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Sporting News, The, Feb 1, 1999

Your team just got into the Super Bowl and your wife is about to have your third child, so what do you do? Go Live! With Regis & Kathie Lee, of course. With his wife in labor in Georgia, Chris Chandler kept a commitment and flew to New York for a TV appearance on the popular daytime talk show two days after the Falcons won the NFC championship." (Diane) was up all night with contractions. After this, I'm on the next flight home," Chandler told Regis Philbin, Kathie Lee Gifford and a national TV audience probably more interested in hearing about his wife's labor than the football game he'll play in Miami. Afterward, Chandler and the hosts went outside the studio for a game of catch on New York's Columbus Avenue. He made it home with plenty of time to spare. Diane Chandler, the daughter of former NFL quarterback John Brodie, gave birth the next afternoon, January 20, to a 6-pound, 10-ounce girl, and Dad was present. It's the third daughter for the Chandlers.

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STONED: Speaking of Kathie Lee, husband Frank Gifford, who's had some time on his hands this football season, has another project going. The New York Daily News reports Gifford will play himself in Oliver Stone's football epic, Any Given Sunday, joining co-stars Al Pacino and Cameron Diaz, But the News reports you won't be seeing Tom Arnold or Sean "Puffy" Combs in the flick. Arnold was supposed to play a football star-turned-broadcaster, but Stone reportedly found his voice too monotone. And Combs had learned to act and pass like a pro but apparently got too cocky for Stone.

SPAWNED: The buyer of Mark McGwire's most famous home run ball may well be a comic book mogul. MSNBC's Jeannette Walls reports it was Todd McFarlane, creator of the dark, cultish comic-book character Spawn, who put out the $3 million-plus it took to purchase at auction last month McGwire's 70th. Spawn, the character, is an former covert assassin who was betrayed, killed then brought back in a deal with the devil. Spawn, the franchise, spawned a movie that grossed more than $100 million, as well as peripherals such as action figures and toys--dark, sinister ones that often make lists of toys parents should avoid. McFarlane is described by an associate as "a baseball fanatic" and is part-owner of the Edmonton Oilers.

SUPERED: You don't have tickets and you can't afford to go to Miami for Super Bowl 33. But you can create the whole week's experience from your living room. Broadcast.com plans to provide audio and video Internet coverage of events and activities leading up to the game. Its best feature: You can crash super agent Leigh Steinbsrg's private party. If you go, be sure and tell Jerry Maguire hello for us.

STUPORED: Fox Sports Net recently spent more than $2 million to become a major sponsor of the New York Yacht Club's Young America yacht in the 2000 America's Cup, an ESPN event. "We'll have our logo on the sail, or maybe a big picture of Keith Olbermann, and ESPN will have to show it," Fox spokesman Vince Wladika says.

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Sporting News, The, Feb 1, 1999

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