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EXECUTIVE TRANSACTIONS

          Fox Sports Bay Area VP/Programming LARRY MEYERS moves
     to Fox Sports West, where he will be the Network
     Coordinating Producer (S.F. CHRONICLE, 5/15)....DAVE
     NEUBECKER was named Exec Dir of Marketing for Fox Sports
     Interactive.  Neubecker was Dir of Promotions at EA Sports
     and worked in brand marketing at Disney's Buena vista Home
     Video (AD AGE, 5/15)....RAMIE EGAN has joined the staff at
     P.S. StarGames.  Egan, who formerly worked at Woolf
     Associates, will concentrate primarily on sponsorship sales
     as well as athlete endorsements (P.S. StarGames).
     ..JumboSports has moved its team sales division to a new
     unnamed and wholly-owned subsidiary led by former Senior
     VP/CMO CLIFF EPSTEIN.  Former Herman's Sports exec JERRY
     MATTHEWS was named Senior VP/General Merchandising Manager
     for Apparel, Golf and Tennis.  VP/General Merchandising
     Manager RON HENNEKE will oversee other equipment products
     (TAMPA TRIBUNE, 5/14)....MIKE KOPP was named GM of the ABL's
     Nashville franchise.  Kopp was a former coordinator of
     corporate sales for the new NFL Oilers stadium (ABL).
     ...MERLE MARTING was named Marketing Dir at Nike Golf....MI-
     based sports, entertainment & facility management firm
     Olympia Entertainment promoted BILL LEE from Dir of
     Marketing to Senior Dir of Marketing (BRANDWEEK, 5/11).

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