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Friday, February 25, 2000
CYBERSQUATTERS
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ta.com, ronaldcurry.com and
jasoncapel.com.
“1 decided to register these names
after trying to visit michaeljordan.com.
He was one of my favorite players, and
as a fan, 1 was highly disappointed to
find out the site was owned by a cyber
squatter,” Patrick said. “I wanted to
make sure that the fans of Ronald Curry,
Ed Cota and Jason Capel would be able
to get access relevant to what they were
looking for, so 1 registered the names.”
On each Web site, Patrick has a mes
sage for the athlete whose name it bears.
Ihe message tells each athlete that all he
has to do to reclaim the site is e-mail
Patrick and reimburse him the SIOO fee
he paid to register it. But none of the three
players have visited the Web pages yet
"I heard about it and heard someone
bought my name,” Capel said. “If he is
doing it to protect it, great. Then he’s a
really nice person.
“But if we all make it to the NBA or
Ronald makes it to the NFL, and we’ve
got millions of dollars, I’m sure he’s
going to want a piece of that. I’m very
skeptical about that. But who knows?”
Curry echoed Capel’s sentiments
regarding the sincerity of Patrick’s offer.
“There’s always a hidden agenda
behind everything,” Curry said. “If he’s
going to put something into it, he’s
going to want something out of it.”
Patrick said he understood that peo
ple might be war)- of his motives.
“There is always someone that thinks
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there is an ulterior motive when a good
deed is done,” Patrick said. “I have a few
e-mails calling me greedy for asking for
the registration fee for the domain names.
“But if 1 didn’t register them, some
one else would have by now, and
chances are they would be asking for
more than the registration fee.”
While cybersquatters have been the
scourge of corporations and other enti
ties, many of those domain names are
already taken. There are always up-and
coming athletes, however, whose names
are up for grabs.
As the reputation of an athlete’s skills
and future potential grows, cybersquatters
pounce quickly, often buying up the name
of college and even high school stars.
The process the cybersquatters must
g 9 through to register a domain name is
a simple one. By typing in the name they
want at a site licensed for registering
domain names, they find out whether it
has already been registered. If not, it’s all
theirs. Even if it’s not their name.
It is Patrick’s distaste for this practice
that led him to jump in on behalf of
these UNC players. “I do not think it’s
fair to profit off someone else’s name,”
Patrick said. “They have worked hard
building their reputation, and they
should have the rights to their names.”
Ironically, one of the athletes he’s pro
tecting doesn’t really see all that much
wrong with the idea of cybersquatting.
“That’s a hustle,” Cota said. “I can’t
knock nobody hustling. If you’re going
to get paid and it’s legal, I’m all for it.”
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Looking Back, Facing Forward
Robinson Crossed Baseball's Color Line
Bv Rachel Carter
Assistant Features Editor
Ebbets Field wasn’t as full as it could
have been.
The opening day crowd that turned
out to watch the Brooklyn Dodgers take
on the Boston Braves numbered 26,623,
more than 6,000 shy of capacity.
But those people were not there to
see just any opening day ball game.
They were there to watch the first base
man make his major league debut.
At 28, the Dodgers’ newest player
had made waves when he signed a
$5,000 contract on April 10th, pushing
players and fans alike to protest.
But every eye was on the 6-foot-tall
man as he walked out to play first.
When the Dodgers’ pitcher threw the
first pitch, the game became historic.
And Jackie Robinson became a leg
end.
Robinson became Major League
Baseball’s first black player on April 15,
1947. The former Negro League star was
Dodger owner Branch Rickey’s experi
ment - to see if baseball was ready to
integrate.
Rickey’s chosen black player to chal
lenge baseball was Robinson, who had
an official .387 batting average in 47
games in the Negro Leagues.
Robinson was a smart choice for the
experiment. He had attended University
ROBINSON
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The Center for the Study of Sport in
Society gave MLB a failing grade for its
minority-hiring in its front offices in the
center’s 1998 Racial and Gender Report
Card.
The report also named Major League
Soccer, Women’s National Basketball
Association and National Hockey
League but did not grade the sports
because 1998 was the first year the cen
ter included these sports.
