Yankees, Nets agree to merge
By Ronald Blum
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — The New York
Yankees and the NBA’s New Jer
sey Nets have signed a letter of in
tent to merge the two teams into
one company.
However, the teams’ current
management will remain in
place, with George Steinbrenner
running the Yankees and Lewis
Katz running the Nets, the teams
announced today.
The deal, which creates a hold
ing company called YankeeNets,
will enable the Yankees to gain
better leverage in selling their lo
cal broadcast rights. Their $486
million, 12-year contract with Ca
blevision Systems Corp.’s Madi
son Square Garden Network ex
pires after the 2000 season, and
Cablevision also controls Fox
Sports New York, the only other
sports cable network in the New
York area.
With the Yankees and Nets
united, they will have 12-month
programming and will be able to
approach The Walt Disney Co.’s
ESPN or Time Warner Inc. about
starting a new regional sports
channel.
“If presented with opportuni
ties that make good business
sense, we’ll definitely pursue,”
ESPN spokesman Chris LaPlaca
said.
On the field and on the court,
the deal is not expected to change
anything.
“I would venture should you
go around the room, 98 percent of
the players won’t know what
you’re talking about,” Yankees
pitcher David Cone said in the
team’s spring training clubhouse
in Tampa, Fla. “By and large,
most players worry about their
manager.”
Steinbrenner, whose group
purchased the Yankees in 1973
from CBS Inc., had spent much of
1998 discussing a possible sale of
a large interest in the Yankees to
Cablevision, with prices of $650
million to $1 billion mentioned.
But those talks broke off after
Steinbrenner insisted he maintain
control of the Yankees’ opera
tions.
The Nets’ current contract with
Fox Sports New York runs
through the 2001-02 season. Ca
blevision, which owns the NBA’s
New York Knicks and the NHL's
New York Rangers, also owns the
TV rights to those two teams as
well as baseball’s New York Mets
and the NHL’s New York Is
landers and New Jersey Devils.
Tishman Speyer Properties
Inc., the landlord of Rockefeller
Center, and the investment bank
Allen & Co. Inc., will own part of
the Yankees’ and Nets’ new par
ent company. Entertainer Bill
Cosby also is involved; he is
chairman of the Community
Youth Organization, a trust to
benefit urban area youth that cur
rently is the Nets’ largest share
holder, with a 35-40 percent
share.
The deal is subject to approval
of owners in major league base
ball and the NBA.
Ripken, Belle disagree
on whether streak lasts
By David Ginsburg
The Associated Press
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.
— Cal Ripken is convinced his
record run of playing in 2,632
consecutive games will one
day be broken.
Albert Belle, whose current
string of 334 successive games
is the most among active play
ers, is just as certain that Rip
ken’s streak will never be
topped.
Ripken shattered Lou
Gehrig's seemingly unbreak
able record of 2,130 straight
games in September 1995, then
added 501 successive starts be
fore voluntarily ending his run
by sitting out the Baltimore
Orioles’ final home game last
season.
That left Beile, who signed
with the Orioles as a free agent
in December, as baseball’s
reigning “iron man.”
“1 was surprised when Cal
ended the streak last year,”
Belle said Thursday. “It was
fun while it lasted. I remember
the excitement of seeing him
break the record a few years ago
when I was in Chicago.”
By playing in every Orioles
game from May 30, 1982, to
Sept. 20, 1998, Ripken raised
the bar of longevity to a seem
ingly impossible-to-beat num
ber.
If Belle played in every game
for 14 more seasons, he would
still come up short.
“That means I’ll be playing
past when I’m 40 years old,”
Belle, 32, said. “I figure I have
only eight or nine years left.”
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(March 21 to April 19)
Try to work with your handicaps
instead of denying or rebelling against
them. You manage to impress even
yourself in a professional capacity.
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