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Fit for D.C. duty for fitness day

The Sports and Fitness Industry Association held its 18th annual National Health Through Fitness Day in Washington, D.C., on March 22. Celebrity athletes ranging from NFL players to Olympians held 100 meetings with more than 120 U.S. senators and representatives to discuss the Personal Health Investment Today Act.
Photo by: MIKE THEILER
SEME e-keynote

At the Sports Events Marketing Experience at American University in Washington, D.C.: SEME Executive Director Matt Winkler, American University director of sports analytics and management, and Tobias Sherman, global head of esports for WME-IMG.
Photo by: RACHEL HOPMAYER
Red-hot deal

MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred with former MLB pitcher John Franco and Nathan’s Famous EVP Scott Harvey at a March 28 announcement of a deal making Nathan’s Famous the official hot dog of MLB.
Photo by: MLB
Caps for the class

Boston Red Sox President Sam Kennedy distributes baseball hats to students at the Hennigan School in Jamaica Plain, Mass. Kennedy visited the school March 27, a week before the team’s 2017 home opener.
Photo by: BILLIE WEISS / BOSTON RED SOX
Buckle up

PBR presented the Sioux Falls, S.D., mayor with a custom belt buckle March 31 to celebrate the First Premier Bank/Premier Bankcard Invitational and the circuit’s most successful regular-season weekend in ticket sales ever outside of the four PBR Majors and the PBR World Finals: First Premier Bank CEO Dana Dykhouse, PBR CEO Sean Gleason and Mayor Mike Huether.
Photo by: PBR
Donation drivers

Former Green Bay Packers wide receiver Donald Driver looks on as actress Emily Wilson, his co-host on “The Hero Effect,” speaks at the Driven to Achieve Awards presented by BMO Harris Bank at the Pfister Hotel in Milwaukee last month. Driver’s foundation and the awards have donated more than $1 million to charitable causes.
Photo by: DONALD DRIVER FOUNDATION
Women in Sports Night at studios

College students join Kelli Tennant, Jaime Maggio, Serena Winters and Lindsey Thiry on the Access SportsNet: Lakers set for Women in Sports Night. Spectrum SportsNet hosted a group of 28 sports administration, journalism and broadcast journalism students March 22 at the SportsNet studios in El Segundo, Calif.
Photo by: SPECTRUM SPORTSNET
Former VP visits 87ers

The Philadelphia 76ers’ D-League affiliate, the Delaware 87ers, devoted a night to the Beau Biden Foundation for a game against the Windy City Bulls on March 25: Philadelphia 76ers CEO Scott O’Neil, former Vice President Joe Biden, Beau Biden Foundation Executive Director Patricia Dailey Lewis and Delaware 87ers President Larry Meli.
Photo by: PHILADELPHIA 76ERS


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