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Executive Transactions - May 7, 2024

The European Olympic Committees named DR.   JAN LEHMANN CEO. Lehmann previously worked in leading positions for the sports marketing agency Infront, the German Football League (DFL), Nielsen Sports and as a board member of Bundesliga club Mainz 05....

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The IOC has banned Kuwait sports administrator SHEIKH AHMAD AL-FAHAD AL-SABAH  for 15 years from all positions within the IOC over ethics breaches. Sheikh Ahmad had been found guilty in 2021 in Switzerland on charges of “forgery and a fake arbitration procedure.” The IOC Ethics Commission said that...

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Former Giants EVP  BRIAN SABEAN will be inducted into the Bay Area Sports HOF today. Sabean said the way they “thrived as an organization was people-centric.” He added, “It was a collaboration. We didn’t want to say we really are, in a small group, the smartest...

Executive Transactions - May 6, 2024

LIV Golf named former PepsiCo SVP/Media, Sports and Entertainment ADAM HARTER CMO. Harter is already working in the role and is reporting to LIV CEO GREG NORMAN . He was with PepsiCo for more than 20 years before leaving at the end of 2022 ( ...

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AGENCIES Wasserman named DAN VERTLIEB senior vice president of baseball. BASEBALL The American Association of Professional Baseball named Chris Browne ...

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Cowboys QB DAK PRESCOTT will not face criminal charges related to a woman’s accusation of a 2017 sexual assault case. In January, attorneys representing a Fort Worth woman sent an email to Prescott requesting $100M in “exchange for not disclosing or pursuing criminal charges related to her...