Baker (r) and his startup are working on projects involving solar power and cannabis growing operationsGETTY IMAGES
Former MLB manager DUSTY BAKER's Baker Energy Team, a startup based outside Sacramento, is "developing, pitching and working on large projects for historically black universities, cannabis growing operations, tribal reservations and commercial businesses," as well as "solar power" (CHICAGO TRIBUNE, 12/12).
NAMES: Sources said that "little headway has been made in a search for a permanent successor or successors" to former CBS CEO LES MOONVES. CBS held its annual meeting for shareholders yesterday (WSJ.com, 12/10)....In a survey of the best “large companies” to work for, conducted by career-monitoring website Comparably, Blizzard Entertainment and Fanatics were ranked Nos. 9 and 20, respectively (USA TODAY, 12/12)....Cowboys DT TYRONE CRAWFORD and DE DEMARCUS LAWRENCE on Monday gave away 100 bikes to "kids ranging from age 4 to 10." The bikes were a gift from a Dallas Academy Sports and Outdoors at "about $60 a bike" (STAR-TELEGRAM.com, 12/11)....Former NFLer CHRIS SNEE and his family on Monday delivered holiday gifts to pediatric patients at St. Josephs Regional Medical Center in N.Y. on behalf of The Tom Coughlin Jay Fund. The gift-giving is an “annual tradition over the last five years for the Snees” (NJ.com, 12/12).
