GENE UPSHAW was elected to his seventh three-year term
as the NFLPA's Exec Dir, and Dolphins DE TRACE ARMSTRONG was
re-elected as NFLPA President for a third two-year term
(Mult., 3/24)....MLS named TOM HAIDINGER as VP/Corporate
Partnerships and BETH CONROY as Dir of Corporate Partnership
Services. Haidinger spent nine years with Kaleidoscope
Sports & Entertainment, and Conroy spent the last seven
years in the Marketing Dept. of the Jets (MLS)....In L.A.,
Larry Stewart reports that CHARLES COPLIN, a "respected" ABC
Sports Producer the last ten years, will join interactive
videocasts provider softcom.com. Current softcom execs
include former ESPN exec DOUG WARSHAW and Olympics feature
producer JEFF GREENHOLTZ (L.A. TIMES, 3/24)....RON MAESTRI
has joined the Greater New Orleans Sports Foundation as Exec
Dir for the 2003 NCAA Men's Final Four Host Committee
(GNOSF)....Parabolics Inline Wheels appointed KEN HALL as
company President (Parabolics)....JEFF MCMAHON was named COO
of Ed McMahon's Next Big Star, an Internet talent
competition. McMahon previously was Dir of Programming at
the NFL and Dir of TV Events at NFLP (Victory Ent.)....BRAD
BENNETT was named Dir of Information Systems and JEN MORRIS
as Manager of Licensing & Trade Show for Minor League
Baseball. RON MYERS joins the staff on a part-time basis as
Dir of Special Events Sales (MinorLeagueBaseball.com).
