Google Chief Legal Officer DAVID DRUMMOND is "among the six people chosen by Sacramento Mayor KEVIN JOHNSON to serve on the committee that will help pick the next" NBPA Exec Dir. The other five committee members are former NBPA President JUNIOR BRIDGEMAN, former WNBPA President and current Nike Senior Director of Business Affairs & League Relations for North America Sports Marketing SONJA HENNING, exec search firm Russell Reynolds Managing Dir CHARLES TRIBBETT III, NBPA outside counsel and law firm Weil Gotshal partner JIM QUINN, and management firm Atom Factory Founder TROY CARTER (BLOOMBERG NEWS, 4/14).
COURT REPORT: Baseball HOFer BROOKS ROBINSON two years ago fell six feet from an "unsecured stage during a charity event at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino" and now is "suing the Seminole Tribe for almost" $10M for his permanent injuries. Robinson "still experiences bleeding on the brain, cracks in his spine, and has lost five inches in height as a result of his injuries." Under the state of Florida's legal agreement with the tribe, if someone is "injured at a tribal casino and wants to sue, the tribe's payment is capped at $200,000 per person and $300,000 per incident, the same limits that apply when the state is sued for negligence." Robinson's attorney, JACK HICKEY, is asking the tribe "to waive the liability cap and pay" $9.9M to "compensate for Robinson's surgeries, medications and physical therapy" (MIAMI HERALD, 4/14)
NAMES: U.S. VP JOE BIDEN "will be attending" a U.S. soccer game at the '14 FIFA World Cup in Brazil (SI.com, 4/14)....Patriots QB TOM BRADY, U.S. skier BODE MILLER, Celtics F KRIS HUMPHRIES and Broncos WR WES WELKER are "on the guest list for the Barnstable Brown gala" during the Kentucky Derby in May (BOSTON GLOBE, 4/14)....Tennis player SERENA WILLIAMS appears on the cover of the May issue of Fitness magazine (FITNESS, 5/'14)....Fox' JOE BUCK this weekend married NFL Network reporter MICHELLE BEISNER "during a ceremony in Mexico" (TMZ.com, 4/14).
IN MEMORY: Journalist ZANDER HOLLANDER "died on Friday in a nursing home in Manhattan" at the age of 91. His wife, PHYLLIS, said that the "cause was Alzheimer's disease." Hollander annually provided "statistics, team rosters, records, schedules and predictions for the coming season in the form of brick-size tomes he titles, 'Complete Handbooks.'" He offered them "for hockey, baseball, soccer and college and professional football and basketball." Hollander also "chronicled sports bloopers and wrote a history of Madison Square Garden, among other subjects." All told, he "edited, wrote or packaged 300 books" (N.Y. TIMES, 4/15).
