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Going Off The Grid: Execs Discuss Favorite Athlete Nickname, New ESPN Shows

"Going Off The Grid" is a weekly survey of sports execs and personalities offering their thoughts on a handful of pressing (and trivial) issues in sports and pop culture. This week, panelists opine on their favorite athlete nickname and what their favorite holiday movie is.

  • UEG Exec VP & Group Head of Communications Erin Weinberg
    – Likes anything with food -- new restaurants, chefs, cooking shows and equipment.
  • Seahawks General Counsel & VP/Government Affairs Ed Goines
    – Loves discovering new rap artists.
  • Staples Center Senior VP/Telecommunications & IT Laura Geery-Larson
    – Pop culture interests include Wonder Woman, Thor movies and Portugal. The Man.
  • GoPro Global Marketing Dir Phil Grieco
    – Is obsessed with '90s music -- mainly hip hop.
Going Off The Grid
  Favorite athlete nickname? People say I look like ... Favorite holiday movie? City I'd most like to retire to  New ESPN show to watch: Greeny or Golic?

Weinberg
Mr. October and Mr. November, I'm a lifelong Yankees fan Belinda Carlisle  "Love Actually" Chatham, Mass. -- It's my happy place Greenberg

Goines
Magic -- It was so identified with Earvin Johnson
Tim Brown "A Christmas Carol" Nassau, Bahamas
Golic. I’m not a Greenberg fan

Geery-Larson
Black Mamba
Linda Hamilton from "Terminator"
"Elf"

Lake Havasu, Ariz.

Mike Golic's

Grieco
"Pistol" Pete Maravich
Phil Dunphy from "Modern Family"
"Elf"

Tuscany

Greenberg -- no question

Do you want to get your thoughts in the Grid? If so, shoot an e-mail to jcarpenter@sportsbusinessdaily.com.

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