WOMEN IN SPORTS AND EVENTS (WISE) held its annual WISE
Women of the Year Awards luncheon last week in N.Y. to honor
women in the sports and events industry. This year's
honorees: Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Founder
NANCY BRINKER; Univ. of TN women's basketball coach PAT
SUMMITT; and JACKIE JOYNER-KERSEE (WISE)....The UNIV. OF MI
ATHLETIC DEPT. is "expected to report an estimated" $2M
deficit in its $46M budget. The deficit is "caused mainly
by" a $1.5M drop in licensing royalties for collegiate
apparel and a $200,000 decline in ticket sales for men's
basketball games. UM leads the $2.5B-a-year licensed
collegiate apparel business and averages "about" $5M a year
in royalties (DETROIT FREE PRESS, 6/23)....USA TODAY's Tom
Pedulla, on heavyweight boxer MICHAEL GRANT: "In a division
still reeling from the antics of champion-turned-chomper
MIKE TYSON, [Grant] appears to be a refreshing personality"
(USA TODAY, 6/23)....Agent DWIGHT MANLEY has signed Kings
F/C OLIVER MILLER (USA TODAY, 6/23)....ESPN's Stuart Scott
quoted Knicks G CHRIS CHILDS on the left knee ligament
sprain he suffered in Game Three of the NBA Finals: "I
stayed up all night Monday watching MASTER P wrestle, so you
know it must've hurt" ("SportsCenter," ESPN, 6/22)....TOM
HICKS was profiled by Beverly Schuch on CNNfn's "Business
Unusual." Hicks, on Chancellor Media's combined radio
revenues of $1.5B: "We're the biggest and the baddest and
the best." But Schuch reported that some critics "say
Chancellor has grown too much, too quickly, causing its
stock to lag media competitors" (CNNfn, 6/22)....The "Late
Show"'s BIFF HENDERSON visited MSG before the Spurs-Knicks
Game Three. Henderson, to Knicks G RICK BRUNSON: "Did you
hear they just recalled a batch of MICHAEL JORDAN's cologne?
It gave some guy in Belgium third degree burns." Henderson,
to Brunson: "Any chance you could get LATRELL SPREWELL to
choke SPIKE LEE?" ("Late Show," CBS, 6/22).
