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Golf HOFer & CBS Analyst Ken Venturi Remembered For Overcoming Adversity05 / 20 / 13KEN VENTURI , who "won the 1964 U.S. Open golf championship in dramatic fashion and became a longtime television commentator," died Friday in Rancho Mirage, Calif., at the age of 82, according to Gary Klein of the L.A. TIMES. Venturi's son, MATT , said that he died after "battling a spinal infecti... Tags: People and Pop Culture, Golf |
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Greg Bibb Launches Venture Capital Fund
Former Monumental Sports & Entertainment Exec VP GREG BIBB has launched Capital Sports Ventures, a venture capital fund "targeting sports and lifestyle properties, with backing from veteran sports investor FRED SCHAUFELD 's SWaN and Legend Venture Partners," according to Ben Fischer of the WA ...
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Behind NBC's "Today" Show Turmoil
Sunday’s N.Y. TIMES MAGAZINE cover story offers an excerpt from author BRIAN STELTER 's upcoming book, "Top of the Morning: Inside the Cutthroat World of Morning TV,” which looks at the recent turmoil around NBC’s “ TODAY ” show. After the departure of ANN CURRY , " ...
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Minding My Business With Elisa Padilla
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Executive Transactions
The Univ. of Maryland named NCAA Associate Enforcement Dir MARCUS WILSON Senior Associate AD/Compliance ( UM )….The Univ. of Delaware named Yale Univ. Senior Associate AD TIM FORD Senior Associate AD & Athletics Development Dir, replacing MARK URICK ( Delaware )….Back9Network ...
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UFC President DANA WHITE has "declared himself '100 percent cured' of Meniere’s disease after one visit to Dr. PETER WEHLING in Dusseldorf this month." White said that "symptoms of the inner-ear disorder, which include bouts of vertigo, intermittent hearing loss, and ringing and feeli ...
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Haslam Takes Steps To Address Probe
Browns Owner and Pilot Flying J CEO JIMMY HASLAM III yesterday announced that Pilot Flying J had “put an undisclosed number of sales staffers on administrative leave and planned to hire an outside investigator with U.S. Justice Department experience to conduct an independent review,” a ...
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Grizzlies President of Business Operations GREG CAMPBELL and Senior VP & Chief Revenue Officer MIKE HUMES "are now gone." Grizzlies CEO & Managing Partner JASON LEVIEN said that the team "isn't planning to 'formally' replace either position, but is looking to add two new executives to ...
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ESPN.com’s Quinn & Fish reported SONIA CRUZ , the spokesperson for Yankees 2B ROBINSON CANO ’s foundation, is “listed as having been a client of the Biogenesis clinic last summer, although she denies having received anything from the clinic and says Cano ‘definitely nev ...
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Pat Summerall Remembered
Late NFLer and announcer PAT SUMMERALL was remembered on Saturday as a “great and humble man” before “roughly 1,684 mourners" gathered at Prestonwood Baptist Church in Plano, Texas, according to Clarence Hill of the FT. WORTH STAR-TELEGRAM. It was “no surprise that the Cowb ...
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Gulati Elected To FIFA Exec Committee
USSF President SUNIL GULATI on Friday “was elected” to the FIFA Exec Committee, according to Juan Zamorano of the AP. Gulati “won 18-17 in a balloting at the congress of North and Central American and Caribbean Football in Panama City.” Gulati was “elected to a four-y ...
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