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          OKSANA BAIUL will make her first court appearance today
     at the West Hartford [CT] Superior Court.  Baiul was charged
     with reckless driving and DUI on January 14 (HARTFORD
     COURANT, 1/27)....STEVE YOUNG will appear on the February 5
     episode of NBC's "Wings" (N.Y. DAILY NEWS, 1/27)....PETER
     GRAF, father of STEFFI GRAF, was found guilty of tax
     evasion, and was sentenced to three years and nine months in
     prison.  He has already served fifteen months in pretrial
     detention.  Although the judge ruled that the investigation
     in Steffi's "role be dropped," German prosecutors said they
     have not decided their next step (N.Y. TIMES, 1/25). 
     Meanwhile, according to a report in the German magazine
     Focus, prosecutors are looking into whether a criminal
     investigation should be filed against Steffi's sponsors. 
     Adidas, Dunlop, and a German milk company reportedly put
     their sponsorship payments to a Holland-based "tax haven"
     set up by Peter Graf to avoid German taxes (CHICAGO TRIBUNE,
     1/26)....STEPHEN KARP, who paid $40,000 for the old Boston
     Garden scoreboard, plans to put it in the food court of one
     of his MA malls (BOSTON GLOBE MAGAZINE, 1/26).


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