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2typ Saily ®ar Hppl SPORTS BRIEFS Moore Named ACC Field Hockey Player of Week GREENSBORO North Carolina’s Sharon Moore, a senior from Riverton, N.J., received Atlantic Coast Conference field hockey player of the week honors for scoring the game-winning goal in a double overtime victoiy over No. 11 Maryland. Moore, a midfielder for the No. 1 Tar Heels, scored both goals in the 2-1 win against the Terrapins Saturday. The sec ond goal came with 1:43 left in the second overtime. Moore also scored a goal in the 4-0 victory over Virginia. She has seven goals on the season, ranking third on the UNC team. 3 UNC Football Players Win ACC Weekly Honors CLEMSON, S.C.—ThreeNorth Caro lina players led the selections for Atlantic Coast Conference players of the week, the conference announced Monday. Tar Heel Marcus Jones was named de fensive lineman of the week, Octavus Bames earned the rookie of the week selec tion and Leon Johnson was honored as the top specialist. Jones, a junior from Jacksonville, had six solo tackles, recorded three solo sacks andbatted down a pass in North Carolina’s 28-24 victory over Southern Methodist. Johnson, a sophomore Morganton, re turned five punts for 146 yards, including one for 88 yards and a touchdown in the first quarter. Bames, a freshman from Wilson, caught three passes for 100 yards—including one for 66 yards in the fourth quarter that put the Tar Heels ahead to stay. Female Kicker Fails in Tryout for Duke Football DURHAM— Duke first-year student and would-be kicker Sue Mercer failed in her bid Monday to become the first female to play for an NCAA Division I football team, Blue Devil coach Fred Goldsmith said on Monday. Unlike the fictional character played by Kathy Ireland in the movie “Necessary Roughness,” Mercer won’t make the team as a walk-on. She will be offered a spot as a special teams manager, he said. “She’s not where she needs to be to kick at this level of football,” Goldsmith said. Goldsmith snapped the ball and assis tant coach Fred Chatham did the holding at the secret tryout Monday as Mercer kicked off the turf at Wallace Wade Sta dium. Observers said even her successful kicks lacked power and height. Goldsmith even tually allowed her to kick directly out of Chatham’s hold without a snap, but with out substantial success as the distances increased. Goldsmith was reluctant to discuss de tails of the tryout. Mercer was a successful member of the state championship team at Yorktown (N.Y.) High School. In response to a letter to Duke freshmen by Goldsmith that solic ited support for the team, Mercer asked for the tryout. Hurley Case a Mistrial SACRAMENTO—A judge declared a mistrial Monday after jurors said they could not decide if a motorist who collided with Sacramento Kings’ guard Bobby Hurley’s vehicle was guilty of reckless driving. Jurors said they were deadlocked with 10 of 12 votes in favor of convicting Daniel Wieland, 38. They got the case only last Friday, but Judge Roland L. Candee declared a mis trial anyway. Prosecutors did not say immediately if they would seek anew trial. Wieland’s station wagon collided with Hurley’s four-wheel-drive vehicle last Dec. 12 on a dark roadway near Arco Arena following a Kings’ game. Hurley, who was not wearing a seat belt, was thrown from the vehicle and landed in a drainage ditch. He suffered broken ribs, lung injuries, a compression fracture in his back and other injuries. Hurley and other witnesses testified that Wieland was driving without his head lights on, but Wieland denied it. His attorney contended that Hurley con tributed to the accident by failing to make a full stop at the intersection where the crash occurred. Golf Journal Editor Dies PARIS —David Earl, the editor of the United States Golf Association’s official magazine, died while on assignment. The 48-year-old Earl died Sunday of a heart attack at a hotel in Versailles, where he was on assignment for Golf Journal magazine, the USGA said. He was in France with a USGA delega tion covering the World Amateur Team Championships. An avid golfer, Earl became editor of GolfJoumalinJanuary 1992. He had been managing editor of the publication since September 1990. Earl, ofMountain Lake, N. J., held vari ous editorial positions prior to his associa tion with the USGA. He was senior editor at Golf Magazine and managing editor at Golf Illustrated. Earl also excelled as a musician, work ing in the past as a guitarist with several top artists, including Bo Diddley. Earl is survived by his wife, Evelyn, and a son, Sean. Funeral arrangements were incomplete. