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USA Gymnastics

Change from 2017: Newcomers

They were already the most successful team in modern gymnastics history. Through their brave personal accounts, unified collective voice and rare moral clarity, the gymnasts who were abused by Larry Nassar — led by Aly Raisman and other Olympic gold medalists — have emerged as a powerful political force across the Olympic movement and beyond.

 

Making their debut

Newcomers to this year’s 50 Most Influential People in Sports Business

 

1. The American Sports Gambler

22. Kevin Mayer

22. Jimmy Pitaro

23. Jim Murren

24. Michael Rapino

25. Sarah Hirshland

25. Susanne Lyons

33. Serena Williams

35. Lesa France Kennedy

38. John Mount

43. Carlos Cordeiro

47. Marie Donoghue

48. Joe Asher

49. Rick Welts

50. Sister Survivors

SBJ Morning Buzzcast: March 25, 2024

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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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