identity, borrowed

Peter Burwash. Like, the real one. Not who he seems. This story caught our eye in this weekend. From the Monterey County Herald: Peter Burwash is famous in the tennis world, but last week he discovered his picture was on a newspaper column by one “Richard Burwash,” published in Salt Lake City. “I got so many calls about it,” Burwash said. “Friends, newspapers, TV stations called.” The name and photo were purloined off the Internet by Mayor Mike Winder of West Valley City, Utah, the state’s second largest city and a suburb of Salt Lake City, population about 130,000. Winder apparently was fed up with negative publicity about West Valley and decided to pen “good news” about his city under a pseudonym. When it became apparent that the real Peter Burwash, 63, is well known as a motivational speaker, author of 10 books and founder of the world’s largest tennis management firm, the game was up. Image via pbitennis.com