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League Notes: Tennis Australia To Offer 35 Scholarships To Female Coaches To Close Gap

Only 21% of all tennis coaches in Australia are female, prompting Tennis Australia Head of Women’s Professional Tennis Nicole Pratt to "address the disparity." In an "ongoing drive to increase the number and quality of female tennis coaches nationwide," eligible women can now access additional funding to pursue TA coaching qualifications. Scholarships will be awarded in four coaching categories -- junior development, club professional, master club professional and high performance (Sydney DAILY TELEGRAPH, 3/30).

The Australian Football League Players Association has reprimanded and fined five player managers for betting on AFL markets during '15. Luke Holland, Nick Gieschen, Wayne Loxley, Olaf Borutz and Garry Winter have been reprimanded and fined by the union's agents accreditation board. All the affected agents other than Winter were fined A$500 ($383), with Winter fined A$1,000 ($767) as he placed multiple bets. None of the bets were for amounts greater than A$100 ($77), while one was placed in a market for the Int'l rules Test (SYDNEY MORNING HERALD, 3/31).

Concerns around rider safety, cancelled races and a "protracted, arguably illogical, calendar" have triggered a formal review of Australia's domestic road cycling series. A working party convened by Cycling Australia CEO Nick Green will reportedly "consider merging some races in a new annual program so there is male and female competition" at every installment of what is presently known as the National Road Series, a competition credited with "grooming the likes of" int'l champion Robbie McEwen (THE AGE, 3/31).

SBJ Morning Buzzcast: March 25, 2024

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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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