Touring the Cactus League
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Colorado Rockies owner, Chairman and CEO Dick Monfort, left, joins Frontier Airlines President and CEO Dave Siegel, and Greg Feasel, Rockies executive vice president and chief operating officer, at the team’s first home game at Salt River Fields at Talking Stick.
Photo by: DON MURET / STAFF
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This group was involved in the development of Cubs Park. Front row, from left, Joe Spear, Populous; Tab Baker, Hunt Construction; Alex Ortiz, Icon Venue Group; Steve Boyd, Populous; and Nicole Kiersztyn Snyder, Ellen Tehan and Adam Sprenger, all with DWL Architects. Back row, from left, Steve Caudle, Aaron Noll, Mark Palmer and David Bower, all with Populous; Troy Hoberg, Hunt; and Steve Rao, DWL.
Photo by: DON MURET / STAFF
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Ovations Food Services runs food and retail at Cubs Park. From left, Ovations President Ken Young and John Traub, general manager of the Albuquerque Isotopes. Young owns the Isotopes, the Los Angeles Dodgers’ Class AAA affiliate.
Photo by: DON MURET / STAFF
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Chicago Cubs President Crane Kenney, left, Allen Hermeling, the team’s senior director of corporate partnerships, and Colin Faulkner, the Cubs’ vice president of sales and partnerships, attend the first game at new Cubs Park in Mesa.
Photo by: DON MURET / STAFF
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Chris Calcaterra, left, sports facilities manager of the Peoria (Ariz.) Sports Complex, spring training home of the San Diego Padres and Seattle Mariners, visits with Jason Wilson, vice president of operations for Professional Sports Catering, the facility’s new concessionaire.
Photo by: DON MURET / STAFF
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USTA Serves funds for charity
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A fundraising reception for USTA Serves, the official charity of this year’s BNP Paribas Showdown in support of under-resourced youth through tennis and education, raised more than $100,000 on March 2 at The Essex House in New York. StarGames President and CEO Jerry Solomon, tennis players Andy Murray, Mike Bryan, Bob Bryan and Novak Djokovic, and USTA Serves Executive Director Dan Faber attended the reception.
Photo by: JEN POTTHEISER
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MSG, Knicks announce D-League team
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Madison Square Garden Co. announced on March 10 that it will own and operate an NBA D-League team in White Plains, N.Y., that will be an affiliate of the New York Knicks. Attending the announcement at Westchester County Center, the team’s home court, are: New York Liberty’s Essence Carson; former Knicks star John Starks; Westchester County’s Kathy O’Connor; D-League President Dan Reed; Allan Houston, Knicks assistant GM and Knicks D-League team GM; Westchester County’s Rob Astorino and Mike Kaplowitz; MSG Sports’ Dave Howard; and Bill Boyce of the Knicks D-League team.
Photo by: REBECCA TAYLOR
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Lesnik joins Chaminade HOF
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Chaminade University inducted Steve Lesnik, chairman of KemperLesnik and KemperSports, into the Silversword Hall of Fame at its sixth annual intercollegiate athletics gala on Feb. 28 at the Ala Moana Beach Hotel in Honolulu. Attending the gala were: Chaminade AD Bill Villa; Chaminade President Brother Bernie Ploeger; Lesnik; Carolyn Berry Wilson, past Hall of Fame inductee; and Lee Donohue, honorary gala chair and past Hall of Fame inductee.
Photo by: JAY METZGER / CHAMINADE UNIVERSITY
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Comcast-Spectacor goes Live
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Comcast-Spectacor’s leadership team gathers on March 5 after a companywide broadcast of Comcast-Spectacor Live at Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia. Members of the team are: John Page, president, Global Spectrum; Alice Fei, Comcast-Spectacor VP of human resources; Comcast-Spectacor Chief of Staff Dan Gallagher; New Era Tickets President Fred Maglione; Comcast-Spectacor President Dave Scott; Comcast-Spectacor CFO Gary Rostick; Phil Weinberg, Comcast-Spectacor EVP and general counsel; Shawn Tilger, Flyers COO of business development; Ovations Food Services President Ken Young; and Paciolan founder Jane Kleinberger.
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USOC designates medical center
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The U.S. Olympic Committee announced March 3 that the Steadman Philippon Research Institute and The Steadman Clinic in Vail, Colo., had been designated as a national medical center in the USOC network. Attending the news conference in Vail were: Dr. Marc J. Philippon, managing partner of The Steadman Clinic and co-chair of SPRI; Dr. Richard Steadman, founder of The Steadman Clinic and founder and co-chair of SPRI; and Dr. Bill Moreau, managing director of the USOC Sports Medicine Division.
Photo by: ANGELICA WEDELL / STEADMAN PHILIPPON RESEARCH INSTITUTE
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