After multiple American sports industry leadership figures were found to have sent inappropriate text messages, properties and executive search firms see the need to heighten executive screening processes. US Editor Eric Fisher reports.
US sports industry looks to retool executive search, vetting in wake of Porter, Callaway incidents
Jared Porter, who was abruptly fired by Major League Baseball's New York Mets after news surfaced of a series of explicit text message he sent in 2016 while working for the Chicago Cubs.
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