About 800 people attended this year’s CAA World Congress of Sports, held at the Monarch Beach Resort in Dana Point, Calif.
PHOTOS BY TONY FLOREZ PHOTOGRAPHY
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| Daniel Rush, Michael Goldsmith, Lisa Motley and Roy Edmondson
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| Gary Warech, Cary McFarland and Jason Kaufman
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| Gail Gitcho and Emily Walthouse
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| Hannah Gordon and Zuzana Bednarova
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| MLS Commissioner Don Garber and U.S. Soccer’s Sunil Gulati
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| Howie Nuchow and Alan Gold
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| Abe Madkour and Erika Nardini
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| Connor Schell and Michelle Beadle
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| NBA’s Mark Tatum and Big East’s Val Ackerman
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| David Katz and Ken Shropshire
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| Scott Blackmun and Casey Wasserman
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| Rob Freeman, Peter Zern, Adam Jones, Michael Keenan and Frank Saviano
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| Danita Johnson, Tracey Lesetar-Smith and Adrian Benjamin
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| Champions honorees DeLoss Dodds and Bill Giles were unable to attend. Photos by: SUSAN SIGMON; CURT HUDSON
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Sports business influencers and decision-makers gathered in Dana Point, Calif., for the CAA World Congress of Sports. On Tuesday night, SportsBusiness Journal/Daily and CAA Sports hosted a VIP/Speaker Reception at Club 19 at the Monarch Beach Resort to kick off the event. On Wednesday, members of the 2017 class of Champions received their awards, offered stories from their careers in sports and shared their thoughts on the most pressing issues facing sports business today.
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| The 2017 class of Champions: Pioneers & Innovators in Sports Business: Ed Goren, Larry Levy, Janet Marie Smith and George Raveling.
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| Ed Goren of Goren Media Group and Larry Levy of Levy Restaurants
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| David O’Connor of Madison Square Garden Co. and Paul Danforth and Howie Nuchow of CAA Sports
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| Heather Post of CAA and Chris Koch and Dana Marciniak of New Era
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| Alan Gold of Evolution Media Capital and Jeff Krolik of Fox Sports Regional Networks
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| Josh Feine of New Era and Greg Luckman and Jon Levine of CAA
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| Asher Simons and Joe Becher of CAA, Brad Ruskin of Proskauer and Dave Greeley of Precourt Sports Ventures
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| Guests enjoy a California sunset during the VIP reception.
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