NAABBBTOAA

(Butte, MT) - "The state of our Association has never been stronger," said Greg Milligan, Senior VP for Strategic Affairs and Corporate Billing, moments after emerging from closed-door meetings with other executives at the annual conference of the National Association of American Basketball Bracket Tournament Officials Association of America (NAABBTOAA).

Henderson NCAA Tournament Harrisburg Regional

Administrator Pat Henderson fields a question on how

the Association will address the looming executive pension crisis

After the morning work session, Association board members outlined the challenges facing Tournaments in the coming years at a press conference that was, ironically, closed to the press.

In addition, the NAABBTOAA Executive Committee took action on several items. Highlights include:

· Choosing the Hawaii Tsunami Relief Fund as the official charitable partner for 2010.

· Booking Christopher Cross for the Association’s 2011 Annual Festivus gathering in Palm Springs

Greg Milligan, NAABBTOAA Senior VP for Strategic

Affairs and Corporate Billing, takes issue with

allegations of corruption within his tournament

· Extending the contract of spokesman Wilford Brimley two years or until determined dead by a competent medical examiner

· Accepting the resignation of Khalid Sheik Abdul Jabbar, Southwest Region VP for Overseas Contestant Development, amid allegations of financial irregularities

· Announcing the formation of a task force to study whether to study expanding the national collegiate Curling tournament to a field of 65

· After 27 years, severing promotional ties with ABC-TV. “We tolerated The View for far too long. Shame on us. They put Kate Gosselin back on TV. Shame on them” said Henderson NCAA Tournament President and 2009 Tournament Official Hall of Fame inductee Matt Henderson

AP Senior Writer Christopher Judd Questions NAABBTOAA Senior Executives on Findings Contained in a Recent Grand Jury Indictment

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