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Forty Under 40: Tanja Olano

Journal - 06/26/2023
Tanja Olano has been helping Los Angeles prepare to host the Olympic and Paralympic Games since joining the bid committee in 2015. A promotion to general counsel in 2017 after L.A. was awarded the 2028 Games put Olano in a position to help structure LA28’s commercial...

Forty Under 40: David Koonin

Journal - 06/26/2023
David Koonin was known as the youngest sportscaster in America when he was a kid, and now is enriching sports personalities and journalists, including negotiating the largest deal ever for a reporter. Koonin represents ESPN NFL reporter Adam Schefter, who last year signed a five-year...

Forty Under 40: Ben Kennedy

Journal - 06/26/2023
NASCAR executive Ben Kennedy has perhaps the most important initiative he’s ever championed coming up in early July. But if you think he’s only focused on the short term, listen to him describe how far out he’s working. Kennedy is one of the key executives...

Forty Under 40: Ari Borod

Journal - 06/26/2023
Ari Borod was fresh off helping navigate Action Network up the steep growth curve that led to its $240 million acquisition two summers ago when a mentor from his days at FanDuel, Matt King, phoned to congratulate him. He sensed that the call was more...

Forty Under 40: Colin Neville

Journal - 06/26/2023
Just over a year ago, Colin Neville was integral to closing what may be the most complex sports team transaction in history with the sale of Chelsea FC. Not only did Neville secure a then-record $3.1 billion team valuation, but he did so while conducting a forced...

Forty Under 40: Danita Johnson

Journal - 06/26/2023
Danita Johnson’s résumé reads like a verse out of the famous road trip anthem “I’ve Been Everywhere.” Since starting her career in 2004 as an intern with a now-defunct NBA D-League team in her hometown of Fayetteville, N.C., Johnson’s work in the business of basketball — and...

Forty Under 40: Matthew Carpenter-Dennis

Journal - 06/26/2023
When an executive search firm was talking with Matthew Carpenter-Dennis about whether his background matched what the NBA was looking for, the corporate transaction lawyer made his presence known like a LeBron James windmill dunk. “Get me in a room and let me tell my...

Forty Under 40: David Highhill

Journal - 06/26/2023
For a league as dominant as the NFL, one of the peak business challenges is how to serve so many different audiences without alienating any of them: traditionalists and TikTokers, ticket holders and TV viewers, or gamblers and non-gamblers. David Highhill has been at the...

Forty Under 40: Pam Rappaport

Journal - 06/26/2023
With a degree in television and formative jobs at ABC and CBS, it seemed Pam Rappaport was headed for a career in TV. But she was bitten by the marketing bug during a 21-month stint at  MLB Network. “Sure, I thought...
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The reason why we chose to be downtown is we really wanted that compelling backdrop. And when you see those sweeping scenes in Campus Martius, down Woodward, into Hart Plaza, that's the most beautiful show.

-- NFL Senior Dir of Events Nicki Ewell, on the league's reasons for choosing downtown Detroit as the location for this year's NFL Draft. DETROIT NEWS, 4/25.
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