Executive Committee

NEW YORK -- Baseball's ruling Executive Committee was t announce the formation of a committee today to look into the allegations of racist remarks against Cincinnati Reds owner Marge Schott.The committee, which will include both league presidents -- Bill White and Bobby Brown -- a small group of owners from both leagues and National League attorney Robert Kheel, will recommend disciplinary action when the owners convene during the winter meetings in Louisville, Ky., next week.The problem facing the owners in debating what action to take against Schott is that no one has corroborated the most recent charges, those by former Oakland A's executve assistant Sharon Jones.

The top leaders of the Baltimore County Republican Central Committee are seeking a resolution from the state party directing its representatives to oppose a new term for national party Chairman Reince Priebus in the aftermath of the GOP's dismal showing in the Nov. 6 election. John Fiastro Jr., the newly elected county chairman, said the party executive committee decided Monday night to seek such a resolution at the party's state convention at Turf Valley in Howard County on Nov. 30 and Dec. 1. Fiastro said there was a sentiment among county party leaders that the national GOP needs new leadership in the wake of its election setbacks, which included President Barack Obama's win over Mitt Romney and the loss of seats in the U.S. Senate.

What's the worst problem facing Baltimore children today? The question was posed to the Youth Executive Committee of the Safe and Sound campaign.Justin Brown, 16, says it's a shortage of nurturing parents or guardians. Anisha Downs, 17, says it's the absence of uniformly good public schools.Terrell Boston-Smith, 14, says it's so many poor sections, not far from affluent places such as the Inner Harbor and Guilford. Katrina M. Scott, 16, says it's low self-esteem of adolescents caused by adults portraying them as lost, without goals and drug-driven.

The NCAA has done more than hammer the Penn State football program with crippling sanctions. It has entered the crime business. In past situations where athletics and criminal activity intertwined, the NCAA got involved only after its rules had been violated. For example, in 2003, when Baylor basketball player Patrick Dennehy was murdered by a teammate, the NCAA stepped in with penalties when it learned the coach was paying players. Whether the NCAA overstepped its bounds in the Penn State case has been debated.

Later today, Peter G. Angelos is expected finally to take charge of the Orioles. As the team's managing general partner, the Baltimore lawyer will have the last word on virtually every decision affecting the club, from setting ticket prices to lusting after free agents.But despite that sweeping authority, Angelos should be on the receiving end of a fair amount of advice.He'll get it from, among other sources, the team's executive committee and newly constituted board of directors.The executive committee will consist of advisers closest to Angelos, including other owners with the most money invested in the team.

It's official: The NCAA basketball tournament will be coming to the Baltimore Arena in 1995.As expected, the NCAA Executive Committee formally has awarded first- and second-round games in the East Regional to UMBC, the host institution. The other East site for the first and second rounds will be Knickerbocker Arena in Albany, N.Y.The executive committee's action follows last month's recommendation of the Division I Men's Basketball Committee. Four games will be played at the Baltimore Arena on Thursday, March 16, 1995, and two games on Saturday, March 18.

It's official: The NCAA basketball tournament will be coming to Baltimore in 1995.As expected, the NCAA Executive Committee formally has awarded first- and second-round games in the East Regional to UMBC, the host institution. The other East site will be Knickerbocker Arena in Albany, N.Y.The executive committee's action follows last month's recommendation of the Division I Men's Basketball Committee. Four games will be played at the Baltimore Arena on Thursday, March 16, 1995, and two games will be played on Saturday, March 18.

PeopleDr. Mary P. Hogan, a Columbia obstetrician and gynecologist in practice with Drs. Esposito, Mayer, Hogan & Associates P.A., has been elected president of the professional staff at Howard County General Hospital. She will oversee the hospital's nearly 600-member medical and dental staff, preside at executive committee meetings, serve as ex-officio member of clinical departments and medical staff committees and be a member of the hospital's board of trustees. She succeeds Catonsville neurosurgeon Dr. Charles J. Lancelotta, who served a one-year term.

Local delegate to speak to League of Women VotersThe Carroll County League of Women Voters will meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Westminster branch library, 50 E. Main St.Republican Del. Nancy R. Stocksdale will discuss issues that may come up in the 2000 legislative session. The public is invited and prospective members, both men and women, are welcome.Information: Rosemary Hanger, 410-857-9445.County Democrats elect new executive committeeThe Carroll County Democratic Central Committee met Sept.

An article in Thursday's editions overstated the extent to which an Owings Mills electrical subcontractor claims it has been harmed by a billing dispute at the new Central Booking and Intake Center. S. John Blumenthal, vice-chairman of the executive committee of Blumenthal-Kahn Electric Limited Partnership, said that while the dispute has thrown his business into financial trouble, it is still able to pay its employees.The Sun regrets the error.

