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Sports loon NFL PHOENIX (AP)?The NFL made it apparent Sunday that the Rams are going to have to ante up some of the estimated $75 million they're getting for personal seat licenses before they get approval to move to St. Louis. /?i r* i m i? i commissioner raui i agnaDue said the owners consider the licenses to be ticket revenue that should be split under the revenue-sharing plan. Another impediment to the move is Fox Television, which wants indemnification for having an NFC team move from the No. 2 television market to No. 18. Meanwhile, the sale of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to Malcolm Glazer was approved Sunday by the NFL's Finance Committee, clearing the way for the owners to complete the sale today. Skiing LENZERHETDE, Switzerland (AP) ? Picabo Street became the first American to capture a World Cup downhill title, winning her fifth race of the season Saturday with a 0.06second margin over Russia's Warwara Zelenskaja. Street, 23, of Sun Valley, Idaho, completed the Lenzerheide course in 1 minute, 50.57 seconds. With one race remaining, she has a 609-443 lead over teammate Hilary Lindh, who won two races early in the season. Sunday, Switzerland's Vreni Schneider finished second behind Sweden's Pemilla Wiberg in a slalom tmw Ua* oiv+U nl r? 1 /-vry* fifla ar\4 lu yt111 ii ci oiaui oiaium uuc anu out herself up for the overall crown. KVITFJELL, Norway (AP) ? American Kyle Rasmuasen beat Italy's Kristian Ghedina by 0.11 seconds Saturday for his second World Cup downhill victory. Rasmuasen, who won the Lauberhornrennen Jan. 21 in Wengen, Switzerland, completed the shortened Kvitfjell's Olympic course in 1 minute, 37.10 seconds in the second of the day's two downhills. Because of fog, only 37 of 74 skiers completed the first race, which was won by Italy's Pietro Vitalini. The U.S. team protested after the race, a makeup for one last weekend in Aspen, uoio., tnat was aeciarea no contest Wednesday. American A. J. Kitt had been declared the winner in Aspen after only 31 of 68 racers competed before heavy snow and poor visibility stopped the race. Sunday's super-G was postponed because of bad weather and is scheduled to be run in Bormio, Italy, where the World Cup finals start Wednesday. Auto Racing BAYTOWN, Texas (AP) ? Mike Dunn beat Kenny Bernstein in the 1 I PR Need to make up a class beat high tuition? Gre< Last year, over 700 sti transferred back to theii reasonable tuition rates Greenville Tech and packet today. Cf scheduling options i For? summer transi< ' call 250-8111 in SC 1-80CM a (} < Top Fuel final of the NHRA Slick 50 Nationals Sunday, covering a quarter-mile in 4.857 seconds with a top speed of 296.34 mph. Track ft Field BARCELONA, Spain (AP)?Allen Johnson of the United States won the 60-meter hurdles Sunday in the World Indoor Championships with a meet-record time of 7.39 seconds, and compatriot Regina Jacobs took 1 the women's 1,500 in 4:12.61. 1 Saturday, Ukraine's Sergei Bubka cleared 19 feet, 4 1/4 inches to win his fourth pole vault title, and Russia's Yolanda Chen set a world indoor record in the women's triple jump with a mark of 49-3 3/4, 1 INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Michigan miler Kevin Sullivan set a Canadian indoor record in the NCAA Championships Saturday with a time of 3 minutes, 55.33 seconds. Arkansas won its 12th straight men's title, and Louisiana State captured its third consecutive women's crown. Pan American Games MAR DEL PLATA, Argentina (AP) ! ? The U.S. women's gymnastics team, led by Olympic medalist Shannon Miller of Edmond, Okla., shattered the Pan American Games record with 388.375 points Sunday. The St. John's baseball team, representing the United States, lost 72 to Mexico to drop to 0-2, and Mexico's Fernando Platas won the men's 3-meter springboard diving title. Speedskating HAMAR, Norway (AP) ? Fivetime Olympic champion Bonnie Blair, retiring after races in Calgary next week, won the 500 meters in 39.38 seconds Sunday after clinching the World Cup title in the event Saturday. . Germany's Gunda Niemann wrapped two World Cup titles SunaaHinrr a tra/*lr rarnrH In tVio vacijr y uvifiiiiig u ti uvn i vvviu in n?v 1,500 meters at 2:01.71 and taking the 3,000 in 7:19.63. Boxing LAS VEGAS (AP)?Riddick Bowe knocked down Herbie Hide seven times and stopped him at 2:25 of the sixth round to win the WBO heavyweight title Saturday night. Bowe, the former undisputed champion, is 36-1 with 30 knockouts. Hide dropped to 26-1. Figure Skating BIRMINGHAM, England (AP) ? Chen Lu became the first Chinese skater to win a title in the World Championships, beating France's Surya Bonaly in the women's competition Saturday. U.S. champion Nicole Bobek was third. 