Golfer BUBBA WATSON yesterday during a public event "attended by hundreds of fans" was officially announced as an investor in the Double-A Southern League Pensacola Blue Wahoos. Watson: "This is something I have always dreamed of doing. I mean, who doesn't dream of owning a sports team at one time." Watson's stake in the club "was not disclosed." But team co-Owner QUINT STUDER said Watson's investment was "significant" (PENSACOLA NEWS JOURNAL, 1/20).
NEXT QUESTION: A Miami police report shows that officers late Sunday came to the home of NFL agent DREW ROSENHAUS and his wife, LISA THOMSON, "to chill an altercation between the two." Both "cooperated with police," and "no arrests were made." A report from TMZ indicated that the late-night altercation "may have been spurred by Thomson's relationship with Hollywood party boy DAN BILZERIAN" (N.Y. DAILY NEWS, 1/20).
NEW ON THE BOOK SHELF: ESPN’s MIKE GREENBERG appeared on “CBS This Morning” to promote his new book, “MY FATHER'S WIVES.” CBS’ Gayle King said the book "explores how one man's perfect life falls apart and the difficult journey to put it back together.” Greenberg said the main character is a “little bit like me." Greenberg: "All he really cares about is his family, and I decided to try to put him in the worst situation I could imagine, which would be to have my family threatened. Not in a LIAM NEESON kind of a way, the more traditional way” (“CBS This Morning,” CBS, 1/20).
NAMES: TOM and GENNY SEDLER have endowed the Xavier men's basketball head coaching position in a first-of-its-kind gift. The university "declined to reveal the amount of the donation" (CINCINNATI ENQUIRER, 1/20)....Former Cowboys VP/Player Personnel GIL BRANDT "will be inducted into the Texas Sports Hall of Fame" on April 9 (AUSTIN AMERICAN-STATESMAN, 1/20)....EPA Administrator GINA MCCARTHY “is coming to Aspen and the Winter X Games to plug" work the federal agency is “doing to try to curb climate change” (ASPEN TIMES, 1/20)....Ohio State football coach URBAN MEYER and several players, including QB CARDALE JONES, “were greeted with a loud ovation from the sellout crowd” at last night’s Bulls-Cavaliers game “during the break between the first and second quarters” (Cleveland PLAIN DEALER, 1/20)....Ducks D ERIC BREWER has put his 5,534-square-foot Tampa home on the market for $2.375M (LATIMES.com, 1/19)....Dodgers RF YASIEL PUIG paid $1.8M “for a gated Mediterranean-style residence” in L.A.’s Sherman Oaks neighborhood (LATIMES.com, 1/19)....Cowboys RB DEMARCO MURRAY and his girlfriend, HEIDI MUELLER, yesterday “announced their pending nuptials on Instagram” (DALLASNEWS.com, 1/19).
IN MEMORY: Former CBS Sports Dir TONY VERNA, who “invented instant replay for live sports 51 years ago, has died” at the age of 81. He passed away Saturday at his Palm Desert, Calif., home “after battling acute lymphoblastic leukemia” (AP, 1/19).
