FORMER ST. JOHN'S SOCCER COACH NAMES NIKE, SCHOOL IN LAWSUIT

          Former St. John's Univ. assistant soccer coach James
     Keady is "filing a federal lawsuit" in U.S. District Court
     in N.Y. claiming Nike and the university "conspired to
     violate his civil rights," according to William McCall of
     the AP.  Keady said that he was "forced to quit because he
     refused to wear" Nike sporting goods.  His attorney Joel
     Joseph said that the lawsuit also claims that Nike
     "conspired to damage Keady's reputation and breached his
     contract as a graduate assistant employed by the
     university."  McCall wrote that St. John's "reacted to
     pressure from Nike" after Keady "began criticizing" the
     school's Nike deal "worth millions of a dollars at a time
     when workers at overseas Nike factories were being paid less
     than a dollar an hour."  Nike Dir of Global Issues
     Management Vada Manager said the lawsuit is "completely
     without merit and we will defend it vigorously" (AP, 11/17).