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EXECUTIVE TRANSACTIONS
Published October 7, 1997
The Univ. of OR's Warsaw Sports Marketing Center (WSMC)
named four new board members: NBC Sports Senior
VP/Programming JONATHAN MILLER, U.S. Soccer Exec Dir HANK
STEINBRECHER, ABC Sports Dir of Marketing TERI WAGNER and
JEFFREY POLLACK, President & Publisher of THE DAILY (WSMC).
OTHER NEWS: ESPN named STEVEN PLANAMENTA as Manager of
Corporate Communications. He comes from CT-based PR firm
The Blackbird Group (ESPN)....DAN WARTELLE was hired by the
ABL Reign as Media Relations Assistant for the next six
months (Reign)....BOB STELLICK "will leave his post" as
Maple Leafs Dir of Business Ops & Communications today.
Stellick will join the London office of PR firm Shandwick
Inc. as Canadian VP (TORONTO SUN, 10/7).....Oakley Inc.
appointed WILLIAM SCHMIDT, VP/Worldwide Sports Marketing for
Gatorade, to its Board of Dir (Oakley).




