Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, April 8, 1993 TAG: 9304080253
SECTION: SPORTS PAGE: B5 EDITION: METRO
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DATELINE: LENGTH: Short
PENGUINS WIN SUIT; COMICS TO BE DESTROYED
The Pittsburgh Penguins won a legal face-off against a San Diego comic book maker. Revolutionary Comics agreed to destroy all available copies of a Mario Lemieux comic book in a settlement with the team over a trademark infringement lawsuit. In a U.S. District Court consent decree, the company also agreed to provide the team with a list of the company's distributors and retailers. The Penguins sued in February charging that the "Sport Stars Mario Lemieux" comic infringed on team trademarks.\ Boston's greeting was a bit frosty, though benign, as two New England sailors succeeded in their quest to smash a record dating to the clipper-ship era. At 3:14 p.m., Rich Wilson of Marblehead, Mass., and Bill Biewenga of Newport, R.I., sailed across an imaginary line between the Boston Light Buoy and the tugboat Karen Tibbets to break the San Francisco-to-Boston record set in 1853 by the premier windjammer Northern Light. The 15,000-mile passage in Wilson and Biewenga's 53-foot high-tech trimaran Great American II took 69 days, 19 hours and 44 minutes - more than six days faster than Northern Light took 140 years ago.
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HOCKEY SAILING