Names in the News

Cardinals DH ALBERT PUJOLS "plans to honor" his 10-year, $10M personal-services contract with the Angels despite owner ARTE MORENO’s intentions of selling the team and the "disappointing end" to his nine-plus-year tenure in Anaheim. A person familiar with Pujols’ thinking said, “He’s excited to see who the new owner is.” Pujols personal-services contract with the Angels is "with the team, not Moreno" (L.A. TIMES, 10/8)....UConn G PAIGE BUECKERS unveiled a new community basketball court in partnership with StockX and fellow brand ambassador JAMAD FIIN in St. Louis Park, Minnesota (HARTFORD COURANT, 10/8)...College Football HOFer and former Georgia coach VINCE DOOLEY has been hospitalized with pneumonia, but the expectations is that his hospital stay “will not be long” (ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION, 10/8)...St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter RICK HUMMEL is retiring after 51 years (BOSTON GLOBE, 10/8)...Nets G KYRIE IRVING and wife MARLENE WILKERSON welcomed their second child Wednesday (N.Y. POST, 10/8).