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Kerry Gaelic Athletic Association is set to appoint MAURICE O'MEARA as a "full-time commercial fundraiser in the coming weeks." O’Meara will vacate his position as GM at Dooks Golf Club to take up his new position with the Kerry County Board (IRISH EXAMINER, 5/3). ... STATS announced it promoted VERNON O'DONNELL to chief customer officer, a new position. He most recently served as the SVP of data collections & operations at STATS. O'Donnell and his team will manage the launch of a revamped onboarding and support of every new STATS client across the portfolio (STATS). ... Turnkey announced a new strategic consulting arm to be led by Exec VP TONY PONTURO and supported by Senior VP/Marketing Partnerships GEORGE PERRY and VP/Marketing Partnerships DANIELLE BYRD (Turnkey). ... HANS CHRISTIAN DURR accepted a position with Riot Games as head of esports DACH. He will oversee esports operations in the DACH region, which includes Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Durr joins Riot after several years working with League of Legends teams (THE ESPORTS OBSERVER, 5/2).

COACHES/MANAGERS: Frenchman SÉBASTIEN MIGNÉ was appointed the new coach of Kenya’s national football team on a three-year deal. The 45-year-old replaces Belgian PAUL PUT, who stepped down “for personal reasons” in February after just three months in the job (BBC, 5/3).

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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.

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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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