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Twins owner to discuss
proposal for new stadium
ST. PAUL, Minn. Word from
Minnesota Twins owner Carl Pohlad on
the team’s possible contribution to a
new stadium was the missing link in
Thursday’s special session of the
Legislature.
Legislative leaders asked Pohlad to
appear Friday before a special meeting
of the House Rules and Senate Tax
committees to discuss the S4OO million
plus ballpark.
The request came on the first day of
a special session in response to a full
page newspaper ad from Pohlad.
Pohlad wrote, “I am prepared to discuss
the Twins contribution as soon as the
Legislature provides the way to do so.”
Pohlad also said he was willing to
“review the importance of the roof.”
That comment is significant because the
Twins have been committed to a
retractable roof, which increases the
cost of the stadium.
“If we are unsuccessful in agreeing to
build the ballpark I will proceed with
the sale to the Carolina group,” Pohlad
wrote.
Pohlad has signed a pact with a
North Carolina group that would send
the team to the area if lawmakers refuse
to help build a stadium by Nov. 30.
Sooner player suspended
after fight with girlfriend
NORMAN, Okla. An argument
that allegedly began over diapers led to
a misdemeanor domestic abuse charge
Thursday against Oklahoma reserve
tailback Bennie Butler.
Sooner coach John Blake removed
Butler from the team indefinitely. He
did not refer to the charges against
Butler and said he would have no other
comment.
Butler is the third Oklahoma football
player charged in less than a week.
Butler’s 21-year-old girlfriend alleges
that he pushed her repeatedly, threw her
into a wall, took their 1-year-old daugh
ter from her and locked her out of his
university-owned apartment, district
attorney Tim Kuykendall said.
An affidavit filed with the charge
alleges that an argument began over dia
pers.
The woman was not seriously
injured. An arrest warrant was issued
for Butler, but he had not been appre
hended by mid-afternoon Thursday.
World Series might delay
Miami-Chicago NFL game
NEW YORK The Chicago Bears
and Miami Dolphins will have to wait
until after Game 6 of the World Series
Saturday night to know whether they
will play Sunday afternoon or Monday
night.
The game originally was scheduled
for Sunday at Pro Player Stadium.
If a seventh game of the World Series
between the Cleveland Indians and
Florida Marlins is necessary, it will be
played there Sunday night and the
Bears-Dolphins game would be shifted
to Monday night.
If the series is decided Saturday, then
the football game will be played Sunday
as scheduled.
If the football game is played
Monday night, it wifi be televised by
ABC and shown only in the Chicago
and Miami markets.
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Swimmers downed by Bulldogs in Ist meet
■ Georgia’s men beat UNC
171-119, while its women
captured a 154-133 victory.
BY JOE BONFIGLIO
STAFF WRITER
The North Carolina men’s and
women’s swimming teams dropped their
first meet of the season to Georgia on
Thursday night.
The Bulldog men beat the Tar Heels
171-119 in a hard-fought contest. Last
year, Georgia’s men finished third at the
NCAA championships.
“They swam superbly, and I want to
commend them,” UNC swimming
head coach Frank Comfort said.
The UNC men’s team came out of
the blocks with a strong showing in the
200-yard medley relay.
Success doesn’t come so easily
for Dorrance, No. 1 Tar Heels
Watching the defending nation
al champion North Carolina
women’s soccer team play, it’s
easy to get caught up in the trap.
They knock the ball around the field
with pinpoint passes. Their shots slip
through the narrowest of margins and
always seem to find net.
They make winning look simple.
But Tar Heel coach Anson Dorrance
knows better than that. Asa North
Carolina midfielder in the early 19705,
Dorrance was called “the toughest 140-
pound man
I’ve ever
seen” by his
coach,
Marvin
Allen.
Everything
Dorrance and
his teams
have accom
plished has
come by way
of hard work.
“I don’t
take anything
we do for
St.
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granted,” Dorrance said Wednesday
night.
And unlike most teams, the Tar
Heels have a history of winning the
hard way.
For instance, one would assume
North Carolina plays half of its games
at home, especially given the fact that
the team always earns home-field
advantage in the NCAA tournament’s
early rounds.
One would be wrong: Dorrance
the only coach the program has ever
had has 406 career wins. Of those,
nearly 60 percent have come away from
Fetzer Field.
What’s more, the Tar Heels play in
the toughest conference in the nation, a
league that routinely produces four or
five top-25 teams.
That’s one reason why UNC’s sched
ule is invariably among the toughest in
the nation.
The other reason is Dorrance him
self, who won’t let his teams slip
through the season without several
major tests.
So far in 1997, North Carolina has
faced the second-, third-, sixth-, 11th
and 25th-ranked teams in the country.
LINA!
The Tar Heel team of Ted Brisson,
Tucker Shade, Chris Jennings and Scott
Troy finished .43 seconds behind the top
Georgia team to capture second place
with a time of 1:32.34.
After the early events, the remainder
of the meet was all downhill for the Tar
Heels.
Georgia took first place in the 1,000
freestyle with an impressive swim from
sophomore Beau Wiebel. The Bulldogs
also won the 100 backstroke and the 100
breaststroke, capturing the first four
places in the latter event.
UNC’s Trevor Runberg placed first in
the 200 freestyle with a time of 1:40.04.
But after the first five races, the Tar Heel
men trailed 53-21.
North Carolina’s Tucker Shade won
his first individual event of the year, tak
ing the 100 butterfly. Shade’s younger
brother Parker, a freshman swimmer for
the Bulldogs, battled his brother in two
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UNC striker Robin Confer, shown battling for a ball against Wake Forest on
Wednesday, said her team was tired against the Demon Deacons.
