The Packers have signed GM TED THOMPSON to a "contract extension and appear close to doing the same with coach MIKE MCCARTHY." Packers President & CEO MARK MURPHY said that he and Thompson "agreed to the multi-year extension in mid-December but waited to announce it until after the season so it wouldn't distract from the team's playoff push." Thompson and McCarthy "had two years remaining on their contracts, which last were extended in January 2008." Murphy "wouldn't comment on the length of Thompson's new deal" (GREEN BAY PRESS-GAZETTE, 2/12).
EXECS: Relay Worldwide Senior VP/Marketing Services & Consulting MATT PENSINGER has left the company to join Jack Morton Worldwide as Senior VP & Managing Dir (THE DAILY)....Loyola Univ. (Chicago) has hired Indiana Univ. Associate AD for Academic & Student Engagement DR. GRACE CALHOUN as AD, replacing JOHN PLANEK (Loyola)....The Big Ten Conference has hired JOSHUA MUNK as Associate Dir of Football Operations. Munk, who previously served as Assistant AD for Game & Event Operations at Grand Valley State Univ., will assist with the management of the annual Big Ten Kickoff Luncheon and Big Ten Football Championship Game (Big Ten)....Learfield Sports' Badger Sports Properties has promoted Sales Assistant BRIAN GAUMONT to Corporate Sales Exec for Wisconsin Union Sponsorships (Learfield)....Infineon Raceway has promoted Manager of Sponsorship Sales & Services MATT ELLIS to Dir of Business Development (THE DAILY)....The Cavaliers have hired CHRISTOPHER ANDERSON as Account Exec (THE DAILY).
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