MSG Networks promoted Dir of Business Development ERIC SHIH to VP/Business Strategy & Development (MSG)....Longtime Mets corporate sales exec PAUL ASENCIO is leaving the team to join licensed sports specialist Fanatics as VP/Venue Development. Asencio has been VP/Corporate Partnerships Sales & Services with the Mets since '09. He joined the team in '98 after five years in the sales and marketing for New York Sports Clubs (Terry Lefton, Editor-at-Large)....ITF Exec Dir of Tennis Development DAVE MILEY has decided to leave the organization after 24 years at the end of December for personal reasons (ITF)....New NASCAR team sponsor Nature's Bakery named former Michael Waltrip Racing Senior Dir of Marketing TYLER KEY Sponsorship Marketing Manager. Key will help oversee the brand's NASCAR program, which will include its sponsorship of Stewart-Haas Racing's No. 10 Chevy driven by DANICA PATRICK, and a heavy sampling presence at races in '16 (Adam Stern, Staff Writer)....The Braves gave former manager BOBBY COX a "two-year extension" of his consulting agreement through the '17 season (AJC.com, 12/3)....NASL club Minnesota United FC named former coach MANNY LAGOS the club's first Sporting Dir (Minnesota United).
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