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Friday, August 23, 1996
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Michael Irvin returns Land Cruiser
Dealers demand vehicle's return after failed deal
The Associated Press
DALLAS — An attorney says Michael Irvin dropped off a $50,000 sport utility vehicle lent by car dealers now suing the troubled Dallas Cowboys' All-Pro receiver.
Larry Friedman, who represents the dealers, yesterday confirmed that the Land Cruiser was behind his law office on Wednesday night.
"Apparently they dumped it at the back of my building between 8 and 8:30 last night and left the keys with a note at the security desk,"
he said.
A deadline for the return of a Toyota Land Cruiser, lent to Irvin as part of an endorsement contract, passed at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday without word from the football star.
defiance of authority."
"It's more of Michael Irwin's petulance," Friedman said. "It's his
authority." On Tuesday,
the North Texas Toyota
Dealers Association
sued Irvin
for damages, contending that he violated deceptive-trade laws when he signed an endorsement contract misrepresenting himself as a moral person.
The dealers scrapped their spring ad campaign featuring Irvin when police found him, a former teammate and two topless dancers in an Irving, Texas, motel room on March 4 with marijuana, cocaine and drug paraphernalia.
The lawsuit seeks $1.2 million for lost sales and $200,000 in production costs.
On Wednesday morning, state District Judge Candace Tyson gave Irvin and the auto dealers one week to negotiate a settlement. Otherwise, the case goes to trial on March 10.
"We don't think he's entitled to any compensation because he didn't disclose to us his immoral lifestyle," Friedman said. "If we can't settle the case in the next week, we will be taking depositions of some of the members of the Cowboys
team in order to develop the facts of the case."
Friedman requested the return of the Land Cruiser as part of the contract. Chris Frederiksen, Irvin's attorney, agreed to return the vehicle by early afternoon.
He said his client didn't believe the contract dispute would lead to litigation.
"He was not expecting that Toyota would rush him to the courthouse to file a lawsuit," Frederiksen said.
Last month, Irvin pleaded no contest to a felony cocaine possession charge. He was sentenced to four years' deferred adjudication, fined $10,000 and ordered to perform 800 hours of community service.
The NFL suspended him for the season's first five games.
Cone performing well after aneurysm
Shoulder operation a pitching success
The Associated Press
NORWICH, Conn. — Fifty-four pitches, 40 strikes, seven strikeouts, no walks and, most important, no pain.
David Cone was back on the mound Wednesday night, pitching well in his first game since undergoing surgery May 10 for an aneurysm in his right
shoulder, originally thought to be career-threatening.
"All in all, it was pretty good. In the area where the aneurysm was repaired, there was no problem, and I think I'm even past the point of thinking about the vein graft," Cone said after allowing four hits and two runs, one earned, in four innings for Class AA Norwich in a 5-2 loss to the Binghamton Mets.
Cone's repertoire was evenly mixed between fastballs, sliders and
split-finger fastballs. His sliders were clocked between 87 and 69 mph and his split-finger fastballs between 81 and 83 mph.
His fastest pitch registered 90 mph on the radar gun, but Mets first baseman Brian Daubach hit it over the fence in right field in the first inning. Cone also allowed two doubles by Phil Geisler and a single by Dwight Maness. He retired nine of the final 10 batters he faced and left with the score tied 2-2.
"Those last two innings are right where I want to be," Cone said. "It was a good way to finish and hopefully I can carry it into my next start Monday when we'll get up around 75 or 80 pitches."
Cone's third rehab start would be a week from Saturday, and he is tentatively penciled in as New York's starter in a Sept. 6 home game against Toronto.
The Yankees have been in first place in the AL East almost the entire season, but their lead has slipped from 12 games three weeks ago to five games yesterday.
Cone was 4-1 with a 2.03 ERA for the Yankees before undergoing surgery. He left the hospital five days after surgery and made his first
"I was surprised I didn't walk anybody and was able to throw strikes, even though a couple of them went pretty far." David Cor
fingers were numb and blue.
David Cone New York Yankee's pitcher
soft tosses six weeks later. He had been throwing at Yankee Stadium for the past two weeks.
"I felt like I could have pitched one or two more innings, and I felt better than I did the last time I pitched against Chicago May 2 — nine innings with an aneurysm when my
"Tonight was the first step back, and I've pitched again. It's something I've been looking forward to for a long time and I feel great," Cone said. "I was surprised I didn't walk anybody and was able to throw strikes, even though a couple of them went pretty far."
He was scheduled to throw 60 pitches, but he left after 54. The standing room only crowd, gave him a standing ovation as he walked off the field. He acknowledged it with a wave of his gloved hand.
Perhaps his shakiest moment came in the second inning when he skipped one past the bag and allowed an unearned run to score from third base.
Still, it was hard for anybody from the Yankees to find much to gripe about with Cone finally back in a real game.
“Initially, when I first heard the word aneurysm, that was scary because I didn't know what was going to happen,” Cone said. “After the surgery, I felt comfortable that I'd be able to come back this year. A lot of people doubted it and looked at me kind of funny, but now I have.”
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