In the individual baseball teams’
offices, none of the principle-in-charge
offices are held by minorities. Nine per
cent of the teams have a minority as
their vice president.
Baseball has the smallest percentage
of minorities on the playing field - 41
overall and 15 percent black.
But while the front offices have
received low marks for minority hiring,
the commissioner’s office had 22 percent.
Kevin Matthews, who was in charge
of collecting the data in the report, said
the major sports’ commissioners offices
tended to use better hiring practices
than the teams.
“The attention paid to diversity is
pretty good, but unfortunately, the com
missioners don’t control all of the
game,” Matthews said.
But baseball has begun to change
that. Recently, MLB owners voted to
expand Commissioner Bud Selig’s pow
ers. Under the new agreement, Selig can
now fine clubs up to $2 million for vio
lating league rules concerning minority
hiring. The commissioner could only
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of Califomia-Los Angeles, though finan
cial difficulties forced him to leave.
Adding to his attractiveness was the
term he served in the Army.
But more importantly, Robinson had
fought a civil rights battle before signing
with the Dodgers. He successively won
a court martial for refusing to sit in the
colored section of an army bus.
In 1946, Robinson played for the
Dodgers’ farm club, the Montreal
Royals, and captured the AAA
International League batting title. His
play earned him a ticket to Brooklyn.
On May 9, baseball’s commitment to
Robinson and black players was tested,
as the St. Louis Cardinals threatened to
strike rather than play against him.
Disaster was averted when National
League President Ford Frick pledged,
“The National League will go down the
line with Robinson, whatever the con
sequence.”
Waifing at the end of that first difficult
year for Robinson was validation of his
talents. He won the first-ever Rookie of
the Year award for the entire league.
But all of that was a long way away
on his first day in the big leagues.
Robinson went 0-3 for the game but
still managed to make an impact. After
teammate Eddie Stanky walked,
Robinson bunted.
Though Braves first baseman Earl
Torgeson fielded the ball cleanly, he hit
fine teams $200,000 before the change.
The National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People want
ed Selig to use his expanded ability to
sanction the Detriot Tigers.
The Tigers hired Manager Phil
Garner in October, ignoring league
rules that require teams to interview
minority candidates.
“When you condone by inaction a
team’s hiring practice that does not allow
for qualified people of color to even be
interviewed for a job, you close the door
on racial progress,” NAACP President
Kweisi Mfume told USA TODAY.
Selig chose not to fine the Tigers
because the team set up a five-member
community advisory group to help
them with minority issues after the com
missioner’s office began its investigation
of the possible rule violations.
Overall, baseball scored lower than
the other two major sports considered in
the Racial and Gender Report Card.
Because 77 percent of the league’s
players are black, the NBA received an
A-minus for its overall hiring practices.
Coaching-wise, the NBA received a
B-plus with 176 percent of the head
coaching positions filled with blacks.
The league now has six black coaches,
with the last hired last month to lead the
Washington Wizards.
Matthews said there was “something
about the dynamic of basketball” that
helped the organization be more diverse
than the NFL or MLB.
Basketball’s front office numbers
were boosted recently when UNC
alumnus Michael Jordan joined the
Wizards as the head of operations.
But more importantly, Jordan
Making the Grade?
In conducting its annual report, the Northeastern University Center for the Study of Sport
in Society found that while minority athletes have found equal ground, minority management
and coaching are still far behind their white counterparts.
Professional League “Race" Grades
NBA NFL MLB
Percent Percent Percent
Grade Minority Grade Minority Grade Minority
[Commissioner A-/B+ (22%) B-t- (21%) B+ (Zliitl—
Head Coach/ B+ (17%) C+ (10%) B (13%)
Manager
I Players A+ (77%) A+ (35)% A (41%)
Overall Grades A- T 6+ B
College Sports "Race" Grades
Men's Head Coaches D- (7.8%)
Women’s Head Coaches D+ (7.8%)
[Athletic Department Head F (4.6%)
Overall Grade C
SOURCE: NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY'S CENTER FOR STUDY OF SKIRT IN SOCIETY
Robinson in the back as he tried to
throw to first.
Torgeson’s error became all the more
important later that inning as Robinson
crossed the plate for the first time and
gave the Dodgers the lead.
