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President Bush With Taurasi During
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CAA Sports is suing Dolphins CB WILL ALLEN for $195,000 after an NFLPA arbitrator agreed that Allen "defaulted on [a] promise to pay outstanding fees stemming" from the four-year, $12M deal he signed with the Dolphins in '06. CAA's TOM CONDON negotiated the deal for Allen, who now is repped by DREW ROSENHAUS. Sources said that CAA last fall filed a grievance with the NFLPA because it "hadn't received its 3[%] commissions" from '06 or '07 (PALM BEACH POST, 6/24).
HONORS & AWARDS: PRESIDENT BUSH yesterday welcomed the '07 WNBA champions Mercury to the White House. Mercury Gs CAPPIE PONDEXTER and DIANA TAURASI presented Bush with a No. 07 Mercury jersey and replica championship banner (AZCENTRAL.com, 6/23)....YES Network last Thursday won four Promax/BDA Awards, including one Gold award, during a ceremony in N.Y. (YES)....CBS' JIM NANTZ' new book, "ALWAYS BY MY SIDE," has reached No. 3 on the N.Y. Times bestseller list, the highest ranking achieved this year by a sports book (Gotham Books).
NAMES: IMG has signed PGA Tour member ANTHONY KIM to a marketing and management contract. Kim parted ways earlier this year with ROCKY HAMBRIC, who filed a lawsuit in May seeking damages (THE DAILY)....Yankees 3B ALEX RODRIGUEZ Saturday threw out the first pitch at the finals of the Alex Rodriguez Cup in front of 2,000 children at Macombs Dam Park near Yankee Stadium. Rodriguez also donated $20,000 to the cause (SI.com, 6/23)....Each LPGAer at this week's U.S. Women's Open at Interlachen CC in Edina, Minnesota, has received a Lexus SUV on loan for the event. Players also will receive a card for free gas, cookware, stationary, body lotions, candles, purses and ballmarkers, among other items (ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS, 6/24)....Former PGAer DOUG SANDERS tomorrow through Friday is hosting a junior golf tournament at the Oaks Course in The Woodlands outside Houston, featuring 24 golfers from around the world (HOUSTON CHRONICLE, 6/24)....Celtics G RAY ALLEN took out a full-page ad in the commemorative Celtics section of Sunday's Boston Globe thanking fans for their support in light of his 17-month-old son being diagnosed with Diabetes (THE DAILY).
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