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He made a $5 million donation to UIC for the construction of indoor/outdoor baseball facility that opened in 2014.The three-time All-Star also helps raise money for several charities in New York and has been active with the Mets military appreciation work.He really is a deserving recipient of this great award, Commissioner Rob Manfred said.Clemente, a longtime Hall of Famer for the Pirates, died on New Years Eve in 1972 while on a charter plane that crashed after takeoff. The plan was carrying relief aid to Nicaragua following an earthquake.What Roberto Clemente stood for, his family is living proof of what it was to not only be a professional athlete, but professional human being, Granderson said. The importance of knowing that his community is what made him who he was, and the reason why he was able to be where he was, and he never forgot that, whether his community was in Pittsburgh, where he played, or his hometown where he was able to go back to in the offseason, or during the season to help out at any time no matter what was going on.Granderson is the fourth player from the Mets to win the award, joining Gary Carter (1989), Al Leiter (2000) and Carlos Delgado (2006). Pirates outfielder Andrew McCutchen was recognized last year.---Jay Cohen can be reached at http://www.twitter.com/jcohenap Custom Ducks T-shirts . Klitschkos management company says the bout will be the Ukrainian fighters 25th world championship fight. The 1.83-meter (6-foot) Leapai defeated the previously unbeaten Denis Boytsov in November to become the WBOs mandatory challenger. Teemu Selanne Jersey Large . "We have always prided ourselves on the way we play defence. 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He spoke only in generalities about Baylors well-publicized issues, saying he was prevented from speaking in detail because of the three Title IX lawsuits filed by women who said they had reported sexual assaults that the school did not address properly.Crawford resigned Monday after declining what she says was a $1.5 million offer to stay and sign a nondisclosure agreement. She posted a lengthy, blistering statement on Facebook on Thursday -- it was later unavailable -- saying the university has tried to intimidate and discredit her.So theyve lied and they will mostly likely continue to lie. The tactic to discredit me, scare me, hurt me...it will work for a portion of the public and I get that. But, Im pretty sure its a tactic to DISSTRACT all of us from what this is really about.dddddddddddd Its not about me, or my job, its about discrimination...its about BAYLOR. Its about a handful PEOPLE that actually run Baylor that hate that the work of the Title IX Office (not me, but the amazing team collectively making change) was EFFECTIVE. And that goes against a lot of the long-standing grain of the Baylor-way...and its costing them MONEY. Two of their favorite things..the Baylor way and money.In an interview with CBS This Morning on Wednesday, Crawford also said, I never had the authority, the resources or the independence to do the job appropriately.Crawfords attorney told Outside the Lines that she filed a Title IX complaint against the school last week as a result of what she said was retaliation by university administrators. The harder I worked, she told CBS, the more resistance I received from senior leadership. That became clear that that was not something the university wanted, and in July, I made it clear and ready that I had concerns and that the university was violating Title IX, and my environment got worse.Starr was demoted and later resigned after an investigation by the law firm Pepper Hamilton concluded there were, Institutional failures at every level of Baylors administration in response to sexual assault complaints.Starr said Thursday, I just respectfully disagree with the conclusions they made as to fundamental failure. Im not criticizing anyone; I just respectfully disagree.ESPNs Paula Lavigne and William Weinbaum contributed to this report. ' ' '