1M AM Till UKLM or just want to get ahead? Wish y jnville Tech's Summer Transient P idents from nearly 100 institutions : own colleges and universities at C . A permission form from your col asK ior your summer uaiisiciii. ieck out our convenient including College on TV! / h i PI ent packet, ? or toll-free TJ )22-1183. C Jordan ma Associated Press DEERFIFJiD, 111. (AP)?There was no announcement. The news conference, 30 zealously anticipated, never came. The only sign Monday that Michael Jordan really is planning to resume his basketball career came at practice, his third with the Chicago Bulls in less than a week. "He just said, Do you think I should ?me in and work out? And I said, Yeah, if you think you're gonna play ball, you probably should come and work out.' He 3aid, Well, I'll be there,'" lulls coach Phil Jackson said. ou, uuca uuiuaii 9 aiicnuaii^c mean that the world's most famous ex-minor league ballplayer is ready to return to roundball? "No," Jackson said. That means he's still pursuing whatever his decision is to make on this." In other words, the only game Jordan is playing these days is the waiting game. And the rest of the world is playing along. Reports last week that Jordan would NFL stalling: Associated Pnw PHOENIX (AP) ? The Rams' road to St. Louis from Southern California is liable to be long and tortuous. NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue made that clear Monday when he restated his opposition to the relocation, then added: But that*s just the beginning of the discussion." It sure was. For while Tagliabue was talking about the complexities of the NFL's decision to grant or not to grant permission for the Rams to switch cities: ?Missouri Attorney General Jay Nixon was preparing a lawsuit to be filed in thn Qvont +V10 MFT . tilnrlra tViA m nvp ?John Shaw, the Rams' president, was restating his position that the team's move is totally justified, financially and otherwise. ?And traditionalist owners continued to make it sound like it would be nothing but heresy to move the Rams from the Los Angeles area, their home since 1946. "Stability has been a major part of this league," said Wellington Mara of the New York Giants, the league's senior owner, at the same time declining to say how he might vote on the move. That is part of the complexity. While Tagliabue said his reservations were not entirely financial, money remained at the heart of the issue, particularly television money. Fox, which carries NFC games, based its $1.58 billion four-year payment on getting the conference in the form Tagliabue described as "the most attractive package in sports." But he noted that if the Rams moved from the nation's No. 2 television market to No. 18 in St. Louis, its percentage of television homes would drop from 58 percent to 52.5. Asked how much money that involved, he replied: "You can't figure that totally in terms of money." Shaw, meanwhile, seemed to remain adamantly opposed to turning over to 1 |L ou could find a way to 'rogram is the answer. ; earned credits that jreenville Tech's very lege is needed ? call REENVILLE BCHNICAL OLLEGE ly be lookin hold a news conference Monday brought more than 100 reporters to the Bulls' w practice center. They came from daily bl newspapers and weekly magazines, from radio stations and television networks, in from the Windy City to the Big Apple hi and beyond. 01 Jackson gave them about 10 min- sc utes of his time. A few players offered a in few comments. Jordan? As Jackson said, hi "He came and practiced and played well, tl And he went home." Most of Jordan's past ? and future? ei ? teammates did the same. They've Si grown weary of answering the same cb questions, over and over and over, Michael hi and Michael and Michael. d< If they really didn't know what Jor- fo dan was thinking, as they have been tii claiming, what more could they say? tl "It hasn't been addressed at all," Luc Longley said of the subject of Jordan's R comeback. "As far as we're concerned, w he's just here for a few practices." _ le Said Bill Wennington: "He's not talking about anything. I don't think Michael's bi made up his mind." a Rams'move r the league any revenue from the per- I sonal seating licenses. Tagliabue and come owners have contended that the PSLs, which are essentially payments _. by fans for the right to purchase tickets, are ticket revenues and thus to be shared. But Shaw disagreed, saying the money belonged to FANS Inc., the St. Louis a group that w>oed the Rams. 11 "We don't have the right to that mon- ^ ey. It's their money," he said. "It hasn't really been a precedent of this league to ^ share other people's money. If that's a 0 new precedent, well deal with it, I guess." g Tagliabue also noted that a move by f, the Rams would create realignment prob- 2 lems ? leaving the NPC West with only San Francisco on the West Coast plus a St. Louis, Atlanta, Carolina and New S Orleans. b "Most or all of St. Louis' home games s would h ave to start at 3 p.m," he said. v And wculd West Coast ians be satisfied watching Eastern teams? All of this F factors in, not only with Fox but with D NBC, too." r Still to be discussed are the problems j* of the Los Angeles Raiders, who are dissatisfied with the Coliseum and are seek- ^ ing a stadium of their own, either in Los Angeles or elsewhere. Last fall, Tagliabue suggested the league might finance ^ a stadium in Los Angeles to ensure at r least one team there, and the problems with the Raiders also have made the owners more reluctant to endorse the I Rams' move. All these complications make it increasingly