Names In The News

Former Dolphins trainer KEVIN O'NEILL "must let an arbitrator, not a court, decide whether the team defamed him and used him as a scapegoat when it fired him in the wake of its 2013 bullying scandal." Palm Beach County Circuit Judge DONALD HALFELE "ruled that O’Neill’s contract plainly said that any disputes would be decided by arbitration." The judge also "rejected O’Neill’s claims that arbitration is tantamount to a 'kangaroo court' because it will be controlled" by NFL Commissioner ROGER GOODELL, who is "paid by league owners" (PALMBEACHPOST.com, 8/31).

NAMES: Several former Royals players were at the Negro League Baseball Museum in K.C. on Sunday for a tutorial called Play Ball KC, part of an initiative by MLB to "kindle interest in the game among young people" (K.C. STAR, 8/31)....Tennis player VENUS WILLIAMS on Aug. 14 received her diploma from Indiana Univ. East, a BS in Business Administration. It came "four years after she enrolled in IU East's online degree completion program" (INDIANAPOLIS STAR, 9/1)....ESPN NBA analyst JALEN ROSE "has been working with Crown Publishing" for 18 months on a book, "ROSE: GOTTA GIVE THE PEOPLE WHAT THEY WANT," to be released Oct. 6 (FREEP.com, 8/31)....NASCAR HOFer DARRELL WALTRIP and former driver STERLING MARLIN yesterday "endorsed DAVID FOX for mayor of Nashville" (TENNESSEAN.com, 8/31).