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Friday, February 10, 1995
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Negotiations fail again in strike saga
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Congress has little interest in President Clinton's plan to solve the baseball strike, leaving players and owners at a standstill just a week before the start of spring training.
Both sides headed home Wednesday following a night of failed negotiations in the White House. President Clinton sent special legislation to Capitol Hill, a bill to create a three-member panel of independent arbitrators.
But after meeting with mediator W.J. Usery, House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole said they had no intention of moving quickly to settle the six-month walkout.
"I'm not sure that Congress has the wisdom, or should have the ability to intervene in a single industry that's not a matter of national safety," Gingrich said.
Union head Donald Fehr also spoke with Usery, who the players may not want in the talks anymore. The union splits his $120,000-per-month fee with management and is angry his suggested terms of settlement agreed much more with the owners than with them.
No talks are scheduled, and it appears the sides won't meet again until Wednesday when they are to testify before a Senate subcommittee. The hearing will take place just one day before replacement players start reporting to camps in Florida and Arizona.
Acting commissioner Bud Selig headed back to Washington today to speak with the Democratic caucus, a group that heard from Fehr last week.
Clinton, speaking in the Roosevelt Room where talks were held the night before, said he had no regrets about trying to end the strike.
"I'll send the legislation up. They'll hear from the American people and they'll make their own decision," he said.
"If we had a baseball commissioner, maybe none of us would have been in here."
Knight-Ridder Tribune
Baseball drug suspensions
Players suspended in the 1990s for substance abuse:
Year Suspension
1990 Rick Leach
Glants outfielder 60 days for positive drug test
1991 Otis Nixon
Braves outfielder 60 days for positive cocaine test
1992 Gliberto Reyes
Expos catcher 60 days for positive drug test;
suspension lifted following grievance
(treated as first-time offender)
1992 Pascual Perez
Yankees pitcher One year for positive cocaine test
1992 Steve Howe
Yankees pitcher Suspended indefinitely for attempting to buy cocaine; reduced to time served following grievance
1994 Dwight Gooden
Mets pitcher 60 days for violating after-care program with positive cocaine test;
later became free agent, violated program again with positive cocaine test while on suspension
1995 Darryl Stawberry 60 days for vii
1995 Darryl Stawberry Giants outfielder
60 days for violating after-care program
SOURCE: Associated Press
New schools will join Atlantic 10 Conference
The Associated Press
The Atlantic 10 will have 12 schools next season, five of them first-year members after Virginia Tech, Dayton and La Salle officially joined the conference yesterday.
The three newcomers join fellow rookies Xavier, Ohio and Fordham in a league that has gone from a questionable future months ago to a solid basketball conference that will reach a number of major television markets.
"Our athletic directors identified these three institutions as what we are and where we want to be as we head into the future," Atlantic 10 commissioner Linda Bruno said. "We are excited, and we will get much better."
West Virginia and Rutgers will leave the current nine-team league after this season to join the Big
East Conference. When that move was announced last year, many thought Massachusetts and Temple, the conference's linchpins as far as basketball was concerned, would consider leaving.
Instead, the Atlantic 10 added five schools and appears solid heading into next season.
"There were always options for us," Bruno said. "The first scenario was 'don't do anything', and we had said all along we weren't in a rush unless the right schools were available. At no time did we get locked into a set number. We were worried about quality not quantity. We got the best of both worlds now with a number that's workable, and we filled out our conference with quality programs."
Bruno said the league would be split into two divisions and would keep the name.
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