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Congressional staffers and Capitol staff yesterday "lined up for yards" to meet Patriots Owner ROBERT KRAFT and "take a picture with him in front the Lombardi Trophy." U.S. Rep. RICHARD NEAL (D-Mass.) "hosted a 3:30 p.m. meet-and-greet for the New England delegation and its aides." A line of staffers and fans from all over DC "stretched down Capitol hallways and eventually had to be cut off for time." Both Massachusetts Senators EDWARD MARKEY and ELIZABETH WARREN "stopped by, along with almost every Massachusetts representative." U.S. Rep. CHELLIE PINGREE (D-Maine) also attended. Kraft’s event "was scheduled to coincide with his trip" to DC at Israel Prime Minister BENJAMIN NETANYAHU’s invitation, so he could watch Netanyahu's speech to congress yesterday from the House gallery (BOSTON GLOBE, 3/4).

Edens plans to climb Alaska's Denali mountain
along with a group of Navy SEALs.
BUCK WILD: Bucks co-Owner WES EDENS yesterday "made his third debt-related acquisition in about a week" when Springleaf Financial firm announced it was buying Citigroup’s OneMain Financial for $4.3B. The all-cash purchase "is expected to close in the third quarter of this year, and would make it the largest consumer-finance company -- and subprime lender -- in the country" (N.Y. POST, 3/4). Meanwhile, Edens plans to climb Alaska's Denali mountain, which is the largest in North America, along with a group of Navy SEALs. He also has already climbed Teton in Wyoming and Matterhorn in Switzerland. Edens in '13 "nearly slipped into a fatal free fall while rappelling Pingora Peak, a 12,000-footer in Wyoming's Wind River Range" (FORBES, 3/23 issue).

MATTERS OF THE HEART: NCAA Chief Medical Officer BRIAN HAINLINE "disclosed that he is preparing to recommend this fall that athletes at higher risk of cardiac death ... be required to undergo an EKG test to search for cardiac defects." Such a recommendation "wouldn’t obligate any school to follow it." Hainline’s recommendation "would represent the most radical effort to prevent cardiac death in college athletes since this danger hurtled into view exactly 25 years ago, when Loyola Marymount basketball star HANK GATHERS fell dead of a heart defect" (WALL STREET JOURNAL, 3/4).

NAMES: Atlanta Journal-Constitution columnist MARK BRADLEY and late St. Louis Post-Dispatch columnist BRYAN BURWELL "have been selected" for the U.S. Basketball Writers Association HOF. They will be inducted at the annual awards ceremony during a luncheon at this year's Final Four in Indianapolis on April 6 (USBWA)....NFL Giants P STEVE WEATHERFORD and former NFLer SIDNEY RICE announced yesterday that they “will donate their brains to medical research" after their deaths. The pair “made a joint announcement to coincide with Brain Injury Awareness Month” (REUTERS, 3/3)....Univ. of Georgia men’s basketball coach MARK FOX “has finally signed the extension to his contract that the school announced last spring.” UGA “extended his contract two seasons” through March 31, 2018, with his salary remaining at $1.7M annually (ONLINEATHENS.com, 3/3)....Seahawks CB BYRON MAXWELL “is changing agents.” Sources said that Maxwell “fired JASON CHAYUT and will hire a new agent in the next week” (ESPN.com, 3/3)....The Fenway Park branch of Jerry Remy’s Sports Bar & Grill “has permanently shuttered, as first reported by the Boston Restaurant Talk blog” (BOSTON GLOBE, 3/4)....Pro Football HOFer DAN MARINO “is buying a place” on Ft. Lauderdale beach at the Auberge Beach Residences & Spa (SUN-SENTINEL.com, 3/4).

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