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sports Baseball Executive Gets Position At Mills College OAKLAND, Calif.—Sharon Richardson Jones, the first and for many years the highest-ranked black woman in mqjor league base ball administration, has been named executive director of College Relations at Mills College in Oakland. Jones will be responsible for all public, government and community relations for Mills. Mills President Janet Holmgren McKay said, “We are very fortunate to have recruited Sharon Jones to this new administration. Sharon has exceptionally strong ties to the local community, and together we’d like to expand Mills’ commitment to and involvement in the East Bay.” Jones has been director of out reach activities for the Oakland A’s, the 1989 World Series champions, for the past 12 seasons. She was re cently honored by the baseball com pany for 10 years of exemplary serv ice. Last summer, she received the Sojourner Truth Award from the National Association of Negro Busi ness and Professional Women. She served as a liaison between the team’s owners and the commu nity, ensuring that the organization was a “good neighbor” to the city that gave the team its name. She represented the owners on national and local boards and commissions and helped raise millions of dollars for local charitable organizations. A 1976 graduate of Mills, Jones said taking the new position is “like a homecoming.” Like 20 percent of Mills’undergraduate women, Jones was a resumer—a non-traditional age student. Her Mills education “was an affirmation,” Jones said. “Mills was a very important part of my life and that’s why I want to be there now. “This is a critical time in our his tory,” she said, referring to Mills’ recent recommitment to women’s education. “I wanted to be part of the team that moves Mills forward, that contributes to the shaping of Mills as it .educates new generations of women for effective participation in an increasingly diverse, multicultu ral society.” Jones speaks regularly to women’s groups, sports confer ences, corporations and schools about the contributions made by the Negro Leagues to major league baseball, the role of women and people of color in major league base ball, and motivational and self-im provement issues. She is an avid collector of antiques, including black memorabilia. Mills, founded in 1852, is the only women’s college in the entire Pacific Northwest and the oldest west of the Rockies. Fans Hope For‘Magic’ Card In McDonalds Series Magic Johnson mads his Olympic team debut seven months prior to the games in Barcelona when McDonald’s unveiled ita new “NBA Superstars” trading card collection Friday. As part of a four-week promotion, more than 240 McDonald’s restau rants in North and South Carolina will be offering a free four-pack of limited edition “NBA Superstars” trading cards with the purchase of any Extra Value Meal. Each McDonald’s four-pack will include an exclusive card featuring one of the U.S. Olympic basketball team players. And, according to Beckett’s Basketball Magazine, a Dallas-based national basketball publication that prices trading cards, more card collectors and NBA fans will be hoping that his or her set contains the “Magic” card. “Magic Johnson’s card sales re ally hit the roof recently,” said Theo Chen, price guide analyst for Beckett’s Basketball Magazine. “The fans are really looking forward to seeing Magic Johnson play in the Olympics this year and I think that will be a definite plus for the collecti bility of this card set.” The “NBA Superstars” series is a limited-edition set of 62 trading cards. Fifty of the cards feature the National Basketball Association’s most talented players; the 12 re maining cards introduce the 10 man 1992 U.S. Olympic basketball team, including uonnson. McDonald’s Olympic cards, featur ing the players in their official y.S. Olympic team uniforms, are only the second set of Olympic basketball Wolf pack Wrestlers On A Tear N.C. State’s nationally 13th ranked wrestling squad has been on a tear of late. Winners of 11 straight dual matches, the wrestling Wolfpack now boasts an overall record of 11-3-1. Included in those 11 wins are three straight victories against ACC