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Jays’ Beeston
to step down
Paul Beeston will step down
as president and ch ief executive
officer o f the Toronto Blue Jays,
clearing the way for his long-
awaited appointment as a key
executive for M ajor League
Baseball
Beeston will resign his post
with the Blue Jays and take over
as baseball’s chief operating of
ficer, a position that puts him in
charge o f the business side o f
basebal I. In his new role, Beeston
will oversee all departments o f
baseball except the American
and N a tio n a l L eag u es. An
ow ner’s search committee sup
posedly has been working on
finding a new commissioner.
Milwaukee DA
to review Mark
Whiten case
T he M ilw a u k e e d is tric t
attorney’s office is expected to
decide whether to charge New
York Yankees outfielder Mark
W hiten w ith se c o n d -d e g re e
sexual assault.
A ccording to Lt. Jerianne
Feteinofthe Milwaukee County
S h e riffs Department, the 30-
year-old W hiten, whose wife
gave birth last week, was ar
rested Monday and later posted
$10,000 bail on the sexual as
sault charge, a felony.
The Milwaukee Journal Sen
tinel, citing a unidentified police
source, said that Whiten "adm it
ted having what he called con
sensual sexual relations with the
woman.” The source added that
"probable cause was establ¡shed”
to arrest Whiten.
Report: Fraud
John Spano, whose attempt to
purchase the New York Island
ers turned into an em barrass
ment for the team and the Na
tional Hockey League, report
edly is being sought by federal
agents on fraud charges.
Newsday reported that fed
eral agents visited Spano’s man
sion in a Dallas suburb on M on
day with a sealed arrest warrant,
but were unable to tlnd him
C iting u n id en tified so u rces,
Newsday said the charges claim
that Spano used fra u d u le n t
claims to obtain an $80 million
loan from Fleet Bank in Boston
that he used to purchase the team
Agassi at
Infiniti Open
American Andre Agassi again
tries to get his career back on
track tonight at the $303,000
Infiniti Open at Los Angeles.
Agassi has won just six o f 13
matches in 1997 and did not
participate in any o f this year's
Grand Slam tournaments.
He missed the Australian
Open while taking a two-month
sabbatical from tennis and with
drew from the French Open and
Wimbledon, citing a wrist ail
ment Agassi will play country
m an Ju stin
G im e lsto b
A ustralia's Mark Philippoussis.
the third seed, will try to im
prove on his 31-9 match record
in 1997 when he faces Roberto
Jabali o f Brazil.
P ortland O bserver
LEONARD WINS,
WOODS HAS
COMPANY AT TOP
British Open winner is third major golf
champion under age 30 this year
Justin Leonard’s British Open vic
tory was just another indication o f
the changing o f the guard in golf.
Leonard, 25, became the third
majorchampionship w innerthisyear
underage 30, joining Masters cham
pion Tiger Woods, 2 1, and 27-year-
old U S. Open winner Ernie Els.
And the trend went deeper.
Darren Clarke, Jim Furyk, Padraig
H arrington, R etief G oosen, Lee
Westwood, Robert Allenby - all in
their 20s - had strong showings at
Royal Troon, where eight o f the top
19 finishers were under 30.
At the same time, perennial con
tenders in the majors like Nick Faldo,
Greg Norman, Nick Price, Bernhard
L anger, S eve B a lle ste ro s, Ian
Woosnam and Colin Montgomerie
were never a factor.
In fact, except for Montgomerie
they have been a factor in none o f the
three major championships this year.
And where were the fam iliar
names at Troon like Corey Pavin,
Payne Stewart, Mark Brooks and
Tom Lehman'.’ They were in the field
but they never challenged.
For the young, winning seems
contagious. They are not in awe of
the men who have dominated the
game the last decade.
"M ay b e going in there today,
having seen Tiger and Ernie do it,"
Leonard said, ‘’I thought it was OK
to go out and win a tournament like
this even being the age I am .”
He won it with the kind o f round
that will make other players take
notice. O f the 16 players who started
the final round under par, Leonard’s
65 was the only round in the 60s.
''T h is win w on’t change Justin
one bit,” his coach, Randy Smith,
said in Dallas. ‘"He'll still be the
same great kid. He’ll still work hard.
He’ll win some more m ajors.”
Then Smith said something that must
be crossing the minds ofNorman, Faldo
and Price, who have 57 British Opens
and six victories among them.
’’Everybody talks about Tiger
W oods,” Smith said. "B u t there are
some other kids who can play, too.
Remember, Justin is only 25.”
And remember that Phil Mickelson
and Paul Stankowski are both only 27.
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Peninsula major all-stars finished a spectacular run in the playoffs Sunday, falling to Rose City, 4-2 in a semi
championship Little League game at Columbia Park Annex in north Portland.
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