NAMES IN THE NEWS
During Friday night's "MLB Players Choice Awards," it
was announced that the MLBPA Man of the Year Award will be
renamed the MARVIN MILLER MAN OF THE YEAR AWARD in honor of
the founder of the Players Union ("MLB PLayers Choice
Awards," ESPN, 11/3)....In Denver, Jason Blevins noted that
former Warren Miller Entertainment CEO WARREN MILLER's
latest movie, "RIDE," will debut in Denver and Boulder, CO,
theaters this week. Miller's son KURT "expects to show" his
90-minute film to more than half a million moviegoers
(DENVER POST, 11/5)....Colts QB PEYTON MANNING is one of
five people elected to serve on the NCAA Foundation's 30-
member BOD, and is the first active athlete selected in its
12-year history (N.Y. TIMES, 11/5)....In N.Y., Phil Mushnick
notes that Fox's KEITH OLBERMANN last week "quietly sent"
$25,000 to the Baseball Assistance Team, which has "served
indigent ex-baseball folks and/or their families" since '86,
BAT national President JOE GARAGIOLA: "That's one of the
largest donations from an individual we've ever received"
(N.Y. POST, 11/6)....CBS SportsLine's Len Pasquarelli noted
Cowboys Owner JERRY JONES showed "incredible generosity"
after the sudden death of CBS SportsLine Senior Writer STEVE
SCHOENFELD. Jones donated his private jet so that Cowboys
Dir of PR RICH DALRYMPLE and six members of the Dallas media
could attend Schoenfeld's memorial service on October 27 in
Phoenix, and Jones "arranged for a Phoenix caterer to
deliver food for about 200 people to the home of Steve's
widow, ROBIN SCHOENFELD" (CBS SportsLine, 11/3).
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