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People and Pop Culture

Faces and Places

Knicks, partners open at NYSE

Former New York Knicks player Marcus Camby teamed up with Madison Square Garden and Knicks marketing partners from JPMorgan Chase, Delta Air Lines and Douglas Elliman to ring the opening bell at New York Stock Exchange on Oct. 21. Front: Delta’s Melodie Maldonado, MSG’s Jordan Solomon, Knicks City dancer Alyssa Quezada, Chase’s Stephen Baron, NYSE’s Tom Farley, Knicks City dancer Jess Attardo, Chase’s Amy Weaver and Douglas Elliman’s Dana DeVito. Back: Camby, MSG’s Justin Johnson, Octagon’s Brentin Ocker (Delta) and Douglas Elliman’s Scott Durkin.
Photo: COURTESY OF MSG
Player to watch

Justin Thompson, Tissot U.S. brand president, presents a Tissot Quickster watch to the Miami Heat’s Hassan Whiteside. Whiteside appeared at the grand opening of the rebranded Tissot Ticket Center at AmericanAirlines Arena on Oct. 16.
Photo by: TISSOT
Welcome to Jeansboro

Team owner Richard Childress and NASCAR Sprint Cup driver Dale Earnhardt Jr., a Wrangler spokesman, sat in on a panel during Jeansboro Day on Oct. 19 at the headquarters of VF Corp. in Greensboro, N.C.
Photo by: APRIL LARSON PHOTOGRAPHY
ADs come to KC

The Collegiate Athletics Leadership Symposium drew 250 collegiate athletic administrators and industry executives to Kansas City Oct. 16-18. On a panel called “Leading a 21st Century Athletics Department”: Arizona AD Greg Byrne, North Carolina AD Bubba Cunningham and incoming Florida AD Scott Stricklin, with panel moderator Kevin Barefoot of Winthrop Intelligence.
Photo by: GRANT HILL / FINCH CREATIVE
Dikembe’s digs

At the Oct. 18 grand opening of the Dikembe Mutombo Foundation’s new office space in Atlanta: Steve Hart, Heery International VP of interior design; foundation Chairman and President Dikembe Mutombo; and Amanda Orrison, Heery interior designer.
Photo by: HEERY INTERNATIONAL
Three for V in San Francisco

ESPN broadcaster Dick Vitale, San Francisco Giants catcher Buster Posey and former ESPN President George Bodenheimer attend a fundraiser for The V Foundation for Cancer Research co-hosted by Vitale and Posey and his wife, Kristen, recently at AT&T Park in San Francisco.
Photo by: MARY KENEALY EVENTS
All for L.A.

At the fifth annual LA84 Foundation Summit on Oct. 27 at the JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. Live: LA84 Foundation President and CEO Renata Simril and Luc Robitaille, Los Angeles Kings president of business operations.
Photo by: JERRITT CLARK
Ackerman at Marquette

Big East Commissioner Val Ackerman received the Master of the Game Award at the sports law conference put on by the National Sports Law Institute of Marquette University Law School on Oct. 21: Gary Way, Nike VP and global counsel for sports marketing, Ackerman and Matthew Mitten, professor of law and executive director of the National Sports Law Institute.
Photo: COURTESY OF NATIONAL SPORTS LAW INSTITUTE OF MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL
Shaking it up at Wells Fargo Center

At Shake Shack’s opening inside Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia: Tom Honton, Shake Shack area manager; Shawn Tilger, chief operating officer, Philadelphia Flyers; Comcast Spectacor’s John Page, president, Wells Fargo Complex; and Brian Hastings, Aramark regional director of operations. Wells Fargo Center is the first arena in the NHL and NBA with a Shake Shack location.
Photo by: COMCAST SPECTACOR

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