The Sporting News would quote
Robinson eight days later on his philos-
became a part-owner of the Wizards.
Former NBA star Magic Johnson owns
part of the Los Angeles Lakers, but no
black has controlling interest of a team.
Likewise, there are no black or
minority owners in any of the other pro
fessional sports, except for Major
League Soccer and the NHL, which
each have one Asian team owner.
Only 1 percent of the NHL is black,
but 19 percent of the professional staff is
minority.
Despite the three racially motivated
suspensions handed down by the NHL
in recent years, the league tends to have
more trouble with conflicts between its
international players than of athletes
using racial slurs.
Although the report did not grade the
NHL, it stated that the league’s man
agement was surprisingly diverse, con
sidering the small amount of minorities
in the game.
But the report and others have not
been so pleased with the NFL.
The league recently faced criticism
from outspoken civil rights leader Jesse
Jackson over its hiring practices.
Jackson called the NFL racist in
January after the Green Bay Packers
fired coach Ray Rhodes, who compiled
a 8-8 record in the 1999 season.
“There is one standard for choosing
coaches in the National Football League
and another standard for choosing play
ers,” Jackson said.
The NFL has two black head coach
es - Minnesota’s Dennis Green, who
has made the playoffs in seven of eight
seasons, and Tampa Bay’s Tony Dungy,
who took his team to the division cham
pionship this year.
Having minorities in coaching posi
tions proved to be troublesome for the
NCAA also, as the Racial and Gender
Report Card gave a D-plus to Division I
men’s and women’s sports because each
had only 7.8 percent minority coaches.
But college athletics received its low-
CHANCELLOR
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“The reason for that is that this year’s
committee is much smaller than the pre
vious one,” Heinke said. “We have 14
members as opposed to their 23.”
Heinke will be graduating in May,
which could present a problem for the
committee if the search has not been
completed, but both Heinke and
Matthews remain optimistic.
“Hopefully, they will be drawing to a
close before May,” Matthews said.
Heinke pointed out that his member
ship in the Board of Trustees did not
UNC GIRLS
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Drucker said Maloney immediately
called the CLC after he received the let
ter but was not cooperating as much as
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ophy on his first games.
“It was just another ball game and
that’s the way they’re all going to be,”
Robinson said. “If I make good - well,
that will be perfectly wonderful.”
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est grade for the percentage of minori
ty athletic directors - 4.6 percent.
Overall, collegiate athletics received
a C.
But Wake Forest football coach Jim
Caldwell said things were improving.
When hired in 1992, Caldwell
became the first black coach in not only
the Atlantic Coast Conference, but also
in the South in Division I.
“I sensed the social significance
attached to the job,” Caldwell said. He
began coaching at lowa and said that
when he first started in the 19705, he was
often the only black coach on staff.
Caldwell said that for a year and half
the media asked him only about race
and did not focus as much on his team.
Now, the questions are still asked, but
not as often.
Caldwell points to football staffs that
are often half white and half minority to.
show the advancement minorities have
made. His own staff was half and half at
the beginning of the 1999 season.
Caldwell said athletic directors and
alumni needed to change their thinking
so more minority candidates would be
interviewed and ultimately hired.
“T he individuals that are responsible
for hiring are going to have to become
more familiar with the quality individu
als that are out there,” Caldwell said.
But Caldwell also said those individ
uals must hire based on ability, not skin
color.
Jackie Robinson’s dream of looking
across third base to see a black coach
might not be completely realized, but
the racial report card states that sports
have outpaced the rest of the country.
The report said, “Nonetheless,
according to the Federal Glass Ceiling
Commission’s November 1995 report,
pro sport is far ahead of society in these
matters.”
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expire upon his May 21 graduation.
“The student body president remains
a member of the Board of Trustees until
the end of May, and I would have no
problem staying on until then,” he said.
In the event that the search continues
past May, Heinke said the committee’s
student voice would be in good hands.
“If we’re getting close to the end,
(committee Chairman) Richard Stevens,
Brad and I will sit down and talk about
it,” he said. “I trust Brad implicitly and
would have no qualms about turning
my vote over to him.”
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