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SBD/Issue 218/Sports Industrialists
Names In The News
Published August 9, 2006
The TIGER WOODS LEARNING CENTER FOUNDATION, which offers science, math
and career-oriented classes to children, is selling $10.78M in variable-rate municipal
bonds through the California Statewide Communities Development Authority. Bank
of America is managing the sale and providing a letter of credit. Proceeds will
pay off the foundation’s $10.6M construction loan (BLOOMBERG NEWS, 8/9).
TRIAL PERIOD: DAVID SCOTT, an African-American who once worked as a motor coach driver in NASCAR, has filed a race discrimination and breach of contract complaint against NASCAR claiming that it “deceived him and did not fulfill promises of a job after a 1999 racial incident involving white motor coach drivers” (USA TODAY, 8/9)....NHL Rangers RW JAROMIR JAGR filed a lawsuit in Allegheny County (PA) Common Pleas Court against accountant GARY SCHICK over a tax form. If Jagr “does not get the form, it will cost him” $6M. Jagr’s attorney, JAMES MARCHEWKA, said that Schick “has refused for two years to turn over the paperwork.” Schick: “I don’t know what I can fight here. I turned it all over” (Pittsburgh TRIBUNE-REVIEW, 8/9).
GOTTA HAVE FAITH: Last night’s edition of NBC’s “Nightly News” examined “FAITH NIGHT” promotions being held at baseball ballparks across the country. NBC’s Kevin Tibbles said, “Traditionally, ‘Faith Nights’ thrived in the Bible Belt at minor league games, but with their growing popularity they’ve now spread far beyond the Mason-Dixon line, and this season for the first time ‘Faith Nights’ have been called up to the majors” (“Nightly News,” NBC, 8/8).
BALL & MITT: Massachusetts Gov. MITT ROMNEY signed a bill into law
making basketball the state’s official sport. Romney, a Red Sox season-ticket
holder, “insisted his action in no way suggests basketball has had a greater influence
than baseball, football or hockey.” But he “argued the historical record made
basketball the obvious choice.” Basketball was invented in Springfield, Massachusetts,
and is the site of the sport’s HOF (BOSTON HERALD, 8/9).
NAMES: The Washington state Commission on Judicial Conduct admonished Pierce County Superior Court Judge BEVERLY GRANT “for asking those in her courtroom to join her in a Seahawks cheer while they were waiting for a man to be sentenced for manslaughter” on February 3. Grant filed the complaint against herself, saying that she “intended to defuse courtroom tension” with the cheer for the Super Bowl XL-bound team (SEATTLE TIMES, 8/9)....Hyperion will next year publish a memoir by MARY TILLMAN, which will tell the story of her efforts to find out how her son, late Cardinals S PAT TILLMAN, died while on patrol with his Army Ranger unit in Afghanistan in April ’04. S.F. Chronicle Deputy Editor NARDA ZACCHINO will co-write the book (Hyperion).
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TRIAL PERIOD: DAVID SCOTT, an African-American who once worked as a motor coach driver in NASCAR, has filed a race discrimination and breach of contract complaint against NASCAR claiming that it “deceived him and did not fulfill promises of a job after a 1999 racial incident involving white motor coach drivers” (USA TODAY, 8/9)....NHL Rangers RW JAROMIR JAGR filed a lawsuit in Allegheny County (PA) Common Pleas Court against accountant GARY SCHICK over a tax form. If Jagr “does not get the form, it will cost him” $6M. Jagr’s attorney, JAMES MARCHEWKA, said that Schick “has refused for two years to turn over the paperwork.” Schick: “I don’t know what I can fight here. I turned it all over” (Pittsburgh TRIBUNE-REVIEW, 8/9).
GOTTA HAVE FAITH: Last night’s edition of NBC’s “Nightly News” examined “FAITH NIGHT” promotions being held at baseball ballparks across the country. NBC’s Kevin Tibbles said, “Traditionally, ‘Faith Nights’ thrived in the Bible Belt at minor league games, but with their growing popularity they’ve now spread far beyond the Mason-Dixon line, and this season for the first time ‘Faith Nights’ have been called up to the majors” (“Nightly News,” NBC, 8/8).
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NAMES: The Washington state Commission on Judicial Conduct admonished Pierce County Superior Court Judge BEVERLY GRANT “for asking those in her courtroom to join her in a Seahawks cheer while they were waiting for a man to be sentenced for manslaughter” on February 3. Grant filed the complaint against herself, saying that she “intended to defuse courtroom tension” with the cheer for the Super Bowl XL-bound team (SEATTLE TIMES, 8/9)....Hyperion will next year publish a memoir by MARY TILLMAN, which will tell the story of her efforts to find out how her son, late Cardinals S PAT TILLMAN, died while on patrol with his Army Ranger unit in Afghanistan in April ’04. S.F. Chronicle Deputy Editor NARDA ZACCHINO will co-write the book (Hyperion).
