• The Players Championship Chair Harold Tool anticipates Tiger Woods will play in the May 6-9 tournament at TPC Sawgrass. “It does look like Tiger will participate. We want him there,” Tool told the Southside Business Men’s Club Wednesday. “We’re in for an outstanding treat to have him here.” Tool said after his presentation that he won’t know for sure until right before the tournament. The embattled Woods returns to professional golf today at The Masters.
• Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, along with author and humanitarian Greg Mortenson, will headline the 2010-11 Florida Forum series at the Times-Union Center. The Women’s Board of Wolfson Children’s Hospital sponsors the forum each year to raise money for its programs. The series opens Oct. 19 with Clinton, the 42nd President of the United States. Mortenson follows Jan. 21. The series concludes March 1 with a presentation by Bush, the 43rd U.S. President. For tickets or information, call 202-2886 or visit www.thefloridaforum.com.
• Sea Star Line and The American Shipping Group are realigning the leadership team. Frank Peake is joining the American Shipping Group as vice president and Steve Hastings has been appointed president of Sea Star Line. The company has ports in Jacksonville, Fort Lauderdale, La Porte, Texas, and Philadelphia.
• The Mad Cowford Improv comedy troupe will be busy through the end of the week. It will perform at 6 p.m. today at UNF’s “Get Carded Event” at the Fine Arts Center Recital Hall on the UNF campus. The troupe’s regular Friday show at Northstar Substation will be titled “Tax Comic Relief” and will start at 8:15 p.m. It will also host a comedy show to benefit the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and the Jacksonville Humane Society at 8 p.m. Saturday at Hotel Indigo.
• CEO and co-owner of ICX Group Inc., Leonard Curry, 39, of Jacksonville, was appointed by Gov. Charlie Crist to the Florida State Boxing Commission. Curry also chairs the Republican Party of Duval County. If confirmed by the Florida Senate, Curry will succeed Donald Bowden for a term from April 5 to Sept. 30, 2013.