unlikely that the move will be resolved by the time the owners adj ourn Thursday. The threatened lawsuits seemed to have little effect. "If they think thaf s going to scare us, they're dealing with the wrong peor>le." said Carmen Policv. Dresident of I 1 W ' I the San Francisco 49ers and a member of the finance committee that will make its recommendations on the move. Senior May Free Cap l:;M with purchase of i | Gifts D Graduation Anno Frarr Mai / 1 * Balfoi 1609 Phone orde Balfour - Your Quality I ig for more Jackson said Jordan's discussions J, ith club owner Jerry Reinsdorf proba- P y will determine the course of events, v "The impediment might just happen i that area ? not on the court, not on r< dw well he plays and maybe not even 1 how well this team could do," Jack- J >n said. "Most of all, probably, if s up d T T* J 1 J * _l_i. T 1. i jerry rvemsaon s nanas ngni now. i u ave a feeling that they've got some 1< lings going on there." ei Before leaving for the baseball own- h "s meetings in Florida, Reinsdorf said unday that he hadn't spoken with Jor- fx in since last week ? when Jordan told ti im he was giving up baseball. Reins- o irf also owns the Chicago White Sox, n r whom Jordan had hoped to play un- fc 1 baseball's labor strife drove him from le game. a "When Michael makes his decision," fx einsdorf said, "why can't we just all u ait for him to make it? He needs to be :ft alone so he can think." J Both Newsweek and the Chicago Tri- v line reported that there have been disissions between Reinsdorf and Jordan, n rhomas ma] s TTnri J' s. LOr UOL; U1VI [ATT PLOPINEC Staff Writer p USC diving coach Todd Sherritt sees eshman diver Tommy Thomas as a di- v mond in the rough ? an uncut dia- v lond in the rough. Sherritt was initially attracted to n homas' flash and raw potential. Thomas recently finished eighth on Y tie 3-meter board and 13th e n the 1-meter board at the; EC Diving Championships, I J11UWCU ujr I/11C itacii wi %j x x i lone 3 Diving Championships. Ml Thomas won the 1-meter I nd 3-meter events at the HT f Ipeedo Cup East in Decern- I er and finished second in the ame events at a dual event fir*. N.C. State. Tnerritt said ho v/nc im- .HH i iror^d with Thomas' perfor- THOMAS aance at the SEC meet. Sheritt said Thomas was seventh gcing ind the finals, where he had to dive between c wo "world-class" divers. ^ "He beat a lot of very respectable ^ ivers," Sherritt said. Sherritt first saw Thomas at an age- * roup nationals and was impressed with * is flashines3, but nonetheless saw some ough edges. He recognized tremendous J Marquette at Auburn G Coppm St ,al $? Joseph's ^ i S Seton Hall at Canisius C Miami* Fla at Rem $!> .' S DePaul at Iowa G Cabrede M New Max*# &. I ? Texas Tech at Washington St. Ill m*mi& Paso C Extrava; ?for? Gradua ), Gown and 1 15 personalized announcemen iscounts Spc uncements Caps and Gowns les Class Rings and More rch 15, 16, 1 v "\.r\r\ R.nn J.W IVJ jr Office / Stc Blossom Stre ;rs with Visa/Mastercard 254-5 / Alternative to Bool a/A air time f rho is seeking assurances that Scottie ippen will remain with the team and rill be financially satisfied. Jordan's agent, David Falk, didn't espond to telephone messages. "I don't know if money's the issue," ackson said. "Maybe he's making the ecision as to how good this team can e when he plays with them. Ifs a chal;nge, maybe, to this club to play well 1 11. A *!_ 1 1 1 _"1 nougn so inai, n ne came DacK, we couia ave a chance." The Bulls take a 31-31 record into jnightfs game at Washington. The last me they weren't over .500 at this stage f a season was 1985-86, when Jordan lissed most of the year with a broken )Ot. Though Jackson said Jordan's sitution was an obvious distraction to the jam, he won't pressure Jordan to make p his mind soon. 1 think hell make it up in good time," ackson said. Tve always thought Michael ras very good at decision-making." Theso days, the rest of the world light not agree. kes snlash ~ ~jr ? ngteam otential in Thomas. For his part, Thomas was impressed nth Sherritt and the South Carolina feather. "I felt he could be really phenomeal," Sherritt said. The coach described his charge as bean: tlashv and acrobatic He also point d to Thomas' entries as one of his strong S points. Sherritt said Thomas' best dives are those in which he twists. "His twisters are very nice," Sherritt said. Thomas, a Connecticut native, said he would like to finish in the top three in the NCAAs before he graduates and advance to the senior nationals this yejir. "I just have to want it," he said. An eighth place finish at the zone :hampionships would have earned rhomas a trip to the national finals, rhomas placed 11th and 15th in the 1neter and 3-meter respectively, but >oth coach and athlete agreed that a ligher finish is possible. Td like to make it to NCAAs, but I'd lave to dive like I'd never dove before," rhomas said. iW at Ohio t^ohn's at S> Florida harleston at Providence .Miss, at $t Sonaveature eorgia at Nebraska > Michigan at Bradley $ linois St. at Utah St. limson at ETHAN MYERSON / The Gamecock sanza fpC rassel ts - $38.75 scials Diploma i jfjr' :>'* .-0"' re set 330 .jfe' cstore Exclusivity V