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Baseball legend DiMaggio to remain hospitalized
The Associated Press
Joe DiMaggio will be hospitalized for three more weeks with pneumonia and a lung infection even though his lawyer said yesterday he had improved from earlier this month when "we were fearful for his life."
DiMaggio's lawyer and friend, Morris Engelberg, said he had been with DiMaggio every day since the Hall of Famer was admitted to Memorial Regional Hospital in Hollywood, Fla., on October 12.
DiMaggio had been in Intensive care
with severe breathing problems and had his lungs drained at least twice, Engelberg said.
It was the first time Engelberg acknowledged that the life of the Yankees' great had been in danger.
"Look, he will be 84 next month, and he has pneumonia," he said. "It was very, very serious. We were fearful for his life."
He said he got the first good sign in more than two weeks when he visited DiMaggio at 5 a.m. yesterday.
"He was sitting in a chair watching the news on television when I walked in."
"And I don't mind telling you that I was relieved, because when I walked into his room in intensive care, and he wasn't there. I thought he had died.
Engelberg said.
"But they had moved him to another room, and there he was, watching television. I hugged him."
DiMaggio "was breathing much better this morning. He was out of bed and his ewes were open." Engelberg said.
The hospital has refused to discuss DiMaggio's condition since he was admitted, citing orders from Engelberg.
Rodriguez may play winter ball
Rangers fear he will play and get injured in offseason games
The Associated Press
ARLINGTON, Texas — Texas Rangers catcher伊沃 Rodriguez can play winter ball if he wants to because of what a team official called an "oversight."
Rangers general manager Doug Melvin said Tuesday that the team did not send Rodriguez's name to Major League Baseball by Sept. 1 to comply
with a new rule that would allow them to exempt him from winter ball.
The rule allows a team to forbid everyday players from playing during the off-
The rule allows a team to day players from playing d season if they had 520 or more at-bats during the season. Rodriguez had 579 at-bats.
sight, "the team will have no recourse if Rodriguez decides play again this year. He has just finished the first year of a five-year, $42.5 million contract.
Because of what Melvin called an "over-
"We assumed he would not play," Melvin said. "Sure, maybe we should have sent it in, but he told me he didn't
plan to play."
Melvin said Rodriguez assured him again Tuesday that he did not plan to play.
Rodriguez assured the Rangers he would not play in 1997 after he signed the new contract but later joined Caguais in the Puerto Rico League for 32 games and the Caribbean World Series.
"If I can't play, I can't play." Rodriguez said Tuesday.
Talented tossers pass as finalists
But he refused to say he wouldn't play. "I don't know what I'm going to do," he said.
The Rangers fear Rodriguez could get injured in winter ball as teammate Juan Gonzalez did, who missed the first month of the regular season in 1997 because of a thumb injury.
Five quarterbacks in position to receive college passing award
The Associated Press
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Quarterbacks for three of the country's top four teams are among the finalists for the Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award.
The five finalists include Joe Germaine of top-ranked Ohio State, Cade McNown of No. 2 UCLA and Michael Bishop of No. 4 Kansas State.
The other finalists are Donovan McNabb of 17th-ranked Syracuse and Daunte Culpepper of Central Florida.
The award is presented each year to the nation's top senior collegiate quarterback by the Frank Camp Chapter of the Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Educational Foundation.
Germaine has completed 129 of 210 passes for 1,863 yards in seven games for the unbeaten Buckeyes.
McNown has connected on 96 of 176 passes for 1,607 yards and 12 touchdowns for UCLA (6-0).
Bishop ranks sixth nationally in passing efficiency, completing 80 of 153
passes for 1,553 for Kansas State (7-0).
McNabb has thrown for 1,259 yards while completing 96 of 136 passes for Syracuse (4-2) and ranks third nationally in passing efficiency.
Culpepper, the nation's leader in total offense, has completed 190 of 259 passes for 2,571 yards and 19 touchdowns for Central Florida (6-1).
