Executive Transactions
NBA Development League President PHIL EVANS will resign effective July
1 after deciding not to relocate his family when the league moves its HQs from
Greenville, South Carolina, to N.Y. A successor, who will serve as a consultant
on D-League matters for the NBA, will be named shortly (NBA)....PBR COO
SEAN GLEASON, who has been in his role since ’00, will be transitioned
to CMO where he will be responsible for sponsorship, marketing, PR, fan relations,
media services and business development (PBR).... SPORTSBUSINESS JOURNAL’s
Tripp Mickle reports MLS promoted Senior VP/Player Personnel TODD DURBIN
to Exec VP/Player Personnel, and Senior VP/Business Affairs and General Counsel
JOANN NEALE to Exec VP. Neale will work with MLS Works, HR and administration
(SPORTSBUSINESS
JOURNAL, 5/20 issue)....MSL Productions named ED MANETTA Partner
& Senior VP/Communications. Manetta, a former CEO of Worldwide Marketing & Media
Group, will oversee TV production and communications in the sports and marketing
division (MSL Productions)....RON BORGES is leaving the Boston Globe
to pursue new opportunities in sports journalism. Borges, who covered the NFL
and boxing, was suspended for two months in early March for plagiarizing material
in his weekly football notes column from the Tacoma News Tribune (THE DAILY).
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