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Gillette, EA pair champs with champs
Tiger Woods (top) and Derek Jeter took on global video game champions at the Gillette-EA Sports Champions of Gaming event in Orlando on Feb. 3. Woods played Steven Ward of Australiain Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09 and Jeter played EA Sports Soccer 09 with Jose Miguel Morales Herrera ofMexico.

Design time in Palm Springs
Discussing their firms’ projects at the recent Stadium Managers Association conference in Palm Springs, Calif., were (from left) 360 Architecture’s Chris Lamberth, HOK Sport’s Bruce Miller and Dennis Wellner, HKS’s Mark Williams and HOK’s Bob White.

MLB Network gets the sign
New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine joined MLB and MLB Network on Feb. 4 to officially unveil the new MLB Network Plaza street sign for MLB Network studios in Secaucus, N.J. From left: Corzine, MLB COO Bob DuPuy, Secaucus Mayor Dennis Elwell, Hartz Mountain Industries President and CEO Emmanuel Stern, MLB Network President and CEO Tony Petitti and Tim Brosnan, MLB executive vice president of business.

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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