With DOMINIQUE MOCEANU filing suit to be declared a
legal adult to protect her money from her parents, Philip
Hersh writes that it "will be another black eye for elite
women's gymnastics ... This will be fodder for supermarket
tabloids and the Jenny-Ricky-Jerry-Sally genre of TV talk
shows. This is a combination of the bizarre and the sad"
(CHICAGO TRIBUNE, 10/22). Moceanu's father, DUMITRU: "She's
just a child; she's just a minor. I don't believe this comes
from her. It comes from other people" (USA TODAY, 10/22).
...SAMMY SOSA was named the '98 ROBERTO CLEMENTE Man of the
Year by MLB and True Value (MLB)....Olympic Gold Medalist
JONNY MOSELEY was on "Today" and taught host MATT LAUER how
to ski on a man-made hill in Rockefeller Center. Lauer,
after Moseley finished a run down the hill with a front
flip: "Do you know the first rule in television? You don't
make the host look bad" ("Today," 10/22)....UNIVERSAL SPORTS
AMERICA won first place in the "Dallas 100 Awards" on
Tuesday, which honors the growth of small and medium-size
companies in the Dallas area (DALLAS MORNING NEWS, 10/21)
