Council suspends Yanks' Steinbrenner
CHICAGO (AP) - George Steinbrenner was suspended from baseball's ruling executive council because of his lawsuit against the sport over the New York Yankees' marketing deal with adidas.
After lawyers for Steinbrenner and baseball spent the day attempting to work out a settlement in which the lawsuit would be withdrawn, the council barred Steinbrenner and the Yankees from participation in all of the sport's governing committees. It did not bar him from running the Yankees.
Blazers hire Dunleavy
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - Mike Dunleavy was hired Tuesday to coach the Portland Trail Blazers.
Dunleavy has a 208-284 record as a coach, first in two winning years with the Los Angeles Lakers, then in four losing seasons with the Milwaukee Bucks, where he was coach and general manager.
He led the Lakers to the NBA Finals in his first season, but was 25-57 in 1995-96, his last as coach at Milwaukee.
Robinson's widow target of racial slur
SALEM, Conn (AP) - A 15-year-old boy has been charged with a hate crime for allegedly scribbling a racial slur outside the school where the widow of Jackie Robinson was signing books.
The teen was charged last week with intimidation by racial bigotry or bias, a felony, for allegedly scribbling in crayon a racial slur outside the town's elementary school.
Rachel Robinson, who has lived in Salem for 11 year, was inside the school library signing copies of her biography, "Jackie Robinson, An Intimate Portrait."
The book is a celebration of the life with the man who broke baseball's racial barrier 50 years ago this year.
Witnesses told police they saw the boy writing something on the ground. A janitor later found the slur and called police. The janitor removed the words before Robinson left the school so she wouldn't see them.