Cowboys Exec VP & Chief Brand Officer CHARLOTTE JONES ANDERSON "recalls a time she almost got fired by her own father," team Owner JERRY JONES. She said, "This last project, building the Star, I did kind of quasi get fired through the course of it. It wasn’t because I was spending too much money. It was because of the reverse. We were in a meeting with our architect out at training camp. (My father) had asked about the facade of the building and I told him what it was going to be, and he was like, 'That is not what I want, I want it to be glass like the stadium.' I said, 'You didn’t give me the stadium budget, for which we spent over a billion dollars.' He looked at me and said 'Do I need to find someone else to do your job?'" (WSJ.com, 11/8).
NAMES: Patriots Owner ROBERT KRAFT, S DEVIN MCCOURTY, RB LEGARRETTE BLOUNT and WR MATTHEW SLATER "spent Halloween night with members of the Boston Police Department to 'show their support for the department and to learn more about the challenges officers are facing locally during difficult times nationally'" (BOSTON GLOBE, 11/9)....Trail Blazers G C.J. MCCOLLUM and the Boys & Girls Club of Portland Metro on Monday celebrated the opening of a new learning room called the C.J. McCollum Dream Center (BGCP)....The National Football Foundation and College Football HOF announced that NBC’s MIKE TIRICO will emcee the 59th NFF Annual Awards Dinner at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in N.Y. on Dec. 6, his fourth time hosting the event (NFF)....Recently retired MLBer DAVID ORTIZ will receive the Boston Pride Award at The Globies next week, which goes to an outstanding rep of Boston sports presented by the Boston Globe (BOSTON GLOBE, 11/9).
