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The University Daily Kansan
Thursday, February 24, 2000
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BASEBALL
Bacardi: Won't move Royals if bid a success
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The latest entrant in the competition to buy the Kansas City Royals, a businessman who lives in Atlanta, says the team would not move if he were the successful hinder
Facundo Bacardi, 33, a member of the board of Bacardi Ltd. and the great-grandson of the founder of the Bacardi spirits empire, the wine and distilled spirits
company based in Bermuda, emerged as a candidate this week when his lawyer said he was planning to submit a bid today.
Already bidding for the Royals are David Glass, chairman of the Royals board and recently retired chief executive officer of Wal-Mart Stores Inc., and New York attorney Miles Prentice. Baseball owners rejected Prentice as a potential owner of the team, but he has said his bid remains on the table. Glass reentered the bidding process after Prentice was turned down.
YankeeNets to sell millions in junk bonds
NEW YORK — YankeeNets, the new company that controls the New York Yankees and the New Jersey Nets, is selling $250 million in junk bonds to complete the acquisition of the baseball team.
The seven year bonds recently were branded as junk by two major credit agencies because of the high risks in running the sports teams.
Yesterday, for example, the Yankees' troubled designated hitter, Darryl Strawberry, was sent off the field during his first spring training
workout because he tested positive for cocaine last month.
Big salaries, unpredictable performance, strikes and lockouts were just some of the reasons the YankeeNets will have to pay investors more to borrow money.
Senator presents bill to award Ali medal
BOXING
WASHINGTON — From one athlete to another.
U. S. Sen. Jim Bunning, a baseball Hall of Famer, is urging his colleagues in Congress to honor another famous athlete and fellow Kentuckian - Muhammad Ali.
Burning introduced a bill in the Senate this week that would authorize President Clinton to award Ali with a Congressional Gold Medal. It is the highest civilian honor Congress can bestow upon an individual.
"Muhammad Ali is widely recognized as one of the greatest athletes of the 20th century," the Kentucky Republican said.
Bunning's bill highlights Ali's athletic accomplishments, including earning the gold medal at the 1960 Rome Olympics and winning the heavyweight boxing championship three times.
Barry Alberts, project manager for the planned Muhammad Ali Center in Louisville, said Ali would be thrilled to hear the news. Alberts said the museum, dedicated to Ali's life and values, likely would open in 2002.
But Bunning said All's fight against Parkinson's Disease and his efforts to find a cure for the illness were just as admirable as any boxing bout.
HOCKEY
Boston defenseman gets ice suspension
NEW YORK — The NHL unleashed its full wrist on Matt McSorley, suspending the tough guy for the rest of the season and maybe more — in the harshest penalty ever on ice violence.
McSorley's two handed stick attack to the head of Vancouver's Donald Brashear on Monday will keep the Boston defenseman from playing in the Bruins' final 23 regular-season games and any playoff games in the unlikely event Boston qualifies.
The suspension will cost McSorley $72,000 in salary.
"Are we trying to make a state
ment? We're trying to right a wrong," said NHL vice president Colin Campbell, who handed out the punishment yesterday. "In this case, if a statement's made, that's fine, that's good. We don't want this to happen again, and hopefully, this has some input."
McSorley, who apologized repeatedly for his savage hit that knocked out Brashear, did not attend a scheduled disciplinary hearing at NHL headquarters yesterday on the advice of his lawyer. Before he can play again, he must meet with commissioner Gary Bettman and Campbell, who could decide to extend the suspension.
NBA
Player predicts return to Spurs in 3 weeks
SAN ANTONIO — Sean Elliott is practicing harder, and he predicts he can rejoin the San Antonio Spurs basketball games in three weeks.
Elliott, trying to become the first
Elliott, trying pro athlete to return to his sport after a kidney transplant, said yesterday that weeks like back.
yesterday that he needed more weeks like this one, with back-to-back practices.
"Tuesday's practice was a monster," said Elliott, who went through grueling drills that day with the reserves.
No specific timetable has been set by the 32-year-old forward or coach Gregg Popovich.
Elliott resumed full practices with the team in early February.
He had to sign a waiver releasing the Spurs from liability should he be injured during his comeback. He is making $6.2 million this season and is to make $5 million next season, the last year of his contract.
NFL
Ditka to return to TV as co-host NFL show
NEW YORK — Mike Ditka, fired last month as coach of the New Orleans Saints, is returning to television to be a co-host on CBS' NFL show.
The network is expected to make an announcement about Ditka today, CBS representative LeslieAnne Wade said.
Ditka worked as an NBC commentator for four years after being fired by the Chicago Bears after the 1992 season.
Ditka, who won a Super Bowl with the Bears in 1986, coached the Saints for three seasons. He followed a pair of 6-10 records with a 3-13 mark last season.
Ravens linebacker to go on trial May 15
The trial date was among the items prosecutors and attorneys for the three defendants discussed in the judge's chambers, Garland said.
ATLANTA — Baltimore Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis and two co-defenders accused of killing two men outside an Atlanta nightclub will go on trial May 15, defense attorney Ed Garland announced yesterday.
Both prosecution and defense attor
neys declined to elaborate on the
proceedings, citing a gag order
imposed by Fulton County Superior
Court Judge Alice D. Bonner.
Lewis, 24, and Joseph Sweeting, 3, of Miami, and Reginald Oakley, 31, of Baltimore, were indicted on murder charges Feb. 11.
They are accused of fatally stabbing Richard Lollar, 24, and Jacinth Baker, 21, during a brawl that enuptied amid Super Bowel celebrations.
SOCCER
Knighted soccer player dies in Enaland at 85
LONDON — Stanley Matthews, the first soccer player to be knighted and one of the commanding figures in the sport, died yesterday at 85.
Matthews died in north England after a brief illness, a representative for North Staffordshire Nuffield Hospital said. The hospital said Matthews developed serious health problems three years ago but did not elaborate.
Matthews was the hero of the 1953 Football Association Cup final. In 1956, the Englishman became the first winner of the European Player of the Year Award.
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