Names In The News
In Utah, Buckley & Genessy report the Jazz were "uplifted" by Owner LARRY MILLER while visiting him on Monday. Miller is recuperating after having both his lower legs amputated last week due to diabetes. Jazz CEO GREG MILLER Tuesday "revealed something few know: One week earlier, the Jazz almost lost" Larry Miller. Greg Miller: "We had a close call a week ago where some of the infection (in Miller's feet) began to spread throughout his body and it got bad enough the doctor told my mom to call all the kids and get 'em up to the hospital, because they weren't sure he was gonna make it." It was Miller's "fifth brush with death since last summer" (DESERET NEWS, 1/28).
BOOK SHELF: On Long Island, Neil Best writes Dodgers manager JOE TORRE and SI's TOM VERDUCCI's "THE YANKEE YEARS" is a "peculiarly constructed book." It is a "memoir that's not a memoir, a book glaringly and understandably sympathetic to Torre, but not technically written in his voice." The book is "essential reading for any serious, curious fan of the Yankees in the Torre Era." Yankees Chair GEORGE STEINBRENNER's "deteriorating health is discussed bluntly." But Best notes Torre's and Verducci's "fondness for the late 1990s teams at times is cloying," as it "leads to some overripe praise from Torre and others, and some overwriting by Verducci" (NEWSDAY, 1/28).
TOP CHEF: In Chicago, Janet Rausa Fuller profiles Chicago-based Levy Restaurants VP/Culinary RON KRIVOSIK, whose company, as concessionaire at Raymond James Stadium, is expected to feed "nearly 80,000 people" Sunday in Tampa for Super Bowl XLIII. Krivosik and his employees are "expected to cook more than 55,000 hot dogs, 32,000 pizza slices and 2,500 pounds of seafood." NFL execs "scrutinized the menus, made their own suggestions and sat in on tastings" (CHICAGO SUN-TIMES, 1/28).
NAMES: The N.Y. Independent Budget Office yesterday reported the cost to city taxpayers for recreational facilities "replacing the parks that were taken over by the new Yankee Stadium has skyrocketed from" $116M to $195M in "less than four years" (N.Y. POST, 1/28)....The Texas State Securities Board has accused Impact Energy President SHANE PERRY of "bucking an order to stop selling fraudulent securities and taking his pitch" to NFL players. A search warrant affidavit indicated that Perry "e-mailed NFL players offering a free trip to Playa del Coco, Costa Rica" (DALLAS MORNING NEWS, 1/28)....Photographer EMICLES DA MATA is suing MLS Galaxy MF DAVID BECKHAM and his bodyguard "for roughing him up in Beverly Hills." Da Mata said that Beckham's bodyguard "threw his camera in the trash" (MIAMI HERALD, 1/28).
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