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Tampa Bay Sports Commission eyes next leader, search still early
Conversations about the Tampa Bay Sports Commission filling its vacancy for its exec director role “have been underway” since ROB HIGGINS accepted the Univ. of South Florida post, but the commission’s BOD Chair BEN MILSOM said that the search is “still in its initial stages,” according to Nicolas Vi...
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WNBA expansion team Portland Fire “inadvertently teased their selection of a new head coach” yesterday morning, posting an image to LinkedIn of Cavaliers assistant ALEX SARAMA that read, “Welcome to the Portland Fire!” The Fire “quickly deleted the post.” A team spokesperson acknowledged that the po...
Sports Business Daily: Executive Transactions - October 15, 2025
Ticketmaster named SAUMIL MEHTA as its new global president. Most recently, he spent nearly 10 years at Square, rising to chief product officer and head of business organization. Mehta, who replaces MARK YOVICH, will report directly to Live Nation CEO MICHAEL RAPINO and start with the company on Nov...
South Carolina names department for Teppers
The Univ. of South Carolina is “naming its Department of Sport and Entertainment Management” after Panthers owner David Tepper and his wife, Nicole, following a $5M gift from their foundation. School officials said that it is the first academic department at the university “to be named with this lev...
Penguins TV voice faints at game, taken to hospital
Penguins TV play-by-play voice Josh Getzoff was “taken to an Anaheim area hospital” last night “after he fainted in the Honda Center press box” during the second intermission of the Penguins’ 4-3 loss to the Ducks. A team source said Getzoff “reported that he was OK.” With Getzoff “unable to call th...
Last night’s ‘Final Jeopardy’ category was ‘Best Selling Authors’
“At age 26 in 1917, she passed the assistant’s exam for London’s Society of Apothecaries.”
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Mavericks’ majority owner MIRIAM ADELSON was in attendance when President TRUMP told Israeli lawmakers yesterday that their country had “no more to achieve on the battlefield” and “must work toward peace in the Middle East” after two years of war against Hamas and skirmishes with Hezbollah and Iran....
Sports Business Daily: Executive Transactions - October 14, 2025
The ATP named ANDRE SILVA Chief Tour Officer, succeeding ROSS HUTCHINS, who has held the role since 2020. Silva will assume the new role Nov. 1 and will be based out of the ATP’s Florida office. His experience includes senior roles with TEAM8, tournament leadership at the Cincinnati Open and exec po...
SBJ On Stage: Stan Kasten and Lon Rosen
In this episode of On Stage, we take you inside the Dodgers with CEO & President Stan Kasten and EVP & CMO Lon Rosen. This conversation, recorded September 17, 2025 at SBJ’s AXS DRIVE event in L.A., explores how one of the most iconic franchises in sports continues to set the standard on and...
Last night’s ‘Final Jeopardy’ category was ‘The Oscars’
“The first 2 actors to refuse their Oscar trophies were in films with scripts that this man co-wrote.”
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If I’m the Knicks coach and you have a five-game losing streak, it’s not going to be about the losing streak. It’s going to be about being a female coach. So you, as an organization and a franchise, you have to be prepared for that and strong enough to endure those types of instances.-- Univ. of South Carolina women's basketball coach Dawn Staley, on how everything would be looked at under a microscope if an NBA team hired a female head coach.
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