The Bulls named Single-A Midwest League Lake County Captains VP & GM BRAD SEYMOUR President of their new D-League affiliate (Bulls)....SI has hired former Grantland editor ANDREW SHARP as a full-time staff writer covering the NBA. Sharp is the third former Grantland staffer to join SI in recent months, joining The MMQB contributor ROBERT MAYS and baseball contributor JONAH KERI (Eric Fisher, Staff Writer)....Columbia Sportswear named JASON ZHU GM of its China joint venture. He spent the past 13 years in Shanghai with Nike (Columbia)....NASCAR named Sporting News Deputy Editor CHRIS LITTMANN Senior Manager of Content & Platform Strategy (TWITTER.com, 2/1)....Learfield Sports promoted GM for its Univ. of Montana Sports Properties NICK GARNER to GM for its team at the Univ. of Missouri. His predecessor, BOB WELCH, has been promoted to VP, and will be moving from Columbia, Mo., to Chicago to oversee Learfield's collegiate properties in the Central Region (Learfield)....The USGA reappointed Women's Committee Chair STASIA COLLINS and Vice Chair PAM MURRAY to serve second one-year terms (USGA).
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