2012 moving forward. I don't want us falling off a cliff edge in the years to come, and one of the best ways of doing that is to ensure that we have a series of major sport events coming to this country. Without major events I think it is increasingly difficult to inspire young people to take up sport. There is no doubt that success at this level inspires people to take up sport" (GUARDIAN, 11/14).

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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