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Faces & Places — Thought Leaders Retreat

An invite-only list of attendees — recipients of Forty Under 40, Champions and Game Changers awards — came to Kiawah Island, S.C., over two days earlier this month to hear speakers talk about leadership, the political landscape and work/life balance. A group discussion looked at Sports in 2030. Guests also enjoyed golf at Kiawah’s famed Ocean Course as well as tennis.

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Miami Dolphins and Related Cos. Chairman Stephen Ross
Atlanta Falcons GM Thomas Dimitroff discusses leadership.
Jennifer Rudolph Walsh, WME board member and head of literary worldwide
Capitol Hill veteran Luke Albee talks about Election 2016.
Former NBC Universal Sports & Olympics Chairman Dick Ebersol talks of his life in storytelling.
Tobias Sherman of WME-IMG assesses the esports landscape.
Sports Media Advisors’ Doug Perlman leads a group discussion on the future of sports media.
Stephen Ross chats with America’s Cup Event Authority Commercial Commissioner Harvey Schiller
Bill Carter of Fuse looks at trends in millennial marketing.
Bank of America’s Elliott McCabe examines trends in sports financing.
Guests enjoy networking on The Great Lawn at The Sanctuary and golf on The Ocean Course.

Dolphinatics

At the Fins Weekend Hook and Tackle Captains Party on May 20 at the Miami Beach Marina: Fins Weekend chairs Stan Rudman and Jeff Peck, Miami Dolphins alumnus Jason Taylor and Dolphins execs Jason Jenkins and Tom Garfinkel.
Photo by: MIAMI DOLPHINS

NASCAR TV talk

Eric Shanks of Fox Sports and Jennifer Storms of NBC Sports Group talk about NASCAR and TV with moderator Jeff Gordon during the Hendrick Motorsports partner conference May 19 in Concord, N.C.
Photo by: HENDRICK MOTORSPORTS / NIGEL KINRADE PHOTOGRAPHY
Uncle Verne’s Emmy

Broadcaster Verne Lundquist (right) with the Sports Emmy Lifetime Achievement award last month in New York City.  Lundquist was presented the award by
CBS Sports Chairman Sean McManus.
Photo by: MARC BRYAN-BROWN
Boeheim honored

Syracuse University men’s basketball coach Jim Boeheim holds his American Cancer Society Circle of Honor Award, received June 12 at the Coaches vs. Cancer Invitational in Rochester, N.Y.
Photo by: CHRISTOPHER BIANCHI
Bush, Harry join Invictus competitors

At the Bush Institute’s Invictus Games Symposium on Invisible Wounds in Orlando last month: Master Sgt. Israel Del Toro, former President George W. Bush, Prince Harry and Lance Cpl. John James Chalmers.
Photo by: PAUL MORSE, GEORGE W. BUSH PRESIDENTIAL CENTER

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