
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: THURSDAY, March 17, 1994                   TAG: 9403170090
SECTION: SPORTS                    PAGE: B-5   EDITION: METRO 
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IN SPORTS

In Newport News, a federal magistrate questioned whether a bowling-alley employee has any grounds for claiming Sports Illustrated smeared her reputation in an article on the Allen Iverson controversy.

Julia Weaver, suing Sports Illustrated for $1 million, said the magazine libelously implied she was a racist in an Oct. 25 article by incorrectly reporting that she assigned the high school basketball star and his friends to a lane at the end of the bowling alley as an insult. Judge James E. Bradberry said it may take him awhile to issue a ruling on the magazine's request to have the libel suit thrown out.

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