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Page B3 December 18. 2002 S ports / metro Beavers for Sale League asks city to buy troubled team (AP) — The Pacific Coast League has asked Portland to buy out its private partners and take public ownership o f the troubled Triple-A Beavers base ball team. The league is considering tak ing over the team if the city doesn’t step in and pay down debt held by Portland Family En tertainment, the Beavers’ current owner. Public ownership would in volve issuing revenue bonds to pay parts o f PFE’s debts. Either way, the city would lose money on the baseball venture. Thecity estimates it would lose $6 million to$16million with pub lic ownership over the next 17 years. If the league took owner ship o f the franchise, the city said it would stand to lose up to $ 1.7 million a year in stadium costs. The league has said it intends for the Beavers to continue play ing in Portland, its biggest mar ket. Triple Win for MHCC Coach Lena Chan is Coach of the Year The M HCC V olleyball team has gone dow n in history as the third team o f the N orth w est A thletic A ssociation o f C o m m u n ity C o lle g e s (N W A A C C ) to win three con secutive volleyball cham pion ships. First-year coach Lena Chan and her team defeated the team from S h oreline C om m unity C ollege to win the cham pion ship Saturday, N ov. 23 in Spo kane. A d d itio n a lly , C h a n w as nam ed N W A A CC Coach o fthe Year. Ali Salsgiver w as given the aw ard for the M ost V alu able Player for the tournam ent and her sister, Lauren Salsgiver, and A shley Bour w ere nam ed as Second T eam A ll-T oum a- m e n t s e le c tio n s . K r is tin Purscelley and A lyssa Perry w ere nam ed as First Team All- T ournam ent selections. This m arks the sixth cham pionship for M HCC in the 25- year history o f N W A A CC V ol leyball. Franklin’s Kiante Griffin hudles with her coach Tom McCarthy at a girls' freshman basketball game last Wednesday at Lincoln High School. The Cardinals won the game 33 to 22. N o N ew s is B ad N ew s African Americans arc dying at higher rates than whites from smoking related diseases. Networks provide few stories about Hispanics (A P)— The booming U.S. His panic population has yet to be re flected in the news reports o f the major broadcast networks and CNN, a new study shows. Out o f about 16,000 stories on the evening newscasts o f ABC, CBS, NBC and CNN last year, only 99 - 0.62 percent - were about His panics, according to the National Association o f Hispanic Journal ists. The number was a slight increase over 2000, when there were 84 such stories, or 0.53 percent, according to the highly critical “Network Brownout Report” released Mon day. “The networks’ dismal record o f covering the nation ’ s fastest-grow- ing minority group undermines the information needs o f all U.S. resi dents and distorts the public dis course so necessary for any demo- c ra tic s o c ie ty ,” sa id the a s s o c ia tio n ’s p re sid e n t, Juan Gonzalez. Hispanics now represent 12.5 percent o f the U.S. population, and theirnumbers have increased nearly I 60 percent since 1990 to 35.3 mil lion. What news stories the networks did carry on Hispanics often tended to be stereotypical and unflatter ing, the study said. “ S tories ab o u t L atinos fre- U Stories about Latinos frequently used the image o f the border to suggest a divide between the Latino and non- Latino populations. -N a tio n a l Association of quently used the image o f the bor der to suggest a divide between the Latino and non-Latino populations and to define Latinos as illegal im migrants,” the association said. ABC had the most stories about Hispanics, 31, followed by NBC with 24. CBS and CNN had 22 each. the study found. A lack o f newsroom diversity is a major reason for the scant number o f Hispanic-related stones, the as sociation said. Two o f the networks responded that they are taking steps to im prove their coverage, includinghir- ing more Hispanics. For the second consecutive year, the study found protests over U.S. m ilitary exercises on th e P u e rto R ic a n is la n d o f V ieques was the dom inant story about H ispanics, with 25 reports. The other leading story topics were governm ent (15), m igration (11) and sports (five). One area o f improvement was cited: The number o f Hispanic-re lated stories in which Hispanics were interviewed was 67.6 percent, compared with 24.4 percent in the 2000 study. The report forthe 1,700-member association was prepared by Serafin Mendez-Mendez o f Central Con necticut State University in New Britain, Conn., and Diane Alverio, a past association president. Everv vear about 45,000 African Americans die from smoking related diseases. don’t have to Prevention works, it's never too quit. Ratings Slip for Fox on Anniversary late to Mexico President’s popularity falls as his wife’s rise related diseases today. President Vicente Fox’s second anniversary in office was marred by the news that his popularity has fallen to its lowest level ever. H eady expectations that the first non-PRI governm ent in 72 years w ould bring about change, and do so quickly, have given w ay to disillusionm ent as living standards fail to im prove. This is not all F o x ’s fault: his prom ise o f 7% econom ic grow th was always going to be tied to the US, and the econom y has slow ed dow n as the econom ic engines in the US have spluttered. A poll by Grupo de Economistas A so c ia d o s (G E A ) and Investigaciones Sociales Aplicadas shows Fox’s approval rating falling from 73% last March to 49% in November. Over half o f respon dents said his administration has been no different to those o f his predecessors. Worryingly, most are pessimistic about the economy in 2003. A bigger surprise is the surging popularity o f the first lady, Marta Sahagún de Fox. Though not included in the GEA poll, a survey by the newspaper Reforma suggests that she is the most popular politician in the coun try. She head s the ch aritab le Fundación Vamos México, and in recent weeks has been in the public eye, doing good works such as handing out computers to second ary schools. , //(//,/?v Hirthdm ( buck Washington froni \ o tir /(in ii/\ A trie m b Fox did his bit to push her into the spotlight by stating that he hopes the r.ext President will be a woman, arousing suspicions that he would endorse her candidacy for the Partido Accion Nacional ticket in 2006. Consensus building is key if Fox’s remaining four years in office are to be constructive. Ask your doctor about smoking R »s Q u r r i g h t African American Health Coalition, Inc. 2800 N. Vancouver Avenue-Suite 100 Portland, Oregon 97227 Phone: 503-413-1850 www.aahc-portland.org Made possible by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Subscribe,.',ri. 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