Speak No Evil: SI Asks Court To Throw Out Price Settlement

Time Inc. Looks To Reverse Mike Price Settlement

Sports Illustrated is asking a federal judge to throw out its settlement with former Univ. of Alabama football coach Mike Price, saying that Price and his attorney Steve Heninger “gave interviews to newspapers, radio and television and breached a confidentiality agreement,” according to Mike Bolton of the BIRMINGHAM NEWS. Price “claimed a ‘great victory’” Monday, and the magazine said that “those kinds of comments ... violate the confidentiality agreed to in the settlement.” Attorney Gary Huckaby, who represents SI parent company Time Inc., and SI writer Don Yaeger submitted the motion to U.S. District Court in Birmingham Tuesday. Heninger said SI’s motion is “absurd, absolutely ridiculous. ... Neither myself nor Mike Price violated any clause in the settlement. We only commented on things that are a matter of record in the open court. I believe this just puts more egg on Sports Illustrated’s face” (BIRMINGHAM NEWS, 10/13).