Salesforce.com has "declined to pursue a takeover" of Twitter. As Salesforce "exits, virtually no other suitors seem likely to emerge" as bidders (N.Y. TIMES, 10/15).
MLB Giants President & CEO Larry Baer "wrote an open letter to fans in which he expressed a variety of thoughts" about the '16 season as well as the team's outlook for '17. This came four days after the team suffered its first postseason series loss since '03 (ESPN.com, 10/15).
Steelers WR
Antonio Brown for today's game against the Dolphins in Miami planned to "pay tribute" on his cleats to two South Florida athletes who died this year: Marlins P
Jose Fernandez and MMA fighter
Kimbo Slice (
USATODAY.com, 10/14).
The Blues invited the family of original team Owner Sid Salomon III to yesterday's game against the Rangers. Salomon's former wife, Carol, "dropped the ceremonial first puck, along with her children Sid IV, Tim and Patti" (ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH, 10/16).
The "first 14,000 fans to enter the gates at Kansas Speedway" for today's NASCAR Sprint Cup Hollywood Casino 400 will "receive a commemorative pin saluting" retiring driver Tony Stewart (K.C. STAR, 10/15).
About "20,000 people poured into the Smith Center" on Friday for the Univ. of North Carolina's "Late Night With Roy," the men's basketball program's first practice of the season named after coach Roy Williams (Raleigh NEWS & OBSERVER, 10/15).
