Actor KEN HOWARD, star of "The White Shadow" basketball
series on CBS in the late '70s, will play the head of a
sports agency in the LUKE PERRY pilot, "The Game," to air on
ABC (DAILY VARIETY, 3/27)....JOE MONTANA and RONNIE LOTT are
Exec Producers of "Adventures with Kanga Roddy," an
educational children's offered for syndication this year
(N.Y. POST, 3/27)....CHRISTIA ALOU, the daughter of Expos
manager FELIPE ALOU and sister of Astros OF MOISES ALOU, is
looking to become a certified player agent. But the MLPBA
cites a previous ruling that says such a certification could
create a conflict of interest. Christia has asked that the
policy be reversed. A decision could come within a month
(BASEBALL WEEKLY, 3/25 issue)...SAMMY SOSA purchased 320
tickets for Miami school children for Tuesday's Cubs-Marlins
Opening Day at Pro Player Park. Sosa had promised to buy
the tickets for the kids during his "Sammy Claus" seven-city
holiday tour last December (THE DAILY)....Raptors G DOUG
CHRISTIE has hired DWIGHT MANLEY as his new agent (TORONTO
SUN, 3/26)....MUHAMMAD ALI was on Capitol Hill to "fight for
more research money for Parkinson's Disease." Dr. ABRAHAM
LIEBERMAN, Ali's doctor and head of the Nat'l Parkinson
Foundation: "He's not bitter, and he's not angry that he has
Parkinson's Disease. It is, he feels, something that God
gave him" (CNBC, 3/26)....On CBS's "Late Show," stage
manager BIFF HENDERSON filed a report from the Yankees'
spring training camp. Yankees players BERNIE WILLIAMS,
DAVID CONE, DAVID WELLS, DARRYL STRAWBERRY, JORGE POSADA and
JOE GIRARDI appeared in the piece (CBS, 3/26).
