The New York/New Jersey 2014 Super Bowl Host Committee today formally announced that it has hired former New Meadowlands Stadium Co. Senior VP/Premium Partnerships MARK BINGHAM as Exec VP/Sales. In a 30-year sports marketing career, Bingham served as President of Octagon Marketing, co-Founder of Thinking Sports and Senior VP/Marketing & Broadcasting for the Mets, among other roles (THE DAILY)....Richard Childress Racing has hired longtime motorsports exec TORREY GALIDA as COO. In recent years, Galida worked for Roush Fenway Racing and TRG Motorsports, as well as marketing agency Millsport (SCENEDAILY.com, 7/2)....Serie A club AC Roma has appointed Unicredit lawyer ROBERTO CAPPELLI as President (AP, 7/5)....The Raptors extended the contracts of Senior VP/Basketball Operations MAURIZIO GHERARDINI and Senior Dir of Scouting JIM KELLY through the '11-12 NBA season (TORONTO STAR, 7/1)....The U.S. Bowling Congress BOD has elected JIM STURM as President and TOM BLUTH as VP, both effective Aug. 1 (USBC)....Learfield Sports appointed RYAN HUBER to the newly created position of TV Coordinator (Learfield).
COLLEGES: St. Joseph's Univ. Associate AD & Senior Women's Administrator ELLEN RYAN has announced her retirement (SJU)....Utah State Univ. has promoted Senior Associate AD for External Operations JANA DOGGETT to Exec Associate AD (USU)....The WAC has hired Northern Illinois Univ. Dir of Marketing AMANDA BENZINE to the same position (WAC)....Arizona State Univ. has hired Pro Sports Consulting President STEVE PATTERSON to the newly created position of COO of the athletics department. Patterson also will be Managing Dir of the Sun Devil Sports Group, ASU's athletic marketing division (THE DAILY)....Univ. of Minnesota Senior Associate AD and athletics department CFO LIZ EULL "will move to the office of new President ERIC KALER, supervising the athletic department as well as other duties" (Minneapolis STAR TRIBUNE, 7/5)....Towson Univ. has hired Northeastern Univ. Associate AD & Dir of University Advancement DEVIN CROSBY as Deputy AD (Towson)....The Big East has hired ALEXANDRA LANGE and CHRIS MAGNOLI as Communications Assistants for the '11-12 academic year (Big East)....Rutgers Univ. has hired JIMMY GILL and PAIGE SCHNEIDER as Athletic Communications Assistants, and KASEY TRUMAN as KnightVision Production Assistant (Rutgers).
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