The Sharks named NHL VP/Media JOHN TORTORA Exec VP & General Counsel, replacing DON GRALNEK. Tortora, who spent 14 years with the NHL office in N.Y., will oversee all legal matters pertaining to the team and owner Silicon Valley Sports & Entertainment. Tortora also will serve as an Alternate Governor representing the team on NHL matters (Sharks)....NYRA announced that Exec VP & COO HAL HANDEL will resign his position and leave the organization at the end of the Saratoga race meet in September (DRF.com, 6/29)....Live Nation named Knicks and NHL Rangers Owner JAMES DOLAN to its BOD (DEADLINE.com, 6/30).
COLLEGES: The "fallout from the way Marquette University handled two separate sexual assault cases involving student-athletes continued Thursday with the resignation" of AD STEVE COTTINGHAM. He said that he was leaving to "pursue other interests." Deputy AD MIKE BROEKER will take over as interim AD (MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL, 7/1)....The Univ. of California-Riverside named UTEP Senior Associate AD BRIAN WICKSTROM AD (UC Riverside)....Grambling State Univ. AD J. LIN DAWSON "resigned from his post on Wednesday." GSU President FRANK POGUE appointed kinesiology professor AARON JAMES as interim AD (SHREVEPORT TIMES, 6/30)....Washington State Univ. named NCAA Associate Dir of Championships RANDY BUHR Senior Associate AD (WSU)....Kennesaw State Univ. named Dir of Sports Medicine KAREN PFEIFER Associate AD for Student-Athlete Welfare (KSU)....Rowan Univ. hired Rutgers Univ.-Camden Assistant AD ERIN BARNEY as Assistant AD for Compliance & Academic Support (RU)....The College of Charleston promoted OTTO GERMAN to Assistant AD for Compliance and ANDREW MCGLAUGHON to Assistant AD for External Operations (CofC)....Georgia State Univ. promoted MARVIN LEWIS to Senior Associate AD for Finance & Administration, BOB MURPHY to Associate AD for Sports Medicine & Nutrition, JOHN PORTLAND to Associate AD and KEVIN WHITE to Assistant AD for Business Operations. The school also hired DELVIN JONES as Travel Coordinator (GSU)....The Univ. of Utah named CA Technologies VP WILLIAM WARREN Chief Marketing & Communications Officer (SALT LAKE TRIBUNE, 7/1)....Tulane named former Virginia Tech women's basketball coach BETH DUNKENBERGER women's basketball Dir of Operations (NOLA.com, 6/30).
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