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Event Notes: Mexican President Says Future Of F1 GP Remains Unclear

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said that the funding that previously was used to finance Formula 1 will be allocated to the Mayan Train project. He said, "I don't know how the Formula 1 contracts are; if they are not signed, we will not be able to." Mexico has until Feb. 28 to renew its contract with F1 (LA AFICIÓN, 2/19).

The Rivolto Air Base in Udine, Italy, will host a start of a stage of the 2020 Giro d'Italia, organizers announced on Tuesday. The start will honor the 60th anniversary of the Frecce Tricolori (CYCLING NEWS, 2/19).

Amid calls for boycott, "the clamour for tickets" for the marquee ODI World Cup clash between India and Pakistan in Manchester on June 16 "has reached a crescendo, with more than 400,000 applicants" for the match at 75,000-seat Old Trafford (PTI, 2/20).

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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