Baseball
Buck Rogers resigned from his position as general manager of the Class AA Southern League’s Biloxi (Miss.) Shuckers.
Basketball
The Golden State Warriors named Chris Murphy president of the NBA D-League Santa Cruz Warriors.
Colleges
The University of Wisconsin promoted Mario Morris to associate athletic director for business operations.
The College of the Holy Cross hired Armani Rice as assistant athletic director of student-athlete development. Rice was special assistant to the vice president and athletic director at Duke University.
Facilities
Generator Studio promoted Paul Michell to vice president of architecture, and hired Peter Baird as project director, Gretchen Blain as project architect and Crystal Peterson as interior design coordinator. Baird was a project architect with RMTA.
Palace Sports & Entertainment hired Elmer Straub as senior vice president of venue management.
Golf
The Houston Golf Association hired Amanda Hansen as vice president of marketing and communications. Hansen was senior vice president of marketing at MMI Agency.
Hockey
The New Jersey Devils and Prudential Center named David Collins executive vice president and chief financial officer. Collins was a finance consultant for Experis.
The Los Angeles Kings promoted Claire Winderl to account executive for ticket sales and service.
Marketing
Home Team Sports hired Scott Harding as digital account executive for its HTS Interactive initiative. Harding was an associate account executive for Turner Broadcasting.
The Aspire Group promoted A.J. Smith to corporate director of client and partner development, Anaclaudia Cervantes to team leader and Rebecca Moore to senior sales consultant at Florida Atlantic University, Trevor Allison to manager for the national sales center and John Zeleznock to manager at Western Michigan University. The company hired Alvin LaRue as a sales consultant at Georgia Tech, Kayla Vestal as a sales associate at Louisiana Tech University, Kenneth Rubongoya as a new business consultant at the University of Maryland, Steven Dass as a sales consultant at the U.K. national sales and service center, Matthew Freeman as a new business consultant and Andrew Scholl as a service consultant at Rutgers University, Elisha McCready as a service and retention consultant at the University of Texas, Jay Burda as a sales consultant at Towson University, and Brittany Blount as a sales consultant at the national sales center.
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Premier Partnerships promoted
Spencer Wolf to senior manger of marketing services.
Octagon hired Meredith Kinsman as digital strategist, Patrick Naranjo as creative planning director and Lamar Johnson as vice president of its Octagon Access multicultural marketing division. Kinsman was digital product strategy director for Fox News, Naranjo was managing director of the agency #Golden, and Johnson was a vice president with Rémy Cointreau.
Media
One World Sports hired John Vilade as executive vice president of advertising sales. Vilade was vice president of national digital ad sales for CBS Local Digital Media.
ESPN named Raina Kelley managing editor for its new website The Undefeated and promoted Laura Gentile to senior vice president of espnW and women’s initiatives and Jodi Markley to executive vice president of content operations and creative services.
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MP & Silva hired
Andrew Nestor as vice president of business development and
Alfonso Alanis-Cue as vice president of business strategy. Alanis-Cue was senior director of partnership marketing for MLS and Soccer United Marketing.
Fox Sports promoted Chris Healey to coordinating producer for original programming and hired Chara-Lynn Aguiar as vice president of strategy and content for Fox Sports National Networks. Aguiar worked on entertainment content partnerships at YouTube.
Univision Communications promoted Hector Fabregas to vice president and director of sales for Univision Chicago.
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Madison Square Garden Co. hired
Colin Ingram as executive vice president of MSG Productions. Ingram was CEO of theater production company Colin Ingram Ltd.
AMB Group, parent company of the Atlanta Falcons and MLS expansion club Atlanta United FC, hired Brett Jewkes as senior vice president and chief communications officer. Jewkes was senior vice president and chief communications officer for NASCAR.
Olympics
The 2018 Pyeongchang Games organizing committee hired Yeo Hyeong-Gu as secretary general.
Soccer
Richard Nightingale stepped down as president and general manager of the United Soccer League’s Pittsburg Riverhounds.
Other
Fantasy Moguls named Geoff Reiss executive chair. Reiss was head of sports partnerships at Twitter.
Endeavor Sports Performance named Jess Ceresino vice president of marketing and business development.
The Howard Hughes Corp. hired Peter Helfer as vice president of strategic partnerships. Helfer was director of partnership and media sales for the New York Jets.
Awards and Boards
New England Sports Network’s Sean McGrail was awarded the WICT New England Career Achievement Award.
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