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Leagues and Governing Bodies

League Notes: LTA Wants To Double Number Of Women Tennis Coaches

The Lawn Tennis Association "wants to double the number of women tennis coaches in Britain" to 1,600 in the next five years and its "ambitious" goal received the backing of former Fed Cup captain Judy Murray, who said that she wanted to "see more women take up coaching positions in tennis." She said, "I believe that girls respond better to female role models, and the LTA want to see more female coaches who can encourage girls to take up, and stay in, sport" (REUTERS, 4/23).

FIA will impose a "fresh clampdown" on trick engine modes that help exhaust blowing of rear wings in Formula 1 "following fresh intrigue about the matter." With Renault's blown rear wing having been "under the spotlight" before the start of the season and suggestions that Ferrari had been working on this area too, FIA "stepped in ahead of the Baku Grand Prix" (MOTORSPORT, 4/24).

The Australian Football League will review its "controversial" tribunal guidelines in relation to "bumps that lead to head-clash concussions" at the end of the season. AFL GM of Football Operations Steve Hocking reinforced the decision of the match review officer on Monday to "clear Hawthorn’s Ryan Burton after his bump hospitalised North Melbourne’s Shaun Higgins." Hocking: "No one wants to see players concussed but in this case it was accidental. I think the game wants the bump retained. It will be reviewed at the appropriate time, not five rounds in" (THE AUSTRALIAN, 4/25).

A number of Gaelic Athletic Association club members across the U.K. believe that strike action is the "only way" to get the Club Players Association to address fixture issues. Two-thirds of those responding to a survey feel that the group is "not making enough progress" and want it to "escalate" its efforts to address the issue. More than 2,500 of nearly 4,000 club members who took part in the survey feel that it is time to "go a different route" (LONDON TIMES, 4/24).

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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