You might call it the “revenge of the sportscasters.” Bill Subin and Ed McCabe, who kept us apprised of athletic achievements during college, have done some achieving of their own.


Bill Subin, a DCR sportscaster and crew coxswain, appeared on ABC’s Primetime and Court TV after winning a two-year trial of a New Jersey state trooper charged with vehicular homicide. Trooper Robert Higbee was chasing a speeder in Cape May County’s Upper Township September 27, 2006, when he ran a stop sign and crashed into a minivan carrying sisters Jacqueline Becker, 17, and Christina Becker, 19. Both died at the scene. Bill argued that Higbee did not act recklessly and was performing his duty according to state police policy. The trial was closely watched by law enforcement leaders around the country. Maria Caiafa, the girls’ mother, said she respected the jury’s decision but hoped state police would work to change their policy for pursuing a vehicle in a residential neighborhood. In May 2008 the state paid $2 million to settle a civil lawsuit filed by Caiafa. 


Ed McCabe called it quits after 40 years as commercial litigator in Boston to become an Internet entrepreneur. He paid his dues with www.everyman.com, a blog he started five years ago. Now he’s launching the QOR Club, one of the first no-advertising, paid-admission-only sites that will offer the best of the Web—mostly fresh journalism (including sports), literature, music, art and video a la The New Yorker in its early years. The site is edited by former New York Times sports editor Neil Amdur and Minneapolis Star-Tribune columnist and blogger James Lileks. Contributors include Robert Lipsyte, food writer Molly O’Neill and film director William Tannen (Flashpoint). To become a charter member e-mail Ed at emccabe@theqor.com.


Len Levitt has written NYPD Confidential (St. Martin’s Press, 2009), an inside look at the New York police department based on Len’s years as police columnist for now-defunct New York Newsday. The book recaps scandals that beset NYPD during Len’s tenure and attempts to explain what Len calls “the culture of silence” at the highest levels of the department. To learn more go to www.nypdconfidential.com.


Chambers USA, one of several well-regarded lawyer rankings, cites Jerry Uram and his firm, Davis & Gilbert, for its real estate prowess. Jack Stobo has been elected to the board of directors of the California Healthcare Institute, a nonprofit public policy research organization. Dan Muchinsky is chairing the ’63 Class Connections program which is bonding us with the class of 2013, whose graduation coincides with our 50th reunion. Why We Fought, a book about films on war by Peter Rollins, is being offered by the History Book Club. Mike and Jeanne Prince rode in the 28th Annual Prouty Century Bike Ride and Fitness Walk to raise money for cancer research at Dartmouth’s Norris Cotton Cancer Center.


I regret to report the deaths of Jerry Kochansky, Bob Finney and Tom Brownell. Details will follow in the obituaries of this or a future issue.


—Harry Zlokower, 60 Madison Ave., Suite 910, New York, NY 10010; (212) 447-9292; harry@zlokower.com