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— This Special ends a t the end o f February —
P eninsula L ittle L eague
Application for Board, Committees & Manager/Coach Positions
Be the “U” in Your Community:
Looking for a few dedicated people!
The Peninsula Little League of Portland is now accepting
applications for Board members. Committee members, managers,
and coaches to oversee the 2003 baseball and softball season.
Applications are being accepted for all League positions. If you are
Interested in being considered, please complete the following and
return it to Peninsula Little League, P.0. Box 11581, Portland,
Oregon 97211 or by fax to 503-284-1910
Notre Dame forward Jacqueline Batteast drives the lane around Colorado State guard Elizabeth English in route to a
46-45 Irish victory Monday in South Bend, Ind. Batteast scored 18 points and had 10 rebounds. (AP photo)
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Major League Baseball Door Opens
(A P )— Major league baseball is
still on the wish list of many Oregon
lawmakers and political leaders this
holiday season.
Officials in Portland and the
W ashington, D.C., area were con
tacted last week as Major League
Baseball considers relocating the
Expos. The team is the collective
property of league owners, who
want to sell it and move to another
city by the 2004 season.
Portland Mayor Vera Katz said
she would get “directly involved”
with any effort to bring the team to
the city and would revive a stadium
financing bill.
State Sen. Ryan Deckert, D-
Beaverton, who spearheaded an
effort to bring a team to Oregon in
2001, said he would lead a similar
fight when the 2003 Legislature
opens Jan. 13.
Deckert said he has met with
baseball backers the last few days
and the proposal would be the same
as the one that fell short in 2001 —
a revenue bond backed by income
taxes to be paid by future major
leaguers in Portland.
Katz said she would work with
the Oregon Sports Authority after
Another
$100,000
for Spring
Sports
The Oregon Sports Authority
Foundation has announced a
$75,000 pledge to help save Port
land In te rsc h o la stic L eague
spring sports programs.
An additional $25,000 is ear
marked to develop a workable,
long-term solution to ensure that
a viable plan for school sports
programs throughout Oregon is
in place prior to the next school
year.
The support marks the largest
single donation in the history of
the foundation and puts the PIL
in position to successfully com
plete its spring sports fundraising
campaign.
P ortland n ativ e and NBA
player Damon Stoudamire earlier
pledged to donate $250,000 for
spring sports, nearly half the
amount needed to save Portland
Public School’s athletic depart
ment budget in the current year.
the holidays to bring the Expos to would boost income tax revenue in a
Portland and persuade the Legisla state that depends heavily on per
ture to approve the financing — all sonal and corporate income taxes.
The recruiting effort would stand
by Major League Baseball’s “soft”
a
better
chance if it was backed by
deadline of late February.
a
wealthy
investor, supporters say,
But she emphasized the cost
but
attempts
to attract a big corpo
would be a key factor.
“I' ve said loud and clear we will rate name have failed in the past.
Tim Grewe, Portland's chief ad
not sacrifice city services,” Katz
ministrative officer, said the city
said.
Any use of other taxpayer money doesn’t know yet if the baseball
is “not in the cards,” Deckert added. proposal is realistic.
“The mayor’s got an open mind
He argued that the proposal would
result in a net gain for the state on this issue," he said. “But until
budget because the jobs created by we look at the numbers we w on't
the stadium construction project know.”
Executive Buys NBA
Expansion Team
Robert Johnson
(AP) — Business know-how, a
passion for basketball >yid a com
m itm ent to C harlotte. R obert
Johnson had exactly what the NBA
wanted, and now the billionaire is
on his way to becoming the first
black majority owner in major pro
sports.
T h e le a g u e o f f ic ia lly a n
nounced last week that Johnson
was its choice to buy the N B A ’s
new est expansion team , select
ing him over a group that included
Larry Bird.
“You can’t be com petitive any
where in this w orld if you ignore
good, quality talent,” Johnson
said. “That decision was made
some 50 years ago when B ranch
Rickey brought Jackie Robinson
into baseball.”
The 56-year-old Johnson is the
billionaire founder of Black Enter-
tainment Television. Pending ap
proval of the 29 NBA owners, he
will pay $300 million to become the
owner of the league's 30th team,
which will begin play in the 2004-05
season.
“Bob Johnson deserved to get
this franchise based on who he is,
not what he is,” Phoenix Suns owner
Jerry Colangelo said when Johnson
was introduced as the man who will
bring the NBA back to North Caro-
Una.
The new team, not yet nick
named, will replace the Hornets,
who left Charlotte for New Orleans
last summer.
Fight Draws Suspensions, Fines
(AP) — Golden State W arriors
forw ard C hris Mills is suspended
for three gam es w ithout pay by
the N BA after fighting with the
Trail B lazers’ Bonzi W ells.
O fficials say M ills went after
W ells in the locker room , and
blocked the Blazers’ bus after Fri
day n ig h t’s game.
R asheed W allace has been
M i l l s ’ s u s p e n s io n b e g a n
fined
15-thousand for trying to
w ith last n ig h t's gam e at S a c ra
m ento. He w ill also m iss gam es go after a fan who had throw n a
a g a in st T o ro n to and the LA wad of gum at him.
NBA senior Vice President Stu
C lippers.
W ells was suspended for tw o Jackson says a review of the vid
gam es for throw ing a punch at eotape showed that W ells was
Mills, which the Blazers won 113- the only participant who threw a
punch.
to-111.
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