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THE GOLF CHANNEL: STEVENSON PREVIEWS NEXT TUESDAY'S LAUNCH
Gary Stevenson is the Exec VP & Chief Operating Officer of The Golf Channel, the first channel devoted to one sport. Founded by cable entrepreneur Joseph Gibbs and golfing legend Arnold Palmer, the ch
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A column in the L.A. DAILY NEWS says that fired Rams coach CHUCK KNOX was not to blame for the "debacle" of the team and called Rams Owner GEORGIA FRONTIERE a "disgrace and an embarrassment as an NFL
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DAVID ROBINSON was joined by DENNIS RODMAN, now sporting orange hair with an arrow shaved into it, during an appearance on Friday''s "Tonight Show." Robinson, asked if the two spend time together off
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Former NBC News Productions President THERESE BYRNE has been appointed VP & Exec Producer of IMG''s new Interactive Media Dept., a division of Trans World Int''l (IMG)....JOHN DALY, from an ESPN inter
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Twins outfielder SHANE MACK signed by far the biggest contract in the history of Japanese baseball yesterday -- a two- year deal worth about $8.1M (Mult., 1/5)....University of Miami has given the Sea
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MAURICE SAATCHI, "ousted" last month as Chair of Saatchi & Saatchi Inc., will leave the company. The company is currently the fifth largest advertising firm in the world (AP/SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS, 1/3
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SPORTS SUMMIT UPDATE
The 17th Annual International Sports Summit announced today that Fox TV, Madison Square Garden, Nationsbank, and the Miami Sports & Exhibition Authority have all been named 1995 award recipients. Fox
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NAMES IN THE NEWS
Eagles'' team physician JOSEPH TORG has left the UPenn Hospital and taken his "multimillion-dollar" practice to Hahnemann University Hospital (Tim Panaccio, PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, 12/30)....Browns LB
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Patriots QB DREW BLEDSOE joined the Boston Pops for a reading of Clement Moore''s "Twas the Night Before Christmas" (NFL)....The office of billionaire RON PERELMAN confirmed that he has applied to the
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THE BEST OF QUOTES OF THE DAY
"I don''t think that baseball will ever be, in our lifetimes, what it once was." -- Bob Costas, "Meet the Press," NBC, 9/11. "Lest anybody not understand, there can''t be joy on any side." -- Acting B
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