PICABO STREET, who returns to skiing this week after a
year-long knee injury, is featured in NEWSWEEK. Street has
a partnership with Nike and "that Picabo has been Nike-ed is
as much a tribute to her charm as to her talent. And if she
does get her knee back, there is no reason she can't at last
give skiing a grown-up personality to steal attention from
the pocket-size teen queens of the ice" (NEWSWEEK, 12/22).
...MLB players TODD HUNDLEY, SCOTT ROLEN, MARK WOHLERS,
MARTY CORDOVA, JEFF FASSERO, RONDELL WHITE, MARK
GRUDZIELANEK, GREGG JEFFERIES, TODD ZEILE, RUSS DAVIS, CLIFF
FLOYD, MIKE SWEENEY, DAVID HOWARD, GERALD WILLIAMS and PEDRO
BORBON all appeared on "Saturday Night Live" (NBC, 12/13).
...The "computer culture" of the Trail Blazers is examined
in the CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR. The team has begun
sending game notes and press released to "about 1,500 e-mail
subscribers across" the U.S. and overseas (CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
MONITOR, 12/15)....BRAD DAUGHERTY was awarded the NASCAR
Craftsman Truck Series Pursuit of Excellence Award and was
cited for his work with inner-city youths (Mult., 12/15).
