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Cashing In: Maxim Tests adidas Shoe With One-on-One Game

Gold Medal-winning U.S. speedskater JOEY CHEEK dined with PRESIDENT BUSH at Thursday night’s GOP gala and on Friday was scheduled to join U.S. House Democratic Leader NANCY PELOSI (D-CA) “at a briefing on the Sudan crisis.” Cheek, on his political leanings: “I’m a registered Democrat, but in this case the stuff I’m talking about is a humanitarian effort. It’s not a Republican effort, it’s not a Democratic effort” (WASHINGTON POST, 3/17)....KENZIE MCKEON, granddaughter of former Marlins manager JACK MCKEON, was one of two students wounded in a school shooting on Tuesday in Reno, Nevada. Jack McKeon said that the wound “was not serious, and his granddaughter was able to return to school Wednesday” (MIAMI HERALD, 3/17)....The April issue of MAXIM covers Editor JON WILDE’s game of one-on-one against WNBA Shock F SWIN CASH to test out the new ADIDAS_1 shoe. Cash won 11-1 (THE DAILY).

TIRE TRACKS: NASCAR on Fox analyst JEFF HAMMOND will serve as a referee during an April 1 TOTAL NONSTOP ACTION wrestling event in Martinsville, Virginia. Hammond, who wrestled twice last year on the show, “worries about being on TNA shows, which don’t air on a Fox channel.” But Fox Sports President ED GOREN said, “Since Jeff keeps telling us he’s our NASCAR sex symbol, our only concern is he might get hit in the face with a folding chair” (USA TODAY, 3/17). White Sox manager OZZIE GUILLEN and C A.J. PIERZYNSKI have also recently filmed segments for TNA (THE DAILY).