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League Notes: Alastair Cook Says He Did Not Issue Ultimatum Over Kevin Pietersen

England cricket captain Alastair Cook "went on record before Thursday’s first Test with New Zealand to deny issuing a him-or-me ultimatum" to the England & Wales Cricket Board over Kevin Pietersen’s continued int'l exile. Cook was heavily criticized in Pietersen's autobiography, and it was reported last week that he presented new ECB Dir Andrew Strauss with a "him or me" decision for the Ashes summer ahead. Cook "categorically denied any such conversation took place." Cook: "There was no ultimatum. I can deny that. ... It wasn't my decision. I trust those that made the decision. I have to let management manage" (London GUARDIAN, 5/20). ... The Australian Sports Commission "finds itself in the unfortunate position -- even if temporarily -- of failing to meet the same women-on-boards target it has mandated for national sports bodies." As part of a much-publicized gender equity plan, the ASC said that 40% of directors' positions on sports boards "should be filled by women." Yet on a soon-to-be transformed board that, as it stands, has seven voting directors and eight members in total, only one -- former Winter Olympic champion Alisa Camplin -- is female, "and her term to help steer the ASC is set to expire next month" (SYDNEY MORNING HERALD, 5/20). ... Hong Kong's hopes of future medal success "will be given a boost on Thursday" when a new education program allowing students to become full-time athletes at the Hong Kong Sports Institute is rolled out. The HKSI will sign an agreement with the English Schools Foundation which will see three schools -- King George V School, Sha Tin College and Renaissance College -- come on board, allowing students aged 15 to 17 to become full-time athletes while still going to school on a "flexible and tailor-made" program to accommodate their studies. Lam Tai Fai College in Sha Tin "will join next month" (SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, 5/20).

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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