HAWKINS DIES AT 80

Tommy Hawkins, the first black basketball player to earn All-America honors at Notre Dame and who played for the Los Angeles Lakers during a 10-year NBA career, died Wednesday. He was 80. Hawkins died in his sleep at home in Malibu, Calif., son Kevin told the Associated Press. Hawkins was hired in 1987 by then-Dodgers owner Pe

ter O’Malley to be vice president of communications and he worked for the team until 2004.