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Golfer GREG NORMAN has reduced the asking price for his home and eight-acre property in Jupiter Island, Florida, where former President BILL CLINTON injured his knee in '97, to $47.5M, down from the original '07 price of $65M (PALM BEACH POST, 11/12).
CORRECTION: Yesterday, THE DAILY cited an erroneous report on NBC's MATT LAUER paying to have Norman serve as his caddie during the Golf Digest U.S. Open Challenge at Torrey Pines last June. Golf Digest covered the transportation costs of all participants in the event.
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| Piazza To Release Memoir In 2010 |
BOOK SHELF: Former MLBer MIKE PIAZZA has reached a deal to write a memoir, set to be released by Simon & Schuster in 2010. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed (NEWSDAY, 11/12)....On Long Island, Neil Best wrote at the heart of Pro Football HOFer FRANK GIFFORD and PETER RICHMOND's book, "THE GLORY GAME: HOW THE 1958 NFL CHAMPIONSHIP CHANGED FOOTBALL FOREVER," is "a portrayal of a long-gone era of pro football, one the overtime game between the Colts and Giants helped usher into history." Gifford, who played in the game, "offers an insiders' view," and the book "breathes life into players and personalities who have faded from memory" (NEWSDAY, 11/11)....In Winnipeg, Rob Nay reported film rights to the book, "WHEN FALCONS FLY," have been "sold to a local production company." The book "details the rise of the Winnipeg Falcons -- the first team to win an Olympic gold medal in hockey" in Belgium in '20. Nay noted it is "not yet known whether the movie will appear on TV or the silver screen" (WINNIPEG SUN, 11/10).
HONORS & RECOGNITIONS: The Michigan State Univ. (MSU) baseball stadium will be renamed McLane Baseball Stadium in honor of Astros Owner DRAYTON MCLANE and his wife, ELIZABETH, who in June donated $4M for renovations to the field. The donation marked the "second-largest given" to MSU's athletic department (HOUSTON CHRONICLE, 11/12)....The NCAA has created a new post-graduate sports communications scholarship in honor of late sportscaster JIM MCKAY. As part of the Jim McKay scholarship program, one male and one female student-athlete will be selected annually to receive a $10,000 post-graduate scholarship in recognition of their academic achievements and potential to contribute to sports communications (NCAA)...."GET TESTED," a PSA from the Kaiser Family Foundation, HBO, NBA and Global Business Coalition, won a National Public Service Announcement Emmy Award at a luncheon held by The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Friday at the Rainbow Room, 30 Rockefeller Center in N.Y. (THE DAILY ).
BEST WISHES: Buffalo News sports writer and NLL HOFer TOM BORRELLI is in critical condition at Erie County Medial Center after suffering head and neck injuries in a fall at a high school football game Saturday. Borrelli's family said that he is "breathing with a respirator and is unable to move his arms and legs" (BUFFALO NEWS, 11/12).
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NAMES: Falcons DT GRADY JACKSON, who is appealing a four-game suspension from the NFL for using illegal substances, Monday filed suit in Superior Court in California against Balanced Health Products, the manufacturer of Nikki Harrell's StarCaps diet pills. Jackson is "seeking restitution and damages for false advertising and unfair business practices against the company and retailers" of the pills (ATLANTA CONSTITUTION, 11/12)....Former U.S. Secretary of State COLIN POWELL last night dropped the ceremonial first puck at the Flyers-Islanders game at Nassau Coliseum as part of Military Appreciation Day (PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, 11/12)....Int'l Tennis HOFer MARTINA NAVRATILOVA will appear in a new Iceland-sponsored TV series, "I'm a Celebrity ... Get Me Out Of Here," which premieres Sunday on ITV1. The show will "pitch the celebrities into the usual jungle setting" in Queensland, Australia (BRANDREPUBLIC.com, 11/12).
IN MEMORY: Former MLBer and Indians broadcaster HERB SCORE died yesterday morning at the age of 75. Score called Indians games on TV and radio for 34 seasons, "longer than anybody else in the city's baseball history," and he "gained a loyal following, although he did not have the greatest voice or elocution." In Cleveland, Bob Dolgan wrote Score's "assets were his intelligence, good taste and enthusiasm," and he was "like a favorite uncle who talked baseball" (Cleveland.com, 11/11). Also in Cleveland, Bud Shaw writes under the header, "Herb Score Was Cleveland Baseball." Score "symbolized Indians baseball for so many years when everything else about the team changed except its record of futility." Score's "bloopers became terms of endearment with fans, in a sense strengthening his connection with listeners" (Cleveland PLAIN DEALER, 11/12).
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