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Irsay plans to build a special display for the manuscript and display at the AA HQ in N.Y.GETTY IMAGES

The founding document of Alcoholics Anonymous "sold at auction Saturday" for $2.4M to Colts Owner JIM IRSAY, who "plans to build a special display for the manuscript and display it for several months a year" at the AA HQ in N.Y. (AP, 5/5). 

PICK-UP GAME: KEVIN DURANT will "help pick up tuition costs" when four regular visitors from the Boys & Girls Club of Redwood City head off to college next fall. Durant judged a "Youth of the Year" award ceremony in February, and "wound up enamored with the kids." The exact amount of his scholarships "is to be determined, but officials from the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Peninsula called the pledge 'substantial'" (MERCURYNEWS.com, 5/6). 

OUTFIELD ASSISTS: The Twins Community Fund has "donated $100,000 to the Minneapolis Park Board for the Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities program” (STARTRIBUNE.com, 5/5)....Astros 2B JOSE ALTUVE and D-backs RF DAVID PERALTA attended a youth baseball clinic in Phoenix where "equipment donations were accepted” for the players’ home country of Venezuela, which is “enduring severe food and medicine shortages” (HOUSTON CHRONICLE, 5/6)....Cardinals C YADIER MOLINA will “unite members” of the Cardinals and Cubs next month to “help raise desperately needed funds for victims of Hurricane Maria" in Puerto Rico (STLTODAY.com, 5/7)

NAMES: DR. CHARLES SWANTON got a No. 18 jersey as the recipient of the Jonathan Kraft Prize for Excellence in Cancer Research at a gathering of Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center leaders and faculty. Swanton is "known for his work on recognizing differences in cancer cells within the same tumor" (BOSTONGLOBE.com, 5/4)....Pistons F REGGIE BULLOCK was in N.Y. on Saturday night to "speak at the GLAAD Media Awards dinner." Bullock addressed "inclusion and equality for transgender people" since the murder of his sister MIA HENDERSON in '14 (DETROIT NEWS, 5/5)....Seattle Univ. will "remove the name of the late Archbishop THOMAS CONNOLLY from its athletics and recreation center because of his role in covering up for a known pedophile priest" (SEATTLETIMES.com, 5/4)....HAFTHOR JULIUS BJORNSSON, who plays Gregor “The Mountain” Clegane on HBO’s “GAME OF THRONES,” was “crowned the world’s strongest man” after coming in second place each of the past two years (WASHINGTONPOST.com, 5/7)....Falcons Owner ARTHUR BLANK this past Thursday was in attendance at a gala in the N.Y. celebrating Home Depot’s founding. Blank is one of the company’s co-Founders (POLITICO.com, 5/4).

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