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          Jets Owner LEON HESS has been hospitalized for about
     three weeks with a broken hip (N.Y. DAILY NEWS, 4/29). 
     Meanwhile, Jets PR Assistant Berj Najarian said the team
     "would have no reports on his condition" (NEWSDAY, 4/29).
     ...ESPN analyst RAY KNIGHT was charged with disorderly
     conduct for "striking a spectator" after his daughter's
     softball game (AP, 4/29)....MIKE TYSON is ready to "tell
     all" and will "be asking for somewhere between" $3-5M for a
     book deal (MSNBC.com, 4/29)....Agent JOE CUBAS, who
     specializes in representing Cuban MLB players who have
     defected, "plans to hook up with another Monday in
     Baltimore" during the Orioles exhibition game. Cubas: "I'm
     going there with that intent" (USA TODAY, 4/29)....MLB
     Rangers SS ROYCE CLAYTON will make a $100,000 donation for
     an endowed college scholarship through the JACKIE ROBINSON
     Foundation (STAR-TELEGRAM, 4/29)....Turner Sports President
     HARVEY SCHILLER will play 60 holes of golf Friday on his
     60th birthday (ATLANTA CONSTITUTION, 4/29).
 

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