BROADBAND SPORTS MOVEMENT: Broadband Sports named former
Digital Entertainment Network (DEN) Senior VP/Digital
Programming MORRIS SIM as VP/Programming & Development.
Prior to working for DEN, Sim spent seven years at Microsoft.
Broadband Sports also hired Int'l Business Development
Manager LAWRENCE CHU, former marketing manager at Octagon;
Recruitment Dir MOLLIE MITCHELL, from Heidrick & Struggles;
Sports Editors BRIAN RAPPE from the L.A. Daily News and JAMES
RIGGIO from the Glendale (CA) News Press; and ALLYNE PRICE as
Dir of Baseball Team & Athlete Relations. Price comes to
Broadband from MLB (Broadband Sports).
EXECS: SportseServices named MICHAEL MAY VP/Sales
(SportsServices)....eFANshop named Dallas venture capitalist
JOEL FONTENOT to the company's exec advisory board. Fontenot
is co-Founder of Arkoma Venture Partners, which has a
portfolio of more than 20 investments in high-tech start-ups
(eFANshop.com)....PAT NEVIN was named VP & Exec Dir at FSN
Northwest. Nevin spent the past three years as General Sales
Manager for WHBQ-Fox in Memphis (Gould Media)....In Hartford,
Roberto Gonzalez reports that JOHN PETTIT, who joined MSG's
Hartford Sports (HS) in December '98, "was removed" as Senior
VP. HS oversees the AHL Wolf Pack and AFL Sea Wolves.
Hartford Civic Center GM MARTY BROOKS "is now running" the
business ops for both franchises (HARTFORD COURANT, 6/30).
