The International Academy of Sport Science and Technology (French: "Académie internationale des sciences et techniques du sport", AISTS) is a non-profit foundation based in Lausanne, Switzerland, the Olympic Capital.
 Each year the AISTS delivers over 900 hours of continuing education, workshops, seminars and projects to the sports industry.
 The AISTS is committed to professionalising sports management through continuing education, applied research and an engaging platform for industry connections and is ranked the number 1 sports management programme in the world (Eduniversal 2015/16).
The goal of the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference is to provide a forum to discuss the increasing role of analytics in the sports industry.
 Founded in 2006, the conference is co-chaired by Daryl Morey, General Manager & Managing Director of Basketball Operations for the Houston Rockets, and Jessica Gelman, CEO of KAGR (Kraft Analytics Group), who oversee MIT Sloan students (from the EMS Club) in the planning and operating of the yearly conference.
 It is the largest student-run conference in the world, attracting students from over 170 different schools and representatives from over 80 professional sports teams in the MLB, NBA, NFL, NHL, MLS, and Premier League.
 The conference is held in the Boston area and while its location has moved from the MIT campus to higher capacity convention centers, it has always occurred during February or March.
 One of the largest student run conferences in the country, it has been sold out every year and has become the premier venue for sports analytics discussion.
 ESPN has been the presenting sponsor since 2010 and the conference has garnered national attention through media outlets such as "Sports Illustrated", "The Wall Street Journal", "The New York Times", "The Boston Globe", "Time", "BusinessWeek", NBC Sports, Fox Sports, ESPN's "Pardon the Interruption", and "Forbes".
 ESPN columnist Bill Simmons has nicknamed the conference Dorkapalooza.
FanDuel is a web-based fantasy sports game and with 6 million registered users FanDuel is the second largest daily fantasy sports company (as measured by entry fees and user base) in the daily fantasy sports industry.
 The model consists of traditional season-long fantasy sports leagues being compressed into a free and/or paid daily, and occasionally weekly, game of skill.
 As of April 2016 most U.S. states consider fantasy sports (including daily fantasy sports) a game of skill.
The Fantasy Sports Association (FSA) is a trade group that was found in 2006 to advance the interests of the fantasy sports industry.
 It folded in 2010, leaving the Fantasy Sports Trade Association as the industry's only trade group.
Hardy Brown (May 8, 1924 – November 8, 1991) was an American football linebacker in the National Football League (NFL), All-America Football Conference (AAFC), and the American Football League (AFL).
 He played college football at the University of Tulsa and then professionally for the San Francisco 49ers, Washington Redskins, and the Denver Broncos.
 He was one of only two men who played in the All-America Football Conference, the National Football League, and the American Football League (the other was Ben Agajanian).
Andrew Bruce "Andy" Dolich is an American sports executive, and currently operates a sports consultancy, Dolich & Associates, in Los Altos, California.
 Dolich has more than three decades of experience in the professional sports industry, including executive positions in the NFL, NBA, NHL and MLB.
Hill Carrow (born January 3, 1955) is an American-born sports tourism executive who has led the development of the sports tourism industry in the United States.
 He founded the National Association of Sports Commissions, the national trade organization for the sports tourism industry in the U.S. Carrow also founded the North Carolina Sports Association, the state trade organization for the sports industry in North Carolina.
Benjamin James "The Toeless Wonder" Agajanian (born August 28, 1919) is a former American football player, primarily a placekicker in the National Football League, and also in the All-America Football Conference and American Football League.
Irving Rein is a Professor of Communication Studies at Northwestern University.
 He is the author of many books on effective communication strategies.
 In 1993 he joined with Philip Kotler and Donald Haider to write about place marketing.
 In 2006 Rein and Kotler worked with Ben Shields to examine modern sports marketing and communication in "The Elusive Fan: Reinventing Sports in a Crowded Marketplace".
 In 2014, Rein and Shields partnered with Adam Grossman to analyze the future of leadership in the sports industry with "The Sports Strategist: Developing Leaders for a High-Performance Industry".
 He is a pioneer in the study of persuasion and influence in popular culture, teaching courses on the subject at Northwestern beginning in the 1960s.
 He has also written on rhetoric and public communication, celebrity and branding, and crisis management.
 He was a recipient of the National Speakers Association's Outstanding Professor Award for 1999-2000, and in 2011, received the Clarence Simon Award for Outstanding Teaching and Mentoring in the School of Communication.
 He has been a communication consultant for many companies and organizations, including Major League Baseball, as a member of the Commissioner's Initiative for the 21st Century, and NASA, where he conducted public communication seminars as part of their astronaut training program.
 He also served as a Communication Advisor for the political campaigns of Richard M. Daly, Adlai Stevenson III, Harold Washington, Paul Simon, and Lisa Madigan.
Andy Bakjian (August 20, 1914 – February 26, 1986) was a Hall of Fame Track and Field official and author on the subject.
 An alternate on the ill-fated United States Olympic Wrestling team in 1940, Bakjian coached football, baseball and track at Jefferson High School in Los Angeles, California.

Question: Ben Agajanian and Andy Bakjian, were in the sports industry?
Answer: yes