Boston-based PAUL KREPELKA is "leaving the agent business," as he has "sold his holdings in the Orr Hockey Group," which reps top NHL Draft prospect CONNOR MCDAVID. While Krepelka has "not determined his next move, he’s expressed interest in joining an NHL team’s front office." He has "20 years of experience in negotiating player contracts." Krepelka’s former clients include Hurricanes Cs ERIC STAAL and JORDAN STAAL, Oilers LW TAYLOR HALL, Maple Leafs RW NATHAN HORTON, Capitals D JOHN CARLSON, Stars D TREVOR DALEY, Lightning C BRIAN BOYLE, and Bruins D ADAM MCQUAID (BOSTON GLOBE, 6/14).
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Duffy is one of two female GMs in the USL, and
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HEAR ME ROAR: USL club Louisville City FC GM AMANDA DUFFY is "one of two" female GMs in the league and "one of a handful of women" to earn the title with a men's pro soccer franchise in the U.S. Duffy is "navigating the pressures that come with launching a brand new franchise," as well as "the weight of being a woman in a position few women have held before" (ORLANDO SENTINEL, 6/14)....JENNIFER LUTE COSTELLA, who blogs about advanced hockey analytics, said that NHL teams have "expressed interest in her work." She is "one of the rare women immersed" in the field (CHICAGO TRIBUNE, 6/15).
HEART OF A LION: THE MMQB's Jenny Vrentas notes former SI Senior Editor SANDY PADWE is retiring after spending "more than two decades as a professor at Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism." Vrentas, one of Padwe's students at the school, writes he "singlehandedly made sure sports journalism was taken seriously at Columbia" (MMQB.SI.com, 6/15).
COURT REPORT: Former ECHL Utah Grizzlies medical assistant OSCAR JOHNSON will "plead guilty to one of the 27 counts he faced when he was indicted in September," related to the death of late NHLer DEREK BOOGAARD. The count "involves a single prescription for Percocet written by Johnson" to former Grizzlies player JORDAN HART, who allegedly "sold some of those pills to Boogaard" (N.Y. TIMES, 6/13).
NAMES: Pro Football HOFer TROY AIKMAN "cashed out an undisclosed stake of shares he owned in Dallas-based Wingstop, which saw its share price rise" 61% on its "first day of trading Friday." Aikman "wouldn't disclose his total ownership in the company but did say it's worth more than what he made in his first four years in the NFL," which was about $6M (ESPN.com, 6/12)....Red Sox Exec VP & Senior Advisor CHARLES STEINBERG is helping MLB Commissioner Emeritus BUD SELIG "with his memoirs." Steinberg also is helping Red Sox President & CEO LARRY LUCCHINO "with the Providence stadium issues" for the Triple-A Int'l League Pawtucket Red Sox (BOSTON GLOBE, 6/14)....Toronto Sun columnist BOB ELLIOTT on Saturday was inducted into the Canadian Baseball HOF (TORONTO SUN, 6/14)....Interpol on Friday amid U.S. investigations into FIFA "suspended an agreement" with the governing body that had called for the int'l police agency to receive $22.5M over 10 years to "fight corruption in soccer" (N.Y. TIMES, 6/13)....AFL Tampa Bay Storm VP/Football Operations JEFF GOOCH was arrested yesterday morning “on a misdemeanor charge” of DUI (TAMPABAY.com, 6/14)....Univ. of Louisville men’s basketball coach RICK PITINO was at Churchill Downs on Saturday to meet Triple Crown-winner American Pharoah (COURIER-JOURNAL.com, 6/13)....Actor JAKE GYLLENHAAL sat courtside with USHER for Game 4 of the NBA Finals at Quicken Loans Arena. Also in attendance were rappers KANYE WEST and WALE, and former pro wrestler RIC FLAIR (NYPOST.com, 6/13)....Tennis player SERENA WILLIAMS celebrated her French Open win at the Dream Downtown hotel in N.Y., arriving around midnight Friday (N.Y. POST, 6/15).
IN MEMORY: Former St. Paul Pioneer Press sports writer CHARLEY HALLMAN died Thursday at the age of 71. Minneapolis Star Tribune columnist PATRICK REUSSE said of his former colleague, “He was the Number 1 character I’ve worked with in 47 years of Twin Cities sportswriting, but there was more: He also could crank out more copy faster than anyone” (STARTRIBUNE.com, 6/13).