From the beginning of the labor fight with NFL owners, the rallying cry for Domonique Foxworth focused on health and safety issues — protecting players from the inherent violence of the game. When the two sides finally raised a flag of truce Monday, ending a 136-day lockout of players, the Ravens cornerback was able to revel in a victory that should make football safer for players at all levels. In itself, elimination of the football staple of two-a-day practices was reason enough to celebrate.

Domonique Foxworth has juggled knee rehab, labor negotiations and family obligations this month in his diverse role as cornerback, union leader and father. As with the knee injury that made him invisible last season, he worked mostly behind the scenes. As a member of the now-defunct NFL Players Association's executive committee, Foxworth was at the epicenter of the NFL's labor dispute. He attended mediated negotiations with owners in Washington in early March, then hurried home to care for his 31/2-month-old daughter Avery while his wife, Ashley, attended law school classes.

Anne Arundel County officials have begun an initiative to help revitalize Brooklyn Park. County Executive John R. Leopold has formed an interagency Revitaliation Action Plan Committee charged with organizing a comprehensive plan to improve residential and commercial areas of the nothern Anne Arundel community. The Anne Arundel Economic Development Corp. and the county Department of Planning and Zoning will lead the effort to spur economic development, facilitate physical impovements, renew community involvement and enhance the role of the Chesapeake Arts Center.

More than two weeks after Maryland Republicans met behind closed doors and voted to express "no confidence" in leader James Pelura, the state GOP chairman insists he's not going anywhere. And, he says, he has the votes to ensure that he isn't forced out. "I am not resigning," Pelura declared in an interview. While the executive committee, made up of 30 statewide and county officers, voted against Pelura during a July meeting, the only way to remove the party chairman is by a two-thirds' vote of the much larger state convention.

The NFL Players Association is about to find out what it's like to go into high-stakes negotiations without Gene Upshaw. Upshaw carried the union fight for 25 years as its strong-willed executive director, participating in collective bargaining negotiations as far back as 1977. His death, from pancreatic cancer Wednesday, went shock waves through the NFL and left a leadership void in the union. "The new guy will have to do what he can, but he can't be Gene Upshaw," said Stan White, a former Baltimore Colt and long-time union activist.

The NAACP's national board is poised to select a new president and CEO. But a rift among members threatens to shake up the plans, as some complain they have been shut out of the process to choose a new leader for the Baltimore-based civil rights organization. Calling itself the "Leadership of Conscience," a group of about a dozen NAACP board members expressed its objections at the board's annual meeting in New York last weekend. During board elections, the group waged an unsuccessful effort to unseat Chairman Julian Bond.

NEW YORK - Lloyd Ward, the embattled chief executive of the U.S. Olympic Committee, escaped an effort last night to oust him during a 90-minute conference call held by the organization's executive committee. According to a person involved in the session, a motion to dismiss Ward was raised by Herb Perez, a member of the executive committee, but was quashed because the call was not deemed an official meeting. Nonetheless, the person said, Ward's grip on his position appeared tenuous. Perez said that Ward, who was found in January to have broken the USOC's ethics code, has "outlasted his usefulness," the person involved in the call said.

Louis V. Gerstner Jr. reshuffled IBM's management yesterday by creating an 11-member executive committee he hopes will enable the various parts of the big computer company to work together more smoothly with less bureaucracy.The move, explained in an IBM memo released yesterday, was a clear signal that Mr. Gerstner believes the company's future lies in making the organization work better rather than in remaking it by overhauling it top to bottom or selling off major businesses.jTC Mr. Gerstner, who became chairman and chief executive in April, is also heavily relying on longtime International Business Machines Corp.

Restaurant group chooses Kreuzburg Paula Kreuzburg has been named interim president by the executive committee of the Restaurant Association of Maryland's board of directors. An adviser to former President and Chief Executive Officer Marcia S. Harris, who died recently, Kreuzburg has been a member of the association's staff since 1997. She served as chairman of its board of directors in 1993 and 1994 while managing her family's restaurant, Mrs. K's Toll House, in Silver Spring. A search committee has been formed, and a national search firm will assist the committee in evaluating candidates to fill the position.

Members of the Anne Arundel County chapter of the NAACP moved closer to ousting the group's leader last night, circulating a petition at the monthly meeting asking for his resignation. Already faced with a no-confidence vote by the chapter's executive committee, Wayne Jearld, in office since January, has previously vowed to hang on to the post for the rest of his two-year term. In a letter drafted last week, members of the executive committee listed more than a dozen examples of Jearld pointedly criticizing board members and other community leaders.