June 28, 2002

Ball Brawl

By COURTNEY LOWERY

When the NCAA decided to switch from leather to synthetic-leather basketballs in its Division I championship tournaments, officials said they were just trying to please teams, not cows.

But after the National Collegiate Athletic Association's announcement last month, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals claimed credit for spurring the change. "I don't know that they would have come to the decision on their own," Dan Shannon, PETA's sports-campaign coordinator, told the

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