Only No. 2 Notre Dame could pull out
a tie in a game that ended early due
to lightning.
The past week is a good example of
the sort of paces Dorrance puts his team
through.
It started Oct. 18 against N.C. State,
in a hard-fought match that included
three yellow cards and 39 fouls.
The next day, while the rest of UNC’s
students were enjoying their Fall Break,
the Tar Heels boarded a plane for
California, where they took on St.
Mary’s.
Two days later, they faced off against
then-No. 3 Santa Clara.
That night, UNC boarded a plane
home and didn’t land until the wee
hours of the morning.
Only two days later, they were back
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individual events.
Parker won the
200 butterfly with
a time of 1:51.16.
“We have been
swimming against
each other forever,
and normally I
have always been
the older brother,”
Tucker Shade
said. “Now he is
bigger than I am,
and we are on the
same level, and
age doesn’t really
matter.”
UNC swimmer
RICHELU FOX
won three individual
events in Thursday's
meet vs. Georgia.
The UNC women didn’t fare any bet
ter against the Georgia powerhouse, los
ing 154-133. The Bulldog women fin
ished fifth at last year’s NCAA champi
onships.
The Tar Heels were led by returning
in action, taking on a scrappy Wake
Forest team.
Four games in eight days. Their
record during that time: 4-0.
No matter who you are, or how many
national championships you’ve won,
that’s a big feat.
There is a perception among UNC
fans that winning has become easy
almost automatic for Dorrance’s
teams. Such an evaluation doesn’t do
justice to the coach or to his players.
The Tar Heels win day after day,
under the highest of pressures, because
they train hard and they maintain their
focus.
They win because they want it more
than anyone else.
That’s just what you would expect
from a champion.
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ACC swimmer of the year, senior
Richelle Fox.
Fox won three individual events for
the Tar Heel women, capturing the 50
freestyle, the 100 freestyle and the 100
butterfly.
“I was pretty happy with how I did in
all of my events,” Fox said.
“You never know what to expect the
first meet of the season. Everyone was
real fired up.”
Senior Chrissy Miller took a close
second in the 1,000 freestyle with a time
of 10:03.89.
But the Georgia women were too
strong and too deep for the Tar Heels.
Georgia’s Kristy Kowal won the 100
breaststroke with an NCAA champi
onship qualifying time of 1:02.04.
Kowal also won the 200 breaststroke in
2:13.05, a time that will qualify her for
the NCAA championships.
The Bulldog women also set a Koury
Lawyers: Albert won’t go to jail
■ Marv Albert has yet to
apologize to his accuser in
his sex offense trial.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ARLINGTON, Va. Marv Albert
most likely will not be sent to jail today
for biting a longtime lover on the back,
defense lawyers and a sheriff’s deputy
said.
But the sentence by a Virginia judge
could be affected by the words and
deeds of the sportscaster and his
accuser.
The victim, Vanessa Perhach, has
said Albert should be punished with jail
time. She has filed an angry statement
with the judge.
Albert has yet to apologize to
Perhach, the 42-year-old woman who
went to police Feb. 12, nor has he
acknowledged any wrongdoing outside
the courtroom.
Though Albert feces up to one year in
jail, defense lawyers agree he will more
likely receive probation.
Albert’s lead lawyer, Roy Black, has
predicted his client will serve no jail
time. Albert’s Virginia lawyer, Peter
Greenspun, would not comment
Thursday on whether Albert will apol
ogize in court or make any other state
ment.
Circuit Judge Benjamin N.A.
Kendrick can sentence Albert to the full
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Natatorium record in the 200 medley
relay. The team of Kowal, Keegan
Walkley, Beth Timmons and Liesl
Pimentel took the event with a time of
1:42.65.
“It was great to swim against such a
competitive team for us,” Fox said.
The Bulldogs proved to be an early
season test for the Tar Heels.
“I was pleased with many things that
we did,” Comfort said.
“It immediately shows us what some
of our strengths are and some of our
weaknesses at a very elite level. Now we
go back and practice to try and enhance
what we are doing.”
North Carolina next swims in the the
Tar Heel Invitational Oct. 31, giving
UNC time to practice and recover from
a hectic preseason schedule.
Fox said, “Overall, the team did pret
ty well considering how tired we are
right now from training really hard.”
12 months in jail, a shorter time behind
bars, or no time at all. He could put
Albert on probation on the condition
that he obtain counseling or perform
community service. He can also fine
Albert up to $2,500.
“He doesn’t have any other record, so
it’s very unlikely he would get any jail
time. It’s a probation case,” said Mike
Raffo, chief deputy sheriff in Arlington.
The woman who stunned Albert’s
lawyers by detailing in court how he
allegedly asked for three-way sex and
paraded in a garter belt said Thursday
she felt a duty to contact Virginia pros
ecutors after Albert’s arrest in May.
Patricia Masten’s explicit testimony
helped halt Albert’s sex trial after two
days of lurid testimony. He pleaded
guilty to one count of assault and bat
tery the day after she testified.
“This has been an ordeal for me,”
Masten said at a news conference. “I
knew that there were risks to myself and
my family, but those risks were far out
weighed by what I understood to be
everyone’s civic responsibility to come
forward if they have information which
could be helpfiil.”
Albert’s publicist, Howard
Rubenstein, called the news conference
“irrelevant to the sentencing hearing.”
NBC fired Albert, 56, hours after he
pleaded guilty. He resigned from his job
announcing New York Knicks and New
York Rangers games for Madison
Square Garden Network.
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