Grizzlies President of Business Operations GREG CAMPBELL and Senior VP & Chief Revenue Officer MIKE HUMES "are now gone." Grizzlies CEO & Managing Partner JASON LEVIEN said that the team "isn't planning to 'formally' replace either position, but is looking to add two new executives to the business side very soon" (MEMPHIS BUSINESS JOURNAL, 4/19 issue)....The Suns yesterday "parted ways" with GM LANCE BLANKS, who had served in the position since '10 (ESPN.com, 4/22).
EXECS: WWE named IMG VP/College Division National Sales MICHAEL PINE Senior VP/Global Sales & Partnership Marketing (WWE)....USA Swimming named DANA BONNER, Marketing Manager USA Triathlon Media Relations Manager JOHN MARTIN Sports Communications Officer, WENDY PEEL Local Marketing Manager and TOMMY SCHIELD Organizational Communications Specialist (USA Swimming)....Central Washington Univ. named Drake Univ. Associate AD/External Affairs DENNIS FRANCOIS AD (AP, 4/22)....The Univ. of Minnesota named Archdiocese of St. Paul & Minneapolis Development & Stewardship Dir MICHAEL HALLORAN Assistant AD/Development and VCU Assistant AD/Marketing CORRIE SEARS to the same position (UM)....Kent State Univ. promoted Exec Dir of Athletics Advancement MATTHEW GEIS to Senior Associate AD (KSU)....The Univ. of Tennessee-Chattanooga named Univ. of Tennessee Senior Associate AD/Administration DAVID BLACKBURN Vice Chancellor & AD (UT-Chattanooga).
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