The AP noted NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell is "thanking fans for their support in a postseason letter and promises the league will pursue ways to enhance the game on and off the field." Goodell said Tuesday that the league is "proud of the quality of the sport that attracted record crowds this season." He added that the NFL "will continue to evolve and invites people to look at the new website, www.NFL.com/evolution, which highlights the history of how the game has changed." Goodell: "Our commitment to improve everything we do is ongoing" (AP, 2/8).
PREEMPTIVE PUSH? In N.Y., Andrew Keh noted with former MLBers like Roger Clemens, Sammy Sosa and Barry Bonds set to appear on the Baseball HOF ballots this year, the HOF yesterday announced a "new outreach program to educate teens and young adults about the dangers of performance-enhancing drugs." The program -- called "Be a Superior Example, or BASE -- will start with educational components online and an interactive kiosk at the museum in Cooperstown." As fundraising for the initiative "continues, the Hall hopes to expand with on-site programs in different cities and a meeting in Cooperstown of experts and educators." HOF President Jeff Idelson said the program “is not intended to cast a directive to voters about Hall of Fame-worthy candidates" (NYTIMES.com, 2/8).
MY KIND OF TOWN: In Chicago, Teddy Greenstein cites sources as saying that the PGA Tour's BMW Championship "will return to the Chicago area in 2013." Lake Forest's Conway Farms "has been awarded the event, with one source calling it 'a done deal.'" When the news is announced "in the next two months, it will mark the end of Cog Hill's long run as host." Conway Farms was selected as a Chicago-area site "after the PGA Tour and WGA also strongly considered the Glen Club, an upscale public course in Glenview." The only "knocks on Conway Farms are its location -- 35 miles from the Loop -- and the fact holes 4-7 are far from the clubhouse." Some PGA Tour officials also are "concerned about how a links course would look on TV if fans don't populate certain holes" (CHICAGO TRIBUNE, 2/9).
