The NHRA named ROBERT WAGNER as VP/Sales & Business
Development. Wagner spent the last 16 years with the
Angels, Mighty Ducks and Anaheim Sports (NHRA)....CBS Sports
promoted both MICHAEL ARESCO and ROB CORREA to Senior
VP/Programming (CBS Sports)....Brooks Sports promoted former
VP/Footwear ERIC DREYER to President, succeeding BRUCE
PETTET, who left to become President & CEO of Airwalk Int'l
(Brooks Sports)....DAVID GOUGH joined Incentive Marketing as
VP/Sales & Marketing. Previously, Gough managed NFL and MLB
sports marketing for Coca-Cola (THE DAILY).
...TodaysSports.com named ROBIN SPOOR as Dir of Business
Development and JENNIFER EAGLETON as Dir of Sales
(TodaysSports.com)....Disson Furst & Partners named ANDREW
SILVER as VP/Corporate Consulting & Legal Affairs. Silver
is a former Senior Account Supervisor and Brand Developer
for the USOC (Disson Furst & Partners)....Former Univ. of
Montevallo (AL) SID DEWAYNE PEEVY was named Assistant Media
Relations Dir for the SEC (SEC)....The ECHL named Trenton
Titans GM BRIAN MCKENNA its Executive of the Year. ECHL
Johnstown Chiefs President JIM EDWARDS will be Chair of the
BOG for the second consecutive season (ECHL)....JIM RIORDAN
was named Dir of the newly-formed Sport Management program
at Florida Atlantic Univ.'s (FAU) College of Business MBA
program (FAU)....Texas Motor Speedway (TMS) named MARK
STAFFORD as Dir of Sales and LARRY RODGERS as GM of the
Speedway Club (TMS)....COSTAS BAKOURIS, the Managing Dir of
the 2004 Athens Olympic Organizing Committee, resigned.
Bakouris was replaced by PETROS SINADINOS, an architect who
"played an important role" in Athens' successful bid for the
Games (AP, 6/22)....CHRIS MULCAHY is joining D'Arcy, Masius
Benton & Bowles in Detroit as Account Supervisor for
Cadillac Events and Promotions. Mulcahy was Project Dir for
Business Development at Streetball Partners (THE DAILY).
