Thompson received what she described as "hurtful" messages after playing golf with President TrumpGETTY IMAGES
Golfer LEXI THOMPSON on Sunday said that she was "'taking a break from social media' after receiving 'hurtful' comments," just over a week after "playing a round" with PRESIDENT TRUMP. Thompson used her Instagram account to "tell her 413,000 followers that any upcoming posts would be 'from my management team for me.'" She added, “I’m too involved with it, and to read some of the hurtful things being said to me lately isn’t fair and I’m not dealing with it" (WASHINGTONPOST.com, 4/30).
EXTREME VALUE: Discovery President & CEO DAVID ZASLAV's compensation package for '18 "was valued at $129,449,005." Zaslav has "presided over a 15% rise in the compound annual growth rate of Discovery shares and the expansion of its market cap" from $5B to nearly $22B. Zaslav has "always had a much lower public profile" than Disney Chair & CEO BOB IGER or Fox Exec Chair RUPERT MURDOCH. But he is a "well-respected CEO who has transformed the cable content group" (VARIETY.com, 4/30).
AWARDS & HONORS:NBA Dir of Int'l Security ROBERT MCDONALD was given a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Univ. of New Haven's Henry Lee College of Criminal Justice (THE DAILY)....Former MSG Network President JOE COHEN was inducted into the Legacy Wing of the WWE HOF on April 6. Cohen was named an SBJ Champion in '16 (THE DAILY).
NAMES: The Titans Foundation donated $100,000 to Habitat for Humanity for its ‘19 Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter Work Project to be held in Nashville Oct. 6-11 (Titans)....Nike gave $100,000 to a "political action committee that supports" Oregon lawmakers’ $2B tax hike (Portland OREGONIAN, 5/1)....U.S. Magistrate Judge KAROLINE MEHALCHICK “overturned the 2017 child endangerment conviction” of former Penn State President GRAHAM SPANIER (PENNLIVE.com, 4/30)....Canadian esports organization Luminosity Gaming has added musician TORY LANEZ to its ownership group (Luminosity Gaming)....Univ. of Virginia men's basketball coach TONY BENNETT and his father, DICK, “will get to play Augusta National next week” (GOLFWEEK.com, 4/29)....Gold Medal-winning U.S. sprinter SANYA RICHARDS-ROSS will co-host a half-hour “syndicated entertainment-news show that will get a trial run on Fox stations in the fall” titled “CENTRAL AVE” (HOLLYWOODREPORTER.com, 4/29)....ALEX RODRIGUEZ was wearing a “blue pinstripe suit and Gucci tortoise hair sunglasses” as he arrived for the Milken Global Conference at the Beverly Hilton (POLITICO.com, 5/1). Rodriguez was also spotted hugging MICHAEL AVENATTI at Craig’s in West Hollywood (POLITICO.com, 4/30)....Wizards G BRADLEY BEAL and his girlfriend, KAMIAH ADAMS, are “expecting their second child together" (NBCSPORTSWASHINGTON.com, 4/30).
IN MEMORY: Longtime Toronto Sun motorsports reporter DEAN MCNULTY died Monday at age 70 “following a courageous battle with leukemia.” The “last of the full-time national Canadian newspaper reporters on motorsports,” McNulty in January was inducted into the Canadian Motorsports HOF’s media wing (TORONTOSUN.com, 4/30).
