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IRG Sports & Entertainment, the parent company of the Int’l Hot Rod Association, named former Front Row Marketing President of Property Sales & Analytics CHRIS LENCHESKI Vice Chair & CEO. Lencheski “will oversee IRGSE’s motorsports portfolio, which encompasses more than 1,150 events a year” through the IHRA and Int’l Drag Bike League sanctioning bodies, as well as facilities that include Palm Beach Int’l Raceway, Memphis Int’l Raceway, Maryland Int’l Raceway and Cordova Int’l Raceway (SPORTSBUSINESS JOURNAL, 11/30 issue).

EXECS: The Lions named former NFL GM ERNIE ACCORSI to a position on the club’s recently established Advisory Board, which is in search of a new GM for the team (Lions)....The Angels named former Padres manager BUD BLACK Special Assistant to GM BILLY EPPLER (OCREGISTER.com, 11/24).

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