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"arolina Lady Gamecock baslyer
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n currently ranks ninth on
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points in her three years. She
earn in scoring, rebounding,
)ts and assists. Her 44 points
ipalachian State established
irolina record for most points
breaking her of 42 set last
son has started every game
yed in during her three years
jamecock.
Randall, a senior from Mt.
y., was named to the All-SEC
Honor Roll for the first time,
as a 3.22 GPA in sport adm.
Last summer, Randall inhe
University of Kentucky,
th marketing and promotions
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Sharpe's future unc<
release Pro Bowler,
Associated Proso merits deferred to give th<
GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) - Will Ster- relief on this year's salar
ling Sharpe play again in the NFL? Wolf cited medical e
Nobody knows. But if he does, it won't key reason the team de<
be for the Green Bay Packers. na^e his contract.
General manager Ron Wolf an- Sharpe caught 595 p
nounced Sharpe's release Tuesday, say- yards and 66 touchdown
ing if s too risky to expect the Packers' fhe Packers as a first-ro
leading receiver the past seven seasons in 1988. He led the tean
to play pro football after the spinal-fu- every year he played,
sion neck surgery he underwent Feb. 3. He surpassed James
We regret that the Lackers' associ- ICCI ??"*???* ia
ation with Sterling Sharpe has come to ^ receptions are sea
an end," Wolf said. Hutson's 99 in team hist
The decision gives the Packers relief Sharpe set NFL single
under the NFL's salary cap when they f?r receptions in 1992 (1
find a replacement for Sharpe, Green in 1993 (112), when he i
Bay's career leader in pass receptions. a11 season by a turf toe i
It gives the 29-year-old former USC <1 * postseason surge
receiver the chance to sign on with an- Sharpe, who lives in (
other team willing to pay more than the suffered momentary p:
$200,000 the Packers offered him for arnis after colliding hel:
this year, in hope he can return in 1996. Wll:l1 Atlanta safety am
And it leaves quarterback Brett Favre standout, Brad Edwards
without his favorite target. ba<1 another nerve-type
Out of Sharpe's 29 100-yard receiv- later 311(1 was ^
ing days, 19 have come in tandem with Green Bay's two playoff
Favre, the team's starting quarterback 111 A16 surgeiy, he hai
since four games into the 1992 season, three-inch piece of bone
Favre, who left Tuesday on a vaca- transplanted to the bad
tion to Jamaica, has completed 983 pass- 311(1 second cervical
es with the Packers ? and Sharpe has bone fragment was hel<
caught 294 of them. wire and two scraws on 1
"(Favre) is certainly going to miss Black said about 15 N1
him," said Favre's agent, Bus Cook, who Tuesday afternoon t<
spoke with Favre before the quarterback Sharpe.
left Mississippi on his trip. Black said Sharpe h
Sharpe's postseason surgery was for cepting the Packers' deci
a spinal iqjury that kept him out of Green be wasn t totally surpris
Bay's two playoff games. tbink Sterling deep in 1
His physician said over the weekend think the Packers would
there was a 90 percent chance of the pro- he said,
cedure succeeding to the point where * Meanwhile, the Mini
Sharpe's return could be possible in 1996. re-signed wide receiver J
Sharpe's agent, William "Tank" Black, agent linebacker Lamar.
demanded the Packers either raise the Houston Oilers for the e
$200,000 offer for 1995 or release him. olina Panthers, and Hou
His contract would have paid him $3.2 ^e' Greco had a tryout y
million next season, part of a six-year burgh Steelers.
deal renegotiated after his brief holdout Heed, half of the mc
on the eve of the season opener with ceiving tandem in NFL 1
Minnesota last year. *a three-year contract Tu<
Black said Sharpe wanted half the to be worth about $ 1.81
1995 salary but was willing to have pay- Heed caught 85 passes in
son. He teamed with Cris (
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NFL
CHARLOTTE, N.C.
j -f Carolina Panthers signe
I ft free agent linebacker i
on, who spent the last
^ with Houston. Terms
^ leased.
