Ducks look for a blast of sun
■ The Oregon Club Sports
ultimate frisbee team flies
south to Davis for a
weekend tournament
By Shigenari Matsu moto
for the Emerald
Frisbee under the California
sun sounds like a perfect way to
spend the weekend, but the Ore
gon Club Sports ultimate frisbee
team is not going there just for the
fun of it.
The Ducks play in the Davis
Ultimate Invitational this week
end. The men’s team (15-7) sends
a first and
second team,
which con
sist of 30
players, to
the tourna
ment which
won’t affect Oregon’s national
standings.
“It should be a great experi
ence for the younger guys be
cause there will be a lot less
pressure and we can tune up for
the sectional tournament next
weekend,” Joshua Greenough
said.
“Many of our veterans are re
covering from injuries right now
so they will be either taking the
weekend off or playing less
points.”
The Ducks have played well
this season with the men’s team
ranking eighth and women’s
team (10-4) sitting 10th in the
nation heading into the tourna
ment.
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balloon even more
By Ronald Blum
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — These days, a
$2 million baseball player is just
average.
Just eight years after the aver
age salary broke the million-dol
lar mark, it nearly reached $2 mil
lion on opening day, falling just
short at $1,988,034, according to
a study of all major league con
tracts by The Associated Press.
“I don’t know if it is negative or
positive for the game,” New York
Mets catcher Mike Piazza said, “ft
rewards guys with talent who
have worked hard all their lives,
rode the buses in the minors and
now are getting paid very well for
what they do.”
When Piazza first came up to
the major leagues in 1993, he
made $126,000. This year, he’s
making $12,071,429, and that
only puts him sixth on the pay
scale.
Dodgers pitcher Kevin Brown
is No. 1 at $15,714,286, only
slightly less than the $16,519,500
the Minnesota Twins are paying
their entire roster.
Arizona pitcher Randy John
son is second at $13.35 million,
followed by Baltimore outfielder
Albert Belle ($12,868,670), New
York Yankees outfielder Bernie
Williams ($12,357,143) and Col
orado outfielder Larry Walker
($12,142,857).
Belle had been No. 1 the previ
ous three seasons.
Cincinnati’s Ken Griffey Jr. is
only 19th at $9,329,700, which
includes $7 million in salary,
$625,000 as the remaining share
of the signing bonus from his
Seattle contract and $1,704,700,
which represents the 2000 value
of $5.5 million in deferred pay
ments. While Cincinnati gave
Griffey a $116.5 million, nine
year contract, $57.5 million is de
ferred and won’t even start earn
ing interest until 2009.
“If the salaries continue to es
calate and you don’t have rev
enues that come close to staying
even, then you’re in trouble, and
that’s where we are,” said Dia
mondbacks owner Jerry Colange
lo, who pays Johnson every two
weeks. “I don’t think anyone
could say it’s a healthy sign.
There needs to be a change in the
economic system. That’s just
clear and distinct.”
The average went up 15.6 per
cent from $1,720,050, nearly as
much as the 19.3 percent increase
last season.
Salaries have increased 85.6
percent from the end of the 1994
95 season, when the average was
$1,071,029 on opening day. The
NBA average is $3.5 million this
season, and the NHL average was
$1,297,000 in 1998-99, the last
season for which figures are
available. In the recently com
pleted season, NFL players aver
aged $1,043,000.
The New York Yankees, at
$92,538,260, have the highest
payroll for the second straight
year, followed by Los Angeles
($88.1 million), Atlanta ($84.5
million), Baltimore ($81.4 mil
lion) and Arizona ($81.0 million).
Galindo will continue
to skate despite HIV
By Barry Wilner
The Associated Press
Rudy Galindo wants to live as
normal a life as possible, even
though he is HIV positive. For
Galindo, that means pleasing au
diences with his grace, athleti
cism and, often, his outrageous
ness.
The 1996 U.S. national figure
skating champion revealed Tues
day he is HIV positive but intends
to keep skating to raise awareness
of the disease.
“If my story can help people,
anybody at all, it is positive,”
Galindo said as he prepared for
the opening of the Tom Collins
Champions on Ice tour in Balti
more on Wednesday night. “I’ve
always tried to help people,
whether it be as a gay man, or a
Mexican-American or now, as
someone who is HIV positive.”
Galindo says he will use the in
ner strength he found earlier in
his career while dealing with the
death of his brother and two
coaches from AIDS.
That strength helped him step
out of a short retirement to win
the ’96 nationals with one of the
best performances in the history
of that prestigious event. He did
so in his hometown of San Jose,
Calif., in a comeback even his
competitors applauded.
Now, the 30-year-old skater
faces an even bigger challenge,
and he will use 1996 as an inspira
tion.
“I looked back at it and said,
‘That was a blessing. ’ Your life is a
roller coaster and this is a down
time, and I have to look at the pos
itives and how I survived all that
and use it for strength,” Galindo
said. “I do look back and see I was
so positive then after such toueh
things happened. And I can be
positive now.”
Galindo began feeling ill at the
Winter Goodwill Games in Febru
ary. He was diagnosed with pneu
monia, then was tested for the
AIDS virus and found to be posi
tive on March 1.
He began taking medication in
late March, and it has affected his
skating.
“It makes me drowsy, so I take it
in the morning and hopefully I’m
fine for the rest of the day,” said
Galindo, who won a bronze
medal in the 1996 world champi
onships and is a national pairs
champion with Kristi Yamaguchi.
“I am a little nervous with my
skating, with all that is going on
and a lot of the attention focused
on me. It’s like opening-night jit
ters, except I have extra jitters.
Michael Rosenberg, Galindo’s
manager, said the skater plans to
do the entire two-month nation
wide tour, unless he is weakened
by the HIV virus and the treat
ments. Galindo often has stolen
the show from more renowned
skaters such as Michelle Kwan,
Brian Boitano and Todd Eldredge
with his penchant for outlandish
costumes and wild routines.
Although he won his national
title and world bronze medal by
skating to the classical “Swan
Lake,” his spoofs of the Village
People have become a staple of
many skating shows.
“The people all around me are
always here for me. This show, it
is like a family and the love and
friendship they show me gives me
strength. I can face the challenge
with them so supportive and
they’ll always be by my side.
“Whatever it takes to get
through the tour, I’ll do it.”