Upcoming Conferences and Events
Featured Story
People: Executive transactions05 / 20 / 13Basketball The Boston Celtics named sports attorney Vered Yakovee associate counsel. Charlotte Bobcats vice president of communications B.J. Evans stepped down from the position. Additionally, the Bobcats named Dave Beck vice president of marketing partnerships. Beck was vice presi... Tags: People and Pop Culture |
More Stories
Plugged In: Matt Corey
It’s easy to be overwhelmed by the volume and varying nature of social media content. That’s where Mass Relevance comes in. The Austin, Texas-based firm has spent several years working with sports networks, teams, leagues and brands to analyze that raging stream of content and turn it i ...
Tags: People and Pop Culture
Faces and Places
Southern hospitality at t he Final Four LG Electronics played host to more than 100 customers and guests at the Final Four in Atlanta, including a pregame event at Ventanas overlooking the city on April 8, complete with heli ...
Tags: People and Pop Culture
People: Executive transactions
Basketball The Portland Trail Blazers named Dewayne Hankins vice president of marketing and digital. Hankins was senior director of digital strategy at AEG Sports. Colleges Austin Peay University Athletic Director Dave Loos is stepping down from the position. Loos will continue ...
Tags: People and Pop Culture
Plugged In: Chris Oliviero
Chris Oliviero’s career is steeped in radio, having started as an intern with “The Howard Stern Show” in 1996. A longtime executive with CBS Radio, Oliviero now is responsible for CBS Sports Radio, which launched at the start of this year. He oversees its day-to-day operation as s ...
Tags: People and Pop Culture
Faces and Places: Forty Under 40
This year’s Forty Under 40 class received their awards and the applause of friends, family and peers at a dinner April 4 at the Ritz-Carlton in Naples, Fla. ALL PHOTOS BY GORT PRODUCTIONS Members of the For ...
Tags: People and Pop Culture
Champions: Words of wisdom
When Champions speak, people listen. That was the case again April 3, when the 2013 class of our Champions in Sports Business received their awards at a luncheon during the first day of the IMG World Congress of Sports in Naples, Fla. In accepting the honor, they spoke about commitment, leade ...
Tags: People and Pop Culture
People: Executive transactions
Baseball The Class AA Southern League’s Jacksonville Suns promoted Christian Galen to director of field operations and hired Brian Delettre as director of videography, Brett Andrews as director of merchandise, R.C. Reuteman as sponsorship sales manager, Karen Giles as business ...
Tags: People and Pop Culture
Faces and Places
Sports executives gathered at the Ritz-Carlton in Naples, Fla., last week for the annual World Congress of Sports. Events began with a VIP speakers’ dinner Tuesday night. The conference itself began Wednesday morning with panels, interviews and networking. ALL PHOTOS BY GORT PROD ...
Tags: People and Pop Culture
WISE announces award winners
Nonprofit group Women in Sports and Events has selected Coca-Cola’s Sharon Byers, StubHub’s Danielle Maged and ESPN’s Carol Stiff as the winners of its 2013 WISE Women of the Year Awards program. Maged ...
Tags: People and Pop Culture
Seen, heard at World Congress
(function(window, PhotoSwipe){ document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function(){ var options = {}, WCOS13 = PhotoSwipe.attach( window.document.querySelectorAll('#WCOS13 a'), options ); ...
Tags: People and Pop Culture
