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Tuesday, May 4, 1999
The University Daily Kansan
Section B · Page 5
Sacramento team hires Pete Rose
The Associated Press
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Pete Rose, baseball's banned career hits leader, will be back in uniform on a field next week.
The Sacramento Steelheads of the Western League said yesterday they were hiring Rose as a special hitting and infield instructor for spring training. The Steelheads start their first season May 21.
Rose, expected at camp May 10,
agreed to a lifetime ban from organized baseball in August 1989 after an investigation by baseball commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti, who concluded the then-Cincinnati Reds manager bet on games involving his team, a charge Rose still denies.
The following year, Rose pleaded guilty to two counts of filing false incomes taxes by failing to report income and was sentenced to five months in prison, three months in a halfway house and 1,000 hours of community service.
community service
Rose applied for reinstatement to baseball in September 1997, but commissioner Bud Selig has not ruled on the application. It is unlikely Selig will ever agree to Rose's reinstatement, many baseball officials repeatedly have said.
Rose: Was banned from Major League Baseball in 1986.
His ban does not apply to the Steelheads because the Western League is not affiliated with organized baseball — the major leagues and the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues, which is the governing body for the minors.
"Pete from the beginning has always expressed that he wants to be involved in the Sacramento community," Steelheads owner Bruce Portner said.
Portner also asked Rose to give a motivational speech to players at Sacramento City College.
Rose, 58, retired in 1966 and finished his 24-year career with 4.256 hits. He would have been a near-unanimous choice for the Hall of Fame, but in February 1991 the Hall's board of directors adopted a rule that prevented banned players from appearing on the writers' annual ballot.
New commissioner backs out
Tom McElroy didn't realize all sacrifices
The Associated Press
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Less than three days after he was formally announced as the Mid-American Conference's new commissioner, Tom McElroy backed out of the job because he said he didn't realize what the sacrifices were.
McEllroy, the Big East Conference's senior associate commissioner, notified the head of the MAC search committee on Sunday that he would not accept the position.
"I got caught up in the race for the prize, got the prize and didn't realize what the sacrifices were," McElroy said yesterday. "I learned a lot."
Robert Glidden, who led the search committee and is the president of Ohio University, did not respond to messages yesterday seeking comment.
In a statement issued by the MAC office in Toledo, Glidden said, "While we are obviously disappointed with Tom's decision, we do enjoy the benefit of a very talented and capable pool of candidates."
He was attending meetings in Washington, D.C.
In an interview with The Associated Press on Thursday, McElroy confirmed that he had accepted the MAC position. He said he was looking forward to taking over June 1 as the conference's seventh commissioner.
But he had misgivings later that night after flying from his home in Providence, R.I., to Cleveland, which becomes the MAC's new home on July 1.
"I tossed and turned in bed all night on Thursday," he said. "It's one of those situations where you've got a devil and an angel on either side of the headboard, one saying, 'What are you doing?' and the other saving, 'Go for it!'"
He was introduced at a news conference Friday afternoon, then flew home for a family get-together.
"Saturday was an agonizing day," he said. After church on Sunday, a close friend told him he didn't look good and McElroy told him, "I'm struggling with it a little bit."
McElroy called Glidden Sunday to talk.
"He said, 'How're you doing?' I said, 'Not good.' And he said, 'What's the matter? That's the way the conversation started,' McEiroy said. "I said, 'The MAC needs the fullest attention of their next commissioner.' He said, 'Are you sure?' I said, 'Yes, pal, I'm sure.'
"I told him it was the most difficult thing I've ever had to do in my life, and he made it easy for me."
McElroy said his decision was based on several personal and family factors, even though his family was happy he was getting his own conference after working for the Big East for 18 years.
His family did not plan to join him for at least nine months. He said he would be missing moments that he would never get back if he were living in Cleveland and separated from his family.
McEllroy said he was prepared for the fallout from his reversal.
"In getting ready to give the MAC the best of me professionally in two weeks of interviews and dialogue with so many people, I didn't catch a breath and say, 'Now, what does it mean personally?' " he said.
"I know I'm going to be criticized. I know I'm going to take some attacks. But you know what? I'm prepared for that. That's today's medicine," he said. "You have to get on with it."
The MAC sponsors 23 championships sports and has members in six states.
Conference members include Akron, Ball State, Bowling Green, Buffalo, Central Michigan, Eastern Michigan, Kent, Marshall, Miami of Ohio, Northern Illinois, Ohio University, Toledo and Western Michigan.
Italian fights storms for sailing record
The Associated Press
CHARLESTON, S.C. — After enduring hurricane-force winds and becalmed seas, Giovanni Soldini is almost there.
The Italian sailor, who made a daring rescue at sea, was closing in on a record finish yesterday in the Around Alone solo yacht race.
Soldini was about 720 miles from Charleston on the last leg of the around-the-world race of 27,000 miles that began in Charleston in September.
