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MLB Network named ESPN Coordinating Producer for golf and college football MARK LOOMIS Senior VP/Production. Loomis, who will report to MLB Net President TONY PETITTI, “replaces JOHN ENTZ, who left the network after the World Series to take a senior production role at Fox” (SPORTSBUSINESS JOURNAL, 1/16 issue)….Fox Sports named IMG College Dir of Regional Sales DAN SHELL VP & GM for USC Sports Properties. Shell will manage the school’s “multimedia rights, which include radio, print, venue signs, sponsorships and other promotional marketing and hospitality.” He will report to Home Team Sports Exec VP KYLE SHERMAN and “work out of Fox’s Los Angeles officer initially before moving into an office on campus” (SPORTSBUSINESS JOURNAL, 1/16 issue)….The Brewers promoted REGIS BANE to Senior Dir of Ticket Operations, BILLY FRIESS to Senior Dir of Ticket Sales and KATINA SHAW to Senior Dir of Community Relations (Brewers)….The Indians named former MLBer ADAM EVERETT Special Assistant/Baseball Operations (Indians)….The Dodgers promoted LORENZO SCIARRINO to Dir of Corporate Partnerships (THE DAILY)....Memphis Int’l Raceway named PAUL CARTWRIGHT Dir of Operations and GLYNN WILLIFORD Dir of Sales & Marketing (MIR).

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