opponents. The Pack began its league victory streak with a 22-13 win over North Carolina in Chapel Hill on Jan. 22, followed by two blowouts at home, a 40-3 win over Virginia and a 33-6 rout of Maryland. The Pack’s next match is a return engagement against the Tar Heels (ranked 1 5th) in Reynolds Coliseum on Thursday at 7:30 p.m. State will wrestle No. 14 Navy in State’s Carmichael Gymnasium at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 15. Four Pack wrestlers are currently ranked in the national standings by Amateur Wrestling News. Junior heavyweight Sylvester Terkay (24-1) is ranked No. 2. Chris Kwotnik (6-1) stands fifth in the 167-pound weight class followed by No. 0 Stove Williams (20-4) at 177 and No. ll Clayton Grice (11-2) at 134 pounds. team trading cards available to date. NBA HOOPS Basketball Carde producers of the “NBA Superstars'* cards—is releasing its own Olympic card series the same week. As part of the trading card promo tion, 20,000 “Instant Winner Cards* will be randomly seeded into the national supply of “NBA Super stars” 4-packs. An individual receiv ing a 4-pack that contains an in stant winner card will receive the entire 62-card set of trading cards. Nationally, trading card experts agree that card collection has be come a national craze, with more than 11,000 trading card shows held annually and more than $500 mil lion of trading cards resold by collec tors each year. In particular, NBA trading cards have quickly become the leader in the card collection industry with a 9,000 percent jump in sales since 1988. “The basketball trading card mar ket has grown considerably since the late ’80s," Chen said. “With only four mtyor brands of basketball trading cards, the market has a great deal of potential.” McDonald’s 12 Olympic cards feature the 10-man U.8. Olympic ua»n.eiuuii team mciuuing v^naries Barkley, Larry Bird, Patrick Ewing, Magic Johnson, Michael Jordan, Karl Malone, Chris Mullin, Scottie Pippen, David Robinson and John Stockton. The remaining 50 cards feature such NBA greats as Clyde Drexler, Reggie Miller, and Buck Williams and talented NBA rookies, such as Larry Johnson of Charlotte and Dikembe Mutombo of Denver. SWAC Names Top Players Of Week Following are players of the week for recent games in the Southwest ern Athletic Conference. Men: Levi Wyatt, Alcorn State (6’6", junior forward, Vicksburg, Miss.). In one game during the week, a 101-91 conference victory over Southern, Wyatt 'scored 14 points and grabbed 14 rebounds while totaling five assists,, three steals and four blocked ihctts. Women: Donna White, Missis sippi Valley 8tate (5’10* sophomore forward, Lena, Miss.). In two games during the past week, White aver aged 29 points, 14 rebounds, three steals and one blocked shot as MV3U defeated Grambling (83-66) and Miles (94-61). Her most im pressive outing was against GSU as she scored 38 points and grabbed 13 rebounds while adding three steals and one blocked shot. RECEIVES MEAC HONORS-Sophomers forward Jamalne Williams (Philadelphia, Pa.) and freshman guard Phillip Alien (Georgetown, SC), both members ef the North Carolina AAT basketball team were honored for their performances during the week ending January 26,1992. WINams was named Mld-Eastem Athletic Conference (MEAC) Player of the Week and Aden was selected MEAC Co-Rookie of tho Week. Wiliams compiled 65 points, 21 rebounds and four blockes shots In a 3-0 week for the Aggies. Allen collected 22 points, 13 rebounds and six assists during the same period. Michael Jordan's Move To Market His Image On T-Shirts Upsets NBA BY BARRY COOPER ORLANDO, Fla.