The ORIOLES and former manager PHIL REGAN have reached
an "out-of-court settlement" that allowed Regan to sell the
lineup card for the game in which CAL RIPKEN JR. broke the
all-time consecutive games played record. While neither
side is disclosing details, a VA resident said that he
"recently paid more than $40,000 for the card, as well as
the one" used for the previous game, when Ripken tied the
record (Baltimore SUN, 4/19)....In Las Vegas, Ron Kantowski
wrote, "One of the more bizarre rumors making the rounds ...
is that [PCL] Las Vegas Stars managing director KEN STICKNEY
has divorced himself from the day-to-day operations of the
... ballclub -- one of four he and his father HANK co-own --
to pursue an acting career" (LAS VEGAS SUN, 4/18)....An
iSwag.com survey of 459 people found that "people in BULLS
gear tip the best [at restaurants and bars] among those
wearing basketball logo items" and that "people wearing
LAKERS garb are the worst tippers" (CHICAGO SUN-TIMES,
4/19)....Jay Leno, on ELIAN GONZALEZ: "[FIDEL] CASTRO is
getting mad. See what he said today? He said, 'If Elian
doesn't come back to Cuba soon, he will lose his job at the
NIKE factory'" ("Tonight Show," NBC, 4/18).
TABLE TALK: ALEXANDRA STEVENSON met with SC Gov. JIM
HODGES on Monday to discuss the Confederate flag controversy
(Charleston POST & COURIER, 4/18). Hodges "invited"
Stevenson to speak to the state's General Assembly on the
flag issue (USA TODAY, 4/19). CBS SportsLine's Mike Lurie
writes that the controversy "continues to alienate athletes,
coaches and others of all colors -- from" SERENA WILLIAMS to
LOU HOLTZ to TOMMY BOWDEN (CBS SportsLine, 4/19).