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NHL Lockout in 4th Day With No End in Sight Free-Spending Owners’ Actions Don’t Reflect Claims That They Are Unable to Pay Salaries THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TORONTO —While NHL owners may be moaning about being poor, they sure aren’t acting like it. They are spending money with reckless abandon. In August, NHL commissioner Gary Bettman imposed economic rollbacks that saved owners at least S2O million Since Bettman’s move, the league’s teams have voluntarily spent more than 10 times that amount on long-term contracts, including S7O million for the 1994-95 sea son. The players’ distrust of management’s claim of financial woe is just one element in the lockout that so far has put off the first three days of the season. The two sides have not had any formal negotiations in almost a week, and the absence of talks has frustrated some nego tiators. “Lock the doors, order the Chinese food,” suggested Brian Burke, the NHL's vice president and director of hockey op erations. “Nobody leaves until a deal’s done. I’d love to do that.” Last Friday, the league postponed the Oct. 1 start ofthe season for two weeks and said that play would begin Oct. 15ifanew contract had been signed or if significant progress toward anew contract had been made. But neither the NHL nor the National Hockey League Players Association is ex pected to have anew proposal to offer when they meet today in New York to resume negotiations. NHL players have only limited free agency because clubs retain the right to match offers or extract major compensa tion in most cases. This kept salaries low until a few maver ick teams,led by the St. Louis Blues, started Joyner CM Rights Trial to Former Olympic Track Star Charging LAPD Officers Kept Him Out of ’92 Games THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES AI Joyner recalls the scary incident of nearly 21 /2 years ago vividly, which isn’t a surprise since he remembers thinking he was going to die. Joyner says he was terrorized by mem bers of the Los Angeles Police Depart ment, even though he maintains there was no reason for it. It was Friday, May 8, 1992. Joyner, who won the gold medal in the triple jump at the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles and was hoping to compete in the 1992 Games, was driving in Hollywood about 10:30 a.m. when he was pulled over by police. Now 34, Joynerbelieveshe was stopped and treated improperly that day for only one reason because he was a young black man driving a nice car. “Every time I think about it, it scares me,” Joyner said. “It put the living fear in me. I had just left the White House with the President of the United States, and two days later that happened. And I didn’t do anything wrong. “No matter how far you go, I’m still a black man and not a human being.” What happened that day triggered a civil rights action against the City of Los Angeles and several LAPD officers, in Calvin and Hobbes >r ® WHAT THIS GAME c "Vy arr HELDS ARE - n r-_ , i ~ XT NEGOTIATED SETTLEMENTS. " ■*“ '-v ;!<■> /O H THE Daily Crossword by Frank R. 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In 1993-94, the average salary rose to $503,087 from $412,512. The number of players making $1 million or more grew from fewer than five just six years ago to 75. Since Aug. 1, the signings have included: ■ Paul Kariya of the Anaheim Mighty Ducks at $6.5 million over three years. ■ Pat LaFontaine of the Buffalo Sabres at $22.5 million over five years and goalie Dominik Hasek at $6.9 million for three years. ■ Vince Damphousse of the Montreal Canadiens at $lO million for four years. ■ Brett Lindros of the New York Is landers at $7.5 million for five years. ■ Jaromir Jagr of the Pittsburgh Pen guins at $19.2 million for five years. “I don’t mind paying star players,” Edmonton owner Peter Pocklington said. “They’re entertainers. But that does not mean the journeymen should share in the abundance if it is killing the goose which lays the golden egg.” A cursory look at an NHLPA salary list from Aug. 1 to Oct. 1, however, does not show very many journeymen players mak ing millions It is doubtful that players like Teemu Selanne and Keith Tkachuk of the Winnipeg Jets or Bill Ranford ofthe Oilers fit that bill. Players acknowledge their salaries have risen dramatically over the past four or five years, as the owners have been quick to point out. But NHLPA president Mike Gartner of the Toronto Maple Leafs said: “Revenues have continued to grow. Expansion teams have continued to bring in a tremendous amount of money for the league. I think it’s a very healthy business.” eluding former Chief Daryl F. Gates. A trial is scheduled to start Tuesday in U.S. District Court. According to the complaint, police stopped traffic in both directions on Sunset Boulevard and ordered Joyner from his car by loudspeaker, forcing him to knee! at gunpoint and handcuffing him in front of numerous onlookers. Police incorrectly ran his Olympic li cense plate so that it came back registered to a pickup truck rather than the 1984 Nissan registered to Joyner’s wife, the com plaint says. It also said that Joyner was never asked for his driver’s license and registration, which would have shown the car’s plates matched the vehicle. Instead, he was treated as a “high-risk felony suspect,” and the treatment caused him to experience “unbelievable humilia tion and terror.” While Joyner was still handcuffed, the car’s plates were finally run correctly. Joyner was then released without receiv ing any traffic citation or an apology, the complaint says. According to the complaint, one