The winner will be announced Nov. 24, and NFL Hall of Fame quarterback Johnny Unitas will make the official award presentation Dec. 11 in Louisville.
Tennessee quarterback Peyton Manning won the award last year.
Roger Clemens picks up No.1 player ranking
The Associated Press
NEW YORK - Baseball's best player?
Mark McGwire?
Sammy Sosa?
Roger Clemens?
Right on.
Clemens regained his status as the top player, beating out Kevin Brown to finish No. 1 for the first time since 1988 in the annual rankings compiled by the Elias Sports Bureau.
Brown, 18-7 with a 2.38 ERA for San Diego, got
Clemens's performance the last two seasons gave him a 98.016 score out of 100, according to figures released Tuesday. The four-time Cy Young Award winner, a favorite to win No. 5 next month, went 20-6 for Toronto this season, tying for the American League lead in wins and finishing first in ERA (2.65) and strikeouts (271).
Brown, 18-7 with a 2.38 ERA
a 96.094, finishing just ahead of Atlanta's Greg Maddux (95.747) among National League pitchers.
In a surprise, Houston's Jeff Bagwell tied McGwire as the top NL first baseman. McGwire hit 70 home runs for St. Louis this season, setting a major league record.
Clemens: is favored to win his fifth Cy Young Award.
Sosa, who hit 66 homers for the Chicago Cubs, was ninth among NL outfielders. In addition to Brown, three other free agents finished first at their positions
in the AL: Mo Vaughn at first, Roberto Alomar at second and Bernie Williams in the outfield.
Vaughn ended a five-year winning streak at first by Chicago's Frank Thomas, who finished tops among designated hitters this year. Last year, Thomas had baseball's top score for the second time in three seasons.
Alomar has led AL second basemen five times in seven years, and Williams led AL outfielders for the second straight season.
Mike Piazza, who avoided free agency to sign a record $21 million, seven-year contract with the New York Mets this week, was the top NL catcher for the third straight season.
Rankings are based on statistics from two seasons and include figures such as plate appearances, batting average, on-base percentage, home runs and RBI. For pitchers, the stats include record, ERA, strikeouts, appearances and saves.
The rankings, created in the 1981 strike settlement, are used to divide free agents into groups that determine draft-pick compensation for a player's former club if he signs with a new team.
The Associated Press
Former player hopes to unite U.S. soccer program as coach
NEW YORK — Bruce Arena can be blunt.
The old guard of the U.S. soccer team got a quick and loud message Tuesday from the new coach of the national team.
"We have to get as many young players in the mix early, and see how they adapt to international soccer," Arena said after receiving a four-year contract to rebuild the U.S. team. "These players lack
international experience, but they don't 'lack ability."
Arena, who led D.C. United to two championships in the first three years of Major League Soccer, replaces Steve Sampson, who resigned June 29, four days after the United States finished 0-3 in the World Cup.
Bob Contiguglia, who in August replaced Alan Rothenberg as the U.S. Soccer Federation president, wanted an U.S. citizen to succeed Sampson, the first U.S.-born coach
to lead a U.S. team at the World Cup.
"We want to send an emphatic
message," said Hank Steinbrecher, the USSF's executive director. "We at the federation believe in our league, we believe
in the strength of our league, we believe in the American player and we believe in the American coach."
Arena's first game will be an exhibition on Nov. 6 against Australia at San Jose, Calif., and he said that up to half of his roster would have no international experience.
"I'm not worried initially by wins and losses," Arena said. "Our goal is to have by the year 2000 a team that can advance to the final 32."
The United States won't begin qualifying for the 2002 World Cup until late in 2000. Arena said he hoped to develop players who had succeeded in the MLS and disputes
the notion of undiscovered talents waiting to be found outside the professional and youth leagues.
"Are there any Ronaldos walking around New York City right now? I don't think so," he said.
Arena set two goals: qualify for the 2002 tournament and then try to advance past the first round.
"Are the games in 1998 as important as the games in 2000 and 2001? No," he said. "But I think by the time the year 2000 comes along, we need to be showing some progress."
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