KUDOS & SALUTATIONS: Among BRANDWEEK's "Marketers Of
The Next Generation" include Monster.com CEO JEFF TAYLOR,
NFL Int'l Senior VP and Managing Dir DOUG QUINN and ESPN
Senior VP/Marketing LEE ANN DALY. Taylor is noted for using
sports to build his company's brand name; Quinn, "though
loose in style [has] shown a linebacker's stamina in selling
the NFL overseas"; Daly says, "From a brand positioning
standpoint, I don't want viewers thinking of ESPN as a huge
network as much as I want them to feel like we're the
biggest sports fan they know" (BRANDWEEK, 11/8 issue).
..BRILL's CONTENT released its list of the "most influential
people" in media and noted ESPN Senior VP and ESPN Magazine
Exec Editor JOHN WALSH, who "sits atop a giant multimedia
sports journalism empire" (BRILL'S CONTENT, 11/99 issue).
NAMES: Former IAAF President PRIMO NEBIOLO was
"remembered as one of the century's great sports leaders"
during a 45-minute memorial service attended by about 300
people yesterday in Rome, Italy (N.Y. TIMES, 11/10)....NFL
Giants CB JASON SEHORN's foundation, SEHORN'S CORNER
FOUNDATION, held a fund raising dinner for single-parent
families last night that "grossed" more than $100,000
(NEWSDAY, 11/10)....On "ET," Mary Hart reported that next
month's Vanity Fair issue features a photo essay of the
"most influential people" of '99. Athletes included:
MICHAEL JORDAN, WAYNE GRETZKY and JOHN ELWAY posing together
in one photo, MIA HAMM in another, and LANCE ARMSTRONG
posing nude on a bike. Vanity Fair Features Editor Jane
Sarkin, on Armstrong: "They had clothes for him, they had t-
shirts and underwear for him, and he said, 'I want to do
this naked'" ("Entertainment Tonight," 11/9).
