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Subway Rolling Out New NASCAR Creative Featuring Suarez, Edwards

Subway this weekend is debuting a spot around its new ambassador, Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series rookie Daniel Suarez. The spot features Suarez, who drives Joe Gibbs Racing’s No. 19 Toyota, alongside Carl Edwards, whose spot Suarez stepped into upon Edwards' departure in the offseason. Subway Chief Advertising Officer Chris Carroll said the sandwich chain, which on Sunday at Fontana will have its first primary sponsorship of the season, wanted to have a passing-of-the-torch spot, which Edwards was open to participating in.

The spot, which was shot a few weeks ago at Concord Speedway outside Charlotte, intersperses scenes of Suarez on track and in a garage talking with Edwards with shots that show press clippings of his rise from a younger driver to now. Carroll: “(Edwards’ move) was a little surprising, but we think that Daniel represents a lot of positives. ... The fact that we’ve had an affiliation with NASCAR for 16 years now, it’s a nice evolution to the story for us.” 

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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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