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League Notes: FIFA Task Force Against Racism To Hold First Meeting Monday In Zurich

The FIFA task force against racism and discrimination will hold its first meeting Monday at FIFA's Zurich headquarters. The creation of the task force was announced by President Sepp Blatter in early March following a meeting of the FIFA Strategic Committee, as part of a series of measures to tackle the pressing issue of racism and discrimination in football (FIFA). ... Cuba will permit its boxers to participate in the 4th World Series of Boxing Nov. 15 through May '14, allowing them "to earn some profits without losing their amateur condition." Cuba Boxing Federation President Alberto Puig said that the decision "was aimed to better prepare the local boxers and let them know their rivals in each division, in order to defeat them in the most important Olympic and world contests" (XINHUA, 4/29). ... The Australian Football League's review system is "set to remain as is until a more advanced hi-tech replacement is found." The system introduced at the start of last year has "come under fire this season" (THE AUSTRALIAN, 4/30). ... A team of the Int'l Swimming Federation (FINA) "officially began its on-site evaluation" in Gwangju, South Korea on Monday as it watched a presentation of the city's proposals to host the 2019 FINA World Aquatics Championships (KOREA HERALD, 4/29).

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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