Faces & Places: National Sports Forum 30th Anniversary
02.09.2026
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Faces & Places: National Sports Forum 30th Anniversary Ron Seaver and Jon Spoelstra
chatted at the second Forum in
1997 in Denver. (Christy Seaver)
Faces & Places: National Sports Forum 30th Anniversary LAFC Co-President Larry Freedman
and co-owner Will Ferrell joined the
Forum in 2023 in Los Angeles. (Christy Seaver)
Faces & Places: National Sports Forum 30th Anniversary At a panel discussion in 2017 in Minneapolis, (from left) SBJ’s Abe
Madkour with then Timberwolves owner Glen Taylor, Vikings co-owner Mark
Wilf, Wild owner Craig Leipold and Minnesota United FC managing partner
Bill McGuire. (Christy Seaver)
Faces & Places: National Sports Forum 30th Anniversary The 2023 Forum opened to a
full house in Los Angeles. (Christy Seaver)
Faces & Places: National Sports Forum 30th Anniversary At the 2019 Forum in Las Vegas, Vickie
Eiges of the San Francisco 49ers, Lisa Delpy
Neirotti of George Washington University, and
Chris Pfaff of Chris Pfaff Tech/Media. (Christy Seaver)
Faces & Places: National Sports Forum 30th Anniversary Anheuser-Busch has sponsored
the Budweiser Gala since 2003,
at which the Forum’s awards are
presented. (Christy Seaver)
Faces & Places: National Sports Forum 30th Anniversary SBJ’s Abe Madkour, CAA
Sports’ Howie Nuchow and AEG’s
Todd Goldstein in Los Angeles in
2007 for judging of the first Case
Cup Competition. (Christy Seaver)
Faces & Places: National Sports Forum 30th Anniversary In 2023 from Los Angeles,
(from left) Jim Kadlecek, Bill
Sutton, Josh Kritzler, David
Synowka and Dan Migala. (Christy Seaver)
Faces & Places: National Sports Forum 30th Anniversary In 2020 in Atlanta, Dan Migala
(left) and David Brown (right)
accepted their 20-year attendee
rings from Ron Seaver. (Christy Seaver)
Faces & Places: National Sports Forum 30th Anniversary NSF staff shared a lighter moment in Frisco,
Texas, in 2018. (Christy Seaver)
Faces & Places: National Sports Forum 30th Anniversary The view from the 2015 Forum
in Cincinnati. (Christy Seaver)
Faces & Places: National Sports Forum 30th Anniversary (From left) Navigate’s AJ Maestas; My Hometown Heroes’ Danny
Heinsohn; Todd “Parney” Parnell, then with the Richmond Flying Squirrels;
and rEvolution’s Dave Mullins received their 15-year game balls in 2019. (Christy Seaver)
Faces & Places: National Sports Forum 30th Anniversary Forum attendees enjoyed a
reception at Providence Park in
Portland in 2016. (Christy Seaver)
Faces & Places: National Sports Forum 30th Anniversary In 2024 in Pittsburgh, Melyssa Jaskiewicz (left) and Olivia Coe (right) of
Sideline Sports joined Ron Seaver and Christy Seaver. (Courtesy of National Sports Forum)
Faces & Places: National Sports Forum 30th Anniversary Ten-year attendees celebrate
the awarding of their jerseys in
2018 in Frisco, Texas. (Courtesy of National Sports Forum)
Faces & Places: National Sports Forum 30th Anniversary At the 2014 Forum in Dallas,
Jacquelyn Pannell from the city of
Daytona Beach, Fla., and Leonard
Edwards of Homestead-Miami
Speedway. (Christy Seaver/Christy Seaver)
Faces & Places: National Sports Forum 30th Anniversary The ADchievement Awards presented at the
2016 Forum in Portland. (Christy Seaver)
Faces & Places: National Sports Forum 30th Anniversary Nolan Ryan spoke at Globe Life Park in Arlington, Texas, in 2014. (Christy Seaver)
Faces & Places: National Sports Forum 30th Anniversary MLB Commissioner Bud Selig
was a guest speaker in 2009. (Christy Seaver)
Faces & Places: National Sports Forum 30th Anniversary Steering Committee members (from
left) Mary Pink of Iowa State and Tom
Sheridan of the Chicago White Sox
caught up with Steve Carter of the San
Diego Padres in 2011. (Christy Seaver)
Faces & Places: National Sports Forum 30th Anniversary Greg Busch, Steve Dupee and Mike
Boykin, all with GMR at that time, in
Louisville in 2011. (Christy Seaver)
Faces & Places: National Sports Forum 30th Anniversary Kevin Rochlitz of the Baltimore
Ravens poses with his likeness in the
program at the 2015 Forum in Cincinnati. (Christy Seaver)
Faces & Places: National Sports Forum 30th Anniversary (From left) Thad McGrew and
Kathy Schwab of the Milwaukee
Brewers with Lindsay Campbell of
the National Sports Forum in 2014. (Christy Seaver)
Faces & Places: National Sports Forum 30th Anniversary Wayne Gretzky, then managing partner
and head coach of the Phoenix Coyotes, was a
guest speaker in 2009. (Christy Seaver)
Faces & Places: National Sports Forum 30th Anniversary From the 2012 panel in
Oklahoma City, Aspire Group’s
Bernie Mullin, ESPN’s Burke
Magnus, Michael Waltrip of
Michael Waltrip Racing, and the
Orlando Magic’s Alex Martins (Christy Seaver)
