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Ohanian’s investment in women’s sports proving fruitful
Sports investor ALEXIS OHANIAN’s “championing of women’s sports has helped grow audiences, elevate franchise values” and “set up several enterprises for future success” over the past five years, according to Sean Gregory of TIME. In 2020, Ohanian served as the lead investor for NWSL expansion club A...
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ESPN Creative Dir/Music KEVIN WILSON has been there for nearly 32 years, and other than the “SPORTSCENTER” theme song, “virtually any music you hear on ESPN begins with Wilson and his small creative team.” As he sees it, his job is not “just picking songs but eliciting emotion; helping the network s...
Sports Business Daily: Executive Transactions - December 4, 2025
Daktronics named RAMESH JAYARAMAN as its new president & CEO, a role he will start officially on Feb. 1, 2026. Jayaraman will be based in Brookings, S.D., where Daktronics is headquartered. BRAD WIEMANN, a longtime Daktronics employee who has served in the interim, will remain in those positions...
TMRW Sports makes Peter Jung new CMO
TMRW Sports has tapped former NASCAR executive Peter Jung as its new CMO. Jung, who departed NASCAR in May after five years as its CMO in Charlotte, will relocate to TMRW’s headquarters in Winter Park, Fla.
Last night’s ‘Final Jeopardy’ category was ‘Monuments & Memorials’
“In NYC’s Cathedral of St. John the Divine, an alcove with memorials to Hart Crane, Sylvia Plath & 54 others is the ‘American’ this.”
President Trump pardons Tim Leiweke
President Trump pardoned Oak View Group co-founder Tim Leiweke on Tuesday, with the pardon posting on the Department of Justice’s website Wednesday evening. Leiweke faced a single federal felony charge of restraining trade, relating to OVG’s successful pursuit of the RFP to develop the Univ. of Texa...
Frank Vuono’s roast also raises money for kids fighting cancer
Other than the stadium-sized signage making 2025 SBJ Champion Frank Vuono larger than life, what we enjoyed most about the former NFL marketer’s roast, held at MetLife Stadium last month, were the testimonials, many of which aren’t suitable for print. Former Giants QB Phil Simms quipped that, when h...
March of Dimes sports luncheon raises $1.4M
The annual March of Dimes sports luncheon in N.Y. raised $1.4M for the nonprofit’s mission of improving the health of infants and their mothers, including $100,000 in live donations during the two-hour event.
Daktronics names Ramesh Jayaraman president & CEO
LED provider Daktronics has announced the hiring of Ramesh Jayaraman as its new president & CEO, a role he will start officially on Feb. 1, 2026. Jayaraman will be based in Brookings, S.D., where Daktronics is headquartered.
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Patriots owner ROBERT KRAFT and Univ. of North Carolina football coach BILL BELICHICK, the “co-architects of an NFL dynasty in New England who have become bitter antagonists since parting ways,” have both been named finalists for the 2026 class of the Pro Football HOF. Kraft was the “lone finalist i...
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The NHL and the NHLPA should just say, ‘Listen, we’re not playing there. We give you everything, you give us very little. We’re playing at a different venue. We’re not playing at a subpar venue.’ … They’ve had many years to put things in place.-- TSN's Craig Button, on how the NHL should force the IOC's hand if the Olympic hockey venue in Milan is not up to par for the Milan-Cortina Games.
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