BRIEFLY : $6 MILLION OFFER OFFENDS RODMAN.Dennis Rodman, upset with the Chicago Bulls' latest one-year, $6 million offer, says he'll quit basketball if the team doesn't pay him what he wants. ``And I'm not playing with retirement like Charles Barkley This article is about the basketball player. For the politican, see Charles E. Barkley Charles Wade Barkley (born February 20 1963) is a retired American professional basketball player. just to see how fans respond and then change my mind,'' Rodman told the Chicago Sun-Times This article is about the Chicago newspaper. For the Canadian newspaper, see Owen Sound Sun Times. The Chicago Sun-Times is an American daily newspaper published in Chicago. in Sunday's editions. ``When I leave, that will be it for me.'' Rodman, who has led the NBA NBA abbr. 1. National Basketball Association 2. National Boxing Association NBA (US) n abbr (= National Basketball Association) → Basketball-Dachverband (= in rebounding the past five seasons, wants $11 million. ``Offering me $5 million was an insult,'' Rodman said. ``And $6 million obviously isn't much better. I'd rather quit than play for $6 million. ``Yeah, I know a lot of people will look at that and say, `Hey man, that's $6 million. That's a lot of money.' Yeah, but that's too far from my market value. Just because it's a lot of money doesn't make it fair for them to offer it, and it sure doesn't make it smart for me to accept it. ``. . . It's not my fault that salary standards have blown through the roof and my market value went up.'' In the meantime Adv. 1. in the meantime - during the intervening time; "meanwhile I will not think about the problem"; "meantime he was attentive to his other interests"; "in the meantime the police were notified" meantime, meanwhile , his teammates have stuck up for him, with Scottie Pippen Scottie Maurice Pippen (born September 25, 1965 in Hamburg, Arkansas) is a retired American professional basketball player who played in the National Basketball Association (NBA). last week saying Rodman should get $11 million. Michael Jordan This article is about the former basketball player. For other uses, see Michael Jordan (disambiguation). Michael Jeffrey Jordan (born February 17 1963) is a retired American professional basketball player. , who just signed that lucrative $30-million deal for next season, also wants the Bulls to re-sign Rodman. Rodman not only is set to begin taping his new, 20-episode television series for MTV MTV in full Music Television U.S. cable television network, established in 1980 to present videos of musicians and singers performing new rock music. MTV won a wide following among rock-music fans worldwide and greatly affected the popular-music business. but also has signed a $2 million motion-picture deal. Floyd Stahl, a former Ohio State basketball coach and longtime athletic administrator, has died. He was 97. Stahl died Friday at his son's home in Blacklick, Ohio. He was 84-92 as Ohio State's basketball coach from 1950-51 to 1957-58 and served as an assistant athletic director until 1970. He is a member of the school's athletic Hall of Fame. SOCCER Roberto Donadoni assisted on the first three goals to lift the New York-New Jersey MetroStars to a 4-1 victory over the San Jose Clash in a Major League Soccer game in East Rutherford, N.J. Steve Rammel scored his 12th goal in the first minute and Mark Simpson made four saves as D.C. United beat the Columbus Crew 2-0 in Washington, D.C. TENNIS Alberto Berasategui, a finalist at the 1994 French Open, defeated Spanish compatriot com·pa·tri·ot n. 1. A person from one's own country. 2. A colleague. [French compatriote, from Late Latin compatri Alex Corretja 6-2, 6-4, 6-4 Sunday to win the $435,000 Generali Open in Kitzbuehel, Austria. Berasategui, the No. 5 seed, won for the second time this season, following a win in Bologna, Italy. |
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