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SBD/Issue 214/Sports Industrialists
Names In The News
Published August 3, 2006
Senators Owner and Biovail Corp. Chair EUGENE MELNYK’s 11.3% stake in the
company dropped in value by about C$110M yesterday when the price of Biovail’s
stock fell 25% after a judge ruled a generic version of the company’s anti-depressant
Wellbutrin XL does not infringe on the patent (OTTAWA CITIZEN, 8/3).
IF IT DIES, IT DIES: The Philadelphia Art Commission’s art and architecture review committee “did not approve placing” a statue from the film “ROCKY” at a proposed site near the foot of the Philadelphia Art Museum stairs. A dedication for the site was scheduled for September 8. Commissioner of Public Property JOAN SCHLOTTERBECK withdrew the application before it went to the full commission and said that she “would return for another presentation” (PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, 8/3).
NO SOUP FOR YAO: Rockets C YAO MING pledged to “give up eating shark’s
fin soup, a Chinese delicacy, as part of a campaign to promote wildlife protection
in his homeland.” S.F.-based conservation group WILDAID said that China
“is the world’s biggest importer of shark’s fins, which conservationists say are
cut from sharks that are thrown back into the ocean to die” (AP, 8/2).
NAMES: Real Madrid MF DAVID BECKHAM is writing a soccer skills kids book titled “MAKING IT REAL” that is due out next year (TIME, 8/7 issue)....QUAKER MEDIA, the entertainment company started by former 76ers President PAT CROCE and filmmaker TIM CHAMBERS, is scheduled to start filming “OUR LADY OF VICTORY,” about the ’72-74 Immaculata College basketball teams (PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS, 8/3)....After Red Sox 3B MIKE LOWELL, a Cuban-American, said he hoped Cuban President FIDEL CASTRO dies, Miami Herald columnist DAN LE BATARD said, “Good for Mike Lowell. I always like it when guys come out from behind the Nike swoosh and take a political stand” (“PTI,” ESPN, 8/2).
IN MEMORY: Former 76ers Owner FITZ EUGENE DIXON JR. died of cancer yesterday at the age of 82. During his 76ers tenure, he signed HOFer JULIUS ERVING. He also owned pieces of the Eagles, Phillies and Flyers. In Philadelphia, John Morrison writes Dixon “was one of the most active and renowned philanthropists, civic and community leaders in Pennsylvania and Philadelphia history” (PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS, 8/3)....Longtime Univ. of Houston radio broadcaster MIKE EDMONDS died Tuesday at age 59 after a long bout with cancer (HOUSTON CHRONICLE, 8/3).
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IF IT DIES, IT DIES: The Philadelphia Art Commission’s art and architecture review committee “did not approve placing” a statue from the film “ROCKY” at a proposed site near the foot of the Philadelphia Art Museum stairs. A dedication for the site was scheduled for September 8. Commissioner of Public Property JOAN SCHLOTTERBECK withdrew the application before it went to the full commission and said that she “would return for another presentation” (PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, 8/3).
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NAMES: Real Madrid MF DAVID BECKHAM is writing a soccer skills kids book titled “MAKING IT REAL” that is due out next year (TIME, 8/7 issue)....QUAKER MEDIA, the entertainment company started by former 76ers President PAT CROCE and filmmaker TIM CHAMBERS, is scheduled to start filming “OUR LADY OF VICTORY,” about the ’72-74 Immaculata College basketball teams (PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS, 8/3)....After Red Sox 3B MIKE LOWELL, a Cuban-American, said he hoped Cuban President FIDEL CASTRO dies, Miami Herald columnist DAN LE BATARD said, “Good for Mike Lowell. I always like it when guys come out from behind the Nike swoosh and take a political stand” (“PTI,” ESPN, 8/2).
IN MEMORY: Former 76ers Owner FITZ EUGENE DIXON JR. died of cancer yesterday at the age of 82. During his 76ers tenure, he signed HOFer JULIUS ERVING. He also owned pieces of the Eagles, Phillies and Flyers. In Philadelphia, John Morrison writes Dixon “was one of the most active and renowned philanthropists, civic and community leaders in Pennsylvania and Philadelphia history” (PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS, 8/3)....Longtime Univ. of Houston radio broadcaster MIKE EDMONDS died Tuesday at age 59 after a long bout with cancer (HOUSTON CHRONICLE, 8/3).
