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DuPuy Pens “How I Work” Feature For Fortune Magazine

MLB President & COO BOB DUPUY pens this week’s “First: How I Work” feature in FORTUNE magazine. DuPuy: “One of the most difficult parts of my work is the fact that our CEO [Commissioner BUD SELIG] is 1,000 miles away in Milwaukee. That’s unusual in terms of how businesses operate. He comes to New York one or two times a month, and I visit him as often. We speak two to three times some days, and up to 12 on others. We’re working on video-conferencing capability” (FORTUNE, 5/28 issue).

SUMMIT CENTER: NHL Commissioner GARY BETTMAN and MLS Commissioner DON GARBER will be featured speakers during the National Sports Marketing Network’s Second Annual Sports Licensing Summit at the Grand Hyatt in N.Y. on June 18. Bettman will present the Keynote Address and Garber will discuss ways int'l athletes can enhance brand equity on a global scale. Sporting Goods Manufacturers Association President & CEO TOM COVE will present a global analysis of the sports licensing industry (NSMN).

OHNO? OH, YES: Olympic Gold Medal-winning U.S. speed skater APOLO ANTON OHNO, who this week won ABC’s “DANCING WITH THE STARS,” said, “There are some really cool doors that have opened for me because of the show that I never thought possible. ... There are a lot of things to work on in film and TV. We had discussions before about doing other things, but this definitely gave it a little boost” (N.Y. POST, 5/24).

NAMES: Celtics CEO WYC GROUSBECK donated $4,600 to the presidential campaign of U.S. Sen. BARACK OBAMA (D-IL), and $2,300 to the campaign of former Massachusetts Gov. MITT ROMNEY, a Republican (USA TODAY, 5/24)....NFL player agent DREW ROSENHAUS is working “on a book of business principles” (CHARLOTTE OBSERVER, 5/24)....VERTIGO FILMS has teamed with organizers of the Cage Rage Championships to co-produce a movie written by BROCK NORMAN BROCK. Cage Rage is based in the U.K. and is similar to UFC (HOLLYWOOD REPORTER, 5/24)....Hockey HOFer BORJE SALMING has posed for 31 nude paintings by artist JOHAN WATTBERG. Ten will be displayed in Stockholm tonight and the rest will be shown in Toronto this fall (GLOBE & MAIL, 5/24).