Cowboys owner JERRY JONES has "had at least one legal dispute resolved" with a 27-year old woman who claims to be his biological daughter. A defamation lawsuit alleging that Jones and his attorneys portrayed her as an extortionist "was dismissed by a judge in federal court" yesterday. ALEXANDRA DAVIS had accused Jones and others of executing a “false and purposeful character assassination attack” on her after she sued him to establish paternity (FORT WORTH STAR-TELEGRAM, 3/13).
CELEBRATION: The Charlotte Sports Foundation and SBJ hosted an evening of celebration last night in honor of the city of Charlotte's inaugural ranking on SBJ's Best Sports Business Cities list -- on which it finished at No. 3. The event was held at the Quail Hollow Club Pavilion, with opening remarks from SBJ Exec Editor & Publisher ABE MADKOUR and closing remarks from Charlotte Sports Foundation Exec Dir DANNY MORRISON. Others attending the event included former Panthers LB THOMAS DAVIS; TAMERA GREEN, JAKE BURNS, CAROLINE WRIGHT and DAN O'NEIL from Tepper Sports & Entertainment; BRIAN HERBST, MATT NORDBY and TIM CLARK from NASCAR; and MIKE BOYKIN, GREG BUSCH and BROOKE FAW from Bespoke Sports & Entertainment (SBJ).
NAMES: Democratic Pennsylvania state senators AMANDA CAPPELLETTI and JIMMY DILLON plan to introduce a resolution in the state Senate to make June 2, 2024 “JASON KELCE Day.” The date is a reference to Kelce’s jersey No. 62 (PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, 3/13)....Cabrini Univ. has picked KYLIE MCDEVITT KELCE to be one of the school’s final commencement speakers on May 19. Kelce graduated in 2017 from Cabrini (PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, 3/13).
IN MEMORY: GERALD M. LEVIN, a media exec who became CEO of the world’s largest media company -- Time Warner -- and an architect of its merger with America Online died on Wednesday at 84. Levin had been previously diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. His legacy, the merger creating AOL Time Warner, was “heralded as a watershed moment” -- the union of old and new media. Instead, it became “shorthand for the excesses of the turn-of-the-century dot-com bubble and the era of so-called synergy.” Levin helped change the television landscape when, in 1975 as CEO of a regional pay-TV channel called Home Box Office, he persuaded its parent company, Time Inc., to transmit the network’s signal via satellite. The gambit made HBO available nationwide, just in time for the “Thrilla in Manila” fight between legendary boxers MUHAMMAD ALI and JOE FRAZIER (N.Y. TIMES, 3/14).