—Okay, whafs tougher: blocking a high-flying, rim rattling dunk by Michael Jordan or purchasing an official NBA All-Star Game tee-shirt with his likeness on the front? Yes, there is a feat tougher than stuffing one of Air Jordan’s-jams. Official, NBA-licensed tee-shirts bearing Jordan’s image have been grounded, and fans were rtot able to buy any during All-Star Weekend in Orlando. MICHAEL JORDAN Also, Jordan’s mug was ths only ons missing from ths spscial souve nir shirt that featured caricatures Af ths All-Stars. Jordan, in a move that upset the NBA, has sxercised a loophole in the standard player’s contract that al lows him complete control over all apparel bearing his image. He has awarded exclusive rights to Niks, and now only Nike can sell Air Jor dan tee-shirts. But Nike isn’t affiliated with NBA Properties, and the NBA, clearly miffed by Jordan’s decision, wouldn’t allow Nike to sell Jordan apparel at Orlando Arena during the recent All-Star Weekend. Under Jordan’s new agreement, the NBA no longer may sell apparel bearing Jordan’s likeness. "I can only say that the league is very disappointed,* NBA spokes man Terry Lyons said. An old provision in the standard player’s contract allows a player to *2$ ^^SSSS^mST^ K,ch"iond. Va. February 24-29,1992 control his apparel licensing rights if he has another established com pany prepared to set up a clothing line. Representatives for Jordan were not available for comment. Nike said recently that it sells about $200 million worth of Jordan apparel each year. The company, which pays Jordan some $10 million a year, apparently no longer wanted any other company marketing sports wear for the superstar. Officials with NBA Properties declined to say how much money Jordan’s apparel was raking in for the NBA, or how much money Jor dan may have been realising from the sales. But former Los Angeles Lakers’ star Magic Johnson said that Jor dan brought in about $30 million a year for the NBA. Johnson, speak ing on NBC Television, said Jordan sold more tee-shirts and apparel for the NBA than any other player. Johnson said he was second at about $15 millic^i a year. Johnson is in a position to know. His company, Magic Johnson’s T*s, is one of the world’s leading dis tributors of NBA-licensed products. World League Hiring First Black Coach BY BARRY COOPER Aa it turned out, bring find by Bothuno-Cookman Collage waa probably the beat thing that could have happened to football coach Larry Little. Just weekalatar, Little waa hind by the Ohio Glory and became the firet black coach in the hiatory of the World League. “When the general manager called my house, he aaked my daughter if he could apeak to the new coach of the Ohio Glory," arid Little, the former Miami Dolphins All-Pro, and until recently, the coach at historically black Bethune. “She [Ms daughter] screamed. It probably wasn’t real profearional, but she waa ao happy. I guess Daddy had gotten to be a little bitgrouchy* little had reaeon to feel grouchy after being unceremoniously dumped by B-CC. School officials first suggested that Little had re signed on his own, and Little even went along with the company line at his initial news conference. But reporters later determined that Little had been fired on Dec. 19, 1991 after nine years at Ms alma mater. "Things warned out tar me dhi, Little eaid.Tm really honored by all of this. It’s a whole new ball game far me. Then’s a lot of responsibility.' The Job switch should help Little’s bank account He was earning $82,000 a year at B-CC, but will earn $100,000 a year with the Ohio Glory. Presumably, he’ll be able to keep his pay, too. It’s widely known Oat at historically blade colleges, and at other small schools, the head coaches often dig into their own pockets to help keep the program going. With the Glocy, Little wont have to worry about that 'At least I don’t have to do things fbr myself like 1 had been used to. I even have a traveling secretary,” little said. "I didn’t like the way things ended at Bethune, but I'm gratefal far the time I had then.” The vacancy at B-CC no longer exists. The Wildcats, after appar ently being turned down by Doug Williams, hind former Jackson State assistant Sylvester Collins. T have a lot of respect far Larry Little,” Collins said. *Tm not hying to fill his shoes. I'm just trying to do my job.” Collins’appointmentwaaabitafa surprise. B-CC boosters had all but assumed that farmer All-Pro re ceiver Wes Chandler would get the job. Keep It Coming!!! CamtA Vote For Continued African American Progress! 'W M\ N A A A St 3 NFORMATION <ls The Key^ B« Informed About that Affect All Of Us By Subscribing to □ □ The Carolinian r Please enter my subscription: Please send a gift subscription to: n i i i i __ State-— ZIP 1 Year *2500 * □ 6 Months $14°°,
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