HBO Sports Senior VP/Programming LOU DIBELLA resigned
yesterday after 11 years. DiBella and HBO Sports signed a
multi-year deal where DiBella will have a chance to deliver
sports programming to the network (HBO Sports)....ALEXANDRA
"SANDY" GOLINKIN succeeds SUZANNE GRIMES as Publisher of
Conde Nast's Women's Sports & Fitness magazine. Golinkin
had left Conde Nast in '98 after serving as Publisher of
Allure (AD AGE, 5/16)....ID-based Diamond Sports named GARY
HUNTER as CEO, succeeding CORD PEREIRA, who will remain
Diamond Sports Chair while launching Extended Sports, a
sports Internet venture. Hunter has spent the past two
years as CBA Commissioner. In addition, BILL WALLER was
promoted to Diamond Sports President and report directly to
Hunter (Diamond Sports)....The Wizards named interim coach
DARRELL WALKER as Dir of Player Personnel and former
Warriors assistant coach ROD HIGGINS as Assistant GM. The
team also named FRED WHITFIELD as Assistant to Basketball
Operations and Assistant General Counsel. Whitfield spent
the past four years with Nike, most recently as Dir of
Player Development, Basketball Sports Marketing (Wizards).
...The WNBA Mystics named former assistant coach MELISSA
MCFERRIN as GM, replacing WES UNSELD, who will remain the
team's Exec VP (WASHINGTON POST, 5/17)....BOB SNYDER was
named Station Manager of ESPN Radio's flagship WMVP-AM in
Chicago. Snyder was GM of all-sports WTEM-AM in Washington,
DC. In Chicago, Jim Kirk writes, "With two all-sports radio
franchises in Chicago battling for fans in a town mired in a
losing streak, Snyder is facing ... [a] tough sell" (CHICAGO
TRIBUNE, 5/17)....Former NBA Senior VP/Media Programs BARRY
FREY was named VP/Global Sales & Sponsorship of Space.com.
He was (BRANDWEEK, 5/15 issue)....The Redskins named
MICHELLE TESSIER as Associate Dir of PR. Tessier was with
Arnold Communications, a Boston-based PR firm under the
Snyder Communications "umbrella" (WASHINGTON POST, 5/17).
