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League Notes: ICC Announces ICC Women's World Cup Winner Will Receive $660,000

The world's top eight teams will be vying for a winner’s prize of $660,000 in the ICC Women’s World Cup 2017, which will be held in the U.K. from June 24 -July 23. The ICC earlier in May announced that the total prize money for the tournament would be $2M, 10 times the amount for the '13 edition. The runner-up will win $330,000 and the losing semifinalists will get $165,000 each. Teams exiting at the group stage will get $30,000 each while each win in the group stage will earn a side $20,000 (ICC).

Formula E CEO Alejandro Agag urged Ferrari to "enter the all-electric series." Earlier in the week, FIA President Jean Todt "expressed satisfaction" that Renault is involved in both F1 and Formula E. Todt said, "I am confident that one day Ferrari will follow suit, and we would like to see that." That is a sentiment that Agag "shares as well." He said, "Ferrari in Formula E is quite possible" (AUTO WEEK, 6/16). 

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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