Names In The News
News Corp. Chair & CEO RUPERT MURDOCH’s combined salary and bonus reached
a high of $25.7M in the FY ended June 30. While his $4.5M base salary remained
the same as last year, his annual cash bonus was $21.2M, up 12% from $18.9M in
’05 (WALL STREET JOURNAL, 9/8).
ORDER IN THE COURT: Milwaukee Circuit Court Commissioner NANCY STURM
granted Brewers analyst BOB UECKER’s request for a restraining order against
ANN LADD. Ladd, who has been charged with stalking Uecker, must stay at
least 500 feet from him at all times and is banned from attending Brewers games
for four years. Uecker said, “I’m nobody to be revered” (MILWAUKEE JOURNAL
SENTINEL, 9/8).
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Nedney Donating $250 For Every
Field Goal He Makes This Season |
BEST WISHES: MARGARITA YNIGUEZ, wife of Dodgers Spanish-language
radio broadcaster PEPE YNIGUEZ, had surgery to remove a brain tumor Thursday
and doctors said that the procedure “went well.” Dodgers Owner FRANK MCCOURT
said that the team “would spare no expense in getting the best possible care”
for her (L.A. TIMES, 9/8).
NAMES: 49ers K JOE NEDNEY has pledged $250 for each of his field
goals, and LB DEREK SMITH will donate $100 for each tackle he makes, to
the PAT TILLMAN FOUNDATION (SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS, 9/8)....Packers
RB AHMAN GREEN is teaming up with Orlando-based XOOM ENTERTAINMENT on
film and music projects (MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL, 9/8)....VIRGINIA
COMMONWEALTH UNIV. professors JON ACKLEY and MICHAEL PITTS
are teaching a five-week class called, “From Dirt Tracks to Madison Avenue: The
Business of NASCAR” (RICHMOND TIMES-DISPATCH, 9/7)....The Kansas Department
of Commerce’s Office of Minority & Women Business Development has named Kansas
Speedway Guest Services Manager LATORIA CHINN its Minority Business Advocate
of the Year (Kansas Speedway).
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