BRIEFLY : BASEBALL LABOR TALKS RESUME.Baseball labor negotiations are to resume today after a one-month break, with the union due to make a new counter-offer. During a March 22 meeting in Phoenix, owners made a significant move for the first time in a year, abandoning their attempt to link a luxury tax to revenue, dropping their luxury tax rate from 50 percent to 40 percent and increasing the threshold where the tax would start from $44 million to $46 million. The luxury tax on high-payroll teams would be in effect from 1998-2001, with the threshold rising 7 percent a year until it was at $56.3 million in 2001, the final season of the proposed six-year deal. Union officials have spent the past month studying the proposal and preparing their counteroffer In contract law, a proposal made in response to an original offer modifying its terms, but which has the legal effect of rejecting it. A counteroffer normally terminates the original offer, but the original offer remains open for acceptance if the counteroffer expressly . BOXING Tom ``Boom Boom'' Johnson knocked out Argentine Claudio Martinet mar·ti·net n. 1. A rigid military disciplinarian. 2. One who demands absolute adherence to forms and rules. [After Jean Martinet (died 1672), French army officer. Sunday with the last of five solid rights in the seventh round in Antibes, France, to retain his world IBF IBF See: International Banking Facility featherweight title. The 31-year-old from Evansville, Ind., commanded from the start, dropping Martinet in the third and sixth rounds. Former world welterweight and junior middleweight junior middleweight n. In both senses also called super welterweight. 1. A weight division in professional boxing having an upper limit of 154 pounds (69.3 kilograms), between welterweight and middleweight. 2. champion Donald Curry Donald Curry (born September 7, 1961) is a retired Fort Worth fighter, called the 'Lone Star Cobra'. Amateur Career Curry, who had an amateur record of 400-4, made the 1980 United States Olympic team, but could not compete due to the U.S. boycott. is in jail again for failing to pay child support. Curry, 34, won work release quickly after he was jailed last month, but that was revoked last week when he again failed to make support payments. He currently owes more than $6,000 in back payments, records show. SOCCER In a bid to cool a bitter battle with Japan over who will be host for the 2002 World Cup, a high-ranking government official in Seoul said that South Korea might consider co-hosting the tournament. Until now, neither Japan nor South Korea have showed any interest in co-hosting the event. FIFA's executive committee is scheduled to choose between the two countries when it meets June 1 in Zurich, Switzerland. GOLF Mark O'Meara Mark Francis O'Meara (born January 13, 1957) is a professional golfer who was a prolific tournament winner on the PGA Tour and around the world from the mid 1980s to the late 1990s. In 2007 he entered his first season on the Champions Tour. maintained his momentum from a record-tying third round and survived an 18th-hole crisis to win the Greater Greensboro Classic in North Carolina North Carolina, state in the SE United States. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean (E), South Carolina and Georgia (S), Tennessee (W), and Virginia (N). Facts and Figures Area, 52,586 sq mi (136,198 sq km). Pop. . O'Meara shot a 3-under-par 69 for a total of 14-under 274. It was his first victory since winning the Mercedes Championship in January and his fifth victory in the past 13 months. He got into position for victory with a 10-under-par 62 Saturday, tying the mark set by Davis Love III Davis Milton Love III (born April 13, 1964) is an American professional golfer. Love was born in Charlotte, North Carolina. He attended the University of North Carolina before turning professional in 1985. in his 1992 triumph. O'Meara escaped with a bogey on last hole after driving into the rough and botching an iron shot. Meg Mallon ended a streak of 14 straight pars with a short birdie putt on 17, giving her the lead and allowing her to pull away to a two-stroke victory in the $600,000 Sara Lee Classic in Nashville, Tenn. Another par on 18 gave Mallon a 3-under 69 and a three-day, 6-under 210 for her second title of the year. Jim Colbert parred the 17th hole to beat Dave Stockton and Bob Charles in a four-hole playoff to win the Las Vegas Senior Classic The Las Vegas Senior Classic was a golf tournament on the Champions Tour from 1986 to 2001. It was played in Las Vegas, Nevada at the Desert Inn Country Club (1986-1993) and at the TPC at Summerlin (1994-2001). for the second straight year. TENNIS The United States overcame injuries to advance to the semifinals of the Federation Cup, beating Austria 3-2 behind Mary Joe Fernandez in Salzburg, Austria. Fernandez beat Barbara Paulus 6-3, 7-6 (7-4), then teamed with longtime partner Gigi Fernandez to beat Judith Wiesner and Petra Schwarz-Ritter 6-0, 6-4. CAPTION(S): Photo PHOTO MEG MALLON - Meg Mallon birdied No. 17 en route to atwo-stroke victory in the Sara Lee Classic. |
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