The DENVER BRONCOS will receive their Super Bowl rings
on June 5 at a ceremony at team headquarters. Each ring has
five carats of diamonds forming the team logo, and is valued
at $37,000 (PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, 5/17)....GEORGE FOREMAN
became was given an honorary doctorate degree from the
Houston Graduate School of Theology for his charity work
with children (HOUSTON CHRONICLE, 5/17)....In Chicago, West
Madison Street -- a seven block stretch that runs past the
United Center -- will be renamed "MICHAEL JORDAN's Place"
(CHICAGO SUN-TIMES, 5/16)....Also in Chicago, LARRY BIRD
wrote a guest column in the SUN-TIMES titled "MJ's Status Is
Earned." Bird: "I can't understand how anybody would want
to push him in any way to leave before he is ready. I'd
like to see him stay and play. I believe he can still
dominate the game for the next two or three years" (CHICAGO
SUN-TIMES, 5/17)....IVAN LENDL made his golf debut on the
Nike Tour, at the Nike Dominion Open in VA. Lendl shot two
rounds of 81 and missed the cut (ITW, 5/18)....IOC President
JUAN ANTONIO SAMARANCH said that NHL players will be welcome
in the 2002 Winter Games: "Too much has been made of the
American players in Nagano. These were young players,
things happen" (Mult., 5/18)....KAROLJ SELES, who coached
his daughter, MONICA SELES, to become the No. 1 player in
the world, died Thursday. In N.Y., Robin Finn called him an
"oasis of congeniality in an era of overwrought and often
irrational tennis parents" (N.Y. TIMES, 5/16).
