Pete Bevacqua named successor to Jack Swarbrick as Notre Dame AD.

NBC Sports chief Pete Bevacqua is leaving the company to become the athletic director at the University of Notre Dame. Bevacqua played a significant role in steering NBCU's sports efforts into digital arenas. His departure follows that of Linda Yaccarino, the former NBCU ad-sales chief who left in May to take on the CEO role at social-media outlet Twitter. NBC Sports is engaged in a number of projects, including launching next year's Paris Olympics and a new slate of Saturday-night college football games from Big Ten.