Sources said that there are "nine leading candidates" to be the next Univ. of Minnesota AD. The list is "wide-ranging and includes executives from the Rocky Mountain to Wall Street." Each of the nine has a "previous tie to Minnesota or the Upper Midwest." The nine candidates Turnkey Search has screened for the job at Minnesota are Penn State Deputy AD PHIL ESTEN, Northern Illinois AD SEAN FRAZIER, Minnesota interim AD BETH GOETZ, U.S. Bank Senior VP DAVID GUTZKE, CNBC Stock Analyst PETE NAJARIAN, WCHA Commissioner BILL ROBERTSON, Minneapolis attorney BOB STEIN, Univ. of Iowa Deputy AD GENE TAYLOR and Mountain West Commissioner CRAIG THOMPSON (Minneapolis STAR TRIBUNE, 4/29).
KINER'S KORNER: MLB scorer HOWIE KARPIN and MARK ROSENMAN wrote a book called "DOWN ON THE KORNER" about late Mets announcer RALPH KINER and his postgame show "Kiner's Korner." The idea for the book "literally tumbled out of a wall at Rosenman's house" shortly after Kiner died in early '14 at the age of 91. The book "has an endearingly unpolished, unfocused tone, much like Kiner's show, and some stories are repetitive." However, there are plenty of "nuggets to be mined in an oral history featuring the best of the 65 to 70 players the authors interviewed" (NEWSDAY, 4/29).
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Kevin Plank's Sagamore Spirit whiskey expected
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NAMES: Under Armour Founder, Chair & CEO KEVIN PLANK’s Sagamore Spirit rye whiskey “will finally hit the shelves of Baltimore-area bars and liquor stores” on May 13. Sagamore Spirit “declined to provide specific locations that will have the whiskey.” But the company said that it “should be in 1,000 bars, restaurants and retail locations in the area by the end of May.” Some “have wondered” if the involvement of Plank “would put Sagamore Spirit on a fast track to brand ubiquity around the world” (Baltimore SUN, 4/28).... Former MLBer TREVOR HOFFMAN and Baseball HOFer DAVE WINFIELD have been selected as official spokespeople of the ’16 MLB All-Star Game in San Diego. The former Padres will help generate awareness for the game and its surrounding events (MLB).... The Sports Lawyer Association announced Team Prime Time and Heart of Los Angeles as recipients of philanthropy contributions totaling $30,000 (SLA).
IN MEMORY: Former Dallas Morning News columnist BLACKIE SHERROD, the “greatest Texas sportswriter of his generation or any other,” died Thursday at the age of 96. His wife, JOYCE, said that he “died at his home in Dallas of natural causes.” Sherrod was “voted Texas Sportswriter of the Year a record 16 times and was honored with the prestigious Red Smith Award, national recognition for lifetime achievement” (DALLAS MORNING NEWS, 4/29)....Former WEEI-AM Patriots play-by-play announcer JOHN CARLSON “died of respiratory complications April 5 in South Shore Hospital” in Massachusetts at the age of 82. Carlson, who called Patriots games from ’80-86, also “was a sports talk show host” at the station from ’76-87 and at WRKO-AM until ’90 (BOSTON GLOBE, 4/29).
