Lions DT NDAMUKONG SUH is the NFL’s “secret finance nerd,” as investor WARREN BUFFETT and “a handful of other business moguls have become a trusted group of mentors” to the All Pro. Suh “routinely meets” with Buffett, former NBPA President and NBA Kings investor JUNIOR BRIDGEMAN and former TD Ameritrade CEO JOE MOGLIA. Suh’s objective is to “get advice on the balance between business and his playing career.” Suh has been "positioning himself for his post-football life for years” (WALL STREET JOURNAL, 11/26).
FEELING MINNESOTA: In Minneapolis, Mark Craig profiles Vikings Exec Dir of Community Relations & Youth Football BRAD MADSON, who is the “unseen engine that drives the team’s ‘Community Tuesdays’ program that sends players out to local schools, hospitals and charity events on their only day off each week.” Madson’s “annual goal is 100 percent participation on ‘Community Tuesdays’ for a season." With only four Tuesdays left in ’14, “he needs to scratch off just one more name to extend the team’s streak to at least 10 consecutive seasons” (Minneapolis STAR TRIBUNE, 11/26). Meanwhile, the T’Wolves FastBreak Foundation on Monday “combined efforts with the Roger and Nancy McCabe Foundation and POPP Communications to serve a Thanksgiving-style meal to a mixture of Purple Heart recipients, Veterans, Wounded Warriors and current conflict soldiers at Seven Restaurant & Lounge in Minneapolis.” This “marked the ninth year the dinner has been held” (NBA.com, 11/25).
NAMES: The Canadian Baseball HOF honored longtime Toronto Star columnist RICHARD GRIFFIN with its ‘14 Jack Graney Award (Canadian Baseball HOF)....MLB Exec VP/Baseball Operations JOE TORRE on Tuesday was named the eighth winner of the Heisman Humanitarian Award in recognition of his “efforts to end the cycle of domestic violence with his Joe Torre Safe at Home Foundation.” He will “officially receive the award at the Heisman Memorial Trophy Gala” on Dec. 15 (ESPN.com, 11/25)....MLB Rangers P DEREK HOLLAND was teaching fifth-graders at Rankin Elementary School in Arlington, Texas, "about the importance of exercise and good nutrition as part of a healthy lifestyle” (MLB.com, 11/25)....Comedian JAY MOHR will host the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Awards on Dec. 5 for the second consecutive year (NASCAR)....MARYUM and HANA ALI “are in London to promote the U.K. release of the documentary ‘I AM ALI,’” which focuses on their father, MUHAMMAD ALI (AP, 11/25)....Steelers S TROY POLAMALU sold his 6,300-square-foot home in La Jolla, Calif., for $2.5M (LATIMES.com, 11/25)....Orioles 3B MANNY MACHADO last weekend married longtime girlfriend YAINEE ALONSO. She is the sister of Padres 1B YONDER ALONSO, “a longtime friend of Machado” (BALTIMORESUN.com, 11/25).
