ESPN STAR Sports (ESS) promoted VIB SHARMA to Senior
VP/Advertising & Integrated Sales. Sharma, who was
VP/Advertising Sales at ESS, succeeds CHRIS MCDONALD, who
will leave the company at the end of September (ESS)....SFX
Properties named JAY FREEDMAN as Senior Dir of Licensing &
Promotional Merchandising, JEFF GOLDKLANG as Manager of
Merchandising & Premium Items and VICTORIA ODELL as
Licensing Coordinator. Previously, Freedman was VP at
Trends Clothing Corp., Goldklang was merchandise purchaser
for the Baseball Company of America, and Odell comes from
Cohn & Wolfe (SFX Sports Group)....Broadband Sports'
SportsWritersDirect named VITO STELLINO as National NFL
Writer and Columnist. Stellino, who was a columnist for the
Baltimore Sun for the last 17 years, has been a part of the
SportsWritersDirect's news network since '95
(SportsWritersDirect)....KIM RESLER was named Dir of
Marketing for the IHL Vipers and AFL Fury. Previously,
Resler was Advertising Coordinator for Palace Sports &
Entertainment (DETROIT FREE PRESS, 9/12)....JASON ROOSE was
named PR Assistant for the Hornets. Roose comes from the PR
department of the Magic and Miracle (THE DAILY).
