APSE

Sessions on smart phones, beat reporting and more are on the agenda for the May 14 Northeast Region meeting in Boston.

The annual APSE 5K, an inaugural 3-on-3 basketball event and an outing to a White Sox game are among activities planned for the 2012 Chicago conference.

Here are details for the 2012 annual writing contest for the APSE Southwest Region.

The APSE Southwest Region meeting will be returning to San Antonio, where it was held in 2010. The dates are Friday and Saturday, July 27-28.

Dave Ammenheuser, formerly of the Press-Enterprise in Riverside Calif., is taking over as the new sports editor at The Tennessean in Nashville, plus other personnel news and notes from across the country.

An outing at the ballpark to watch the Chicago White Sox play the Milwaukee Brewers is among the activities for this summer’s convention in Chicago. Here are details on how to attend from APSE Executive Director Jack Berninger.

Sixteen region editors took part in the two-day APSE Great Lakes Region meeting which included an afternoon at Comerica Park on a cold, windy day, watching to the Texas Rangers beat the Detroit Tigers in 11 innings. Here is a summary of the sessions.

The second and final day of the Commissioners Meetings featured visits with the NCAA, NHL and NFL. In all, sports editors from around the country met in New York with executives from seven sports organizations over a two-day period.

Thursday’s opening round of the APSE Commissioners Meetings is in the books, and discussions with the top bosses of NASCAR, Major League Soccer, the NBA and Major League Baseball produced some interesting story lines.

The April 9 Mid-Atlantic Region meeting at Penn State centered around a series of high-profile panelists whose lives have been impacted by all that has transpired here since former coach Jerry Sandusky was indicted on Nov. 4.