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highest-ranking Hispanic woman in a management position at Major League Baseball
headquarters said in a lawsuit on Thursday she has faced discrimination there
for two decades.Sylvia Linds lawsuit, filed in Manhattan federal court, seeks
unspecified damages for what she describes as a failure by the league to
consider, interview, appoint and promote qualified Hispanic women to managerial
and executive positions. Lind, 48, says the league has created a hostile work
environment for her because of her age.Lind, the leagues director of baseball
initiatives in its Office of the Commissioner, names as defendants the league,
Commissioner Bud Selig and Hall of Famer Frank Robinson, who supervised her.
Messages to the league were not immediately returned Thursday.The lawsuit says
Lind works in an industry dominated by white men and has been passed over for
promotions and underpaid since 1995.Lind said Hispanics are underrepresented in
the management level while baseball has a high percentage of Hispanic players.
She said of 52 people who are vice-presidents or above only two are Hispanic and
only 12 are women.According to the lawsuit, Lind, who is of Cuban descent and
lives in New Jersey, earned her law degree from Fordham University School of Law
in 1995. It says she began working for Major League Baseball on Nov. 21, 1995,
as supervisor in the legal department of MLB Properties Inc. at an annual salary
of $43,000.She said she was the only Hispanic female lawyer in the legal
department at the time and no Hispanic attorneys have been hired since.Lind said
her troubles with the league worsened after Robinson, who played for several
teams between 1956 and 1976, became executive vice-president of baseball
development in June 2012 and criticized her writing and other skills.She said
Robinson, who won rookie of the year and MVP honours with the Cincinnati Reds
and MVP with the Baltimore Orioles, lacked the educational credentials,
professional license and executive experience to qualify for the job, which paid
him more than $1 million annually.Lind said the leagues discriminatory conduct
was carried out even as she was assigned to plan, advance and promote the
leagues annual Civil Rights Game.While plaintiff has always maintained a
professional demeanour to the public and endeavoured to do what is in the best
interest for MLB, it has been extremely disheartening, utterly demoralizing and
extraordinarily taxing on her, both emotionally and psychologically, to almost
singlehandedly perpetuate what she has known to be the diversity and equal
employment opportunity falsehood, the lawsuit said.
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five points out of a playoff spot with only 10 games left on their schedule, the
Canucks are in danger of missing the postseason in their first campaign under
head coach John Tortorella.WINNIPEG - For centre Olli Jokinen, one loss does not
a confidence-shaking setback make despite the Winnipeg Jets falling back into
the Central Division cellar following a 4-3 loss to Nashville Predators on
Tuesday night.Its not going to be our last game we lose, were not going to win
every game, Jokinen said Wednesday, joining most of his teammates taking the day
off to rest or work out in preparation to face the Vancouver Canucks on Friday.I
think as a team were moving in the right direction and we just try to get our
energy levels up and try to get a win Friday, he added.The Jets coaches and a
handful of players were on the ice Wednesday but things will get more serious
Thursday as the squad gears up for another important game against a Western
Conference rival.Although theyve gone 4-5-1 in their last 10 games and lost 4-2
to Edmonton on Monday, the Canucks (27-18-9 before playing Chicago on Wednesday)
are at least currently where the Jets want to be — holding down the eighth and
final Western Conference playoff spot.The Jets stand 12th, eight points behind
the Canucks before Wednesdays action. They have plenty of distance to cover and
not much time to do it as they head into the Olympic break. After Fridays game
they play four more road contests before the Olympics, then return Feb. 27 at
the MTS Centre.But with the hiring of new coach Paul Maurice, the Jets have
already done some surprising things in a relatively short period of time. They
earned road wins over both the league-leading Anaheim Ducks and defending
Stanley Cup-champion Chicago Blackhawks have won six-of-eight games with Maurice
behind the bench.And neither Jokinen nor Maurice viewed Tuesdays loss as a step
backwards from the kind of defensive zone game hes trying to teach.This
defensive zone concept, its not like you write it on the board you get it and
you go and theres your defence for the rest of your life, its a work in
progress, Maurice said. There wasnt a letdown (Tuesday night).They werent
running out of position, getting away from what they were trying to do to break
a game open.Maaurice said players are starting to see things and there are fewer
questions coming back.
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compete level of one of the NHLs youngest teams.The biggest thing hes instilled
in us is play for each other in every game, said centre Mark Scheifele.That
approach seems to be working for the 20-year-old Scheifele, who had a goal and
an assist against Nashville and is third in scoring among NHL rookies.Four Jets
are heading to the Olympics: goalie Ondrej Pavelec and Michael Frolik for their
native Czech Republic, Jokinen for Finland and Blake Wheeler, currently tied for
Winnipegs scoring lead, for the U.S.The others will have a long layoff and while
Maurice says hes had experience with Olympic breaks, with a young team like the
Jets it might be different.The last time I went through an Olympic break that I
remember, we ended up going to the final (2001-02 with Carolina) and came out
fast and quick, Maurice said. We had a bunch of guys . . . that were older, fit
men who used that break to rest but came back roaring.Maurice said veterans like
former Carolina Hurricanes captain Rod BrindAmour and Martin Gelinas had the
experience to know how to use the break.The concern is there will be a bunch of
these guys that havent gone through an Olympic break, he said. Theres not much
we can do in terms of structuring anything that is mandatory for our
players.Maurice isnt worrying about the four Jets heading to Sochi,
Russia.Theyre going to go and play at a really, really high level and theyre
going to get better from it, he said. Id prefer to have more guys going than
not.Meanwhile, Maurice said left-winger Evander Kanes hand was cleaned up by
doctors after he was sidelined again by an infection that caused it to swell
up.Everything finished the way we hoped, he said.Kane cut his hand in a fight
with Tampa Bays Eric Brewer on Jan. 7 and initially missed four games. He
returned Jan. 21 to register a goal and three assists in the next four games but
isnt expected back until after the Olympic break.
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