Former Spartans endorse Alan Haller in video

PHOTO: Alan Haller An impressive list of Michigan State alums put together a video endorsing Alan Haller as the Spartans' next athletic director. Haller, a former player, joined the athletic department in 2010. He was promoted in 2019 to the No. 2 man in the as the assistant athletic director and deputy athletic director. Haller, who grew up in Lansing and graduated from Sexton High, played for the Spartans from 1998 to 1991 and then three years in…

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Duke’s new AD represents King-sized ambitions for women in sports

PHOTO: Nina King. By TOM SHANAHAN Duke introduced Nina King as the university’s new Vice-President and Director of Athletics Friday at Cameron Indoor Stadium, promoting her from assistant athletic director to a place in history as the school’s first person of color named AD. She also represents progress as one of only three Black female ADs among the nation’s Power Five schools. "I am a female Black athletic director,” said King. “There are only a few of us…

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