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MLS Commissioner DON GARBER has been diagnosed with prostate cancer. He has undergone a series of comprehensive tests and the cancer has not spread. Doctors expect he will have a full recovery, and he will continue managing the league during treatment. Garber has begun treatment at Sloan Kettering Memorial Hospital, which will be followed by surgery at Mt. Sinai Hospital in N.Y. (MLS).

UPON FURTHER EXAMINATION: In Roanoke, Mark Berman notes author ROLAND LAZENBY has written a new biography on Basketball HOFer MICHAEL JORDAN that will be published by Little, Brown & Co. titled "MICHAEL JORDAN: THE LIFE." The book will be available in stores May 6. Lazenby said, "The Jordan story, some of it had been told, but a lot of it had not. You’ll get one story early in the game while he’s playing and then as people look back, you often get a very different story. I didn’t really feel the context had ever been there. I think family often provides context. There were a lot of things I wanted to look at there." The book "not only delves into the 51-year-old Jordan’s time" at North Carolina and with the Bulls, but also "details his family history, his youth, his stint" with the Wizards and his ownership of the Bobcats. Lazenby "spent 3 1⁄2 years conducting interviews, researching and writing the book, working himself to exhaustion." He "originally wrote 1,000 pages before cutting it to about 680" (ROANOKE TIMES, 4/14).

KEEP IT ON THE COURT: Mavericks Owner MARK CUBAN said that he "had no problem" paying the $25,000 fine the league assessed the team after PA announcer SEAN HEATH issued several tweets "criticizing officiating." However, Cuban "assured that he wanted the loud, proud homer Heath to continue his part-time job of shouting in a courtside microphone to fire up the American Airlines Center crowds for the foreseeable future." Cuban said that Heath "should have been informed about his limits on potentially controversial public commentary before this incident" (ESPN.com, 4/12).

COURSE WORK: George Washington Univ.'s law school has started "what it said was the first course devoted to the legal implications of traumatic brain injuries." The weekly, two-hour seminar will "address brain injuries of all sorts." Attorney MICHAEL KAPLEN, who has "worked on cases involving traumatic brain injuries for more than two decades," teaches the course (N.Y. TIMES, 4/14).

NAMES: Ten-year-old AMARIS JACKSON, who is "battling a rare kidney cancer known as renal cell carcinoma, signed a one-day contract with [the] Wizards prior to Saturday’s home game" against the Bucks "in conjunction with the Make-A-Wish Mid-Atlantic Foundation." Jackson "took part in the pregame shoot-around, visited the locker room and led the team onto the court" (WASHINGTONPOST.com, 4/12)....Former Canucks coach and GM PAT QUINN yesterday was inducted into the team’s Ring of Honour (THEPROVINCE.com, 4/13)….Late Bills Founder & Owner RALPH WILSON JR. will be “posthumously honored with the Major Donald Holleder Award at the 65th annual Rochester Press-Radio Club Day of Champions Dinner on June 9, at the Riverside Convention Center” (ROCHESTER DEMOCRAT & CHRONICLE, 4/12)….Univ. of Maryland women’s basketball coach BRENDA FRESE, following the team’s run to the Final Four, will receive bonuses totaling $100,507 (BALTIMORESUN.com, 4/11)….AEG Chair PHIL ANSCHUTZ will “add the popular Seven Falls attraction in Colorado Springs to his holdings, which also includes the nearby Broadmoor” (BIZJOURNALS.com, 4/11)….Former MLBer CARLOS ZAMBRANO sold his five-bedroom, 6,700-square-foot mansion in West Lakeview, Ill., on Friday for $2.155M, which is more than $500,000 less than the $2.66M he paid for it in ’08 (CHICAGOTRIBUNE.com, 4/11).

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