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Naomi Osaka

The U.S. Open women’s champion more than doubled her career earnings, reportedly agreed to a new $8.4 million endorsement deal with Adidas that would be the biggest the company has ever done with a female athlete, and signed a sponsorship deal with Nissan. Not a bad week.

 

 

 

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Money Trouble

Miami Heat Chief Revenue Officer Jeffrey David was let go by the team two months after being hired because of an FBI investigation into a money-laundering scheme he allegedly took part in while in a similar role with the Sacramento Kings.

 

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2026 Olympic Bid Race

The northern Japanese city of Sapporo reportedly will tell the IOC it’s dropping its bid for the 2026 Winter Olympics, leaving four bidders still in the mix – Calgary; Stockholm; Erzurum, Turkey; and a three-city bid from Italy.

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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