Patrick said she is considering a variety of opportunities, which could also include another bookDANICA PATRICK
Retired driver DANICA PATRICK is "hoping to utilize" her new "health and fitness book, 'PRETTY INTENSE,' as a springboard onto new projects." She said that she is "seriously considering a variety of opportunities, which could also include another book." Patrick: "It could be an app, it could be an online program, it could also find other specialty delivery systems that I've been thinking about. And then there's the cooking, which could be a cookbook itself. It could be a cooking show" (USATODAY.com, 9/8).
REMAIN SEATED: An ethics investigation cleared Oakland Mayor LIBBY SCHAAF and City Council member LYNETTE GIBSON MCELHANEY for their use of "free tickets to sporting events," including the NBA Finals. Members of the city's Public Ethics Commission will "make a final decision during their meeting" tomorrow. The recommendation came despite Schaaf "personally using $54,000 worth of tickets" and McElhaney "personally using $320,000 in tickets" (SFCHRONICLE.com, 9/9).
NAMES: An exhibition titled "The Power of Protest" at the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Main Library in San Jose "chronicles demonstrations by athletes." The exhibition, which opened to the public Friday and runs through Nov. 15, will "culminate in a Town Hall meeting Oct. 17" for the San Jose State's Institute for the Study of Sport, Society and Societal Change (MERCURYNEWS.com, 9/8)....The family of late Baseball HOFer TONY GWYNN reached a settlement with the U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company, ending a lawsuit filed by the family. The case had a trial date of September ’19 (USATODAY.com, 9/7)....Pitt inducted its inaugural HOF class on Saturday that included DAN MARINO and MIKE DITKA. The establishment of a school HOF fulfilled one of second-year AD HEATHER LYKE’s “first visions when she arrived” (PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE, 9/8)....MARK WAHLBERG won a bet against ALEX RODRIGUEZ the last time Rodriguez was in Boston for a Yankees-Red Sox “Sunday Night Baseball” game. The Yankees lost, so Wahlberg put Rodriguez to “work at his family’s burger joint near Fenway Park” yesterday (BOSTONGLOBE.com, 9/9)....The STEVE MILLER BAND put on a free show in the Lambeau Field parking lot Saturday night that “drew a mass of people that stretched from the stage” to the sidewalks. The Packers estimated the area “could hold at least 20,000 people” (GREEN BAY PRESS-GAZETTE, 9/10)....Celtics G TERRY ROZIER joined rapper DRAKE “on stage” for his concert at TD Garden Saturday (NBCSPORTSBOSTON.com, 9/9)....Free agent G DWYANE WADE was in N.Y. for Fashion Week to “launch a new 800 Degrees wood-fired kitchen” with Heat F UDONIS HASLEM and Executive Chef ANTHONY CARRON (NYPOST.com, 9/8).
IN MEMORY: Longtime hockey writer BOB SNOW passed away Aug. 23 “due to complications related to ALS.” Snow’s works appeared in “myriad places,” including Boston.com, the NHL’s website and BruinsDaily.com. His son, CHRIS SNOW, is a former Boston Globe "sports staff writer" who now serves as Flames Dir of Hockey Analysis (BOSTONGLOBE.com, 9/8).
