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Nike Releases Special-Edition Barca Shirt; BIH, FIFA Set Data Format

The new shirt will be available Wednesday.Nike

To mark the 20th anniversary of its relationship with Barcelona, Nike is releasing a commemorative jersey featuring a mash-up of every home shirt of the last two decades. The limited-edition jersey, which will not be worn on the pitch, fuses numerous iterations of the club’s stripes on the front, back and sleeves. The Barça x Nike 20th Anniversary Jersey will be available on Wednesday on nike.com and at select retailers (Nike).

SETTING A STANDARD: The Barça Innovation Hub and FIFA created a standard format to unify the monitoring data that football teams collect during training and matches. Each club had previously stored that information differently. The announcement was made on Friday at the Sports Technology Symposium hosted by the club.

OPEN FOR BUSINESS: The Barça Experience on Hainan Island, China, opened on Sunday. The facility includes an interactive 4,000-square-meter museum and a megastore as well as a Barça Academy Pro with six pitches. The Barça Experience Haikou Exhibition Centre -- the first outside of Barcelona -- is one of the pillars of a strategic partnership between Barcelona and Mission Hills Group (Barcelona).

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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