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Eastern Michigan names Maxx Crosby assistant GM
Eastern Michigan Univ. has named Raiders DE Maxx Crosby Assistant GM “for its football program.” While Crosby “will continue his playing career,” he now has “an official position” at his alma mater. Crosby will “assist in evaluating high school and transfer portal prospects, help manage the team’s N...
Don Mischer, director-producer of Super Bowl halftime shows and Olympics openers, dies at 85
DON MISCHER, the director-producer who put on some of the biggest live entertainment events in the world, died on Friday at 85. He directed four Super Bowl halftime shows in 1993 (MICHAEL JACKSON), 2005 (PAUL MCCARTNEY), 2006 (THE ROLLING STONES) and 2007 (PRINCE). He also produced the halftime ente...
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Ballpark design advisor JANET MARIE SMITH, Giants special advisor JP RICCIARDI, and Red Sox OF JARREN DURAN have been selected as the 2025 WooSox HOF inductees (MiLB). Red Sox High-A affiliate Greenville Drive and Fluor Field owner and Chair CRAIG BROWN was presented with the Order of the Palmetto, ...
Sports Business Daily: Executive Transactions - April 14, 2025
USA Swimming has hired GREG MEEHAN as its national team managing director. The former Stanford women’s coach served as the head coach of the Olympic team for the Tokyo Games as well as the assistant coach in 2016 (Rio) and 2024 (Paris). In the role, Meehan will be responsible for the national team p...
Twins unveil statue for HOFer Joe Mauer
A crowd of “several hundred people” gathered at Target Field before Sunday’s game between the Twins and Tigers to watch the unveiling of Baseball HOFer Joe Mauer’s 8-foot-tall statue. The pose, which Mauer said he “helped select,” is of the St. Paul native “coming out of his crouch behind the plate....
LIV Golf hires Toscani Weems for media relations
LIV Golf has hired longtime sports communications executive Lara Toscani Weems as its new SVP/Media Relations, effective last week. Toscani Weems has been the SVP/Global Communications for Elevate for the last three years and before that was a longtime VP/Corporate Communications for Harris Blitzer ...
Outlets celebrate McIlroy’s stunning Masters win
Rory McIlroy’s first Masters win on Sunday was the talk of the sports world, and a number of papers across the nation and the world celebrated his accomplishment.
Report: Bueckers to sign three-year Unrivaled deal
Projected No. 1 WNBA draft pick Paige Bueckers is “signing a three-year deal” with the 3-on-3 league Unrivaled, according to sources. Bueckers’ first-year salary for the 10-week Unrivaled season “will exceed what she would make in four years of her WNBA rookie contract,” sources said. If Bueckers is...
Friday night’s ‘Final Jeopardy!’ category was ‘Siblings’
“They used some of their $65 million settlement to stockpile bitcoin & in 2014 they founded their own cryptocurrency exchange.”
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I aspire for MLS to be one of the top leagues in the world, or the top league in the world. What do we have to do to achieve that? Attract the best players in the world. I hope that in three, four, five years, that 15 to 20 of the top 50 players in the world play here.Inter Miami owner Jorge Mas, on MLS being a top soccer league and raising its profile by signing more top players.
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