RUNNING USA
BOSTON — On Friday, May 20, 2022, Dave McGillivray makes a triumphant return to Fenway Park to throw out the first pitch when the Red Sox play the Seattle Mariners.
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THE EAGLE-TRIBUNE
DMSE Sports, which has managed and produced more than 1,400 mass-participatory events over the past 40 years, will be back at Gillette Stadium and Patriot Place to manage the Harvard Pilgrim Finish at the 50 5K and at Fenway Park for the Run to Home Base.
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RUNNING USA
Boston — DMSE Sports, which has managed and produced more than 1,400 mass-participatory events over the past 40 years, will be back at Gillette Stadium and Patriot Place to manage the Harvard Pilgrim Finish at the 50 5K and at Fenway Park for the Run to Home Base. This is a change of mission at these sites for the event management team—they spent the first six months of 2021 at these facilities, leading the operations and logistics for administering 1.3 million vaccination shots.
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CANADIAN RUNNING
The latest episode of Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel, HBO’s hit investigative sports series, featured a pair of running stories, diving into the vastly different worlds of the Boston and Barkley marathons. Real Sports correspondents interviewed Dave McGillivray and Laz Lake, the longtime race directors of the two events, to find out more about their roles and how they operate. This episode offers an inside look at the lives of the two men behind these famous races, and it is available to stream now on HBO Max.
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BOSTON.COM
Friday afternoon, Fenway Park should once again be the home of the Boston Red Sox as the team hosts the Baltimore Orioles for Opening Day after a brief postponement due to rain.
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BIZBASH
Like many event pros, in March 2020 Dave McGillivray was facing a career crisis. Because of the abrupt shutdown of events due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the owner of Boston-based, 40-year-old event management company DMSE Sports—which has managed more than 1,400 events including the Boston Marathon, the Goodwill Games, the U.S. Women’s Olympic Marathon Trials, and many more race-related events—was forced to pivot.
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BLOOMBERG
In the past week, the U.S. reached an average of 2 million Covid-19 vaccine doses administered daily. That’s about 25 doses per 100 people since the beginning of the vaccination campaign mid-December, according to Bloomberg estimates.
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BOSTON.COM
Gov. Charlie Baker announced Thursday that the mass COVID-19 vaccination site at Fenway Park will be moved to the Hynes Convention Center later this month, ahead of plans to allow fans back at the ballpark for Red Sox opening day April 1.
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BOSTON 25 NEWS
Governor Baker announced Thursday that the Fenway Park vaccination site will now move to Hynes Convention Center due to the ballpark hosting limited fans starting April 1.
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RUNNING USA
DMSE Sports, the event management team that has managed and produced more than 1,400 mass participatory events over the past 40 years announced they have been recruited by CIC Health, a Cambridge-based health tech company, to oversee the on-site vaccine operations and logistics management at two of the state’s mass vaccination sites: Gillette Stadium and Fenway Park.
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THE BOSTON GLOBE
The beer taps are dry. There are no peanuts or pretzels. Or Fenway Franks.
But this much is familiar: There are long lines. There are determined faces. And, as ever, there is an abiding hope at the old ballpark.
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THE ATHLETIC
The first question I posed to Dave McGillivray during our conversation was as follows: “Do you plan on being the last person in Massachusetts to receive a COVID-19 vaccination?”
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MISSION HILL GAZETTE
When people think of Fenway Park, certain things may come to mind: watching the game with friends and family, Fenway Franks, and Wally the Green Monster. Now, people are depending on the historic ballpark to receive the COVID-19 vaccine.
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BOSTON.COM | MAINLY NEWS.GR
Dave McGillivray has done a lot of things most people haven’t. His website lists an absurd collection of running achievements: 158 total marathons, 120 miles in 24 hours, even an 80-day-long journey from Medford, Ore. to Medford, Mass., all while raising millions for charity.
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CANADIAN RUNNING
Boston Marathon race director Dave McGillivray has been recruited by the state of Massachusetts to facilitate the COVID-19 vaccine rollout in Boston. McGillivray, who has been the Boston RD for 20 years and working with the storied event for more than 30, is one of many event organizers across the U.S. who have been enlisted to help with vaccine plans.
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GBH
Massachusetts opened its third mass vaccination site today at Fenway Park, in addition to ones already up and running at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough and the Eastfield Mall in Springfield. The operations at the two sports centers are being run by Cambridge tech company CIC Health, which aims to offer 1,250 shots per day at Fenway and 5,000 per day at Gillette in the coming weeks. Rodrigo Martinez, the chief marketing officer of CIC Health, discussed how it all came together and what people should expect if they visit either site.
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THE BOSTON GLOBE
Two Boston institutions — Fenway Park and the Reggie Lewis Track and Athletic Center — will be on the front lines of the fight against the coronavirus as they are transformed into vaccination centers in the coming days, while the state launches the second phase of its vaccination effort and makes vital doses available to residents 75 and older.
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CBS BOSTON
Dave McGillivray is used to planning big events. But this time the logistics are a bit different.
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