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SBD/Issue 165/Sports Industrialists
Names In The News
Published May 21, 2007
The Ontario Securities Commission formally reprimanded Senators Owner EUGENE
MELNYK, who will pay C$1M and be barred from serving on the BOD of Biovail
Corp. for one year. Last July, Melnyk was accused of “failing to file trading
reports and other required disclosures in connection with offshore accounts in
the Cayman Islands.” Melnyk announced last week that he was retiring as Chair
of the Biovail BOD on June 30 (CP, 5/19).
MAKING A COMEBACK: “THROUGH A SAINT’S EYES,” a 7 1/2-minute documentary following the Saints’ return to New Orleans and their ’06 season, screened at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival in N.Y. Saints TE MARK CAMPBELL and his friend, KEVIN MCCABE, put the video together. Campbell: “It was a quick turnaround. I only had three weeks to do everything.” Campbell noted the film is also available on Verizon Wireless’ V Cast service (TIMES-PICAYUNE, 5/20).
IT’S SHOWTIME: Sodexho USA’s Retail Brand Group is working with Magic Johnson Enterprises to develop three MAGIC JOHNSON-themed restaurant concepts: a sports bar, a sandwich shop and a food court. Merchandise could also be sold at stores. It is “not known which concept will reach market first, but the first Johnson-themed eatery could open this fall” (Baltimore SUN, 5/19).
MADISON AVENUE: The USTA is using 17-year-old MADISON BRENGLE as
“a test case for a new approach to producing American tennis stars.” As part of
a new training program that “emulates intensive athletic programs” in Europe,
a team of coaches and trainers have “focused on her for the past seven months.”
She goes “weeks without seeing her parents [and] trains six hours a day.” Brengle
and 17-year-old ASHLEY WEINHOLD started the program in November and live
together at the Evert Tennis Academy in Boca Raton, Florida (WALL STREET JOURNAL,
5/19).
NAMES: Free agent RB CURTIS MARTIN filed a lawsuit in federal court, revealing he is “totally disabled due to a knee injury and is suing LLOYD’S OF LONDON for refusing to pay him” $5M in coverage he purchased in ’05 (N.Y. DAILY NEWS, 5/19)....L.A. Times columnist T.J. SIMERS owns 1% of KIDDY UP, a two-year-old horse that won its first race at Los Alamitos Race Course on Friday night (L.A. TIMES, 5/20)....With Syracuse Univ. men’s basketball coach JIM BOEHEIM last week calling for lower student-athlete academic standards, a SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS editorial noted the graduation rate of the ’06 Syracuse team “was more than 10 points lower than the university’s overall rate. Here’s a suggestion for the coach: Give up the campaign for lower standards and devote that energy to helping your players get better grades” (SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS, 5/20).
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MAKING A COMEBACK: “THROUGH A SAINT’S EYES,” a 7 1/2-minute documentary following the Saints’ return to New Orleans and their ’06 season, screened at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival in N.Y. Saints TE MARK CAMPBELL and his friend, KEVIN MCCABE, put the video together. Campbell: “It was a quick turnaround. I only had three weeks to do everything.” Campbell noted the film is also available on Verizon Wireless’ V Cast service (TIMES-PICAYUNE, 5/20).
IT’S SHOWTIME: Sodexho USA’s Retail Brand Group is working with Magic Johnson Enterprises to develop three MAGIC JOHNSON-themed restaurant concepts: a sports bar, a sandwich shop and a food court. Merchandise could also be sold at stores. It is “not known which concept will reach market first, but the first Johnson-themed eatery could open this fall” (Baltimore SUN, 5/19).
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NAMES: Free agent RB CURTIS MARTIN filed a lawsuit in federal court, revealing he is “totally disabled due to a knee injury and is suing LLOYD’S OF LONDON for refusing to pay him” $5M in coverage he purchased in ’05 (N.Y. DAILY NEWS, 5/19)....L.A. Times columnist T.J. SIMERS owns 1% of KIDDY UP, a two-year-old horse that won its first race at Los Alamitos Race Course on Friday night (L.A. TIMES, 5/20)....With Syracuse Univ. men’s basketball coach JIM BOEHEIM last week calling for lower student-athlete academic standards, a SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS editorial noted the graduation rate of the ’06 Syracuse team “was more than 10 points lower than the university’s overall rate. Here’s a suggestion for the coach: Give up the campaign for lower standards and devote that energy to helping your players get better grades” (SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS, 5/20).
