BOBBY ORR said that MA-based Woolf Associates "has no
plans to revive the football end of its business." Orr said
that the "fiasco" with Saints RB RICKY WILLIAMS "left a bad
taste," so the firm will "stick to baseball and hockey"
(BOSTON GLOBE, 6/11)....Hawks C DIKEMBE MUTOMBO will be
honored tomorrow at the White House as one of the 20 winners
of the President's Service Awards. The award, which is the
"nation's highest honor for volunteer service," is in
acknowledgement of Mutombo's DIKEMBE MUTOMBO FOUNDATION,
which aids the poor and disadvantaged in his native country,
the Democratic Republic of the Congo (ATLANTA CONSTITUTION,
6/10)....The Joint Leadership Commission of the U.S.
Congress and the BOD of The Congressional Award Foundation
will present NBA TeamUp Chair BOB LANIER with the Horizon
Award tomorrow in Washington, DC, for his leadership and
commitment to improving the lives of young people (NBA).
...ESPN's Lisa Salters profiled Dodgers OF SHAWN GREEN and
his Jewish heritage. Green "has to be careful not to
stretch himself too thin" about requests for personal
appearances. Rabbi Marvin Hier: "If you advertise to young
people that you're having a program and the Rabbi is going
to speak, how many people are going to show up? But if you
say Shawn Green is going to show, it'll be packed." Hier,
on Green's toughest challenge: "If he can survive all these
Jewish mothers and grandmothers giving him a telephone
number, he'll do just fine" ("Baseball Tonight," 6/9).
...JOHN DALY tells the recent issue of Maximum Golf, "I'm
still $1.5 million in debt, which is better than when it was
$10 million" (N.Y. POST, 6/10).