♦Knight on Tiger: Endorsements come with risk
Nike chairman and co-founder Phil Knight, long-regarded as one of the sports industry's leading innovators, talks on Tiger Woods and the impact of his infidelities on his Nike deal. [Sports Business Journal]

♦Dubai's $10B bailout by Abu Dhabi calms fears
Oil-rich Abu Dhabi pumped $10 billion into its indebted neighbor Monday, sending stocks soaring while sparing Dubai and the rest of the Emirates federation the humiliation of an imminent default by one of the struggling Arab boomtown's star companies. [Yahoo News]

♦Exxon Mobil to buy XTO Energy for $31 billion
Exxon Mobil will buy XTO Energy in an all-stock deal worth $31 billion as the oil giant moved aggressively Monday to capitalize on the growing supply of natural gas at home. [Google News]

♦Obama wants stimulus projects to hire more minorities, women
Amid mounting criticism that minorities, women and low-income workers are missing out on business opportunities and jobs under the stimulus bill, the Obama administration is urging the nation's governors to work harder to ensure that these groups participate fully in state transportation projects that receive federal funding. [The Network Journal]

♦When officials reject stimulus funds, sparks fly
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act was supposed to create jobs by the millions, but Debra Morgan of North Platte, Neb., says it got her fired. [MSNBC]

♦NABJ Executive Director Resigns
The executive director of the National Association of Black Journalists, Karen Wynn Freeman, has resigned, NABJ President Kathy Times said on Friday. Times added that the organization remains challenged financially but declined to say why or exactly when Wynn Freeman resigned. [Richard Prince's Journal-isms]

♦First Legal Male Brothel Coming to Nevada
The owner of a brothel, located more than a two hour drive from Las Vegas, said she hopes to hire Nevada's first legal male prostitutes within a month, now that state health officials have approved a method to test men for infectious diseases. [Bossip]