Names In The News

A Red Cross spokesperson said that the son of former Mexico and Real Madrid football player HUGO SANCHEZ "was found dead on Saturday along with another man in a Mexico City apartment." The spokesperson said that the cause of death has not been confirmed but that it was "apparently a gas intoxication." HUGO SANCHEZ PORTUGAL "had been sports director of the Miguel Hidalgo borough since October 2012" (AFP, 11/9). ... Publishers said that retired cricketer SACHIN TENDULKAR’s autobiography "Playing It My Way" "has broken all records of an adult hardback on pre-order subscriptions across both -- fiction and non-fiction -- categories." On the day of release and before sales began, 150,000 copies "had already been pre-ordered to Hachette India, the publishers of the book" (IANS, 11/8). ... Former Tottenham and England forward JIMMY GREAVES is "selling his 1966 World Cup winner’s medal five years after he received it following a campaign to honour the entire squad" (LONDON TIMES, 11/9).