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WISE women at Dartmouth …

Women in Sports and Events last month welcomed 27 participants to its third annual WISE Executive Leadership Institute in partnership with Tuck Executive Education at Dartmouth.
Photo by: WISE
… as well as in Los Angeles

The Los Angeles chapter of Women in Sports and Events honored three executives at its annual WISE Los Angeles Women of Inspiration Gala last month: Renata Simril, LA84 Foundation president and CEO; Claudia Teran, EVP and general counsel, Fox Sports; WISE chapter President Shelley Taniguchi; and Shelley Smith, ESPN reporter and USC Annenberg School of Communications and Journalism professor.
Photo by: MPU DINANI
March of Dimes honorees

More than 700 leaders in the sports industry attended the 33rd annual March of Dimes Sports Luncheon last month at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City. CBS Sports chairman and luncheon chair Sean McManus is flanked by the honorees: PGA of America CEO Pete Bevacqua, WNBA and Olympic champion Swin Cash, NFL legend Peyton Manning and Bruin Sports Capital CEO and founder George Pyne.
Photo by: HECHLER PHOTOGRAPHY
Warsaw family on campus at Oregon

Family members of the late Jim Warsaw, founder of the Warsaw Sports Marketing Center at the University of Oregon’s Lundquist School of Business, gathered before a recent Ducks football game: Sons Kyle and Zak, center Director Whitney Wagoner, brother Bob (a member of the center’s advisory board) and son Bryan.
Photo by: UNIVERSITY OF OREGON
Trophy twins

Dan Migala of PCGSportsDesk and the Cleveland Cavaliers’ Brad Sims united the Chicago Cubs’ and Cleveland Cavaliers’ championship trophies at an event Dec. 2 after the Cavaliers’ game in Chicago. Both the Cavaliers and Cubs are PCGSportsDesk clients.
Photo: COURTESY OF PCGSPORTSDESK
Cashman receives ALS Honor

New York Yankees general manager Brian Cashman received the Jacob K. Javits Lifetime Achievement Award at the ALS Association Greater New York Chapter’s Lou Gehrig Sports Awards Benefit last month. With Cashman (center) are Emma and Joy Javits.
Photo by: ANN BILLINGSLEY
Ross receives award at Arizona State

Arizona State AD Ray Anderson applauds as Related Cos. Chairman Stephen Ross receives the Architect of Change award from Manager Global CEO Vada Manager for the university’s Center for the Study of Race and Democracy.
Photo by: DENISE MEREDITH
Horowitz, Fox friends boost IAVA

Jamie Horowitz, Fox Sports National Networks president, and his wife, Kara, hosted a fundraiser for the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America organization at their Los Angeles home Dec. 2. The evening featured IAVA members speaking about how the organization has changed their lives and a panel with Fox Sports 1’s Skip Bayless, Colin Cowherd and Shannon Sharpe moderated by Horowitz and his 8-year-old son, Jake.
Photos by: SCOTT KIRKLAND / PICTUREGROUP

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