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Euroleague Basketball announced that EA7 Emporio Armani Milan President LIVIO PROLI is its CEO of the year for the '13-14 season. The award was voted on by his peers. EA7 Milan was awarded a Euroleague A-license and twice represented Euroleague Basketball by hosting exhibitions in the NBA Global Games (Euroleague). ... The NBA Sacramento Kings have signed SIM BHULLAR to a summer league contract, making him the first player of Indian-origin to play in the NBA (IANS, 7/8). ... CORINNA, wife of former F1 driver MICHAEL SCHUMACHER, said that her husband's health "is making slow but good progress." It was her "first public appearance" since Schumahcer's skiing accident last December (IANS, 7/8). ... Spanish Basketball League (ACB) side Sevilla coach AÍTO GARCÍA RENESES announced in a statement that he is leaving the club. García Reneses coached the team for the last two seasons (EFE, 7/8). ... GP2 driver NATHANAËL BERTHON has been confirmed as one of the drivers in Caterham F1 Team's new driver development program. Berthon already has F1 experience, having driven in the '11 young driver test at Abu Dhabi for HRT. Since '12 he has been competing in GP2, winning the GP2 sprint race in Hungary in '13 when he was with Trident Racing, and currently competing in the '14 season with Venezuela GP Lazarus (Caterham F1).

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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