AWARDS & SALUTATIONS: Former ABC Sports Dir CHET FORTE
will posthumously receive the Directors Guild of America's
Lifetime Achievement in Sports Direction Award. DON
OHLMEYER will accept the award on Forte's behalf at
Saturday's DGA Awards (DAILY VARIETY, 3/10)....HERMAN MASIN,
Editor of Scholastic's Coach Magazine, will be awarded the
ABP Crain Award for lifetime achievement tonight from the
American Business Press in NY (Scholastic).
PROFILES: The DAILY RACING FORM's Matt Hegarty profiles
Magna Entertainment Corp. Dir JERRY CAMPBELL and writes that
where Magna Int'l Chair FRANK STRONACH "is the sometimes
overreaching visionary," Campbell "appears to be more
realistic. Stronach has said that he would like to remake
his tracks into 'total entertainment centers,' while
Campbell stresses that capital improvements ... will be
tightly managed" (DAILY RACING FORM, 3/10)....In San Diego,
Mark Zeigler profiled PHILIP ANSCHUTZ, who "never raises his
voice. He likes to wear jeans, boots and a fishing jacket.
He goes to church regularly and collects Western art."
Former MLS Commissioner DOUG LOGAN: "He's the absolute
antithesis of L.A. To the highest degree, he has well-
grounded values. It's almost incidental that he has so much
power and wealth" (SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE, 3/9)....Former
Clippers coach/current Hornets coach PAUL SILAS, on Clippers
Owner DONALD STERLING: "He's not a bad fellow at all. He's
a charming guy that I have a lot of respect for. The only
thing I can't understand is why, with all his resources,
won't he step up to the plate and really make that franchise
something special" (W-S JOURNAL, 3/10)....In L.A, Larry
Stewart, on the death of cable exec and sports entrepreneur
BILL DANIELS: "[Daniels] was not only the nicest, classiest
billionaire I've ever met, he was simply one of the nicest,
classiest people I've ever met" (L.A. TIMES, 3/10).
NOTES: USA TODAY's Andy Seiler reports that the new
SPIKE LEE-produced film, "LOVE AND BASKETBALL," got a
"standing ovation" at the Sundance Film Festival and a "warm
reception" at this week's theater operators convention
ShoWest. The film, starring OMAR EPPS as a basketball
player, opens April 21 (USA TODAY, 3/10)....Patriots LB TEDY
BRUSCHI is an unrestricted free agent and serving as his own
negotiator. Bruschi: "I've been in the league for four
years. During that time I paid attention to what was going
on and took notes. Saving the 3 percent (the standard fee
charged by a registered agents) was one of the factors. But
it was more a case that I felt negotiations were something I
could handle" (BOSTON HERALD, 3/9)....U.S. decathlete DAN
O'BRIEN appeared on "The Early Show" with Bryant Gumbel this
morning. Gumbel asked O'Brien if he is "not the least bit
dissatisfied with being a part of the Olympic movement"
because of the IOC bid scandal. O'Brien: "Absolutely not,
because I think ... the athletes didn't take any hits. ...
We always had our doubts and wondered what went on behind
closed doors with the IOC" ("The Early Show," CBS, 3/10).
