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Conferences team up for symposium

Big East Commissioner Val Ackerman and Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany co-hosted a Women’s Sports Leadership Symposium on March 7 in Rosemont, Ill., in connection with both conference women’s basketball tournaments being played in the Chicago suburbs: DePaul’s Jean Lenti Ponsetto, the Chicago Red Stars’ Alyse LaHue, the Chicago Sky’s Pokey Chatman, Ackerman, Rutgers’ Julie Hermann, Fox Sports’ Judy Boyd, Big Ten Network’s Lya Vallat and the Big East Digital Network’s Patricia Babcock McGraw, who served as moderator.
Photo: COURTESY OF BIG TEN CONFERENCE
L.A.’s favorite

At the L.A. Sports Awards at The Beverly Hilton on March 15: DirecTV’s Max Gopalan; Universal Sports Network’s Mike Severino; Olympic bronze medalist and 2014 U.S. figure skating champion Gracie Gold, who was named 2014 Female Athlete of the Year; and Universal Sports Network’s Scott Brown.
Photo: COURTESY OF UNIVERSAL SPORTS NETWORK
Tourney time

At the Learfield Sports reception during conference basketball tournaments earlier this month in Las Vegas: Learfield Sports’ Kyle Denzel, Stanford University’s Brian Talbott and Kevin Blue, and Adam Requarth of Learfield’s Cardinal Sports.
Photo by: CHRISTINA MEISTER / LEARFIELD SPORTS
Sports business panel at Marquette

Good Karma Brands’ ESPN Milwaukee hosted a “Business of Sports” event panel at Marquette University on March 5: Good Karma Brands’ Craig Karmazin; Marquette and ESPN Wisconsin broadcaster Steve “The Homer” True; former Marquette players Rob Frozena, Jim McIlvaine, Tony Smith, Travis Diener and Marc Marotta; Marquette men’s basketball coach Steve Wojciechowski; and Marquette AD Bill Scholl.
Photo by: NOUN PHOTOGRAPHY
Citi Open sponsor summit in D.C.

The Citi Open Tennis Tournament held a sponsor summit March 2. From left: Citi’s Dermot Boden; the U.S. Tennis Association’s Deanne Pownall; Citi’s Tina Davis; Lagardère Unlimited’s Donald Dell, the tournament chairman; and Dalbert Ginsberg of the Washington Tennis and Education Foundation.
Photo by: CITI OPEN TENNIS TOURNAMENT
All for Luc

Hall of famers Wayne Gretzky, Luc Robitaille, Mario Lemieux and Rob Blake gathered as Robitaille, now Los Angeles Kings president of business operations, was honored with a statue at Staples Center on March 7.
Photo by: GETTY IMAGES
Hard hat tour

Minnesota Vikings staff members J.P. Paul, John Penhollow, Tanya Dreesen, Jenny Haag and Steve LaCroix recently checked out the progress on the team’s new stadium, set to open in 2016.
Photo by: MINNESOTA VIKINGS
Zebra, NFL discuss new stat system

At the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference recently, the NFL and Zebra Sports Solutions talked about the league’s new real-time player tracking system: the NFL’s Matt Birk, Zebra Location Solutions’ Jill Stelfox, the NFL’s Vishal Shah, NFL Network’s Marshall Faulk, the New Orleans Saints’ Sean Payton and SBJ/SBD’s Abraham Madkour.
Photo: COURTESY OF ZEBRA TECHNOLOGIES


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