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Sportsman Channel has promoted TODD HANSEN to COO. Hansen, who co-founded the network in '03, has been serving as Senior VP & CMO. He reports to CEO GAVIN HARVEY (Sportsman Channel)....adidas named Reebok India Managing Dir SUBHINDER SINGH PREM adidas India Managing Dir, replacing ANDREAS GELLNER, who will take over as South East Europe Managing Dir (ECONOMICTIMES.com, 4/29)....Univ. of the Pacific AD LYNN KING will step down July 1 to become a Special Assistant to school President PAMELA EIBECK (Pacific)....Syracuse Univ. named CHRIS GEDNEY Senior Associate AD, replacing SCOTT SIDWELL, who is leaving the school to become AD at the Univ. of San Francisco (Syracuse)....Texas Tech Univ. named Michigan Associate AD JOE PARKER Deputy AD (STAR-TELEGRAM.com, 4/29)....The Buffalo State College Foundation named Sabres VP/Sales & Business Development JOHN LIVSEY to its BOD (BIZJOURNALS.com, 5/2)....MEGAN BONDI is leaving Turner Sports' PR department to focus on motherhood (THE DAILY). 

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