USMNT MF CHRISTIAN PULISIC was profiled on CBS’ “60 MINUTES” last night, with CBS’ Sharyn Alfonsi noting he is “not only the youngest player” on the national team, he "may just be the best American to ever play the game.” Pulisic plays professionally with Bundesliga club Dortmund and is “already a household name” in Germany. He has been "embraced by the notoriously unforgiving Dortmund fans, partly because he's become fluent in German -- it took him a year -- but mostly because he mastered their precise style of play.” Alfonso asked whether he feels like “people are expecting you to be the next MESSI.” Pulisic: “It’s what American soccer fans do especially. They’re looking for the next star, the next player, to just be the face of U.S. soccer and all the stuff that I hear every day.” Pulisic’s on-field play and his “boy-next-door looks make him a marketer’s dream,” as he has deals with Nike, Gatorade and Hershey’s, which is also his hometown (“60 Minutes," CBS, 10/1).
NAMES: D-backs Managing General Partner KEN KENDRICK "sent a private plane to Puerto Rico" on Friday to transport RF REY FUENTES' parents and one of his sisters to Arizona (ARIZONA REPUBLIC, 9/30)....Fox Exec Chair RUPERT MURDOCH sat next to Patriots Owner ROBERT KRAFT yesterday in the owner's box during the team's game against the Panthers at Gillette Stadium (THE DAILY)....Redskins QB KIRK COUSINS and his wife "welcomed their first child Friday night" with the birth of their son, COOPER. He 'arrived 11 days after the due date at 9 pounds, 11 ounces" (WASHINGTON POST, 10/1)....Yankees Vice Chair JESSICA STEINBRENNER, the daughter of late team Owner GEORGE STEINBRENNER, is “seeking a restraining order from her ex-husband after multiple alleged stalking incidents.” Steinbrenner “claimed in a court petition filed earlier in September that FELIX LOPEZ has stalked and continuously tried to speak with her since their divorce settlement, which has a no-contact clause in it.” Lopez was a Yankees Senior VP from ’05-09 (N.Y. DAILY NEWS, 10/1).
IN MEMORY: S.I. NEWHOUSE JR., whose family owns Advance Publications, which includes SBJ/SBD, and who “wielded vast influence over American culture, fashion and social taste,” died yesterday at his home in Manhattan at the age of 89. His magazines “came to stand for a golden era of publishing and became an integral part of the culture they were covering” (N.Y. TIMES, 10/2).
