Brett Yormark, NASCAR vice president of corporate marketing, has submitted his resignation to the sanctioning body and will soon be announced as the chief executive officer of the NBA’s New Jersey Nets. Not only did Yormark develop NASCAR’s New York marketing office over the last six years, he was instrumental in closing the deal that made Nextel the title sponsor of NASCAR’s premier series. Yormark returns to the Nets where he began his sports marketing career as an account executive in 1988.(FoxSports/Sporting News)(1-11-2005)
