Names In The News
Roush Fenway Racing (RFR) NASCAR drivers CARL EDWARDS, MATT KENSETH, GREG BIFFLE, JAMIE MCMURRAY and DAVID RAGAN last night attended the D’Backs-Red Sox game at Fenway Park as part of RFR Day. A large banner that read “Roush Fenway Racing” and had each team’s numbers on it was hung from the Green Monster prior to the game. Fenway Sports Group President and Red Sox COO Mike Dee: “I think there’s a lot of fans, who haven’t been exposed to this sport, that may flip through and watch it for a little while, but haven’t had a rooting interest for a particular team or understand the nuances and the subtleties of the sport, much like the subtleties of baseball, and I think those fans are the ones that we have the opportunity to attract and get them hooked” (“NASCAR Now,” ESPN2, 6/25).
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Hanrahan Partnering With American Red Cross
To Help Raise Funds For Midwest Flood Relief |
NAMES: The Nationals and P Joel Hanrahan, a native of Iowa, have partnered with the American Red Cross for a fundraising campaign that includes an online auction on nationals.com to benefit the American Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund, which has provided assistance to victims of recent flooding in the Midwest. The auction, which will feature 13 sports memorabilia and experience packages, will run today through July 3 (Nationals)....Senators Owner EUGENE MELNYK “plans to start up a new, private pharmaceutical firm if he loses a battle for control of Biovail Corp. that is now headed to the courts.” Melnyk said that he “will take his ideas and use them, and [C$50-100M] of his own money, to start a company called Trimel Pharmaceuticals” (GLOBE & MAIL, 6/26)....Former Boston Globe NBA writer PETER MAY, who in April accepted a buyout from the paper, is chronicling the Celtics ’08 season in a book titled, “TOP OF THE WORLD: THE INSIDE STORY OF THE BOSTON CELTICS’ AMAZING ONE-YEAR TURNAROUND TO BECOME NBA CHAMPIONS.” May for the book will draw on interviews with Celtics coach DOC RIVERS, G RAY ALLEN and Fs PAUL PIERCE and KEVIN GARNETT (BOSTON GLOBE, 6/26)....Former U.S. Olympic swimmer Janet Evans last night was eliminated from NBC’s “Celebrity Circus” (“Celebrity Circus,” NBC, 6/25).
GET WELL SOON: The Akron Beacon Journal’s BRIAN WINDHORST is recuperating from an illness at a local hospital (AKRON BEACON JOURNAL, 6/26).
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