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Olympic Notes: London's Olympic Park Reopens For Visitors

The Olympic Park, "off limits to the public since the end of the London 2012 Games," is reopening for short visits. So far, 20,000 tickets have been sold to people wanting to see the site in Stratford, east London, "where Olympic and Paralympic medals were won and lost" (BBC, 3/27). ... The Bangladesh Olympic Association has been "given assurance from the sponsors" about providing Tk 20-22 crore ($2.6M-$2.8M) to make Bangladesh Games a success "while it has already been allocated" Tk 5 crore ($640,000) by the government for the eighth edition of the extravaganza, which is scheduled to be held from April 20 to 28 in the capital (DAILY STAR, 3/28). ... Toyota Motor Corporation became the 17th official bid partner of Tokyo's 2020 bid (Tokyo 2020).

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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