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Faces and Places

 

From the National Sports Forum, Feb. 10-12, Las Vegas

ADchievement Overall Award of Excellence winner: Chicago Bears’ Laura Condella and Elaine Delos Reyes.christy seaver
Case Cup Competition winners from Ohio University: Grant Hall, Nicole Galli, Lisanne Manders and Jahangir Khan.christy seaver
OM Foundation Award: 2014 recipient Danny Heinsohn, 2019 winner Olympia Entertainment’s Keri Gallagher; and Molly Wurdack Folt.christy seaver
SAMMY (Sales Advertising Marketing Management Idea of the Year) Award: Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment’s Aalum Jaffer and Jessica Pearlman.christy seaver

 

Face time

Five-time Olympic swimming gold-medalist and former Stanford standout Katie Ledecky was surprised to find a giant cutout of her face while attending the Stanford men’s basketball game against UCLA on Feb. 16 at Maples Pavilion. ben fischer

 

Jersey reveal

At FC Cincinnati’s inaugural jersey launch event on Feb. 11 at Music Hall in Cincinnati: Players Fanendo Adi, Kendall Waston, Leo Bertone; Mercy Health COO Brian Smith; FC Cincinnati managing owner and CEO Carl Lindner; Mercy Health CMO Sandra Mackey; FC Cincinnati President/GM Jeff Berding; and players Greg Garza, Nick Hagglund and Mathieu Deplagne. In addition to being the jersey sponsor, Mercy Health is the club’s naming partner for its $30 million training center in Milford, Ohio, and official health care provider.fc cincinnati

 

GolfPass preview

Rory McIlroy (second from right) joined (from left) Will McIntosh, EVP, strategy and golf, NBC Sports; Mike McCarley, president, golf, NBC Sports; and Pete Bevacqua, president, NBC Sports Group, for a Feb. 4 media preview in New York City for GolfPass, a new digital membership delivering comprehensive benefits tailored to the modern golfer’s lifestyle. golf channel

 

Elevating the Genesis Open

From the news conference Feb. 13 ahead of the Genesis Open at Riviera Country Club in Pacific Palisades, Calif.: Hyundai Motor Group Executive Vice Chairman Euisun Chung; PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan; tournament host Tiger Woods; and Manfred Fitzgerald, EVP and global head of Genesis.j.d. cuban

 

Let it rip

The name and logo of the National Lacrosse League’s New York franchise — New York Riptide — was announced prior to the finals for the New York Open on Feb. 19 at NYCB Live. From left: NLL’s Kevin Morgan; NYCB Live’s Nick Vaerewyck; Riptide Assistant GM Lance Basler and GM/coach Regy Thorpe; Gary Fuhrman, managing partner, GF Capital, and board member, GF Sports; Nassau County Legislator Kevan Abrahams; former Olympian and soccer player Shep Messing; former New York Islander Butch Goring; and GF Sports’ EVP Josh Ripple.corey sipkin

 

 

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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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