Boston’s best in sports
TD Garden President Amy Latimer, Kraft Analytics Group CEO Jessica Gelman, Boston Celtics President Rich Gotham and Boston Red Sox CMO Adam Grossman spoke on a panel discussion at a Power Breakfast on Sports Business hosted recently by the Boston Business Journal at TD Garden.w. marc bernsau
Scholarship fund
Goals & Assists, a partnership between the Ed Snider Youth Hockey Foundation and Give Something Back, donated $500,000 to Elizabethtown College to provide student athletes from Snider Hockey full scholarships to Elizabethtown College. From left: Elizabethtown board Chairman Robert Dolan, Flyers alum Bernie Parent, Ed Snider Youth Hockey Foundation President/CEO Scott Tharp, Elizabethtown President Carl Strikwerda, Give Something Back founder and Chairman Robert Carr, Give Something Back board member Susan Herbst-Murphy, Ed Snider Youth Hockey Foundation board member and Elizabethtown alum Steve Capoferri.Elizabethtown College
Todd Harris Spirit Award winner
Milwaukee Bucks play-by-play announcer Jim Paschke (right), who is entering his 33rd season calling Bucks games, accepts the Todd Harris Spirit Award from Tom Carelli, NBA SVP, broadcast schedule management, at the annual NBA Broadcast Meeting on Sept. 14 in New York. The award recognizes an NBA broadcaster or executive who is the ultimate team player and inspires people to make every day brighter. david dow / nba
$4.4 million donation to Jimmy Fund
NESN and WEEI present a check for $4,456,571 to The Jimmy Fund on Sept. 13 at Fenway Park, the results of the WEEI/NESN Jimmy Fund Radio-Telethon in August. From left: Red Sox CEO Sam Kennedy, infielder Brock Holt, WEEI’s Joe Zarbano, NESN’s Rose Mirakian and Ray Guilbault, Entercom’s Mark Hannon, WEEI’s Adam Ralston, Arbella Insurance Charitable Foundation President Beverly Tangvik, Jimmy Fund Chairman Larry Lucchino and the Jimmy Fund’s Suzanne Fountain.boston red sox
Celebrities on the course
Michelle Wie served as a celebrity coach at the second Omega Celebrity Masters, a nine-hole tournament that is part of the Omega European Masters weekend in Crans Montana, Switzerland, on Sept. 8. From left: (Top row) Wie, actor Alfonso Ribeiro, surfer Anastasia Ashley, former rugby player Brian O’Driscoll, Omega President and CEO Raynald Aeschlimann, singer Cody Simpson, Swiss Paralympian Theo Gmur. (Bottom row) actress Kat Graham, singer Bastian Baker, former NHL player Jeremy Roenick, former soccer player Ronald de Boer and former alpine ski racer Didier Defago.omega
A summer at Wrigley
As part of the Chicago Cubs Service Excellence Course this summer, DePaul University students (pictured with Cubs executives and Andy Clark, DePaul director of sports management programs) evaluated the team’s customer service channels and worked in the team’s Service Excellence Department.Kathy Hillegonds / DePaul University
Olympic experience
Olympic figure skating bronze medalist Adam Rippon visited NBC Sports Group headquarters in Stamford, Conn., on Sept. 6 to discuss his experience at the 2018 Pyeongchang Games with members of NBCUniversal’s Employee Resource Groups. From left: Shannon Ward, OUT@NBCUniversal; Troy Venechanos, OUT@NBCUniversal co-lead; Rippon; Marvin Pittman, Black Employee Network co-lead; and Seth Rubinroit, Young Professional Network co-lead. Chris Mahoney / NBC Sports
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