New home for statue
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As part of the Nolan Ryan Foundation’s move from Alvin, Texas, to Round Rock, one of two statues of Ryan has been relocated from Alvin to the home plate entrance at Dell Diamond in Round Rock. At the Nov. 1 unveiling: Round Rock Express GM Tim Jackson, Ryan Sanders Baseball CEO Reese Ryan, Nolan Ryan and Express President Chris Almendarez.
Photo by: RYAN SANDERS BASEBALL
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Ripken’s Tip-Off team in Baltimore
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The Cal Ripken Sr. Foundation hosted its sixth annual College Season Tip-Off at the Baltimore Marriott Waterfront on Oct. 26: ESPN’s Scott Van Pelt, Maryland coach Mark Turgeon, Hugh Durham Award recipient and former Bucknell University coach Pat Flannery, Villanova coach Jay Wright, Georgetown coach John Thompson III and former Maryland coach Gary Williams.
Photo by: CAL RIPKEN SR. FOUNDATION
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Tod Leiweke at USF
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NFL COO Tod Leiweke talks to audience members at the University of South Florida Sport and Entertainment Management Program lecture series in Tampa last month. Leiweke and MLS Commissioner Don Garber were interviewed separately at the event by SBJ/SBD’s Abe Madkour.
Photo by: SAM ROSS
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Campbell Trophy announcement
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Silicon Valley leaders hosted an event announcing the 2016 finalists for the National Football Foundation’s William V. Campbell Trophy on Nov. 1 at GSVlabs in Redwood City, Calif.: Mark Flynn of GSV Capital, NFF board member Ray Anderson of Arizona State, Google’s Jonathan Rosenberg, event emcee Ted Robinson of Pac-12 Networks and the San Francisco 49ers, NFF’s Steve Hatchell, Mike Moe of GSV Capital, sports executive Pat Gallagher, 1992 Campbell Trophy winner Dr. Jim Hansen of the Naval Research Laboratory’s Marine Meteorology Division, Chase Beeler of Altamont Capital Partners and Pac-12 Commissioner Larry Scott.
Photo by: MELISSA MACATEE
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SportsCetera in L.A.
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The Los Angeles Athletic Club partnered with ESPNLA and the USF Sport Management program to host the inaugural SportsCetera conference Nov. 3. Speakers included Blain Skinner, Los Angeles Lakers executive director of corporate partnerships; Sam Lagana, co-national chairman of the John R. Wooden Award and Los Angeles Rams PA announcer; and Russell Silvers, SVP of Global Partnerships for AEG.
Photo by: ELIZABETH VAN LIERDE
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Wasserman gets it done on Serve Day
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Casey Wasserman and the Wasserman Foundation hosted their sixth annual Wasserman Serve Day in October, with more than 200 Wasserman employees, friends and clients participating in service projects across six cities. Wasserman’s Los Angeles office painted the playground and library at 107th Street Elementary in Watts.
Photo by: WASSERMAN
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Dolphins in Haiti
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Players, executives and other members of the Miami Dolphins organization visited the Bahamas and Haiti in late October to help in the aftermath of Hurricane Matthew. Dolphins SVP Jason Jenkins (at right) is shown with Haiti Communitere operations director Creighton Holley.
Photo by: MIAMI DOLPHINS
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Volunteer Challenge winners
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The Valspar Championship, played in March at Innisbrook Resort in Palm Harbor, received a $50,000 check recently honoring the tournament as 2016 winner of the PGA Tour Volunteer Challenge sponsored by Myrbetriq: Andy Pazder, PGA Tour EVP and chief of operations; Howard Baskin, CFO of Big Cat Rescue; physician and Valspar Championship volunteer Dr. Dorothy Christman; and Valspar Championship tournament general chairman Les Muma.
Photo: COURTESY OF PGA TOUR
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Fifth annual Pro-Am Jam
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NASCAR Sprint Cup drivers Danica Patrick and Denny Hamlin (right) partied with military veterans and benefactors at Denny and Mark’s Pro-Am Jam last month at the Daniel Island Club in Charleston, S.C. Hamlin and Mark Bryan of Hootie and the Blowfish are hosts for the rock ’n’ golf event, in its fifth year, with Student Transportation of America.
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Lon’s the one
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University of Oklahoma men’s basketball coach Lon Kruger received the American Cancer Society St. George National Award during halftime at the Oklahoma-Baylor football game earlier this month. The organization’s Randy Linduff presented the award to Kruger, a longtime American Cancer Society volunteer.
Photo by: BRIAN MCKINNELL / SOONER SPORTS PROPERTIES
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