OFFBEAT : A GOOD WALK SPOILED: GUNMEN INVADE COURSE.Add robbers to the hazards on the 16th hole at a municipal golf course. A group of young people has been jumping out of the weeds along a railroad track and sticking up golfers at gunpoint at Shelby Park Golf Course in Nashville, Tenn. There have been two robberies and one attempted robbery since April 30. No one has been arrested. The city has cut the weeds on the park side of the tracks and asked the railroad to trim on the other side. ``It's the most unusual happening in my 30 years at the parks,'' said Metro Parks director Jim Fyke fyke n. A long, bag-shaped fishing net held open by hoops. [Dutch fuik, from Middle Dutch f  ke.] . Tracking O.J.: There was a special report on the O.J. Simpson visit on BBC BBC in full British Broadcasting Corp. Publicly financed broadcasting system in Britain. A private company at its founding in 1922, it was replaced by a public corporation under royal charter in 1927. Radio's ``Today'' program Monday morning. Simpson, who was acquitted in October of murdering his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson Nicole Brown Simpson (May 19, 1959 – June 12, 1994) was the wife of American football player O.J. Simpson. Found murdered at her home in Los Angeles, California, along with her friend Ronald Goldman, her death led to one of the most controversial and widely-discussed criminal and her friend Ronald Goldman Ronald Lyle Goldman (July 2, 1968 – June 12, 1994) was murdered in Los Angeles, California in 1994 at the age of 25 along with his friend Nicole Brown Simpson, the ex-wife of American football player O.J. Simpson. , did not appear on the program. But ``Today's'' host compared him to Richard Nixon and mass murderer mass murderer n. 1. A person, especially a political or military leader, who is responsible for the deaths of many individuals. 2. a. A person who kills several or numerous victims in a single incident. b. Charles Manson Charles Milles Manson (born November 12, 1934) is a career criminal who led the so-called Manson Family, a commune or cult that began to form around him in the U.S. city of San Francisco in 1967. . ``Here is a question,'' said host James Naughtie. ``Why exactly has O.J. Simpson come to Britain?'' No one seemed to know the answer to that rhetorical question, although British beef has been needing a spokesman lately. New sailors: Responding to a wish from his mother that he take up collegiate sailing, Byron Gully Jr. of Chicago tried out for the team last fall during freshmen orientation at Hampton University. Unlike the football and track in which he had competed at a Chicago high school, Gully found that making the sailing squad at the Hampton, Va., college did not involve much more than showing up at a meeting. That was lucky for Gully, since he had never set foot on a sailboat before. Eight other students have joined Gully to form the first intercollegiate sailing team at a historically African-American university. Hampton was founded in 1868 to educate freed slaves. Competing in their first round of spring competition, the five men and four women on the all-African-American team have beaten a few other collegiate sailing teams despite their inexperience. Symbolic fight: South Africa's national rugby team will be allowed to keep the springbok springbok: see antelope. springbok or springbuck Species of antelope (Antidorcas marsupialis), native to treeless plains of southern Africa, the national emblem of South Africa. It stands about 30 in. as its symbol, the National Sports Council has decided. President Nelson Mandela's support for the springbok was the deciding factor. At a meeting with the council, he endorsed keeping the gazelle gazelle, name for the many species of delicate, graceful antelopes of the genus Gazella, inhabiting arid, open country. Most gazelles are found only in Africa, but several species range over N Africa and SW Asia; the Persian, or goitered, gazelle ( , which has been the team's emblem for more than 80 years, and that swayed many members of the council who would otherwise have opposed it. The council had been expected to vote to instruct the team to adopt the king protea, a flower native to South Africa. The country's other national teams, allformerly springboks, have switched to the flower. The springbok was opposed by some because it was seen as a symbol of white domination. Rugby is the favorite sport of Afrikaners and, for decades, no non-whites were allowed on the national rugby team. |
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