One-hundred "CEO-types", Internet start-up
"whippersnappers," stockbrokers, doctors, attorneys and
execs paid $15,000 each for MICHAEL JORDAN's four-day
basketball camp in Las Vegas. During the camp, Jordan plays
in scrimmages, challenges campers to free-throw shooting
contests and "hobnobs with his new friends" (USA TODAY,
8/16).....Execs from MAGIC JOHNSON's development company
will visit Jacksonville in the first step of a proposed $10M
development package. The package would include a movie
theater, coffee shop and restaurant (FLORIDA TIMES-UNION,
8/16)...Former 49ers RB ROGER CRAIG, who is Dir of Business
Development for software firm Tibco, has "secured lucrative
contracts" for the company and is being "rewarded" with a
six-figure salary and "several thousand shares of stock"
(RED HERRING, 9/2000 issue)....Actor and producer RICHARD
DREYFUSS will serve as the Grand Marshal and honorary
starter for the 46th annual NHRA U.S. Nationals (NHRA)....In
N.Y., Geraldine Fabrikant reports that former BET CFO DWIGHT
CRAWFORD "is set" to file a wrongful termination lawsuit in
DC today contending that BET, Chair ROBERT JOHNSON and
President DEBRA LEE "made extensive efforts to evade the
payment of some taxes." Crawford "is seeking" $21M in
damages for "financial loss and emotional distress" (N.Y.
TIMES, 8/16)....Jay Leno, on the Firestone tire recall:
"Give you an idea how bad it's getting, today over at ESPN,
they recalled ROY FIRESTONE" (NBC, 8/15).
