The Boston Globe's BOB RYAN has been named as the print
recipient of the Basketball Hall of Fame's Curt Gowdy award
(BOSTON GLOBE, 5/15)....Bucs Owner MALCOLM GLAZER made a bid
Wednesday to buy the remaining 60% of IL-based Envirodyne
Industries Inc. that he does not already own (TAMPA TRIBUNE,
5/15)....ABL Glory G SAUDIA ROUNDTREE and REEBOK announced
the Saudia Roundtree Scholarship Fund. Roundtree will
donate two $5,000 scholarships to graduating minority girls
from her Anderson, SC, high school (Advantage Int'l)....The
recently established GARY PAYTON Foundation will support two
WA organizations this year: Big Brothers of King County, WA,
and Zion Preparation Academy (Gary Payton Foundation).
...PETE SAMPRAS is profiled by Frank DeFord in NEWSWEEK
under the header "Sampras's Feat of Clay." DeFord, on
Sampras' desire to win the French Open: "His quest for
Paris, which begins in two weeks, is so historically
substantial that Nike -- that official certifier of
significant things athletic -- has already made a commercial
hyping the challenge" (NEWSWEEK, 5/19 issue).