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EXECUTIVE TRANSACTIONS

          Grizzlies President & GM STU JACKSON resigned Tuesday     to become NBA Senior VP/Basketball Operations, effective     June 1.  Jackson will report to NBA Deputy Commissioner RUSS     GRANIK and Exec VP ROD THORN (NBA). In Toronto, Grant Kerr     reports that Jackson indicated that he could "be responsible     for international ventures and a new development league in     his new job, work with NBA.com and have a relationship" with     the NBPA (Toronto GLOBE & MAIL, 5/10)....The U.S. Figure     Skating Association named KEN ROBERTS as Dir of Online     Services.  Roberts will oversee the development of USFSA's     official Web site (USFSA)....San Diego Soccer Development     promoted VP & GM SAM KALOUSTIAN to COO (SDSD)....DINA RUIZ     EASTWOOD, wife of CLINT EASTWOOD, was named Contributing     Editor of Golf Digest Woman (Golf Digest Woman)....FSN     Pittsburgh named DWIGHT MCCUNE as General Sales Manager,     replacing TONY QUATRINI, who was named Dir of Marketing for     the Steelers.  McCune has served as AT&T Media Services     Local Sales Manager since 1994 (FSN)....MA-based Zvia Corp.     named MURRAY COHN as Dir of Sports Marketing.  Cohn handled     sponsorship programs for Varsity Sports (Zvia Corp)....Cubs     marketing exec MARY THERESE KRAFT has joined NikeTown as     Marketing & Events Manager (CHICAGO TRIBUNE, 5/9)....The     ECHL named DIANA DANFORTH Communications Assistant (ECHL). 

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