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...church group to help offset his $23,500 prep-school tuition. "We feel that a lot of these players are getting a bad reputation and are being vilified in the eyes of the public when, in fact, nothing morally wrong has occurred," says Duke's Shane Battier, the SBC's inaugural chairman and an academic all-American...
...players get scholarships, the rules are such that many have trouble making ends meet on campus. Hence the idea of a stipend. And these kids know they have leverage. "They're not naive," says James Haney, director of the National Association of Basketball Coaches and the architect behind the SBC. "They recognize that the $6 billion CBS contract with the NCAA is the result of what they're doing on the court...
...Street. In the morning, the Dow Jones Company announced it was dumping four underperforming stocks from its Industrial Average in favor of four darlings of the new economy. Out were old-school companies Sears, Goodyear, Chevron and Union Carbide. In their place the 30-company index added Intel, Microsoft, SBC Communications and Home Depot. If nothing else, adding four high-flying stocks will be good medicine for an index mired for the past month in the Dow-drums...
...Sprint. It's a record-size deal befitting record-size egos and has implications for Wall Street, where they're trying to identify tomorrow's survivors--and the targets those companies will swallow today. If you want to play, look for AT&T, MCI WorldCom, Bell Atlantic and SBC to survive; their targets include many small cable and wireless companies, along with such big outfits as Bell South, Global Crossing, Cincinnati Bell, Qwest and Nextel...
...year or two--after billions of dollars in hardware upgrades. AT&T's dynamic CEO, C. Michael Armstrong, who took over in November 1997, is out to win your loyalty on many fronts, in the face of ferocious competition from giants like MCI Worldcom, Sprint, Bell Atlantic and SBC Communications. Each wants to sell you a bundle of wired and wireless connections...