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ON THE TUBE
NHL Finals
Detroit vs. Philadelphia,
ESPN (34), 5 p.m.
Emerald
Slaney will
not pursue
court order
■ SUSPENSION: The Eugene runner’s
husband said she has nothing to gain
by fighting charges in court
The Associated Press
PORTLAND — Mary Slaney doesn’t in
tend to follow Butch Reynolds' route and
seek a court order forcing her to be allowed
to participate in next week’s U.S. Track and
Field Championships, her husband said
Monday.
“I like Butch. Butch is a friend of mine,
and I hated watching what he went
through,” Richard
Slanev said from the
couple’s home in Eu
gene. “We sure aren’t
going to put Mary
through that. That’s
not fair to anybody.
To prove a point?
What did it prove
with Butch?”
un aaiuruay, ine
International Ama
teur Athletic Federa
tion suspended Slaney
SLANEY
and two other U.S. athletes pending a hear
ing for suspected use of performance-en
hancing substances.
The LAAF cited the failure of track’s gov
erning body in the United States, USA
Track & Field, to promptly resolve the case
against Slaney, hurdler Sandra Farmer
Patrick and a third athlete who wasn’t iden
tified.
Slaney, the most successful women’s dis
tance runner in American history, is entered
in the 1,500- and 5,000-meter runs in the
U.S. championships, which begin June 11
in Indianapolis.
USA Track & Field attorneys were con
sidering whether to allow Slaney to run in
the U.S. championships despite the IAAF
ruling.
“USA Track & Field is exploring what op
tions are open to it, and there needs to be
some clarification on the IAAF ruling,”
spokesman Pete Cava said Monday.
If the U.S. federation allows Slaney to
run, the IAAF may threaten to suspend any
athlete who runs against her. If the U.S.
federation bans Slaney, she could go to
court and get an injunction allowing her to
compete, as Reynolds did in the 1992
Olympic Trials. If that happens, the IAAF
again could threaten to suspend anyone
who runs against her.
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YESTERDAY’S RESULTS
American League
NY Yankees.5 Minnesota.0
Boston.2 Texas.8
Cleveland.PPD Detroit.8
Baltimore. Oakland.5
Chi. White Sox.8 Toronto.0
Milwaukee.5 Seattle.3
National League
San Francisco.
Florida.
.. 2 San Diego.5
.. 4 Atlanta.4
Cincinnati.PPD Pittsburgh.2
Philadelphia. Chi. Cubs.3
Montreal.10 Colorado.11
NY Mets.0 St. Louis.7
NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS
MARK McTYRE/Emerald
Oregon’s Daniel Das Neves clears a barrier on his way to his season best of 8:43.47 in the Oregon Invitational April 12. He is
currently ranked seventh in the nation heading into this week’s NCAA Championships in Bloomington, Indiana.
Daniels Last Stand
Daniel Das Neves hopes to run a PR
at the NCAA Championships this
week and to prove his poor showing at
the Pac-lOs was a fluke
By Alex Pond
Sports Reporter
Daniel Das Neves had been a model of consistency
during an otherwise up-and-down regular season for
the Oregon men’s track and field team.
The senior from Sau Paulo, Brazil, was penciled in
as the first-place finisher every time he entered in the
steeplechase. And for the most part, he delivered,
coming up victorious in four of the five regular-season
steeplechases he ran for the Ducks.
His only blemish was a fourth-place finish in the
Oregon Invitational, although that is misleading be
cause it was his best race of the season, one in which
he ran an NCAA automatic qualifying time of 8-min
utes, 43.47 seconds.
But at the Pacific-10 Championships on May 24,
even Das Neves fell victim to the roller coaster the
Ducks have been on this season, struggling to a sixth
place finish in Seattle.
Because he was the defending
champion and held the season’s
fastest time in the Pac-10, Das Neves
went into the meet as the favorite.
But for the first time this season, he
didn’t live up to expectations, fin
ishing the race in 9:02.22, more than 14 seconds be
hind Arizona’s Jon Pillow.
Nonetheless, Das Neves’ confidence is not shaken
as he travels to the NCAA Championships this week
in Bloomington, Ind. He is the Ducks’ only automatic
qualifier this season, thanks to the race he ran in the
Oregon Invitational April 12, and is ranked seventh in
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DAS NEVES
■ 1997:
Ran an NCAA
automatic
qualifying time
of 8:43.47 in
■ 1996:
Won the
Pac-10
steeplechase
title and placed
10th at the
NCAA meet.
■ 1993:
Ran a PR of
8:37.75 at the
Brazilian
Championships I
Complaint filed over scholarships for women
■ TITLE IX: Twenty-five schools were
named in the complaint filed by the
National Women’s Law Center
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Twenty-five colleges
and universities, including Vanderbilt,
Duke, Wake Forest, Boston College and
Brigham Young, were accused Monday of
discriminating against female athletes
when providing scholarship opportunities.
The National Women’s Law Center filed
complaints with the U.S. Department of
Education’s Office for Civil Rights accus
ing the schools of violating the 1972 law
known as Title IX. The organization al
leges that female athletes receive just over
one-third of the scholarship dollars na
tionwide.
Title IX, a federal law credited by many
with changing the face of women’s sports
and influencing society’s attitudes about
women, bans discrimination in education
based on sex. All public and private col
leges that receive federal money are cov
ered by the law.
The complaint comes as officials mark
the 25th anniversary of the Title IX law
this month.
“Female students have waited 25 years
for equity at our nation’s colleges and uni
versities,” said Marcia D. Greenberger, co
president of the law center. “They have
waited long enough.”
The education department will evaluate
the complaints within 135 days.
Center officials said they are prepared to
file a lawsuit if no remedies are imple
mented.
The information used in the complaints
is data schools provide under the Equity in
Athletics Disclosure Act, the center said.
Many school officials refused comment
Monday, saying they had not heard about
the complaint until contacted by reporters.
Brigham Young University spokesman
Brent Harker said school officials had been
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