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Seattle has named Dave Myers to manage the Tacoma Rainiers, the Mariners’ Triple-A farm club. … In Helsinki, Finland, four skinheads were sentenced to jail terms for assault, racist attacks and threatening behavior which forced Darryl Parker, a black American basketball player, to flee the country.

Left wing Luc Robitaille has been sidelined because of a fracture in his left ankle and could be lost to the New York Rangers for up to three weeks.