Executive Transactions

SPORTSBUSINESS JOURNAL’s Liz Mullen reports Creative Artists Agency has hired NBA player agent STEVEN HEUMANN. Previously, Heumann was with MARC FLEISHER’s Entersport Management (SPORTSBUSINESS JOURNAL, 4/2 issue)....ESPN named ABC Radio Networks VP/Research THOMAS EVANS to the newly-created position of VP/Digital & Cross Media Measurement (ESPN)....The U.S. Bowling Congress (USBC) elected former Bowling Proprietors’ of America President JEFF BOJE President and DARLENE BAKER VP (USBC)....The Tallahassee Area Convention & Visitors Bureau (TACVB) promoted BRIAN HICKEY to Exec Dir of the Sports Council. Hickey served as Assistant Dir from March ’05-November ’06 and has served as interim Dir since the resignation of JOHN CITRON (TACVB)....EnCap Golf Holdings named JAMES DAUSCH to take over the “day-to-day management” of the Meadowlands Gold Resort Village. Dausch oversaw the Xanadu development for Mills Corp. until last year and is “one of at least three former high-ranking Mills officials who have been hired,” along with EDWARD VINSON and VICTORIA JENKINS (Bergen RECORD, 3/31).

FRANCHISE: Rockies Exec VP & GM DAN O’DOWD agreed to a two-year extension through the ’09 season (Rockies)....The Angels promoted Insurance Risk Manager DAVID COHEN to Dir of Legal & Risk Management (THE DAILY)....The Dodgers named DIETRICH JACHE and CARLOS SINDE Group Sales Account Execs and TREY MAGNUSON Scouting Coordinator (THE DAILY)....The WNBA Silver Stars named OLAF LANGE Assistant Coordinator of Video Services & Player Development (Silver Stars).

MEDIA: Action Sports Media (ASM) named Univ. of Tennessee Assistant AD of Football Operations GERRY DICKEY Regional Accounts Manager. Dickey will be based in Oklahoma City and will be responsible for managing in-venue sales efforts in Boone-Pickens Stadium at Oklahoma State Univ. (ASM)....TSN hired DANNY MCMANUS as a game analyst for its CFL broadcast team. McManus recently retired from the league after 17 years (TSN).

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