Names In The News

NIKE is ranked No. 100 in Fortune’s “100 Best Companies to Work For.” This is the first time Nike has made the list (Nike).

STRIKING BACK: The UTAH GAY, LESBIAN, BISEXUAL & TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY CENTER is asking state residents “not to patronize related businesses” after a movie theater owned by Jazz Owner LARRY MILLER pulled “BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN” from its screening schedule. The movie is a homosexual love story about two cowboys (DESERET NEWS, 1/10).

Tiki Barber Lands On N.Y. Daily News’ Best-Dressed List

NAMES: City of Boston officials told Dodgers Owner FRANK MCCOURT that they “would not extend his permits to park cars on the valuable land he owns” on the South Boston Waterfront “when they expire in three years.” The officials are “unhappy with the slow pace of development” (BOSTON GLOBE, 1/11)....The LANCE ARMSTRONG FOUNDATION (LAF) announced the ’06 LIVESTRONG RIDE SERIES, a series of five fundraising events in Orange County (CA), Denver, Philadelphia, Portland and Austin (LAF)....The N.Y. DAILY NEWS’ list of the best-dressed New Yorkers of ’05 includes Giants RB TIKI BARBER, noting, “Tiki Barber’s always well-suited, on and off the gridiron” (N.Y. DAILY NEWS, 1/11)....Panera Bread inked an area development agreement with First Picks Bread Co., which is owned by Cowboys WR KEYSHAWN JOHNSON, for its continued expansion in California. The group plans to develop 12 bakery-cafes in Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and Ventura counties by 2011 (Panera Bread).

IN MEMORY: WILLIAM DICKSON GEORGE III, one of the Penguins Founders along with PETE BLOCK and JACK MCGREGOR, died January 4 in Mexico due to complications from cancer treatment. He was 71. Son IAN GEORGE said, “He was the catalyst who went out and got a bunch of people to invest [in the Penguins]” (PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE, 1/11).