Names In The News
In San Diego, Tod Leonard notes when California Gov. ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER proposed the state's first-ever golf tax, effective February 1, as part of his plan to reduce California's $11.2B deficit, there was an "immediate and loud cry from the golf industry, which is struggling through its worst business in decades." Golfers "still don't know exactly what they're fighting because the proposal is written so vaguely," but what the "golf industry is having a hard time with is that it seems to have been singled out among recreational sports." California Alliance for Golf Exec Dir BOB BOUCHIER: "You don't see bowling or tennis or swimming. What's the rationale for that?" (SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE, 11/18).
UPSTATE OWNERS: Sabres Owner TOM GOLISANO said that while his Responsible New York (RNY) independent political committee "may not have hit a home run" during the election, "winning roughly half of his statewide efforts puts runners in scoring position." Golisano intends for RNY to "continue as a major statewide force." In Buffalo, Robert McCarthy reports Golisano "prompted at least four allegations that he violated election law by coordinating his big spending with individual campaigns" (BUFFALO NEWS, 11/18)....Bills Owner RALPH WILSON yesterday presented the Wilson Distinguished Service Awards to Bills radio analyst MARK KELSO and Bills VP/Community Relations GRETCHEN GEITTER (BUFFALO NEWS, 11/18).
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NAMES: Jordan Brand, through its Jordan Fundamentals Grant Program, during the '08-09 school year will award $1M in total grants to help almost 300 teachers working in underserved communities (Jordan Brand)....Celtics F PAUL PIERCE last night hosted "The Truth Strikes Again" bowling event at Kings Lanes in Boston to raise money for The Truth Fund, part of his newly formed charitable initiative, "The Truth on Health" (BOSTON GLOBE, 11/18)....SI.com's Peter King wrote it is time to elect NFL Films Founder ED SABOL to the Pro Football HOF. Sabol "sold the NFL on making mythic figures out of football players by venerating them on film, and no single entity has done a better job of making this league the monster it is than" NFL Films (SI.com, 11/17)....In N.Y., Celona & Cornell cite sources who said that MSG Security Supervisors DIANE HENSON and SHEILA GAY-ROBBINS have settled a suit against their bosses and received an "undisclosed sum in exchange for dropping their discrimination case against MSG" (N.Y. POST, 11/18)....PRESIDENT BUSH yesterday welcomed the seven members of the U.S. Ryder Cup team, in addition to captain PAUL AZINGER, to the Oval Office at the White House (AP, 11/17).
IN MEMORY: Former college basketball coach and Lakers GM PETE NEWELL, who coached the Univ. of California, Berkeley, to the '59 NCAA championship, died yesterday at the age of 93. As Lakers GM from '72-76, Newell traded for C KAREEM ABDUL-JABBAR, a "watershed in the history of L.A. sports." In the late '70s, Newell started an annual clinic, eventually named the Pete Newell Big Man Camp, that was a "summer training ground for more than 250 NBA players" (L.A. TIMES, 11/18).
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