Names In The News

Former NFLer and former ABC Sports announcer LYNN SWANN officially announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination in this year’s Pennsylvania gubernatorial race. Swann said that he “put off a formal announcement until now to avoid conflicts with his ABC Sports duties.” Swann said if elected, he will “not resume his broadcasting career even on a part-time basis.” Current Pennsylvania Gov. ED RENDELL serves as an Eagles postgame analyst for Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia (AP, 1/5).

USBSF Keeps Nardiello (l) From Making World Cup Trip To Germany

SLED SHED: The U.S. Bobsled & Skeleton Federation (USBSF) board denied a motion to reinstate national skeleton team coach TIM NARDIELLO, preventing him from accompanying the team to a World Cup competition next week in Germany. Nardiello has been accused of sexual harassment by “several female athletes,” which he denies. While the USBSF will decide his fate as the team’s head coach, the USOC “will decide only whether Nardiello will be the Olympic coach” (Lynn Zinser, N.Y. TIMES, 1/5).

HOUSE OF LURIE: Former Eagles CB TOM BROOKSHIER at the end of his speech on behalf of the ’60 Eagles’ induction into the Philadelphia Sports HOF said, “I don’t want to editorialize or anything, but for whatever reason, the present Eagles management hasn’t embraced us. ... They have refused to bring us into the future.” In Philadelphia, Ed Barkowitz notes the “heart of the issue is a perceived snub over the Eagles’ failure to recognize the accomplishment of the 1960 team, the last Eagles club to win an NFL championship” (PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS, 1/5).

NAMES: Agent AARON GOODWIN, who reps free agent C VIN BAKER, has filed a grievance over money he claims Baker owes him (BOSTON HERALD, 1/5)....The UNIV. OF WISCONSIN plans to require its licensees to “have at least 25[%] of the goods produced at factories where workers are allowed to form unions.” The program will start this fall for all of the school’s 150 licensees (Audrey Williams June, CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION, 1/5)....The Ohio State Highway Patrol (OSHP) has “stopped promoting safe driving with posters” featuring Ohio Univ. football coach FRANK SOLICH. The OSHP “hasn’t distributed or displayed the posters since” Solich pleaded no contest to drunken driving charges in late November (AP, 1/4).