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The SPORTSBUSINESS JOURNAL's Liz Mullen reports that Cleveland-based Prim Capital Principal JOSEPH LOMBARDO will submit a report to the NBPA next month that will detail the problems of financial advisers, including "exorbitant fees and advisers engaging in potential conflicts of interest" (SBJ, 3/17 issue)....TERESA EARNHARDT announced the addition of HOOTIE & THE BLOWFISH and THE GOO GOO DOLLS to the lineup for the June 28 DALE EARNHARDT TRIBUTE CONCERT at Daytona Int'l Speedway. SHERYL CROW, ALABAMA, BROOKS & DUNN and KENNY CHESNEY will perform at the fundraising concert, the first non-racing event to be held at the speedway (THE DAILY)....D'Backs P CURT SCHILLING has been named to the board of TRANSLATIONAL GENOMICS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, AZ's premier biotech research group (AZ REPUBLIC, 3/18)....Former NFLer BARRY SANDERS has agreed to participate as a presenter in the 24th annual SPORTS EMMY AWARDS April 21 at the Marriott Marquis in N.Y. (FSN)....Sports & Entertainment, Australia's largest entertainment company which is part-owned by IMG's JAMES ERSKINE, in a venture with ENDYMION FILMS will produce the film "KENYAN RUNNERS," a movie based on Irish missionary BROTHER COLM O'CONNELL who trains many of Kenya's Olympic athletes (DAILY VARIETY, 3/18).
