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SBJ/Jan. 24-30, 2011/People and Pop Culture
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Published January 24, 2011, Page 29
| ARAM BOGHOSIAN This year’s edition of the Hot Stove Cool Music benefit concert, put on by Boston Red Sox EVP/GM Theo Epstein and baseball journalist Peter Gammons, raised more than $300,000 for the Foundation To Be Named Later. At Boston’s Paradise Rock Club for the concert Jan. 15 (clockwise from left): Gammons, Epstein, guest MC Mike O’Malley and musicians Bill Janovitz and Kay Hanley. |
Emmert addresses NCAA Convention
| COURTESY OF NCAA NCAA President Mark Emmert speaks during an educational session at the NCAA Convention in San Antonio earlier this month. Close to 3,000 people attended the annual event. |
From the mound to management
| ANDY HAYT / SAN DIEGO PADRES At Petco Park Jan. 12 to announce the retirement of Padres pitcher Trevor Hoffman and his new position in the Padres’ front office (from left): Manager Bud Black, president and COO Tom Garfinkel, Hoffman, vice chairman and CEO Jeff Moorad, and GM Jed Hoyer. |
Cubs owners talk baseball with fans
| STEPHEN GREEN / CHICAGO CUBS The Ricketts family, owners of the Chicago Cubs, had their own session at the 2011 Cubs Convention on Jan. 15 at the Hilton Chicago. From left: Board members Todd Ricketts, Pete Ricketts and Laura Ricketts, Chairman Tom Ricketts and Cubs play-by-play announcer Len Kasper. |
CHL commish honored by predecessor
| MIKE WOLFORTH Central Hockey League Commissioner Duane Lewis received the Willis of Texas N. Thomas Berry Commitment Cup from Commissioner Emeritus N. Thomas Berry at the CHL All-Star Banquet on Jan. 11 at the Rushmore Plaza Civic Center in Tempe, Ariz. |
A night out for scouts foundation
| PAUL LESTER At the eighth annual Professional Baseball Scouts Foundation Awards Dinner on Jan. 15 at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles (from left): Padres Vice Chairman and CEO Jeff Moorad, Joe Garagiola Sr., MLB Commissioner Bud Selig, foundation Chairman Dennis Gilbert, Milwaukee Brewers owner Mark Attanasio and actor/director Rob Reiner. |
Terps congregate in Philly
| COMCAST-SPECTACOR Before the tipoff of the University of Maryland against Villanova University men’s basketball game at the Wells Fargo Center on Jan. 15 (from left): Seventy-Six Capital’s Wayne Kimmel (Maryland '92); entrepreneur Lindy Snider, daughter of Comcast-Spectacor Chairman Ed Snider; Maryland President Wallace Loh; and Comcast-Spectacor VP of public relations Ike Richman (Maryland '88). |