GREEN BAY, Wis.
Davey, a backup liner
Green Bay Packers the
sons, signed a three-)
with the Jacksonville
$2.7 million.
NBA
OAKLAND, Calif. (A
out and seizure by Gold
riors star Chris Mullii
by an abnormal condit
the amount of blood f
brain.
Test results release
dicate Mullin, 31, hai
called vaso-vagal syn
E fainted at his home she
' ting out of bed on Feb.
his back, banging hi
enough to cause a concu
a similar blackout duri
test Feb. 21.
MINNEAPOLIS (AT
3 . Closkey, the general m
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? after the season, end
three-year stint. The a
prompted speculatior
69, would be replac
McHale, the assistant
ager and former Bostc
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PHOENIX (AP) ? 1
forward Danny Manni:
surgery to rebuild the
cruciate ligament in h
Centinela Hospital i
Calif. He was injured ii
6. '
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ex-TTSC standout
5 Packers some 122 receptions set an NFL record?for
y cap. the most catches by any pair of receivers
vidence as the in league history.
:ided to termi- Lathon, the Oilers' No. 1 pick out of
the University of Houston in 1990, beasse's
for 8,134 came the fifth unrestricted free agent to
is after joining sign with Carolina. He had a team-high
und draft pick eight-and-one-half sacks last season for
im receptions the Oilers.
"I felt after visiting the Panthers ori
Lofton as ca- ganization that this is where I wanted
/Tf' t0 Pla? *Lathon said- "n is a first"
>n o y on class organization, and the people I spoke
Reason with here are all committed to winning
football games."
vas hampered ^ Panthers did not release the
injury that re- terms of Lathon's signing. :
py Del Greco, whose missed 39-yard
Columbia S.C. field goal in the final second helped Pittsiralysis
to his burgh win the AFC Central title in 1992,
met-to-helmet sa^d be was not certain what to expect
d former USC from the Steelers.
on Dec. 18. He * An unrestricted free agent, Del Greinjury
a week co made 16 of 20 field goals last season
l the lineup for for Houston. The Steelers must get angames.
other kicker if they do not re-sign free
i a two-men by agent Gary Anderson,
from his pelvis The New England Patriots are exL
portion of his pected to lose fullback Kevin Turner but
vertebrae. The will pick up defensive end Tim Roberts
1 in place by a from the Oilers,
sach side. Turner has signed an offer sheet from
FL teams called the Philadelphia Eagles for $4.13 mil3
incfU3re a^?ut lion for three years, including a $1.5 million
signing bonus,
ad trouble ac- Turner is a restricted free agent, so
sion, although the Patriots have seven days to match
J j j >+ Philadelphia's offer to hire but seem like^
ie ,. ? ly to settle for the Eagles' third-round
L F6163.S6 nim, j ft i i j
draft pick instead.
lesota Vikings Roberts, 6-foot-6 and 320 pounds, is
akeReed free a restricted free agent, but the Oilers
Lathon left the decided against matching the Patriots'
xpansion Car- offer of ^ million for one yeariston
kicker A1 Tbe Oilers will get New England's
vith the Pitts- fifth-round draft pick this year as compensation.
>st prolific re- New England has about $7 million
aistoiy, signed ?f its $36.5 million salary cap available,
isday, believed Some of that might go to sign Dave
nillion a year. Meggett of the New York Giants. Meggett
his fourth sea- and his agent, Tony Angone, plan- to visbarter
?whose it Patriots coach Bill Parcells.
been a consistent member of the team.
The men's team completed the
, (AP) ? The semester with a 2.981 for a comd
unrestricted mendable ranking. The women finLamar
Lath- ished the semester with a 3.150, for
five seasons an excellent ranking,
were not reThe
Top 25 in theSpeedo American's
(AP) Dan Division I Swimming and Diving poll.
aan with the m*. ^ -. := .. ?
past four sea- sj t wiCnl96n ;. ..
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general man- Division I Swimming and Diving poll.
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