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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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Germany's Gunda Niemann
wrapped two World Cup titles SunaaHinrr
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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.
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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.
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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:
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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
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?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
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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<
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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
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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
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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
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the San Francisco 49ers and a member
of the finance committee that will make
its recommendations on the move.
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dw well he plays and maybe not even
1 how well this team could do," Jack- J
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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
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"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
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USC diving coach Todd Sherritt sees
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homas' flash and raw potential.
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ivers," Sherritt said.
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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
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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."
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light not agree.
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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.
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