
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: THURSDAY, March 31, 1994                   TAG: 9403310326
SECTION: SPORTS                    PAGE: B-4   EDITION: METRO 
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FOOTBALL

Philadelphia Eagles owner Norman Braman will sell his team to Hollywood producer Jeffrey Lurie, sources who know Braman told The Associated Press. The anonymous sources said the deal was imminent. The Philadelphia Inquirer reported Wednesday that a $185 million deal had already been approved by senior NFL executives and coul be completed by the weekend. The price would be the highest ever paid for an NFL franchise.

In Norfolk, D.J. Dozier, whose athletic career included professional football and baseball, has decided to enter the ministry.

"It was time for me to move on," Dozier, a former star running back at Kempsville High School in Virginia Beach, told The Virginian-Pilot this week in a telephone interview from Florida. "The Lord spoke to me and said it was time to leave the endeavor that you have worked so hard for. And I left."

Dozier, 28, said he will begin training for the ministry at Rock Church in Virginia Beach.

by CNB