The Padres have extended the contract of Exec VP & GM KEVIN TOWERS four years, through the '07 season, with an option for '08 (Padres)....Hendrick Motorsports promoted VP & CFO JEFF TURNER to GM. Turner will be responsible for day-to-day operations of the organization that includes four Winston Cup cars and two Busch Series entries (Hendrick) ....Fair Grounds President BRYAN KRANTZ was re-elected to a one-year term as Thoroughbred Racing Association (TRA) President. All the incumbent officers will return: Del Mar's JOE HARPER as VP; TRA's CHRIS SCHERF as Exec VP; Delaware Park's BILL FASY as Treasurer; and Sam Houston Race Park's BOB BORK as Secretary (BLOODHORSE.com, 3/5)....USA Cycling BOD elected former U.S. Cycling Coach JIM OCHOWICZ as President, replacing Turner Sports Events VP MIKE PLANT whose term ended after seven years, and former USA Cycling Technical Dir JOHN TARBERT as VP. National Bicycle League board trustee NIGEL BLAIR-JOHNS will serve as Secretary (USA Cycling)....Game Time, the maker of the Game Time Schedule Watch and the top licensed sports watch manufacturer in the country, named MICHAEL BONDRA as Dir of Sales. Most recently, Bondra was Legends of Racing Dir of Sales (Game Time)....Global Spectrum named JONATHAN SAUERS as Project Dir for Front Row Marketing Services. Since August '00,
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Sauers was Marketing & Sales Manager for the Global Spectrum-managed Whittemore Center Arena in Durham, N.H. (
Global Spectrum). ...ANC Sports Enterprises named
THOMAS LARSEN as Sales & Marketing Associate. For the past five years, Larsen was with the Yankees organization, most recently as Assistant Dir of Baseball Operations (
ANC Sports Enterprises)...The Orioles named former Orioles P
DAVE JOHNSON as Dir of Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities League (
Orioles)....WWZN-AM in Boston has agreed to terms with Red Sox Color analyst & former Red Sox 2B
JERRY REMY. Remy will join his TV broadcast partner
SEAN MCDONOUGH on The McDonough Group weekdays from 3:00-7:00pm (
WWZN).
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