The Repository has returned its press credentials for the 1995Canton-Akron Indians season after being told the passes werecontingent on the types of stories it would run, the Canton, Ohio,newspaper said Monday.
The credentials give reporters access to the press box and otherareas that allow them to cover the games.
'At the point a negative article about the franchise appearsanywhere in your paper, your credentials will be revoked and you willbe asked to purchase a ticket and cover the games from outside thepress box,' Indians general manager Jeff Auman said in a letter toThe Repository's sports editor, Bob Stewart.
Stewart said he told the Double-A Eastern League affiliate ofthe Cleveland Indians that the conditions were unacceptable.
'We don't base our coverage on whether or not the boss likesit,' he said.
The newspaper said it was prepared to pay admission at ThurmanMunson Memorial Stadium and cover the games from the stands if theclub does not change its position.
The newspaper said team owner Mike Agganis apparently wasconcerned about recent stories on the team. One was a Novemberarticle about corporate sponsors that were considering thecancellation of their advertising with the club because of Agganis'decision to move the team to Akron for the 1997 season.
Navratilova dodges the Bullets: Martina Navratilova has decidednot to try out for the Colorado Silver Bullets, officials of theAtlanta-based women's professional baseball team said.
The team opened its training camp Tuesday in Fort Myers, Fla.,with 51 candidates.
The Silver Bullets had been going to give Navratilova a privatetryout at a field in Palm Springs, but she called it off.
'It was handled through her publicist and the Coors people,'said Silver Bullets publicist Debra Larson. 'We never talked toMartina directly. The word we got was that she was irritated by thepublicity and the fact that the story leaked out about her wanting totry out.'
Street of dreams: It's Rebecca Lobo Way now.
Southwick, Mass., selectmen voted unanimously to rename thehalf-mile entrance road to the Southwick-Tolland Regional High Schoolin honor of the 1991 graduate and honor student, who led theUniversity of Connecticut to an undefeated season and the women'sNCAA basketball championship.
'It's not Rebecca Lobo Street,' said Paul Salzer, chairman ofthe selectmen. 'It is indicative of a way to get ahead in education,in athletics. It's Rebecca Lobo Way.'
Salzer said the idea came from a group of school bus drivers,who were season-ticket holders to UConn's women's games.Source: Compiled by Eddie Ibardolasa
