Menu
People and Pop Culture

Names In The News

After touring St. Jude Children's Research Hospital a few years ago, PGA Tour caddie SCOTT SAJTINAC and other caddies "agreed to start raising money for St. Jude" and a "fundraising platform for each caddie who belongs to the Association of Professional Tour Caddies was established." The caddies donated $41,000 in '16, their "first year of raising money." They have "already raised thousands more this year." The caddies "partnered with AT&T for the first AT&T Tour Caddie Championship" in Dallas on May 22. Today, about two dozen caddies will "participate in a corn hole tournament near the driving range at TPC Southwind" in Memphis. The fundraising link will "remain active" and the "goal is to raise" $50,000 this year (USA TODAY, 6/7).

GIVING BACK: Pistons Owner TOM GORES' FlintNOW initiative and the NBPA are giving $300,000 worth of "gift certificates for healthy food to Flint families through a partnership" with Michigan State. Gores "founded FlintNOW to provide private sector support for short-term relief efforts tied to the Flint water crisis and for long-term programs focused on economic development, nutrition and health care" in the area (MLIVE.com, 6/6).

NAMES: The Milwaukee Bucks Foundation yesterday awarded a $100,000 grant to the Running Rebels Community Organization (Bucks)....The Texas Sports HOF is "honoring" Texans Owner BOB MCNAIR next March with its Lamar Hunt Lifetime Achievement Award. McNair will be the fifth recipient of the Texas Sports HOF's "highest honor." Previous winners include former Spurs Owner RED MCCOMBS and former Astros Owner DRAYTON MCLANE (HOUSTON CHRONICLE, 6/7)....USL Tampa Bay Rowdies Owner BILL EDWARDS "had a health scare last month when he traveled to Ohio to have a pacemaker installed." Doctors "ended up performing a double bypass surgery." Edwards is "recovering at home in St. Petersburg, keeping track of his business affairs." He said, "It'll take two or three months to get back to 100 percent" (TAMPA BAY TIMES, 6/7)....No nominee has "waited longer" than NFL Jets Owner WOODY JOHNSON for a post in PRESIDENT TRUMP’s administration, which "needs Senate confirmation." Johnson is expected to be nominated to be Ambassador to the U.K. (NJ.com, 6/6)....Warriors F KEVIN DURANT is a "part-owner of the Grill in the former Four Seasons Restaurant space" in N.Y. (N.Y. POST, 6/7).

SBJ Morning Buzzcast: March 25, 2024

NFL meeting preview; MLB's opening week ad effort and remembering Peter Angelos.

Big Get Jay Wright, March Madness is upon us and ESPN locks up CFP

On this week’s pod, our Big Get is CBS Sports college basketball analyst Jay Wright. The NCAA Championship-winning coach shares his insight with SBJ’s Austin Karp on key hoops issues and why being well dressed is an important part of his success. Also on the show, Poynter Institute senior writer Tom Jones shares who he has up and who is down in sports media. Later, SBJ’s Ben Portnoy talks the latest on ESPN’s CFP extension and who CBS, TNT Sports and ESPN need to make deep runs in the men’s and women's NCAA basketball tournaments.

SBJ I Factor: Nana-Yaw Asamoah

SBJ I Factor features an interview with AMB Sports and Entertainment Chief Commercial Office Nana-Yaw Asamoah. Asamoah, who moved over to AMBSE last year after 14 years at the NFL, talks with SBJ’s Ben Fischer about how his role model parents and older sisters pushed him to shrive, how the power of lifelong learning fuels successful people, and why AMBSE was an opportunity he could not pass up. Asamoah is 2021 SBJ Forty Under 40 honoree. SBJ I Factor is a monthly podcast offering interviews with sports executives who have been recipients of one of the magazine’s awards.

Shareable URL copied to clipboard!

https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Daily/Issues/2017/06/07/People-and-Pop-Culture/Names.aspx

Sorry, something went wrong with the copy but here is the link for you.

https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Daily/Issues/2017/06/07/People-and-Pop-Culture/Names.aspx

CLOSE