Chargers GM BOBBY BEATHARD retired yesterday after 37
years in the NFL and the team named ED MCGUIRE as
VP/Football Operations. McGuire was Senior Manager of Labor
Operations for the NFL's Management Council (L.A. TIMES,
4/26)....Nike named GARY DE BAY as VP/New Business Ventures
and ROBERT TABB as VP/Information Technology. De Bay was
President & CMO of CO-based Explor, a retail and e-commerce
venture creation company. Tabb was VP & CIO for CNF Inc, a
worldwide transportation company (Nike)....In Baltimore,
Rona Kobell reports that Turner Sports & Entertainment
Development President JANET MARIE SMITH "will join"
Baltimore developer Struever Bros. Eccles & Rouse Inc. "in
an as-yet untitled position" (Baltimore SUN, 4/26)....MA-
based Woolf Associates named JIM REILLY to the agency's golf
division, where he will be responsible for new business
development and sponsorship sales. Reilly was Octagon
Marketing Dir of Golf Sales and Development (Woolf).
...Former CBS Sports President DAVID KENIN was named
SportsPrize Entertainment Chair & CEO (SportsPrize).
