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Coaches' corner: If you're a man with a reputation to protect, it's not a good idea to meet a woman at a strip club, then leave her alone in your hotel room while you play a round of golf. That ought to be an easy one to remember, yet it's one that recently hired--and recently fired--football coach Mike Price of the University of Alabama apparently forgot...
...that measure, Price and Eustachy--whose self-made messes were Clintonesque in their carelessness--flunked school. Price, who had previously coached at Washington State, already had something of a reputation for wild living and had reportedly been warned once. Nonetheless, on April 16, prior to a Pensacola, Fla., golf outing, he is said to have spent much of the day drinking at a local strip club. That night, according to SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, two women he met there joined him in his hotel room. Price admits to one woman but claims she merely helped him back to the hotel. No matter...
Many couples opt for locations that not only are congenial to a ceremony but also offer opportunities to golf, fish, indulge in a spa treatment or explore another culture. Avid scuba divers Stephanie Dowling, 29, and Chad Eschmeyer, 28, of Scottsdale, Ariz., plan for their May 2004 wedding in the Virgin Islands to include a day of snorkeling and diving. They originally anticipated 15 guests. Now 50 guests, many of them fellow divers, are scheduled to stay in a resort the couple selected over the Internet for a week of activities, including celebrations of Cinco de Mayo, the Mexican festival...
Waving a Cohiba cigar in his expansive office overlooking downtown Montgomery, Ala., David Bronner talks enthusiastically about his investments: in an airline just reorganized after bankruptcy, a chain of luxury golf resorts and a group of television stations. Is he a gunslinging Sunbelt entrepreneur in the mold of Ted Turner? A hedge-fund manager? A contrarian private-equity investor? Not even close. Bronner, 58, is, in his own words, "a government bureaucrat"--the chief executive of Retirement Systems of Alabama (RSA), the pension fund for 290,000 state workers and retirees. An unabashed cheerleader for Alabama who is comfortable...
...seventh largest passenger carrier, US Airways, which this month emerged from Chapter 11 protection and named Bronner as its new chairman. Some of his ideas for reviving the airline involve RSA's other unorthodox ventures, including its $5 billion in media holdings and its string of acclaimed Alabama golf courses, the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail. "I'll give US Airways free advertising," Bronner says. The pitch: "Fly US Airways to the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail...