Names In The News

T-Mobile Helping Renovate Gym At Wade’s High School Alma Mater

T-MOBILE USA, which sponsors Heat G DWYANE WADE, will finance a $140,000 remodeling of the gym at his alma mater, Richards High School in Oak Lawn, Illinois. Plans include a new scoreboard and sound system as well as a renovated floor and grandstands. There will also be an annual scholarship in Wade’s name. Wade’s T-Mobile logo will appear on the new floor (DAILY SOUTHTOWN, 3/20)....The MAGIC have pledged $250,000 to the Parramore Kidz Zone, which helps at-risk youth in Orlando (ORLANDO SENTINEL, 3/19).

ARTS & KRAFTS: In an extensive profile of MYRA KRAFT, the wife of Patriots Owner ROBERT KRAFT, the BOSTON GLOBE MAGAZINE’s Michael Paulson writes she “immerses herself in the mundane business of overseeing nonprofits in Boston.” In addition to chairing the Combined Jewish Philanthropies, she sits on the boards of Brandeis Univ.; American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee; Facing History & Ourselves, a Holocaust education organization; Boston Foundation; United Way of Massachusetts Bay; Brigham & Women’s Hospital; and the American Repertory Theatre. Kraft: “It’s easy to write a check. But this is what I look at as what my occupation is” (BOSTON GLOBE MAGAZINE, 3/18 issue).

TALKING GOSSIP: The N.Y. POST’s Page Six reports Giants Chair & Exec VP STEVE TISCH and his wife, JAMIE, have separated (N.Y. POST, 3/20)....Celebrity magazine Hello! will pay almost US$3M for exclusive access to the wedding of Manchester United F WAYNE ROONEY and his fiancée, COLEEN MCLOUGHLIN, the “most the magazine has paid for exclusive access to a celebrity wedding.” OK! magazine paid around US$1.75M for access to the wedding of Real Madrid MF DAVID and VICTORIA BECKHAM in ’99 (LONDON TIMES, 3/18).