Help needed: Sports PR and Corporate Panel

Two items today. The first comes from Ric Jensen, formerly at Texas A&M and now at South Dakota. He's also a former contributor to JSM, so if you can help him out please let him know. Also, check out the 2nd item below. Today is the deadline to submit an abstract for a panel on sports and corporations
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1. Is there anyone who knows of some recent examples where sports organizations have been culturally or racially insensitive in how they use marketing and PR?? Academic references would be Great but I can use popular sources, too.

Ric Jensen
Asst. Professor
Department of Contemporary Media and Journalism
Al Neuharth Media Center, 205 C
The U. of South Dakota
Vermillion, SD 57069
Ric.Jensen@usd.edu

2. Denise Oles and Katherine Lavelle are looking for panelists for a panel about the influence of sports and corporations. If you are interested, please send an abstract by February 4th to lenehan20@hotmail.com

Katherine L. Lavelle
Director of Forensics
University of Northern Iowa