"Access Hollywood" reported that KEVIN COSTNER will
star in his third baseball movie, "For The Love of the
Game." Costner will play a washed up pitcher ("Access
Hollywood," 12/12)....AL umpire JOHN HIRSCHBECK will
autograph photos of himself being spat on by Orioles 2B
Roberto Alomar at a memorabilia show in Connecticut next
February. The proceeds will be donated to the Kennedy
Krieger Institute at Johns Hopkins, which is researching the
kind of brain disease that killed one of Hirschbeck's
children ("SportsCenter," ESPN, 12/12)....NANCY KERRIGAN was
named as '96-97 spokesperson for the Massachusetts
Children's Trust Fund (Children's Trust Fund)....Long-
distance telephone company LCI International Inc. has named
JULIUS ERVING to its board of directors (USA TODAY,
12/13).... TONI BRAXTON is engaged to the Magic's DAVID
VAUGHN (N.Y. DAILY NEWS, 12/13)....Knicks President ERNIE
GRUNFELD will play himself in the upcoming AL PACINO and
KEANU REAVES movie, "Devil's Advocate" (N.Y. DAILY NEWS,
12/13)....Pistons Managing Partner BILL DAVIDSON will donate
$30M to the American Technion Society to establish a world-
class business school at the Technion-Israel Institute of
Technology in Haifa, Israel (DETROIT FREE PRESS, 12/12).