Race officials said he could encounter lighter winds by midweek, and he was not expected back in Charleston until Thursday. Still, Soldini's projected time is just under 116 days, about five days faster than the record set by Christophe Auguin in 1991 when the race was known as the BOC Challenge.
A victory by Soldini would be hugely significant as a challenge to French dominance of the sport, race director Mark Schrader said. "What it basically says is the French have been doing this kind of sailing for longer, and they have spent more money on boat design. Now it's evening out."
Frenchman Marc Thiercelin, with the
only other 60-foot boat still in the race,
was about 360 miles behind Soldini but
more than 11 days back in the overall
standings.
In the smaller, 50-foot boat division,
Mike Garside led Frenchman J.P.
Mouligne by about 275 miles with about
1,400 miles left to go to reach Charleston.
But Mouligne, who won the three previous legs, is the apparent winner of the division.
Of the 16 boats that started, nine remain in the race, an attrition rate above the same as previous races, Schrader said.
"It has always been close to 40 percent that don't make it. I am disappointed for the people who were unable to finish. This race, weatherwise, was incredibly difficult," he said.
The race included stopovers in Cape Town, South Africa; Auckland, New Zealand; and Punta del Este, Uruguay.
"There were some extraordinary storms in the south before Cape Horn." Schrader said. "It was uncomfortable coming out of Uruguay this time and slower than last time."
The most dramatic moment was when Soldini rescued Isabelle Autissier from her overturned boat PRB in the frigid
Southern Ocean. Her boat was sailing in 20-knot winds when her automatic pilot made an error, the sailshifted and the boat flipped.
The yacht, which was supposed to right itself never did, and Autissier had only enough time to close the watertight cabin hatch and wait for rescue.
People around the world monitored the race's Internet site for dispatches describing how Soldini sailed 200 miles through 40 mph winds and waves as high as 30 feet.
When he found the overturned yacht, there was no sign of Autissier. But Soldi tinned a hammer at the hull and she quickly emerged from an escape hatch.
Two other sailors also got help from a Boston physician who makes virtual house calls.
Dan Carlin, physician at the World Clinic at the New England Medical Center, told Moulaine the antibiotics to use to treat an infected knee after the sailor took digital photographs of it and sent them via e-mail to the doctor. Carlin earlier guided Russian sailor Viktor Yazykov through surgery to treat an abscess on his arm after Yazykov's elbow swelled with infection.
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Olympian appeals ban for drug use
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The Associated Press
Lennon said the decision last August by a FINA doping panel was patently unsoUND. FINA held Smith-De Bruin responsible for tampering with the out-of-competition urine test taken at her home in Kilkenny, Ireland.
LAUSANNE, Switzerland — Threetime Olympic gold medalist Michelle Smith-De Bruin appealed to an international panel yesterday to overturn her four-year drug ban.
Peter Lennon, Smith-De Bruin's lawyer, told the International Court of Arbitration for Sport, that the swimmer had been denied a reasonable judgment and that FINA, swimming's world governing body, had failed to prove she had tampered with the urine sample.
FINA said the sample was contaminated with large amounts of alcohol, probably whiskey.
Smith-De Bruin's ban includes the Sydney 2000 Olympics and the 2001 World Championships, in effect ending the 28-year-old Irish swimmer's career.
"I am fighting for my reputation and for my right to go to Sydney," Smith-De Bruin said after the ban was handed down.
"For us, this case is a case of tampering," Maurand told the three-arbitrator panel. "Something happened with those samples, and I don't think it can be disputed."
FINA lawyer Jean-Pierre Maurand said it was clear that someone had tampered with the samples before they came under the governing body's control.
Smith-De Bruin had a mediocre record before capturing three gold medals and a bronze at the Atlanta Games, three years after Erik de Bruin became her coach.
Her marriage to de Bruin, the Dutch discus and shot put champion banned for four years after testing positive to excessive testosterone, stirred speculation that her own meteoric rise had been aided by drugs. But she said she had been tested more often than any of her rivals and each time the result was negative.
In test results released in February and carried out on behalf of British shot putter Paul Edwards, chemist David Brown showed the Versapak drug-test containers could be opened and closed without detection by immersion in boiling water.
Edwards, who had been banned for life, had his suspension lifted by UK Athletics, the governing body of British track and field, pending a review of his case.
But UK Athletics said the review concerned inconsistencies in a hearing held several years ago and was not necessarily related to the test results.
Lennon has said he believed the question of the container, dismissed as a theoretical possibility by the FINA doping panel, wouldn't be dismissed in the same way by the CAS.
He added that he didn't think he would have to show why someone would want to tamper with Smith's sample in order to have the ban overturned.
FINA secretary Gunnar Werner argued just the opposite. He said that Smith would need to show a motive for someone else to have tampered with the sample. She maintained that FINA was conspiring to ensure that she did not swim again.
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