Menu
Download the app

SBJ subscribers – Enhance your experience with the revamped iOS app

People and Pop Culture

Names In The News

ROGER FEDERER has decided to "end his partnership" with his coach, PAUL ANNOCONE, after working with him for more than three years. Federer announced the move after losing to GAËL MONFILS in the China Open. Federer is now "ranked seventh in the world" (AS, 10/13). ... Rugby player SONNY BILL WILLIAMS said that he will "return to rugby union" in '15 after a second season of league with the National Rugby League Sydney Roosters and also "plans to put his boxing career on the back-burner." Williams "wants to return to New Zealand to play rugby in 2015, hopefully with Super Rugby champions the Chiefs," with whom he played in '12 (THE AUSTRALIAN, 10/13). ... Cricketer SACHIN TENDULKAR, who will retire from Test cricket next month, "is all set to play new innings in a role of administrator or consultant to contribute to the game of cricket." SHARAD PAWAR, former chief of Mumbai, Indian and int'l cricket, said on Saturday that Sachin "has responded positively to his request for taking up new role after retirement." Pawar: "I told him that he should join hands with cricket administrators to strengthen the Indian cricket further. Sachin was too happy to accept my request" (HINDUSTAN TIMES, 10/12). ... The family of former F1 test driver MARIA DE VILLOTA said that her sudden death on Friday "was linked to the severe injuries she suffered in a crash last year." De Villota suffered serious head and facial injuries, including the loss of her right eye in the crash, while testing for the Marrusia team at Duxford Aerodrome in Cambridgeshire, England, last July. The 33-year-old "was found dead in a hotel room in the southern Spanish city of Seville on Friday morning and an autopsy confirmed that she had died of natural causes" (SYDNEY MORNING HERALD, 10/13). ... Angola has "parted company" with its Uruguayan coach GUSTAVO FERRIN after "failing to get past the group stage of the World Cup qualifiers" (REUTERS, 10/13). ... Football Federation Australia made "tentative contact" with Dutchman GUUS HIDDINK about the national team coaching job left vacant by the sacking of HOLGER OSIECK (REUTERS, 10/13). ... Fulham has "failed to persuade" RENÉ MEULENSTEEN to join its first-team coaching staff, with the former ManU assistant set to become the Qatar FA's technical director (London GUARDIAN, 10/8). ... Kent County Cricket Club has announced the death of former captain, Chair and President DAVID CLARK at the age of 94. Clarke played 75 matches for the county following his debut in '46, "and he skippered the side for the final three seasons of his career before retiring" in '51 (SKY SPORTS, 10/11).

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.

Shareable URL copied to clipboard!

https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Global/Issues/2013/10/14/People-and-Pop-Culture/NIN.aspx

Sorry, something went wrong with the copy but here is the link for you.

https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Global/Issues/2013/10/14/People-and-Pop-Culture/NIN.aspx

CLOSE