Team USA welcomed the father of late hockey players JOHNNY and MATTHEW GAUDREAU to its 4 Nations Face-Off practice yesterday, hosting GUY GAUDREAU as a guest coach the morning after he joined the team for a pre-tournament dinner. Team USA GM BILL GUERIN said that USA players also “insisted Guy be in Tuesday’s team photo” (ESPN.com, 2/11).
DELAYED AGAIN: The sexual assault lawsuit against Cowboys owner JERRY JONES will not go before a jury next month as previously scheduled, marking the “second time in roughly a year that the trial date has been rescheduled.” After being pushed to March 3, it now will “likely be rescheduled for later this year” (DALLAS MORNING NEWS, 2/11).
NAMES: ESPN broadcaster and Univ. of Utah alum HOLLY ROWE will be the keynote speaker at the school’s 2025 graduation ceremony scheduled for May 1 (SALT LAKE TRIBUNE, 2/11)….ESPN Radio host PAUL FINEBAUM bought a 12,165-square-foot estate in Birmingham suburb Mountain Brook for nearly $5.2M. The five-bedroom, eight-bath home sits on 2.3 acres (BIRMINGHAM BUSINESS JOURNAL, 2/11)….Actor ALAN RITCHSON will be behind the wheel of the pace car that will lead the Daytona 500 field (Daytona Beach NEWS-JOURNAL, 2/11).
IN MEMORY: Former Maple Leafs PA announcer PAUL MORRIS, who served in the role for 38 years, died last Thursday at 86 in Oshawa, Ont. Morris retired at the end of the 1998-99 season (TORONTO SUN, 2/11)....Former Houston Oilers and Texans PA announcer JIM CAROLA died Monday at 83. Carola served in the role for the Oilers for 28 years and with the Texans for four seasons (HOUSTON CHRONICLE, 2/11).
