Names In The News
MONTJEU’s weanling colt and GONE WEST’s weanling filly sold for
$2.7M and $2.4M, respectively, during the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale,
setting Keeneland records in each category. The colt will race in Japan and the
filly’s buyer “plans to send her to France.” A weanling is less than one year
old (LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, 11/8).
PEN & TELLER: CARLO DEVITO has written “WELLINGTON: THE MARAS,
THE GIANTS, AND THE CITY OF NEW YORK,” which traces the sports history of
the Mara family and late Giants co-Owner WELLINGTON MARA in N.Y. Devito,
on whether he received assistance from the Giants or the Mara family: “I got none.
... It was very clear that they did not wish to participate and so I had to write
the book without them.” Devito said he has received no feedback from either party
about the book (“Mike & the Mad Dog,” YES Network, 11/8).
AWARD SEASON: The ’07 induction class for the Int’l Motorsports HOF features
SMI Chair BRUTON SMITH, former NASCAR team owner JUNIE DONLAVEY,
and former drivers/riders RAY HENDRICK, JACK INGRAM, WARREN JOHNSON
and WAYNE RAINEY. The induction ceremony at Talladega Superspeedway is
April 26 (CHARLOTTE OBSERVER, 11/9)....The Bronx Chamber of Commerce honored
Yankees Special Advisor REGGIE JACKSON with its Legend Award, Yankees President
RANDY LEVINE with its Trailblazer Award and Yankees advisor RAY NEGRON
with its Humanitarian Award (N.Y. TIMES, 11/9)....Triple-A PCL RiverCats
President, COO & GM ALAN LEDFORD was named the Minor League Baseball Exec
of the Year by Baseball America (RiverCats).
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Gordon (l), Vandebosch Marry
In Private Ceremony In Mexico |
NAMES: NASCAR driver JEFF GORDON married Belgian actress/model
INGRID VANDEBOSCH in a private ceremony in Mexico. The two met on the set
of the movie “Taxi” (Mult., 11/9)....NASCAR Chair & CEO BRIAN FRANCE
“crashed his Lexus four-door sedan into a tree just outside his condominium”
in Daytona Beach on Monday. Police Chief MIKE CHITWOOD said that officers
“did not ask France to perform a field sobriety test because, ‘He did not smell
of alcohol or anything like that’” (Daytona Beach NEWS-JOURNAL, 11/9)....Former
NFLer ALONZO SPELLMAN will make his debut Saturday in the Xtreme Fighting
Organization during an event at the Sears Centre near Chicago (Chicago SUN-TIMES,
11/9).
IN MEMORY: HARMON BURNS, a senior general partner of the MLB Giants
and one of the original members of the ownership group formed in ’92, passed away
Wednesday morning (MLB.com, 11/8).
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