Bam Bam, who recently led the Adelphia Fancy Club in its Mummers Parade debut, reported that his thyroid was removed by "the wonderful staff at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital."
"I guess screaming on a microphone for years just blew up my throat," Bam Bam wrote us the other day.
Jacky, also the house DJ at Cheerleaders (Front & Oregon), says he'll be back there to host post-Wing Bowl festivities on Friday.
LiveNation holds onto Boyd
LiveNation announced the sale of almost its entire theatrical division Thursday, but the largest live-music company in the world held onto two theaters - the Warner Theatre in Washington, D.C., which it leases; and the Boyd Theatre (1908 Chestnut), aka the Sameric.
Clear Channel, of which
LiveNation is a subsidiary, bought the Philly theater in January 2005 from the Goldenberg Group. Built in 1928, the Boyd was Center City's last great movie palace and was closed in May 2002.
LiveNation has said it would turn the venue into a multi-use entertainment house. A LiveNation spokesman did not return an e-mail about plans for the theater.
'Tex' Cobb wants
to help boxers
Randall "Tex" Cobb's longtime attorney George Bochetto hosted a small reception for his pal, who graduated from Temple Friday with a degree in sports management.
On Thursday, we told you that the 54-year-old boxer-turned-movie-star ("Raising Arizona") had finished his studies at Temple, the same school his son, Joshua, attended. Cobb graduated magna cum laude and says his GPA was 3.74. Despite his degree, Cobb tells us he doesn't think being an agent is in his future. Instead, he hopes to work on boxing reform.
He would like "to be a living example of what a fighter can do when he gets out of the ring." Cobb says "there's no pension, no retirement, no long-term health care. It's the only major sport that doesn't have anything for the participant once he leaves."
