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Lagardère Sports promoted VP/Football GEOFF GARMHAUSEN to VP/Team Sports. He will continue to report to President of Team Sports JOEL SEGAL (Lagardère)....Exec search firm Prodigy Sports has launched an e-sports practice based out of its New Jersey offices. Founder & CEO SCOTT CARMICHAEL said he created the division to assist current clients who have asked for advice on e-sports opportunities (Ben Fischer, Staff Writer)....U.S. Bancorp CEO RICHARD DAVIS will step down in April. Davis "helped broker the deal" for U.S. Bank Stadium and "lobbied the NFL to bring" Super Bowl LII to the venue. Davis said that he would "remain active in charities and boards in the Twin Cities." Davis serves as one of three co-Chairs of the '18 Super Bowl Host Committee Exec BOD (Minneapolis STAR TRIBUNE, 1/18)....Kansas State Univ. named KEVIN MCCARTY Dir of Digital Media (THE DAILY)....Notre Dame named Univ. of the Incarnate Word Deputy AD and Senior Woman Administrator ANGIE TORAIN Associate AD/HR, Legal & Risk Management (ND)....West Virginia Univ. named BEN MURRAY Senior Associate AD and Mountaineer Athletic Club Exec Dir (WVU)....NHRA team John Force Racing named LEE MONTGOMERY and MICHAEL HARKER to its PR staff. They replace the recently departed ELON WERNER and SARAH ADAMS (John Force Racing)....The Double-A Southern League Biloxi Shuckers named former MLBer BARRY LYONS team ambassador (Shuckers).


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