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Davises and Davises at NFLPA party

At the NFL Players Association’s VIP Party during Super Bowl week in Houston (from right): Don Davis, NFLPA senior director of player affairs; Thomas Davis, Carolina Panthers linebacker; Yanette Davis, Don Davis’ wife; and Kelly Davis, Thomas Davis’ wife.
Photo by: KEVIN KOSKI / NFLPA
Wheels Up with Watt

At the Wheels Up Super Bowl party the night before the game: Wheels Up’s Kenny Dichter, the Houston Texans’ J.J. Watt, Wheels Up’s Miles Rogers and Robert Withers, musical performer Kelley James, and Wheels Up’s Gary Spitalnik.
Photo: COURTESY OF WHEELS UP
Soccer partners

At the U.S. Soccer Partner Training Camp last month at StubHub Center in Carson, Calif.: U.S. women’s coach Jill Ellis, Volpi Foods CEO Lorenza Pasetti and Soccer United Marketing President Kathy Carter.
Photo by: SOCCER UNITED MARKETING
Corps values

At the third annual Game Changer Awards gala hosted by Coaching Corps and presented by Levi Strauss’ & Co. at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco last month: Annette Lopez, Coaching Corps’ Coach of the Year and a Stanford alumna attending graduate school in the Los Angeles area; Draymond Green of the Golden State Warriors, who presented an award to his college coach, Michigan State’s Tom Izzo; and Janet Carter, executive director of Coaching Corps.
Photo by: ONYX AND ASH
SunTrust Park tour

Taking a tour last month of the Atlanta Braves’ new ballpark, set to open in April: MLB’s Tony Petitti, Chris Park, and Bob Starkey; the Braves’ Mike Plant and John Schuerholz, MLB’s Rob Manfred, and the Braves’ Terry McGuirk, Derek Schiller and John Coppolella.
Photo by: ATLANTA BRAVES
The Forum in photos

Highlights from the National Sports Forum earlier this month in Minneapolis. Tony Petitti, MLB COO and keynote speaker, with Fox Sports North’s Dick Bremer.
All photos by: CHRISTY SEAVER
Representing the Minnesota Vikings, the ADchievement Overall Award of Excellence winners: Erin Swartz, Alicia Dreyer, Taylar Jacobson, Elizabeth Bazany and Dane Kuhn. Not pictured: Dannon Hulskotter and Jackie Ramacher.
OM Foundation Award winner Corey Breton (third from left), LAFC EVP of sales, with Ron Seaver, National Sports Forum; Bonner Paddock, OM Foundation, Denny Heinsohn, “Resilience Happens!” podcast; Dustin Ouellette; and J.J. Gottsch, Ryan Sanders Baseball & Entertainment.
The 2017 Business of Diversity in Sports and Entertainment cohort


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