Davis wore a chef’s hat with a Raiders logo and greeted workers as they came to the lunch tableED GRANEY
Raiders Owner MARK DAVIS, team President MARC BADAIN and Las Vegas Stadium Co. COO DON WEBB threw a barbecue at the Raiders' Las Vegas Stadium site on Thursday for the nearly 600 construction workers and 100 support staff members, "thanking them for staying on time, on budget and, above all, safe." Davis wore a chef’s hat with a Raiders logo and "greeted workers as they came to the lunch table, taking pictures with and fist-bumping them as they arrived." After the lunch, "prizes were drawn with some lucky laborers receiving gift cards, toolboxes and televisions" (LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL, 6/29).
NAMES: Olympic speed skater CATRIONA LE MAY DOAN and hockey player HAYLEY WICKENHEISER were among 16 people named to the Calgary 2026 BOD. Wickenheiser will serve as BOD Chair SCOTT HUTCHESON's "right-hand-woman as the board works to guide the next phase of planning" for a potential Olympic bid (CALGARY SUN, 6/28)....Xcel Energy President, Chair & CEO BEN FOWKE and Vikings COO KEVIN WARREN were elected to Saint Paul-based Securian Financial's BOD (Securian)....Yankees P CC SABATHIA's PitCChIn Foundation raised $1M for inner city youth initiatives with a celebrity softball game at Yankee Stadium on Thursday (NJ.com, 6/28)....Brazil’s Superior Court gave prosecutors the “green light to pursue criminal charges” against Gold Medal-winning U.S. swimmer RYAN LOCHTE for “falsely reporting a crime” during the '16 Rio Games. The ruling “overturned the decision of an appellate court that had dismissed the case last year” (N.Y. TIMES, 6/29)....Longtime Indiana Univ. football and basketball broadcaster DON FISCHER received the National Sports Media Association's inaugural Woody Durham Voice of College Sports Award (INDYSTAR.com, 6/28)....F1 driver LEWIS HAMILTON has “made his pop debut” on CHRISTINA AGUILERA’s new song, “Pipe.” Hamilton “can be heard singing a verse in the song, credited as XNDA” (CANOE.com, 6/27).