of the police cars pulled Joyner over a second time a block away, allegedly to interrogate him as a suspect in a hit-and-run accident that occurred earlier in the day. The com plaint says that was “to provide a cover for the first unlawful stop.” Although he was not handcuffed during the second stop, Joyner was detained “for suff. 9 Corded fabric 10 Fair-haired 11 Nobleman 12 High point 13 Convene 18 Was in debt 19 Discharge 24 Parker House, for one 25 C'est 26 Sign in a store window 28 Lieder 29 Standard 30 “Of I Sing” 31 List extender: abbr. 32 ” 's all, folks" 33 Flying prefix 34 Enfolds 36 Secluded small street 38 Less difficult 39 Together, musically 40 Ruler i p p p IHs p p p p nr'li'2 1 13 BHis BbTs rr ha hg 20 Hr* Uki 23 p 4 ■■2s 26 ■■■■■4 ■p7 ■■pS Bg 31 32 33 ■■■34 ■■3s 36 37 |3B 36 UO 41 k hIbN ■■44 U 5 ■■46 47 HBIBd ■|4B ' ■■43 jSO 51 52 53 54 55 HHBTS6 ■■■s7 58 pg 60 [6l “ 62 ■■63 K 65 Blee “ SBft/ SPORTS i jSrai . /wmm WAYNE GRETZKY is worried that the NHL season could be canceled. Escalating salaries are front and center in the stalemate in negotiations. “We need a player-employment system that avoids making this a league of haves and have-nots,” Bettman wrote in a letter to players last Friday. “Unless we develop that type of system, our recent success will not solve our eco nomic and competitive problems. This situ ation must be addressed and addressed now.” The NHL proposes to tax a team’s pay roll to raise revenues for small-market teams. Bettman has repeatedly said the pro posal isn’t a cap, but that is how players portray it because they feel teams will move closer to the trigger for the tax, thus cutting salaries. The NHLPA has proposed a 5.5 per cent tax on the payrolls and gate receipts of the top 16 revenue-generating teams, with the money going into a pool for small market teams. Begin Today no reason for another 15-to-20 minutes.” The complaint charges that the officers involved “acted and conspired together in order to cover up the true facts” and made “false and misleading reports” on the inci dent. “I was going to a press conference; all of a sudden I got pulled over,” Joyner re called. “When I slowly turned to my left and looked up, I saw a gun. I could tell by the look in this guy’s eyes, if I had slipped he would have blown me away.” Joyner didn’tcompete in the 1988 Olym pics, instead training his wife, Florence Griffith Joyner, who dominated the women’s sprints in those Games. He was attempting a comeback in 1992, hoping to compete in the triple jump and 120-meter high hurdles. Joyner was supposed to run in a meet at UCLA the day after he was stopped, but was unable to, the complaint says, because he was so distressed. Ultimately, he determined he was in no shape to compete in the Olympics. “The dispute in this case is simply whether what they did cost A1 an opportu nity to compete in the 1992 Olympics,” said John C. Burton, one of Joyner’s attor neys. “They (the defendants) say it didn’t, we say it did. That’s what the trial is going to be about. ... We think the damages should be in seven figures. He is only one in a long list of black professionals, sports figures, entertainment figures, that this has happened to.” C 1994 Tribune Media Services, Inc. All rights reserved. 45 Small fish 46 Mohammedan nobles 47 Plant 49 Giving off light 50 More exclusive 51 Calms down 52 Oakley 53 Cicatrix 54 Fairylike being 55 Genesis man 56 Continental prefix 59 Wine word 60 Hockey name 61 Summer cooler Hockey Missing Out on Great Opportunity To Grab Interest of America’s Sports Fans Hockey has dropped the puck, so to speak. Unfortunately, the National Hockey League owners dropped it in labor negotiations and not on the ice. The owners rejected a last-minute pro posal by the players’ association to play the season without a lockout or a strike. In stead, commissioner Gary Bettman has postponedtheseasonforat least two weeks. Probably more. It scares me as a hockey fan when I hear the pessimism from Wayne Gretzky, the greatest player of all time. “Right now there are huge differences, and I just don’t see hockey being played this year,” he told the Associated Press Friday. Hopefully it will. But now hockey is missing out on its prime time to take the spotlight. Baseball has its own labor prob lems. Basketball, which could be in a simi lar predicament around Thanksgiving, doesn’t start until the first week of Novem ber. And football is just gearing up. Hockey would have had the weekdays all to itself. ESPN’s Sports Center would have been a virtual smorgasbord of NHL highlights. But the owners wouldn’t have it and thus are costing hockey more than they think they are saving it. Hockey can’t afford to miss out on this opportunity. In Canada, it is the national pastime, but in the United States, it is just catching on. Baseball can strike for a year and within a few years people will probably have al most forgotten all about it. The fans always come back because it has been so much a part of our society for more than a hundred years. Hockey has not. But it could become more of an Ameri- AD Present, Accounted for As BasketbaD Coaches Meet THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HOUSTON—The entire membership is expected at the second summit of college basketball coaches, and the man in charge doesn’t foresee any ill will from a boycott last year by members ofthe Black Coaches Association. A year ago in Charlotte, the National Association of Basketball Coaches dis cussed matters ranging from student-ath lete eligibility to the status of assistant coaches. But some of the top names in the sport were elsewhere, talking about prob lems they wanted resolved. A reduction in the number of scholar ships to 13 was the issue that finally brought the BCA to action. Led by John Thompson of Georgetown, George Raveling of South ern Cal, Nolan Richardson of Arkansas and John Chaney ofTemple, the BCA met instead with the Black Congressional Cau cus and started a dialogue with the NCAA over admission standards and scholarships. Because of the boycott, the inaugural meeting was incomplete. It won’t be that way today, when the second summit starts, because the NABC’s black members should boost attendance frqrn 350 to more than 500. “It happened, and I don’t think there was any animosity created when they de cided to boycott,” NABC director Jim Haneysaid. “Alotoftheissueswe’vebeen fighting for, they took to a social level and, frankly, got a lot of attention, and there’s been change based on those efforts." Among the changes was the vote last week by the NCAA Presidents Commis sion to let schools, in some cases, choose between their own SAT requirements and the NCAA's. The decision seemed to avoid a second showdown between the NCAA and the BCA. That doesn’t mean the two-day summit won’t be used as a chance for the coaches f 1 €r Nationsßank Plaza ' 967-8284 136 E. Rosemary St. HURRY! "hOOINGLYFIJNNF Mr Trmn KtllNC STONE WINN FBI "VERY FUNNY... smJSSI AN UNEXPECTED CROWO-PLEASER: 4wfefKe Award The sort of astonishingly fresh and Mr JM self-assured work that can make a reputation." V B c*n*|ni THE NtwrOßßTimS W JlrLfll "OUTRAGEOUS... J> ™ Russel's accompkshmems to a” mesmerize is and make us taugfL..' ~ OwW Am** NCWSWtfR J A ? % A gripping comedy about letting go. 2:20*4:30 81. Tuesday, October 4,1994 can institution if it continues to do what it has done in the past few years. ■ Hockey has moved south, and the fans love it. Now there are five NHL teams in the Sunbelt: JUSTINSCHEEF SPORTSATURDAY EDITOR The Los Angeles Kings, Dallas Stars, Tampa Bay Lightning, Florida Panthers and the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim. (How much the latter team contributed to the sport is up for debate, but I’ll ignore that issue for now.) ■ The Stanley Cup playoffs were in credible last year. The Rangers-Devils semi final series was one of the most exciting ever. It’s hard for me to admit being a diehard Islanders fan that the Rangers’ Stanley Cup victory helped hockey. But somehow, 1 think reaction would have been different had the Canucks won the Cup. ■ Bettman has done a great job promot ing hockey in his first two years since jumping over from the NBA. The sad thing is that he did nothing the prevent a lockout. In fact, he abetted it. Hopefully hockey can come back in two weeks. Bettman said if the dispute is not settled by Oct. 15, games will be lost from the schedule. However, if the season does start two weeks late, that could mean hockey in July. How the owners and players get every thing settled doesn’t matter to me. I don’t care much for the issues involved in the lockout. All I want is to see hockey. Because eventually, playing Sega Hockey ’95 will wear thin. on all levels, but mostly from Division I, to let the NCAA hear their views about a number of things ethics, upcoming NCAA legislation, gambling, professional development and minority opportunities. “Some of the issues are different from last year,” Haney said. “Sportsmanship is an issue a lot of people are talking about, and it’s not like we’ll have any legislation to be drafted, but we will have the chance to express philosophies about sportsman ship and how we can accomplish what we talk about. The NCAA Clearinghouse is an issue—a big issue in the eyes of coaches and administrators —and this will be a chance to find out where we are, and how do we solve the bugs.” In addition to the membership, the sum mit will be attended by school presidents and chancellors, faculty representatives, athletic directors, conference commission ers and NCAA staff. “There were a lot of positive comments about last year,” Haney said. "People felt it was a chance to be there with your peers and hear not just the coaches’ point of view, but the administrators’ take as well.” I f= EASTERN FEDERAL THEATRES I Ikrfjg $3.50 I ™OTT§D 7 y.FRANKUN j “ I STEREOSOyNP^U-lAUDITORIUMS [TERMINAL VELOCITY] I 3:00*5:00*7:10*9:20 USB 1 [THE NEXT KARATE KID IT COULD HAPPEN TO YOU] l 3:05*5:10 Tsl 7:05-9:10 ES WEAVER DAIRY at AIRPORT RDI CHAPEL HILL 933-8600 I STEREO SOUND-ALL AUDITORIUMS GUMP THE MASK 3:10-5:10-7:20-9:25 EES CORRINA, CORRINA 3:00-5:15-7:25-9:35 IB THE CLIENT 3:15-7:10-9:20 EHI THE LITTLE RASCALS 7
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