Pats Owner ROBERT KRAFT was at the South Boston St.
Patrick's Day breakfast Sunday, and the BOSTON GLOBE's Don
Aucoin writes, "by good-naturedly absorbing a blizzard of
gibes from the very politicians who thwarted him [in Kraft's
stadium bid], Kraft may have won back a few friends" (BOSTON
GLOBE, 3/17)....GORDIE HOWE will report to the AHL's Syracuse
Crunch on March 31 -- his 69th birthday. Crunch President
Howard Dolgon denied Howe's playing as a "promotional
gimmick" (Syracuse POST-STANDARD, 3/15). AHL Commissioner
David Andrews, on Howe's announcement: "I'd like to hide for
a week" (Mult., 3/16)....RICHARD MILLER, former part-owner of
the Indians and Cavs, died Saturday of cancer at the age of
65 (N.Y. POST, 3/17)....Yankees SS DEREK JETER will be
included in People magazine's "Fifty Most Beautiful People"
edition next month (NEWSDAY, 3/16). ...Former NHL President
JOHN ZIEGLER was profiled in the DETROIT NEWS. Ziegler is
now with the law firm Dickinson, Wright, Moon, Van Dusen &
Freeman. Ziegler: "I do basically a consultant's job in
sports and entertainment" (DETROIT NEWS, 3/16).
