Cia h of th . Legend
Aids-related
charities
Will ben fit
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Julius Erving, Kareem
Abdul Jabbar and DJ
Group, presenter of the Feb.
28 "Clash of the Legends"
one-on-one basketball chal
lenge, will donate part of
the proceeds from the pay
per-view cable television
event to AIDS-related
charities.
With each purchase of
the event by a cable sub
criber, 50 cents will be
donated .. Half will go to the
- American Foundation for
AIDS Research, the
nation's lead�ng non-profit
organization dedicated to
AIDS research, education
and public policy. Since
1985, AMPAR has
provided more tha $39
million to more than 620 of
these projects.
The other half of the con
tributions will go to the
MagicJohnsOn Foundation,
a charity recently estab
lished by Magic Joh on to
ist in th,.e banle against
the HIV virus.
The "Clash of the
Legends," pitting Erving
against Abdul Jabb r in the
Twelv juror
JJQ)IAMAPOllS (AI') _ A mostly
• bite, mOldy male jury ea1led
'last Wednesday for the trial of former
I heavyweight boxing cbamp Mike
� Tyson on cbargeS of raping a Blae
�beautypaaeantoon�bml
The jurors range from ages 21 to
\ 55, with mo t in their 301. Four are
: women, three &Ie Black.· Most are
• married blue-collar WOrBlI
: Race bad bc:oome a source of dis-
. : pUle in the trial, th the defense com
� plaining that the jury pool did not
I represent the r cial make-up of
, Marion County, whi� is 21 percent
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mai n event, will be
televised live on pay-per
view cable television from
Trump Taj Mahal in Atlan
tic City, NJ, at 9pm (ET)/
6pm(PT), with a replay im
mediately followlng.
In addition to the fea
tured duel, four other NBA
at
in
Jordan takes' control of his name, fame
The Black boxer came to court last
Wednesd y ith his arm around
Camille E ald, a woman be con
ide his surrogate mother.
Tyson's teal mother died ben he
a child.
Tyson lived in Ewald' home at
Ca kill, .Y., after he w released
from refoIID school t aF 13 and
came under the Ing 0 the 1 te
boxing teacher Cu D' Amato.
Tyson' accuser, an 18-year-old MI
BJ America cont tant, told police
he et Ty n at a pageant re
on July 18.
She'd eat ith him
ef� t of
.- .
Kar m Abdul Jabb r
legends to be announced
later will compete in a one
on-one tournament format.
Games will be played on
a half 'court, with three
point line and a 12-second
shot clock. Veteran NBA
feferee Earl Strom ill of
ficiate the game.
y
nr
ial
ho 1 room, and early the next mom
ing be restraiDed her on the bed and
raped r,
The boxer, who been accused
often of CoDdling omen,· .
c:cuser consented to
. "The woman kno hat hap-
peDed. I kno hat happened. I'm
1DD�"" be .d.
If convicted, D could be
tcDcCd to 63 in P .
of p time for the Citizen,
the qUestion· "Will Tyson tified
in his own behalfl"