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CINCINNATI (AP) -- Former Cincinnati Reds owner Marge Schott is giving money to a private school and the Boy Scouts. St. Ursula Academy said last month it would use Schott's $1 million gift to build

Saturday, February 19th 2000, 12:00 am

By: News On 6

CINCINNATI (AP) -- Former Cincinnati Reds owner Marge Schott is giving money to a private school and the Boy Scouts. St. Ursula Academy said last month it would use Schott's $1 million gift to build Margaret Unnewehr Schott Hall on the school's campus.

On Feb. 24, the Boy Scouts plan to announce her $1 million gift to build an 18.5-acre lake on the Dan Beard Scout Reservation, a 500-acre spread in suburban Clermont County. "I'm doing it for the children," Schott said in The Cincinnati Enquirer Friday. "One million for the girls. One million for the boys."

Schott and her husband, Charles Schott, who died in 1968, neve had children. "So, I want to do things for other people's children," she said.

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SALISBURY, N.C. (AP) -- Jim Simpson and Jerry Izenberg have been chosen for the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association's Hall of Fame. Rick Reilly was selected sportswriter of the year for the sixth time, and Dan Patrick was picked as the group's sportscaster of the year.

Simpson has worked for NBC, ESPN, ABC, CBS and TNT and has covered the Olympics, Super Bowl, World Series, major bowl games, baseball and Grand Slam events in tennis and golf.

Izenberg has been a daily columnist for the Star-Ledger of Newark, N.J., for 39 years and has written nine books and hundreds of magazine articles. Reilly has written for Sports Illustrated since 1985 and is the first writer in the magazine's history to have a weekly opinion column.

Patrick is an anchor on ESPN's "SportsCenter" and has covered the Winter Olympics, Super Bowl, World Series and NBA finals.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- The Big Ten will not discipline Ohio State coach Jim O'Brien for comments he made about a referee after the Buckeyes' loss to Michigan State. O'Brien was ejected in the second half of the game Tuesday night after receiving his second technical foul from official Tom O'Neill.

The Big Ten said Thursday the conference's supervisor of men's basketball officials, Rich Falk, reviewed O'Brien's comments abou tO'Neill and decided not to take action. After the game, O'Brien was asked whether he had any previous disagreements with O'Neill.

O'Brien said he did not know of any, but that O'Neill must have had something before influence him "because certainly what was going on tonight did not justify his actions. So maybe there's some stuff in the past." O'Brien could have been fined or suspended if the league had interpreted that remark as questioning O'Neill's integrity.
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DETROIT (AP) -- America True captain and CEO Dawn Riley was awarded the 2000 Michigan Boating Industries Association Mayor's Cup at Cobo Center Friday. The award, given annually to the Michigan city, legislator, individual or group that has made outstanding and notable contributions to the recreational boating industry, was accepted by Riley's mother and brother.

Riley was in New Zealand for the America's Cup finals. Riley guided America True, the San Francisco Yacht Club's Challenge for the America's Cup, to the third round of the Louis Vuitton qualifying tournament.
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SANDOWN, England (AP) -- Jockey Tony McCoy on Friday reached 200 winners for the season in the fastest time ever in British steeplechase racing. McCoy rode home Mr. Cool at Sandown Park to reach the plateau 10 days faster than his previous record in the 1997-98 season.

He also became the first National Hunt jockey to reach 200 for the second time. Peter Scudamore, now retired, was the other to do it once. McCoy has been breaking records with regularity. He holds records for the fastest 100, 150 and 200 winners and the record for a season, 253, which he has a good chance of breaking this time.

Earlier this season, he reached 1,000 career winners in a record 5 years, 95 days. It took Scudamore more than 10 years to reach 1,000.
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BAUDETTE, Minn. (AP) -- Wendy Balsley struggled for more than three hours on Lake of the Woods just to reel in a fish. It's no wonder it took that long -- the lake sturgeon she landed was 5-foot-2, only an inch shorter than Balsley. Her effort was worth it, though, as it appears she now holds the ice-fishing world record for lake sturgeon.

Balsley caught the 65-pound fish Saturday on Lake of the Woods'Zippel Bay. She is registering the fish through the National Freshwater Fishing Hall of Fame in Hayward, Wis. "The people in Hayward tell me this should be the record on rod and reel through the ice," Balsley said.