I don't have the direct answers but...

1. I think you can get the sports person's name from Requiem for a Superhero, when Perry assigns Lois the fight night story.

2. Gambling, I think watching Lois and Clark's reactions at seeing some bigwigs at Georgie Hairdo's club in That Old Gang of Mine suggests, that it may not be entirely on the up and up confused

If she had to move heaven and Earth, perhaps come back to haunt Perry and explain the story after they'd killed her, she would do it.

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