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Driver RC ENERSON is "being sued by" IndyCar Development Series Indy Lights team Schmidt Peterson Motorsports for breach of contract. Enerson, due to make his IndyCar debut with Dale Coyne Racing this weekend, "abruptly departed" SPM in May. On May 31, Team E Racing "announced Enerson was quitting the Lights championship to focus on finding an IndyCar ride" for '17. SPM "responded by demanding the remaining $445,000 of its contract plus a $15K payment for an IndyCar test Enerson conducted in March" (MOTORSPORT.com, 7/26).

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: CAA Sports has signed Broncos WR CODY LATIMER for representation. CAA Football co-head TODD FRANCE will lead the team representing Latimer, a second-round pick in the '14 draft. He was formerly represented by EMG Sports (Liz Mullen, Staff Writer)....MULTICHANNEL NEWS unveiled its "40 under 40" class, which includes FS West and FS San Diego Assistant GM LINDSAY AMSTUTZ, WWE Chief Brand Officer STEPHANIE MCMAHON and ESPN The Magazine and ESPNW Editor-in-Chief ALISON OVERHOLT (MULTICHANNEL NEWS, 7/25 issue)....ERIC SHAINOCK and ERICA PROSSER have founded Philanthropy Playmakers, a sports website aimed at aggregating best practices from across the sports industry as it applies to philanthropy and community investment (Philanthropy Playmakers)....RORY MCILROY this weekend attended a wedding at Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte. He also played "a few holes" on the course, which will host the '17 PGA Championship (CHARLOTTE OBSERVER, 7/27).

IN MEMORY: White Sox investor MARJORIE ANN NORTON "died on July 21 of complication from esophageal cancer" at the age of 53. Norton "worked for 15 years in Chicago's public relations and marketing industry" (CHICAGO SUN-TIMES, 7/27).


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