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Fanatics Inc. has brought on MIKE CARLTON, hiring the longtime collegiate sports exec as Dir of Business Development. He comes to Fanatics from high school digital outlet PlayOn! Sports, where he served as Senior VP/Partner Development for the last two years. Carlton also was at CLC for seven years, serving as Senior Dir of Partner Services before departing in ’13 (Austin Karp, Assistant Managing Editor).

Matjasic joins Norris Sports Group
for college football programming
EXECS: The Hawks named Shapiro Negotiations Institute Exec VP & Sports Practice Dir MICHAEL BLACKSTONE Assistant GM. Blackstone previously had a stint as Cavaliers Exec Dir of Basketball Operations. The Hawks also named Suns Dir of Player Personnel JOHN TRELOAR to the same position and promoted Basketball Operations Coordinator & Scout JEFF PETERSON to Dir of Scouting (AJC.com, 8/1)....The White Sox promoted Assistant Scouting Dir NICK HOSTETLER to Dir of Amateur Scouting, taking the place of DOUG LAUMANN, who was promoted to Senior Advisor to Scouting Operations (White Sox)....Southern Utah Univ. named Army Senior Associate AD JASON BUTIKOFER AD, effective Aug. 17 (SUU)....Southeast Missouri State Univ. named Senior Associate to the President BRADY BURKE interim AD (SOUTHEAST MISSOURIAN, 8/2)....Florida-based marketing firm Norris Sports Group hired HEATHER MATJASIC as a specialist for college football programming. Matjasic most recently had stints with the Ravens, Eagles and ESPN (THE DAILY)....Minnesota Gov. MARK DAYTON appointed former state House Majority Leader TONY SERTICH "to fill an open seat on the Minnesota Sports Facilities Authority" (BIZJOURNALS.com, 8/3).

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