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SBD/Issue 66/Sports Industrialists
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Published December 15, 2006
An internal affairs investigation shows NASCAR Chair & CEO BRIAN FRANCE
“admitted to officers he had been drinking the night a woman followed him to his
condominium after she observed him driving erratically.” But because police “never
interviewed France until he was inside his residence, they could not arrest him
for DUI.” Daytona Beach Police Chief MIKE CHITWOOD said that “once his
officers knew who was involved in the incident, they went the extra mile to make
sure they followed the law and gave France no special treatment” (Daytona Beach
NEWS-JOURNAL, 12/15).
COACHING DIVERSITY: The number of African American men’s head basketball
coaches at NCAA Division I colleges is at an “all-time high,” and the number of
African-American head football coaches in Division I-A has “doubled since the
start” of the ’05 season, according to a study by the UNIV. OF CENTRAL FLORIDA’S
INSTITUTE FOR DIVERSITY & ETHICS IN SPORT. The ’05 RACIAL & GENDER REPORT
CARD FOR COLLEGE SPORTS reported “minimal hiring increases among African American
men and women in coaching and as [ADs], but the college sports scene is still
overwhelmingly white” (ORLANDO SENTINEL, 12/14).
NAMES: Author PETER GOLENBOCK has written “7: THE MICKEY MANTLE NOVEL,” a fictional “comic, wild, sad and salacious reimagining” of Mantle’s life that hits shelves in March (N.Y. TIMES, 12/15)....Nuggets F CARMELO ANTHONY is giving a $1.5M grant to help fund a youth development center in Baltimore (AP, 12/14)....Pro Football HOFer DON SHULA will help present the Lombardi Trophy at Super Bowl XLI in South Florida; HOFer DAN MARINO will toss the coin (MIAMI HERALD, 12/15)....Witnesses said that Palm Beach (FL) County Circuit Judge JEFFREY WINIKOFF, who is presiding over a breach-of-contract lawsuit against SERENA and VENUS WILLIAMS, “isn’t shy about telling the two how impressed he is by what they’ve made of themselves” (PALM BEACH POST, 12/15).
IN MEMORY: AHMET ERTEGUN, a music pioneer who was one of four brothers that founded the Cosmos in the now-defunct NASL, died Thursday (Mult., 12/15)....Capitials investor JOSHUA FREEMAN and a pilot were killed on Thursday night in a helicopter crash in southern Delaware (AP, 12/15).
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NAMES: Author PETER GOLENBOCK has written “7: THE MICKEY MANTLE NOVEL,” a fictional “comic, wild, sad and salacious reimagining” of Mantle’s life that hits shelves in March (N.Y. TIMES, 12/15)....Nuggets F CARMELO ANTHONY is giving a $1.5M grant to help fund a youth development center in Baltimore (AP, 12/14)....Pro Football HOFer DON SHULA will help present the Lombardi Trophy at Super Bowl XLI in South Florida; HOFer DAN MARINO will toss the coin (MIAMI HERALD, 12/15)....Witnesses said that Palm Beach (FL) County Circuit Judge JEFFREY WINIKOFF, who is presiding over a breach-of-contract lawsuit against SERENA and VENUS WILLIAMS, “isn’t shy about telling the two how impressed he is by what they’ve made of themselves” (PALM BEACH POST, 12/15).
IN MEMORY: AHMET ERTEGUN, a music pioneer who was one of four brothers that founded the Cosmos in the now-defunct NASL, died Thursday (Mult., 12/15)....Capitials investor JOSHUA FREEMAN and a pilot were killed on Thursday night in a helicopter crash in southern Delaware (AP, 12/15).
