Hornets G Eddie Jones said he "would love" to play for
the U.S. basketball team in the Sydney Olympics next summer,
but "indications are that he will be left" off the team.
Jones, on the selection process: "It's all about how many
commercials you make. Sometimes I feel like I ought to get
somebody like Sony or Sprite or McDonald's or somebody on my
side to promote me" (WINSTON-SALEM JOURNAL, 11/22).
OTHER NOTES: ID-based Crucial Technology formally
signed a one-year title sponsorship of the Humanitarian
Bowl. The game will be called the "Crucial.com Humanitarian
Bowl." The deal marks the first title sponsorship of the
three-year-old bowl (Humanitarian Bowl)....Quaker Oats is
developing a "carbohydrate-rich version" of Gatorade. The
drink, called "Torq," will target an "expanding market of
'highly active' shoppers and be in limited test markets
early next year." Quaker is also developing a Gatorade
energy bar (CHICAGO SUN-TIMES, 11/21)....In CO Springs, Lynn
Zinser wrote, "Colleges should cut the association between
sports and alcohol. ... By allowing their sports teams to be
sponsored by beer companies, by selling beer at their games,
colleges are promoting drinking and that's the business they
need to get out of" (CO Springs GAZETTE, 11/21).