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The process of Kansas State changing football coaches from BILL SNYDER to CHRIS KLIEMAN "will end up costing the university" around $5M. Snyder's decision to step down came with a $3M incentive that the university will "pay him quarterly over the next three years." The school also "agreed to pay for Snyder and his wife to attend the National Football Foundation Annual Awards Dinner" in N.Y. for the remainder of his life. The agreement was "drafted on Dec. 5," and his final day of work "came two days later." It also "cost K-State $40,000 to hire search firm Ventura Partners" to assist AD GENE TAYLOR during his coaching search (WICHITA EAGLE, 1/5).
NAMES: Bowling chain Royal Pin Leisure GM JIM DOTY and Bowlers Journal Int'l Senior Editor BOB JOHNSON were among the '19 inductees into the PBA HOF. Doty's Indianapolis chain includes long-time PBA host Woodland Bowl, while Johnson has won over 75 national writing awards for his bowling coverage (PBA)....Former Orioles Exec VP/Baseball Operations DAN DUQUETTE is now "living on Cape Cod" and talking to a "couple" of MLB teams about a front-office role (BOSTON GLOBE, 1/6)....The PGA Tour generated a record $190M for more than 3,000 charitable causes in '18, bringing the circuit's all-time total to $2.84B (PGA Tour)....Philadelphia-based real estate brokerage start-up Houwzer raised an additional $4.5M from Basketball HOFer DAVID ROBINSON and from local investor and political fund-raiser IRA LUBERT. Robinson is making a personal investment "through his private equity firm, Admiral Capital Group" (PHILLY.com, 1/7)....Steelers LB RYAN SHAZIER and his fiancee MICHELLE RODRIGUEZ are the "proud parents of a new baby boy: LYON CARTER SHAZIER" (TRIBLIVE.com, 1/6).
