Pete Bevacqua named successor to Jack Swarbrick as Notre Dame AD.
TL;DR
NBC Sports chief Pete Bevacqua is leaving the company to become the athletic director at the University of Notre Dame. Bevacqua played a significant role in steering NBCU's sports efforts into digital arenas. His departure follows that of Linda Yaccarino, the former NBCU ad-sales chief who left in May to take on the CEO role at social-media outlet Twitter. NBC Sports is engaged in a number of projects, including launching next year's Paris Olympics and a new slate of Saturday-night college football games from Big Ten.
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