Names In The News
The IOC will donate about $1M in relief to communities affected by this week's earthquake in China (INDIATIMES.com, 5/14).
FOOTBALL NAMES: A court order filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Georgia indicates that suspended Falcons QB MICHAEL VICK must repay more than $1.1M for defaulting on a loan to Wachovia Bank. Vick and business partner GERALD FRANK JENKINS in '07 borrowed money to open Atlantic Wine & Spirits, as well as Tasting Room restaurant, in College Park, Georgia (ATLANTA CONSTITUTION, 5/15)....NFL Giants LB ANTONIO PIERCE this offseason interned for a day at "The HOWARD STERN Show" (SI, 5/19 issue)....Denver-area King Scoopers restaurant last week unveiled its "Stinkin' Good Green Chili," named for ESPN's MARK SCHLERETH (DENVER POST, 5/14).
DRINK UP: Charity Wines VP JOHN CORCORAN said that the group, which in '07 raised $320,000 from the wines of Red Sox Ps CURT SCHILLING and TIM WAKEFIELD and LF MANNY RAMIREZ, this year will aim to raise "more than $2[M]." Charity Wines has "expanded to include active players" in N.Y., Boston and Cincinnati, and Atlanta, where Braves P TOM GLAVINE already has a brand. Charity Wines' roster also includes Baseball HOFers BROOKS ROBINSON and ERNIE BANKS and Pro Football HOFer DAN MARINO (Westchester JOURNAL-NEWS, 5/13).
NAMES: Former CBS Exec VP & Exec Producer TONY PETITTI, who will run the new MLB Network, is profiled today by the Westchester JOURNAL NEWS. Petitti: "It's a once-in-a-lifetime type of opportunity to help create a network from really the very beginning, every aspect of it, the programming, the production, the staffing" (Westchester JOURNAL NEWS, 5/15)....Dodgers Special Advisor to the Chair TOMMY LASORDA tomorrow will deliver the commencement address for Argosy Univ., and also will receive an honorary Doctorate of Business Administration degree (Dodgers)....The FINANCIAL TIMES' Simon Kuper wrote author ROWAN SIMONS' new book, "BAMBOO GOALPOSTS: ONE MAN'S QUEST TO TEACH THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA TO LOVE FOOTBALL," joins the "tradition of football-in-one-country accounts." In the book, soccer "proves an intriguing key to a country -- even one that barely plays the game anymore" (FINANCIAL TIMES, 5/10).
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