CYBERSPORTS AN OBSCENE WAY TO FIND OUT WHO YOUR FANS ARE.Byline: - Tom Hoffarth Emil Lazarian, an exchange student from Armenia who goes to high school in Burbank these days, claims he's never heard of Joe Montana Joseph Clifford "Joe" Montana, Jr., (born June 11 1956 in New Eagle, Pennsylvania), nicknamed "Joe Cool" and "The Comeback Kid", is a retired American football player whose professional career in the National Football League (NFL) spanned the late 1970s through the . He might soon meet the Hall of Fame quarterback. Montana filed a lawsuit last week in Santa Clara Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. County Superior Court, upset that Lazarian had been running a porn site under the address JoeMontanaFanClub.com. Montana seeks $5 million in damages and must have been successful with an injunction blocking the domain name because there is no current access to the site. Lazarian, 18, told the San Jose Mercury News The San Jose Mercury News is the major daily newspaper in San Jose, California and Silicon Valley. The paper is owned by MediaNews Group. Its headquarters and printing plant are located in North San Jose next to the Nimitz Freeway (Interstate 880). he ``didn't know it was Joe Montana'' when he bought the domain name but ``if there is a real Joe Montana who is famous, if they ask for it and pay the registration fee, they can have it.'' Late last week, Lazarian was asking for offers on the domain name but would not entertain anything less than $550. --The sweater (starting at $25,000) and stick ($2,500) used by Wayne Gretzky Noun 1. Wayne Gretzky - high-scoring Canadian ice-hockey player (born in 1961) Gretzky in his last game with the New York Rangers The New York Rangers are a professional ice hockey team based in New York, New York, U.S.A. They are members of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League (NHL). is among a pool of high-end sports memorabilia The term sports memorabilia usually refers to anything that can be directly connected to a sports event or personality. These items are generally gathered by fans of the particular sport, athlete or team that the item signifies or by collectors who find value in the rarity that goes up for auction on www.lelands.com. Bidding runs Thursday and Friday. Other items are the first of Reggie Jackson's three home run balls he hit against the Dodgers in Game 6 of the 1977 World Series (starting bid $10,000) and Mickey Mantle's 1948 high school journalism workbook (starts at $1,120). --The Little League Series official Web site (www.littleleague.org) has current info on team matchups for the tournament that begins in Williamsport, Pa., on Friday after the last of the eight U.S. regionals ends Tuesday night in San Bernardino. |
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