Names In The News
Last Saturday's edition of "Saturday Night Live," which was hosted by Yankees SS DEREK JETER, "turned its third highest ratings" in HHs this season, as the show earned a 7.5/18 Nielsen in 53 metered markets (ELECTRONIC MEDIA, 12/3)....TY TRYON, 17, will join the PGA Tour next month after earning his playing card with a final-round 66 at the tour's qualifying school. Tryon is repped by IMG and has deals with Callaway Golf and Target (THE DAILY)....Boxer ROY JONES JR. has earned a part in “THE MATRIX RELOADED,” due out in May '03 (VIBE, 1/02 issue)....Fairleigh Dickinson Univ. assistant soccer coach ETHAN ZOHN is one of the nine contestants still in competition on “SURVIVOR: AFRICA” The soccer team has reached the quarterfinals of the NCAA tournament, and a CBS camera crew is taping Zohn's "soccer tournament experience for a future episode" (Newark STAR-LEDGER, 12/3)....HBO has "officially picked up a 10-episode seventh season" of “ARLI$$” (DAILY VARIETY, 12/3).
IT'S ALL POLITICS: Guests in the box of Redskins Owner DANIEL SNYDER at Sunday's Cowboys-Redskins game included Defense Secretary DONALD RUMSFELD, Transportation Secretary NORMAN MINETA, former Secretary of State MADELEINE ALBRIGHT, former National Security Adviser SANDY BERGER and former U.S. Senator JOHN GLENN (WASHINGTON POST, 12/4)....A watchdog group — DEMOCRACY WATCH — yesterday filed for a judicial review of a recent decision by Canadian Ethics Counsellor HOWARD WILSON that Canada Prime Minister JEAN CHRETIEN "did nothing wrong when he accepted an invitation" from Bell Canada to golf with TIGER WOODS in September (Toronto GLOBE & MAIL, 12/4).
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