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COLLEGE SPORTS
COLLEGE UNION-COLTER'S QUEST
CHICAGO — There was the summer class called Modern Workplace, when the teacher asked Kain Colter why there was no union for college athletes. His grandmother and mother, who worked at a Colorado law firm. Then there was the spark that grew into a flame — Colter's online rant to the National College Players Association. Kain Colter, the quarterback at Northwestern who is at the center of a push to allow amateur athletes to unionize, has become the face of a movement that may redefine college sports. The foundation for that quest has been building for years. By Jay Cohen and Tim Reynolds. UPCOMING: 900 words, photos, moving Friday for weekend use.
BASEBALL
WRIGLEY 100-INNOVATIONS
CHICAGO — It's hard to think of Wrigley Field as anything but a place of heartbreak — a place where fans wait, season after season, for an elusive World Series title that never comes. Yet in the century without a championship, the ballpark has been in first time and time again in changing the way America watches baseball. It was the first to let fans keep foul balls. The first with permanent concession stands. The first with organ music. The first to clean the park and broadcast games as part of an effort to diversify the fan base and attract women and their kids to a game traditionally more popular among men. As the ballpark's centennial approaches, the Cubs and Chicago have found themselves stuck in a debate about how far to go in modernizing the classic park. By Don Babwin and Andrew Seligman. UPCOMING: 1,000 words, photos. Moving in advance on Friday for use in AMs newspapers of Monday, March 31.
BBO--BAKER'S NEW LIFE
GRANITE BAY, Calif. — A quick glimpse of his overgrown collard greens sends Dusty Baker straight to the shed for a pair of scissors and back to his impressive, organized garden for a small harvest. Baker the longtime baseball man is now Baker the focused gardener and businessman. While his sport is still close to his heart despite the sting of his firing after last season in Cincinnati, Baker is working on more than a half-dozen projects at once out of his Sacramento-area home — not to mention helping baseball-loving son, Darren and his freshman pals with their swings in the family batting cage. By Janie McCauley. UPCOMING: 900 words, photos. Previously moved on March 25.
NFL
FBN--HEADS-UP FOOTBALL
NEW YORK — When USA Football created a program to teach safe tackling to youngsters, it projected reaching a few hundred football organizations throughout the nation. In one year, Heads Up Football was adopted by nearly 2,800 groups. As the second season of the educational program begins, there's no telling how widespread it will become. By Pro Football Writer Barry Wilner. UPCOMING: 800 words, photos. Moving Friday for weekend use.
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