The CURT GOWDY electronic and print media awards for
excellence in basketball journalism will be presented to
NBC's BOB COSTAS and the late SMITH BARRIER, a longtime
Greensboro (NC) Daily News editor. Meanwhile, the JOHN BUNN
AWARD, given for outstanding contribution to basketball,
will be presented to the HARLEM GLOBETROTTERS. The awards
banquet will take place September 30 at the Sheraton
Springfield Hotel in MA (Basketball Hall of Fame).
...In Phoenix, Bob Young reports that agent LEIGH STEINBERG
"has begun to dabble in basketball" by signing Suns F/C
OLIVER MILLER. Miller: "I'm his project" (ARIZONA REPUBLIC,
9/10)....FORTUNE released its list of the 40 richest
Americas under 40. Among the sports-related figures are
Broadcom co-Chair & CEO (and Angels/Mighty Ducks bidder)
HENRY NICHOLAS III at No. 7 ($2.38B); Redskins Owner DANIEL
SNYDER at No. 27 ($390M); No Limit Sports CEO PERCY "MASTER
P" MILLER at No. 28 ($361M); and MICHAEL JORDAN at No. 29
($357M) (FORTUNE, 9/27 issue)....News Corp. Chair RUPERT
MURDOCH is "trying to sell a sprawling ranch" in CA's Carmel
Valley for $20.5M (WALL ST JOURNAL, 9/10)....Saints coach
MIKE DITKA is profiled in ESQUIRE. His wife, DIANA DITKA,
said he has been "feeling his age": "Mike is campaigning for
a spot in heaven. When men go through this change, they
find some kind of inner peace. "Mike has definitely
changed. I tell him if he doesn't watch out, that halo is
gonna slip down and choke him" (ESQUIRE, 10/99).
