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SBD/Issue 23/Sports Industrialists
Names In The News
Published October 13, 2005
PRESIDENT BUSH is scheduled to speak at the Murat Theatre in Indianapolis
as part of the ’06 NCAA Convention (INDIANAPOLIS STAR, 10/13).
TRANSCENDING SPORTS: SPORTSBUSINESS JOURNAL’s Liz Mullen reports IMG and Hollywood talent firm ENDEAVOR have formed TRANSCEND, a joint-venture that will “use IMG’s media arm, TWI, to sell entertainment programs around the world.” TWI CEO BILL SINRICH said, “These (television programs) are almost, without exception, not sports programs.” Transcend’s first projects include a reality TV show with Heat C SHAQUILLE O’NEAL and “VEGAS LAW,” a reality show about a “flamboyant defense attorney.” IAN MOFFITT, former head of programming at Target Entertainment, has been named Transcend Managing Dir (SBJ, 10/10 issue).
ON THE SIDELINES: Capitals C JEFF HALPERN missed the team’s game
against the Hurricanes last night in observance of Yom Kippur, which is “believed
to be the first time” an NHL team captain missed a game for religious reasons
(Allan Maki, Toronto GLOBE & MAIL, 10/13).
LION’S DEN: PENN STATE UNIV. will “review accusations of discrimination” levied by the NATIONAL CENTER FOR LESBIAN RIGHTS against women’s basketball coach RENE PORTLAND. The group claims Portland “repeatedly questioned” former Penn State F JENNIFER HARRIS “about her sexual orientation, threatened to kick her off the team if she was a lesbian, and told other players not to associate with players Portland believed to be gay” (AP, 10/13).
TOUGH GO OF IT: SMI shareholder FRANCIS FERKO, who sued NASCAR and ISC for a second Nextel Cup race at Texas Motor Speedway, said, “If you asked me if I would do it again knowing what’s going on in my life, I would say no.” In the four years since filing the suit, Ferko lost his job, moved to a different city, separated from his wife and had his 20-year-old son commit suicide. Ferko said that the restaurant he worked at “didn’t like the publicity he was getting,” but admitted the suit “wasn’t the only reason he lost his job.” Ferko: “The suit probably affected everything. We probably would still have a son because we would have been there [for him]” (Richard Durrett, DALLAS MORNING NEWS, 10/13).
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TRANSCENDING SPORTS: SPORTSBUSINESS JOURNAL’s Liz Mullen reports IMG and Hollywood talent firm ENDEAVOR have formed TRANSCEND, a joint-venture that will “use IMG’s media arm, TWI, to sell entertainment programs around the world.” TWI CEO BILL SINRICH said, “These (television programs) are almost, without exception, not sports programs.” Transcend’s first projects include a reality TV show with Heat C SHAQUILLE O’NEAL and “VEGAS LAW,” a reality show about a “flamboyant defense attorney.” IAN MOFFITT, former head of programming at Target Entertainment, has been named Transcend Managing Dir (SBJ, 10/10 issue).
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| Jeff Halpern Sits Out Game In Observance Of Yom Kippur |
LION’S DEN: PENN STATE UNIV. will “review accusations of discrimination” levied by the NATIONAL CENTER FOR LESBIAN RIGHTS against women’s basketball coach RENE PORTLAND. The group claims Portland “repeatedly questioned” former Penn State F JENNIFER HARRIS “about her sexual orientation, threatened to kick her off the team if she was a lesbian, and told other players not to associate with players Portland believed to be gay” (AP, 10/13).
TOUGH GO OF IT: SMI shareholder FRANCIS FERKO, who sued NASCAR and ISC for a second Nextel Cup race at Texas Motor Speedway, said, “If you asked me if I would do it again knowing what’s going on in my life, I would say no.” In the four years since filing the suit, Ferko lost his job, moved to a different city, separated from his wife and had his 20-year-old son commit suicide. Ferko said that the restaurant he worked at “didn’t like the publicity he was getting,” but admitted the suit “wasn’t the only reason he lost his job.” Ferko: “The suit probably affected everything. We probably would still have a son because we would have been there [for him]” (Richard Durrett, DALLAS MORNING NEWS, 10/13).
