Names In The News
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Vera Clemente (l) With Carlos
Delgado At Award Presentation |
MLB presented the ROBERTO CLEMENTE AWARD, given annually for on-field performance
and community service, to Mets 1B CARLOS DELGADO. Among other things, Delgado
donated $500,000 over the last five years to his child-focused Extra Bases foundation
(N.Y. TIMES, 10/25)....Football HOFer STEVE LARGENT was inducted
into the WORLD SPORTS HUMANITARIAN HOF. His charity involvement includes
Children’s Hospital, The Salvation Army, Habitat for Humanity and others (SEATTLE
TIMES, 10/25).
BIG IDEAS: NFL Films President STEVE SABOL appeared on CNBC’s “The
Big Idea With Donny Deutsch,” where Deutsch said NFL Films is the “precursor to
so much filmmaking in general. Forget the way sports is shot today, (director
RON HOWARD) will give you credit for techniques he uses in some of the
biggest films in the world.” Sabol: “We were the first to shoot in slow-motion,
the first to mike a coach for sound, the first to do follies” (CNBC, 10/24)....Monday
night, Deutsch said to guest JON BON JOVI, the co-Owner of AFL Soul, “You
have made giving and charity kind of the essence of (the team’s) brand and guess
what, commercially it’s worked.” Bon Jovi: “We haven’t made a profit. Any profits
we have made we’ve given away” (CNBC, 10/23).
A LITTLE FACE TIME: In Oakland, Monte Poole writes Raiders Owner AL
DAVIS, who on Sunday after the team beat the Cardinals was “apparently ticked
off by something” S.F. Chronicle columnist SCOTT OSTLER, "said if he were
20 years younger he would kick Ostler’s butt. That's how it sounded, at least.”
Davis “vented his displeasure and stared down Ostler” and “seemed especially incensed
with the notion that Ostler had mocked his health.” Ostler, “whose style is tongue-in-cheek,
carried himself well, maintaining his dignity.” He said that he “never intended
to mock” Davis (OAKLAND TRIBUNE, 10/25).
KNOCK KNOCK: Heat C SHAQUILLE O’NEAL “was part of a botched raid
last month in Bedford County [VA], where O’Neal is a reserve deputy, in which
an Internet crime police unit was sent out to search the house of an alleged child
pornography offender.” O’Neal and the unit “raided the house of a local farmer
and seized” electronic devices, but the police had the “incorrect physical address”
so all belongings were returned. O’Neal said “it wasn’t me” when asked about the
raid, but later made reference to “knocking down the wrong door” (MIAMI HERALD,
10/25).
SUPE’ KITCHEN: Cardinals P JEFF SUPPAN, who pitches Game Four of
the World Series tonight, in November flew to Rome to “meet with POPE BENEDICT
XVI and deliver a team jersey,” but the airline lost his luggage and the Pope
never got the jersey (USA TODAY, 10/25). Suppan and “several other sports
and entertainment figures” will appear in a local
TV ad during tonight’s game on Fox “urging Missourians to vote ‘no’ on Amendment
2, which would put protections for all forms of stem cell research that are legal
under federal law into the Missouri constitution” (ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH,
10/25).
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