The Syracuse Crunch hosted the American Hockey League’s first outdoor hockey game, the Mirabito Outdoor Classic, against the Binghamton Senators on February 20 at the New York State Fairgrounds. Forty-five students in assistant professor of sport management Gina Pauline’s SPM 324—Sport Event Sponsorship and SPM 444—Sport Marketing Management classes played a role with Crunch staff in all facets of the event. The students from the David B. Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics’s Department of Sport Management assisted in areas including ticketing, hospitality, VIP operations, marketing, promotion, parking and sales. Earlier in the month, Pauline and her students enrolled…