In Pittsburgh, Taryn Luna reports Pirates Owner BOB NUTTING will "charter a bus" to return the Baldwin High School softball team home Sunday from a Cal Ripken Experience softball tournament in Myrtle Beach, S.C. The players were "left in limbo without a way home when Direct Air shut down operations last week and cancelled their return flight from Myrtle Beach to Pittsburgh" (PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE, 3/21).
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NAMES
: Auction house Sotheby's yesterday announced that this spring it will "sell about 50 works of art" owned by the estate of the late IMG Chair & CEO
TED FORSTMANN
, with an estimated value of $75M (NYTIMES.com, 3/20)....Houston police officer
RAYMOND PEREZ
, who has accused MLS Dynamo G
TYLER DERIC
of assault, yesterday "filed a civil suit" against the team, D
WARREN CREAVALLE
, F
WILL BRUIN
and MF
ALEX DIXON
. The suit, filed in the District Court of Harris County (Texas), alleges the defendants "assaulted the plaintiff and are guilty of negligence" (HOUSTON CHRONICLE, 3/21)....Keeneland Race Course and bourbon distillery Maker’s Mark announced that former NFL and Univ. of Kentucky QB
TIM COUCH
will be featured on a commemorative bottle to benefit the UK Health Care's Gill Heart Institute. It is the 16th year the organizations have partnered to offer a charitable bottle (Louisville COURIER-JOURNAL, 3/21)....Boxer
FLOYD MAYWEATHER JR
. has "paid all of the medical bills -- currently in excess of $49,000 -- for 10-month-old
AUSTIN YORK
, who was born with a rare heart abnormality known as hypoplastic right heart syndrome" (SPORTS.YAHOO.com, 3/20)....Aerosmith bassist
TOM HAMILTON
and Red Sox DH
DAVID ORTIZ
have teamed up to support the '12 YouthCare Spring Gala April 26 at Boston's Four Seasons hotel (BOSTON HERALD, 3/21)....Izod IndyCar Series Honda Grand Prix in St. Petersburg organizers announced yesterday that current "
DANCING WITH THE STARS
" contestant
JACK WAGNER
and his partner
ANNA TREBUNSKAYA
will serve as grand marshals for the season-opening race on Sunday, which is set to air on ABC (TAMPABAY.com, 3/20).
