OWNERS IN THE NEWS: Jazz Owner LARRY MILLER will give
Salt Lake Community College a new entrepreneurship training
center. The $10M, 37,000-square-foot center is the first of
"nine structures that Miller plans to build at the site."
He estimates the total value of the project, to be finished
in the next five to ten years, "will be as much as" $40M
(SALT LAKE TRIBUNE, 1/16)....In Jacksonville, Mark Basch
writes that while his NFL team is in the AFC Championship
Game, Jaguars Owner WAYNE WEAVER's publicly traded footwear
company, Shoe Carnival, "hasn't had the same success."
Basch notes that the company started 2000 "on a down note by
announcing that fourth-quarter sales and earnings would be
lower than expected" (FL TIMES-UNION, 1/17).
OTHER NAMES: Philadelphia broadcasting "legend" BYRUM
"BY" SAAM died yesterday at the age of 85. Saam's 38 years
of doing Phillies and Athletics games on radio and TV earned
him a place in the Baseball Hall of Fame (PHILADELPHIA
INQUIRER, 1/17)....Bucs season ticket holder MIKE MUHLBAIER
and MERRILEE FOERSTER, who attended Saturday's Redskins-Bucs
playoff game together after Muhlbaier sold her his playoff
ticket for $1, appeared on NBC's "Today" show together to
talk about their experience. Muhlbaier, after NBC's MATT
LAUER asked him if they would see each other again: "I think
we'll remain friends for the rest of our lives and be Bucs
fans forever." Muhlbaier said he was not invited to Bucs
Owner MALCOLM GLAZER's suite during the game ("Today,"
1/17)....L.A.'s 102nd Street School was renamed the FLORENCE
GRIFFITH JOYNER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, a "living monument to the
late track star who attended the school as a child" (L.A.
TIMES, 1/15)....In N.Y., Bob Raissman wrote that the METS
"did some quick editing" of a commercial on WFAN-AM that
urged fans to come out next season to see the Braves with
"JOHN ROCKER and CHIPPER JONES" (N.Y. DAILY NEWS, 1/16).
Meanwhile, TWISTED SISTER wants the Braves to stop playing
their song, "I Wanna Rock" when Rocker takes the field
during games. Twisted Sister lead singer DEE SNIDER, on
Rocker's recent remarks which appeared in SI: "Even if you
have a good relationship with a mass murderer, somewhere you
have to draw the line. At some point you have to say, 'Hey,
you can't use our song'" (N.Y. POST, 1/15).
