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-sports Negotiations at (AP) - Striking players and team owners both say they are willing to lose the rest of the National Football League season if it means winning at the bargaining table. Fans, dismayed by the first regularseason strike in the sport's history, are about to be baraged with Canadian and college football, along with movies, as TV networks scramble to fill the air time. Gene Upshaw, president of the 1,500 1 *.TT7<T T">1 A ?? ? ? memoer I>rju riaycia mautianun, <*unounced the strike Monday after the union's executive committee voted unanimously in favor of a walkout. The strike began about eight hours later, after the Green Bay Packers beat the New York Giants 27-19 to complete the season's second week. 1^=4^ \ /sJoT OA/Z.V /S 77/ \ OAJ S~rfZlK? , BUT /> UM/Oj,TW? AI.F.L.. U C D/^-MS COU)0O y / FOLU>Cj?.D SUIT _ J| , ?^'#A?X . - .r ^S00m A player connects for a base hit in this pa Tournament Qnrnor foam U U UUU8 lUUlii By Tina Lewis | A 3-1 loss to second-ranked Alabama A&IV the Gamecock soccer team with a 1-2-1 recor Senior David Burr scored on a penalty that was not enough against the-powerful A A Carolina player was ejected eight mini for verbal dissent to the referee. The 1< dicapped the Gamecocks, but Coach Mark consolation in the loss. "The players worked very hard and kej ranked team at bay even though they wer Berson said. Alabama was the onlv team to score in took a commanding 2-0 lead midway throu With only si* minutes remaining in the g the Gamecocks one goal on a penalty k remaining in the game, Alabama scored ai "The defense was outstanding, and the w a lot of heart and a lot of fight," Berson said "I was encouraged by the team's j disturbed that the game turned out like it di There was a questionable call late in t 1 * lL * * ? it*no ft 1 wmcn me Aiaoanm jjia^ci wao linesman. The referee did not acknowledg Alabama player went on to score the team': Berson said he and the Alabama coach in the administration of the game, but it is that they must accept. Carolina begins a seven-game home se Baptist College of Charleston at 4 p.m. at tl i " 4"fe4? ^ a 11 * a m* 51CIIIU5UII UVtJI "At the conclusion of tonight's game, the league will be struck," Upshaw, a Los Angeles Raiders guard, said Monday. "No practices, no workouts, no games will be played until management engages in goodfaith bargaining." But Jack Donlan, executive director of the NFL Management Council, countered that team owners were prepared to "go as long as necessary, including the entire season, to prove their point." He made his remarks after a Monday nignt meeting ot tne owners executive committee, held in New York City. The first game to be affected by the strike will be Thursday night when the Atlanta Falcons were scheduled to play in Kansas rTAT/A/6 MeiJS 5PORT5 e. N.F.L P^AYZR5 4SSO 77/6- AI.F.L-. peAbiu-r ve. JAT&K&of CoAL-morsl At cnecKU.AoeRs HAVe. A * vAVVVA^ IMI WS ' < ^ * ^ ' * ' - "?^ - - -^> " - ;s, . / ^8 - _ < v, st weekend's USC System Softball Iosgs iij: kick for USC, but gBI utes into the game >t the number-two ?^ Il '' e one man short," , the first half and gh the second half. ipP^ ame. Burr scored WmS^TL^* 1 insurance goal. hole team showed ^ he second half in . jjjl ;e the call and the ries today against | Inivarsity of Georgia r re Graveyard. Satorday at WHMatntrfiit terms, not figure City against the Chiefs. ABC, which was to televise the game, announced it will instead show Peter Falk in "The Cheap Detective." Tf'e ho cM>nn^ timp in iuet nvf?r n vPflr that a strike has interrupted American professional sports. Baseball players struck last summer for 50 days in a dispute over free agency. NFL players staged two training-camp strikes in 1970 and 1974. The football strike centers on money and how the NFL's billion-dollar income should be distributed. Players, who originally sought 55 percent of the gross revenues of the NFL's 28 teams estimated at $3.6 billion over five yearschanged their stand last Friday and asked for 50 percent of the clubs' $2.1 billion TV PEapfc rflUU forN j (AP) - Fac players' strik ON STRII Association a EFFECTS to be affecte - City in Kanss ?L EXPECTE '/ illlSI/ I cancel out tb / NFLPA D1 \ j four years wi T A I ottneciuos / after three y< Jf / MANAGE] lIllW / billion over J choose. / EFFECTS I coverage oi / Football Les J programmii " J a contract f | made up of s Georgia on one-' From Staff and Wire Reports The National Collegiate Athletic Association has placed the University of ueorgia iooiDau team on prooauon iur one year for violating recruiting guidelines iast season, but the school will not be banned from television or bowl game appearances. The probationary period took effect last Friday, the NCAA said. University officials, including President Fred C. Davison, declined comment, referring questions to football Coach Vince Dooley. ; Dooley, reached at a speaking | engagement in Savannah, Ga., declined comment, saying only that he would discuss the issue during his regular weekly news I conference today at the university in Athens, Ga. "This case was limited to violations thai occurred in the recruitment of one uniting book Net achel Walker and the rest of the &? Stadiam before * se Ill-out crowd. WMKKsmaammammmmmesmKmmmmamKmmmsmaa IS contract, plus a minimum wage based on length of service. The proposed contract would run for four years, as opposed to the five-year pact offered by the owners. Donlan said owners are "unalterably opposed" to guaranteed percentages and wage scales for the players. They have offered a package containing $10,000-a-year bonuses for veterans, plus base salary niKes. Both sides have basically agreed on how much a new contract should cost-$1.6 billion. The length of the contract, where the money comes from and how it will be divided are the sticking points. : and figures FL players strike :ts and figures of National Football League ? nrtninot fVio Klofirtnol ITnnthall I paPlifi' kC aganiot iiaviv?iui A vw?<wv*-? CE: The 1,500 members of the NFL Players gainst the 28 teams. DAITI: It began Tuesday. The first game id will be Thursday night's Atlanta-Kansas is City. !D DURATION: It could last one weekend or e entire season. EMANDS: A total package of $1.6 billion over ith $1.06 billion of that coming from 50 percent network-television package, plus free agency ears. MENT'S OFFER: A total package of $1.6 five years, from whatever source the clubs ON TV COVERAGE: CBS plans to continue F the season, NBC will telvise Canadian igue games and ABC will revert to prime-time lg. Turner Broadcasting of Atlanta has signed or a series of games between all-star teams itrikers. i year probation prospective student-athlete by a former assistant football coach and two representatives of the university's athletic interests," said Charles Wright, Chairman of the NCAA Committee on Infractions. Georgia eventually released the recruit in question from a national letter of intent, the NCAA said. The case involved violations of NCAA recruiting legislation related to improper ' inducements, automobile transportation and recruiting contracts, the NCAA said. "Some of the violations in the case were the subject of newspaper articles during the ? ? <nnn ...Umm tlirv urti in^ncUvr Qtl summer 01 iwu, wucu mc umvcioivj nounced that it had released the prospect 1 from his national letter of intent in light of violations that had occurred during his recruitment," the NCAA said. See 'Georgia,' page 15 W * Georgia Bulldogs wHI play the Gamecocks