Sources: Fox Sports’ Shell to rejoin WME-IMG

Dan Shell, who has orchestrated the growth of Fox Sports’ collegiate multimedia rights business over the last four years, is leaving to rejoin WME-IMG, industry sources said.

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Shell, a SportsBusiness Journal Forty Under 40 honoree last year, joined Fox in January 2012 as general manager of the University of Southern California property. He later negotiated the rights for Fox at Georgetown and Villanova, and most recently Michigan State in a deal that will pay the Spartans $150 million as part of a 15-year package.

In Shell’s previous stint at IMG, the former college basketball coach ran regional sales and also managed the West Coast Conference property.