Executive Transactions

ESPN has promoted Senior VP/Multimedia Sales ERIC JOHNSON to Exec VP/Multimedia Sales, ESPN Customer Marketing & Sales (ESPN)....The AHL promoted VP/Hockey Operations JIM MILL to Exec VP/Hockey Operations, VP/Sales & Marketing CHRIS NIKOLIS to Exec VP/Marketing & Business Development and SEAN LAVOINE to VP/Licensing & Corporate Sales (AHL)....The Rockets named KENNY ATKINSON Dir of Player Development and PAT ZIPFEL advance scout. Most recently, Atkinson was assistant coach & Dir of Player Development for Paris Basket Racing in France. For the past three years, Zipfel was an advance scout for the Trail Blazers (Rockets)....The Univ. of Central Florida (UCF) promoted MATT DIFEBO to Associate AD (UCF)....The Blue Jays hired COLLEEN COOKE in a sales/marketing/promotion role (Game Face)....Yahoo hired K.C. Star Chiefs beat writer JASON KING as its national college reporter (K.C. STAR, 10/1).

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