Menu
SBJ Best Places to Work in Sports

Two weeks left to nominate your company for 2024

Sports Industrialists

NAMES IN THE NEWS

          Knicks G CHARLIE WARD, on allowing female reporters in
     the locker room: "I don't want it to seem I'm sexist.  My
     whole thing is not against women.  I've been feeling
     uncomfortable for a long time.  Just to have people come in
     the locker room ... they might still be doing their jobs,
     but every now and then there is going to be an accident"
     (N.Y. DAILY NEWS, 4/20)....Bucks G RAY ALLEN has been
     nominated for the '99 MTV Movie Award's "Best Breakthrough
     Performance" category for his role in SPIKE LEE's "HE GOT
     GAME" (MTV)....Kings C VLADE DIVAC believes the NATO
     airstrikes "should stop."  Divac: "Now everybody talks about
     (sending) the ground troops.  Are we crazy?  I mean, it's
     going to be (like) Vietnam, or a Third World War" (AP,
     4/20)....JOHN ELWAY and his wife JANET donated $10,000 to
     the Mile High United Way (DENVER POST, 4/16)....WALT FRAZIER
     will autograph copies of his new book, "The Complete Idiot's
     Guide to Basketball" at the NBA Store in N.Y. tomorrow from
     12:30pm to 2:30pm (NBA)....A UT landscaper has been arrested
     for "allegedly trying to hire someone to kill" IHL UT
     Grizzlies Owner DAVID ELMORE.  MARK WOODLAND claimed Elmore
     owed him money for landscaping work (DESERET NEWS, 4/19).

SBJ Morning Buzzcast: June 4, 2024

Media deals for $1,000; Putting money into Bank of America Stadium; One key voice in golf calls Monahan favorite for "comeback player of the year"

Kate Abdo, Ramona Shelburne and a modern day “Heidi Moment”

On this week’s pod, CBS Sports’ Kate Abdo gets us set for the UEFA Champions League final. ESPN’s Ramona Shelburne shares what went into executive producing her upcoming FX mini-series, "Clipped," about the Donald Sterling saga, and SBJ's Mollie Cahillane joins to tell us who's up and who's down in sports media.

Shareable URL copied to clipboard!

https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Daily/Issues/1999/04/20/Sports-Industrialists/NAMES-IN-THE-NEWS.aspx

Sorry, something went wrong with the copy but here is the link for you.

https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Daily/Issues/1999/04/20/Sports-Industrialists/NAMES-IN-THE-NEWS.aspx

CLOSE