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).
