Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: TUESDAY, May 3, 1994 TAG: 9405030093
SECTION: SPORTS PAGE: C-4 EDITION: METRO
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DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
"I'm just fine," Barnes said Sunday evening. "I got some medication in case the stone starts to move, so I will be fine. I'm just waiting it out."
A federal judge has dismissed a $1 million libel lawsuit stemming from a magazine article about a highly publicized brawl in Hampton, involving Bethel High School athlete Allen Iverson.
U.S. Magistrate James E. Bradberry dismissed the suit brought against Sports Illustrated by Julia Weaver, who alleged that the magazine's Oct. 25 story portrayed her as a racist.
Iverson, a football and basketball standout at Bethel when the brawl occurred, received a five-year sentence for mob violence. He was granted conditional clemency in December by then-Gov. L. Douglas Wilder and was released.
The Marquette Warriors became the Marquette Golden Eagles to both cheers and jeers from students who voted on the change.
The move came after the school's old nickname was deemed offensive to American Indians. The only other other choice was the Marquette Lightning, chosen from among 1,500 nominations.
Paul Hornung, a former sports editor of The Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch who covered 326 consecutive Ohio State football games, died Monday of cancer. He was 78.
He joined the Dispatch in 1938 as a campus sports correspondent and started covering Ohio State football in the 1941 season. He missed the second game of the season because only one writer was sent to Southern Cal, but staffed the next 326 regular-season and bowl games, including nine Rose Bowls.
The streak ended in 1975 when he covered the Cincinnati Reds in the World Series.
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