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The University Daily Kansan
Wednesday, April 14, 1999
"MARTIN & MALCOLM & AMERICA"
PROFESSOR JAMES H. CONE
THURSDAY, APRIL 15, 1999 8:00 p.m.
Kansas Room, Kansas Union
THE RELIGIOUS STUDIES LECTURE
James H. Cone, Charles A. Briggs Distinguished Professor of Systematic Theology at Union Theological Seminary, New York City, will speak on "Martin & Malcolm & America." Professor Cone has written or edited ten books, including God of the Oppressed, Black Theology, and Martin & Malcolm & America: A Dream or a Nightmare. This event is free and open to the public. A selection of Professor Cone's books will be for sale after the lecture.
WORKING AGAINST VIOLENCE EVERYWHERE
Congratulates...
Chris Hess
and
Christine Robinson On winning the WAVE
SERVICE AWARD
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Gretzky's future undecided
Fans hope star will play one more year
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — When Wayne Gretzky plays his final game of the season for the New York Rangers on Sunday, it's likely fans at Madison Square Garden will give him a standing ovation.
He won't even have to score a goal or make one of his brilliant, highlight-reel passes to deserve it.
The fans, unsure whether Gretzky will be returning for another year, should be giving the Great One his due for what he has accomplished during an unparalleled hockey career.
With the end of the season in sight, speculation already is starting about Gretzky's future in hockey. The 38-year-old Gretzky is in the last year of a contract and has said he would make a decision about his future sometime after the season.
"We'll find out soon enough," said Rangers' coach John Muckler following Monday night's 2-1 vic-
before Monday night's game, Gretzky denied a television report that his retirement was imminent. However, after the game, he said:
tory against Tampa Bay. "Everybody is speculating, but only one person knows for sure."
"It's time to think about it. All of a sudden it has become a bigger issue than I imagined. Let's see what happens over the next five or six days."
Rangers broadcaster John Davidson raised the issue of Gretzky's retirement on Sunday while broadcasting the Detroit-Pittsburgh game on Fox TV. "The people very close to Wayne, and I mean very close, feel there's a very strong possibility Sunday will be the last time he plays," Davidson said.
"I said it a hundred times that I've been here over the three years," Gretzky said. "This is the greatest city to be an athlete in."
Fans at Madison Square Garden held up signs with slogans such as "Wayne Don't Go." Gretzky said the fan reaction made it difficult to consider retiring.
As far as one old friend is concerned, the answer won't come easily, and certainly won't come soon.
"Knowing Wayne, he would weigh everything and talk to a lot of people before making that decision," said Bruce MacGregor,
assistant general manager of the Edmonton Oilers. "It's a very hard decision. When you retire, it's for a long time."
Bill Tuele, another member of the Oilers' organization who also
is a longtime friend of Gretzky, wasn't so sure he would retire after this year.
Gretzky: May retire after last Ranger home game.
"I will say this. Wayne has not shared any final decision with anyone." Tuele, the Ollers' vice president and public relations head, said in a telephone interview. "Wayne's dad doesn't know.
Runner sues Olympic organizations
The Associated Press
INDIANAPOLIS — Mary Slaney has sued the International Amateur Athletic Federation and the U.S. Olympic Committee in a bid to stop the testosterone test that determines whether a female athlete has committed a drug violation.
Slaney, the best women's distance runner in U.S. history, tested positive during the 1996 U.S. Olympic trials with a testosterone-epitestosterone (T-E) ratio above the 6-to-1 limit.
She was suspended from competition the next year, then later reinstated, although the IAAF referred the case to arbitration.
Testosterone is a naturally
A panel in Monte Carlo last week adjourned the arbitration hearing until April 24.
occurring hormone that builds muscle mass.
"Both the USOC and IAAF know that things other than doping can cause a women's T-E ratio to go above 6-1-to," he said. "But neither of them takes that in consideration in investigating cases involving female athletes."
Slaney's lawyer, Jim Coleman, said it was fraudulent to apply the T-E ratio to female athletes.
The suit, filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Indianapolis, also seeks unspecified damages.
Coleman said he had asked the IAAF and USOC to suspend the use of the T-E ratio because the elevated numbers could be caused by factors such as birth control pills, which Slaney was taking at the time.
"The USOC is being sued
because this was the USOC test, and at the very outset, they said an investigation had to be done to rule out the possibility that this could be explained by innocent factors," Coleman said. "That was never done, and the USOC never assured that it was. It just simply imaged what the IAAF was doing.
"the only way to stop this was to bring a lawsuit," he said. "We gave both the USOC and the IAAF an opportunity voluntarily to avoid the litigation. They weren't willing to do it. The IAAF wasn't going to do it because it has no other way to detect the use of testosterone. Rather than trying to find a valid way, they are willing to take the chance that they will prosecute and damage an innocent athlete."
Slaney, 40, was world champion at 1,500 and 3,000 meters in 1983.
Boston bank will sponsor All-Star Game
The Associated Press
BOSTON — These days, sports and corporate sponsorship are as American as, well, baseball and hot dogs. Airlines, brewers and computer companies all have spent big bucks to get their names on stadiums and ballparks.
Now, a bank is putting its money behind the most national of pastimes.
Fleet Financial Group has become an official sponsor of Major League Baseball and the 1999 All-Star Game, which will be played in Boston in July.
Announced at Fenway Park on Monday, the sponsorship comes a month after Fleet detailed plans to merge with BankBoston, becoming the nation's eighth-largest bank and New England's dominant lender.
The baseball agreement, however, does not mean that the All-Star Game will be named after the bank. The rights to that moniker belong to Major League Baseball.
About 20 other corporations have
About 20 other co some form of sponsorship with Major League Baseball, but Fleet is the first bank among them
"This gives us a capacity that we didn't have before," said Anne Finucane, Fleet's senior vice president for corporate marketing.
The sponsorship helps cement the bank's presence in New England and gives it a broader advertising reach across the country — one they plan to use to full marketing advantage, bank officials said.
The timing couldn't be better for Fleet, marketing specialists said.
The sponsorship strengthens the bank's ties to baseball. Last year, Fleet arranged $425 million in financing for Major League Baseball.
Right now, there's a lot of questionable press about the Fleet-Bank Boston merger and what the effect is going to be on the New England economy," said Kathleen Brewer Doran, a professor of marketing at Babson College in Wellesley.
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