Breeders' Cup COO BOB ELLISTON pens today's edition of the N.Y. Times' "Frequent Flier" feature, noting travel is "so integral to the business that it feels as if I’m at the airport more than I’m at home." Elliston: "While I might enjoy traveling for pleasure, business travel makes me cranky. ... Since I almost always have a layover nowadays, I always book the first flight out in the morning. I’ll even stay an extra day in the place I am to avoid taking an afternoon or night flight, which may not get me all the way home to Lexington. I absolutely hate being stranded at airport hotels. But even my fail-safe early-morning flight doesn’t always get me home when I need to be" (N.Y. TIMES, 12/30).
FINDING A NEW HOME? In another sign that the Int'l Swimming HOF's "days really are numbered in the city, its 2015 induction ceremonies won't be" in Ft. Lauderdale for the first time ever. Inductees "will be honored in June in Santa Clara, Calif., where the hall has signed a memorandum of understanding to be part of a new swimming complex being planned there" (South Florida SUN-SENTINEL, 12/30).
NAMES: Cancer-stricken college basketball player LAUREN HILL, who has raised more than $775,000 in donations through The Cure Starts Now, "is challenging and encouraging others to help her reach" the $1M mark by the end of '14 with a telethon today (CINCINNATI.com, 12/29)....The city of Miami Gardens “received $50,000 from the Dolphins Foundation and an NFL Foundation grant” at the team’s season finale against the Jets on Sunday (MIAMI HERALD, 12/30)....Golfer JIM FURYK “has priced his golf course estate in Maui” at $5.995M. The property is “found between the fairways of the Plantation course at Kapalua” (LATIMES.com, 12/29)....NASCAR driver JOEY LOGANO and his fiancée BRITTANY BACA “were married” on Dec. 13 at the Biltmore estate in Asheville, N.C. (COURANT.com, 12/29).
