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League Notes: UAE Rugby Association Hopeful Over New Youth Academy

UAE Rugby Association CEO Ian Bremner "is confident of greater player retention following this week's launch of the Natal Sharks Academy franchise." The latest addition to the UAE's expanding youth development program "will hone elite players" for the UAE U19 national team selection, as well as "giving aspiring youngsters the option of continuing their education in the emirates" (GULF NEWS, 2/20). ... With a bilateral field hockey test series planned for March-April, the Pakistan Hockey Federation "wants to enter into an agreement with Hockey India under which the party found to be defaulting will be liable to pay the other federation a compensation" of $200,000. PHF sources said that the federation "has sent a draft copy of the agreement to Hockey India for the series" (PTI, 2/20).

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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