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Millen waited in Newark Beth Israel Hospital for three months for a new heart before a match was foundgetty images

Big Ten Network football analyst MATT MILLEN was "out of surgery" on Monday after undergoing a heart transplant. Millen's wife, PAT, said, "Doctors said the heart was a perfect match and he is doing well. The surgery went smoothly." After waiting three months for a match in Newark Beth Israel Hospital, Millen, who has a "rare disease that attacks the lining of the heart, was told Sunday afternoon that a match had been found" (NBCSPORTS.com, 12/24).

NAMES: Cowboys RB EZEKIEL ELLIOTT on Sunday before his game against the Buccaneers "hosted 50 kids and coaches from the St. Louis-based Mathews-Dickey Boys & Girls Club." Elliott teamed up with Nike and Glace Bags to "equip every member of the group with shoes, t-shirts, a clear backpack as well as tickets to the game" (STAR-TELEGRAM.com, 12/23)....Golfer BROOKE HENDERSON was named Postmedia's "2018 Female Athlete of the Year" (THEPROVINCE.com, 12/25)....Gold Medal-winning U.S. skier BODE MILLER was profiled in the N.Y. Times' Carry On feature (N.Y. TIMES, 12/23)....The AP's BOB BAUM is retiring after a 43-year career, and Cardinals WR LARRY FITZGERALD on Sunday "presented him with a framed '43' Cardinals jersey at the post-game press conference" (NBCSPORTS.com, 12/24)....Cubs LF KYLE SCHWARBER on Sunday "proposed to his longtime girlfriend" PAIGE HARTMAN (CHICAGO.SUNTIMES.com, 12/24).

IN MEMORY: CNHI Sports Indiana’s TERRY HUTCHENS died Friday at the age of 60 after being “hospitalized in critical condition after a car accident” on Dec. 17. Hutchens “spent nearly 28 years as a reporter” with the Indianapolis News and Indianapolis Star, and most recently as the Indiana Univ. beat writer for CNHI Sports Indiana. Hutchens’ work was “syndicated in 13 Indiana newspapers,” and he authored 11 books, 10 of them “about IU Sports” (INDIANAPOLIS STAR, 12/22).

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