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The University Daily Kansan
Thursday, September 23, 1999
Home run rivals don't clear fence
The Associated Press
CHICAGO — Even with the wind whipping out at Wrigley Field on a perfect day for home runs, Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire couldn't clear the fence yesterday.
McGwire went 0-for-3 with two walks. Sosa, who still leads the homer derby 61-59, also walked twice in an 0-for-2 day as the Chicago Cubs beat the St. Louis Cardinals 5-3.
The two home run rivals will go head-to-head three mores times in the final season series at Busch Stadium.
McGwire finished the threegame series 1-for-10 and Sosa was 1-for-9. McGwire hit his 59th homer Monday, had three walks and six strikeouts.
Sosa, who hit into two double plays yesterday, walked three times and managed only one single in the series. He did come close to a homer in the seventh inning.
He sent a long drive to right center, but center fielder J.D. Drew jumped into the ivy to catch the ball as Cardinals right fielder Thomas Howard collided with him. Drew then threw quickly to the infield and Craig Paquette's relay to the plate
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McGwire swung at a 9-0 pitch from reliever Bobby Ayala in the seventh and hit into a double play.
ing the right-hander who is trying to avoid the major league's first 20-loss season since 1980. He struck out McGwire on another 3-2 pitch in the fifth.
Sosa: Came close to a home run in the seven innings
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S o s a grounded into a double play, then walked twice off Garrett Stephenson (6-2), bringing more
McGwire: Was walked twice by Steve Trachsel.
boos from a crowd that came to see a home run, not a bases on balls.
Mark Grace hit a go-ahead two-run triple in the fifth, an inning that began with Trachsel's single after Cardinals catcher Marcus Jensen dropped his foul popup for an error. Two outs later, Sosa walked and Grace hit a liner to right that eluded Howard and went to the wall, putting the Cubs ahead 4-2
Howard hit his sixth homer in the sixth, making it a one-run game, but Chicago's Jeff Blauser hit a solo homer in the seventh to restore the two-run lead.
Jensen's first homer of the season gave the Cards a 1-0 lead in the second.
The Cubs scored twice against Stephenson in the bottom of the inning on an RBI single by Roosevelt Brown and sacrifice fly by Jose Nieves. Fernando Tatis' sacrifice fly tied it in the third.
Sosa's impact never has been more evident. The Cubs, despite their pitiful play, set a Wrigley Field season attendance record yesterday.
DETROIT — The father of Barry Sanders hopes to speak with his son this weekend about rejoining the Detroit Lions in time for their fourth game.
Sanders' dad wants son to return to Lions
The Associated Press
"He's in for a father-and-son talk," William Sanders said yesterday from his home in Wichita. "I'm going to advise him to go back to Detroit. No situation is so bad you can't go back."
The 31-year-old running back was 1,458 yards short of breaking Walter Payton's NFL rushing record when
he retired July 28. Since then, the Lions have demanded that he repay $5.6 million of the $11 million signing bonus he received when he signed a six-year, $36 million contract in 1997.
Sanders' agents, David Ware and Lamont Smith, say their client must be traded or granted free agency before any money is returned. The club says it will not give up its rights to Sanders.
Sanders will have to decide on his own whether to end his retirement, his father said.
"He's a man," the elder Sanders said. "If he was 15, I would tell him."
Sanders' father also said he understood the Lions' refusal to send his son to another team.
"If I were the Lions, I wouldn't trade Barry Sanders, either," he said.
the Barry Sanders, either," he said. The dispute has gone to arbitration. But William Sanders told the Detroit Free Press that NFL Players Association lawyer Arthur McAfee said his son could not win the game.
William Sanders told *The Detroit News* that he would advise his son to return the money and go about his business if he chooses to stay retired.
Ware said Tuesday he was familiar with news reports of William
Sanders' plans to try to talk with his son about rejoining the Lions. But Ware said Sanders still had not said anything about returning to football.
William Sanders said he would advise his son that he return to the Lions on the condition that he be traded after breaking Payton's record.
Detroit, playing without Sanders for the first time since 1989, is 2-0 and off to its best start since 1993. The Lions play Sunday at Kansas City, then have a bye week. Their fourth game is Oct. 10 against San Diego at the Silverdome.
Salt Lake bid leader may testify against IOC
The Associated Press
SALT LAKE CITY — The man who won the 2002 Winter Olympics for Salt Lake City might be willing to testify against IOC officials in exchange for immunity from federal prosecution.
A source close to Tom Welch, speaking on condition of anonymity, said yesterday that the former Salt Lake bid leader would insist on immunity for his own protection but that he would not admit to any criminal wrongdoing.
Welch and his lawyer, Tom Schaffer, have not proposed an immunity deal to the Justice Department, nor have they been contacted by federal prosecutors or the
FBI during the 10-month investigation.
Justice Department spokeswoman Carole Florman would not comment on the likelihood of any immunity deal with Welch or for Dave Johnson, the former No. 2 bid official.
Schaffer was traveling and could not be reached for comment.
Welch is prepared to give Richard Wiedis, the Justice Department lawyer leading the Olympic investigation, information he gave an ethics panel for the Salt Lake Organizing Committee, the source said.
That panel detailed $1.2 million in gifts and favors that Welch and others lavished on voting members of the International Olympic
OLYMPIC GAMES
Committee and relatives.
Welch has insisted the inducements were normal for Olympic bidding and fall short of criminal bribery.
Welch is the unidentified Salt Lake bid committee officer in an indictment handed up earlier this month against John Kim, the son of IOC executive board member Kim Unyong.
permanent U.S. visa or green card and using it to travel frequently to the United States. Kim, who had returned to South Korea before he was indicted, keeps a house on New York.
John Kim was indicted on 17 felony charges of fraudulently obtaining a
Salt Lake businessman David Simmons acknowledged setting up a phony job in New York for Kim, using money funneled from the bid committee. Simmons pleaded guilty in August to tax fraud for deducting Kim's salary from his taxes as a business expense.
Simmons said he hired Kim as a favor to Welch, who was president of the bid committee and later the Salt Lake Organizing Committee until he was forced to resign in 1997 amid spouse-abuse charges.
NHL players move step closer to the 2002 Olympics
The Associated Press
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The NHL and the players association made progress Tuesday toward an agreement that would allow players from the league to compete in the 2002 Olympics at Salt Lake City.
players association and the league.
important issue for the players. With the collective bargaining agreement expiring and a major battle expected for a new deal, the players would benefit from a tournament that brings goodwill and money to the union.
The agreement is expected to include a provision for a World Cup tournament in 2004, an
NHL officials and the union met with International Ice Hockey Federation president Rene Fasel. Some issues remain unresolved, but an announcement by the IIHF is expected before the end of the year, said a source close to the discussions who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
The length of the NHL break during the Olympics was among the issues under discussion. The league took 17 days off last year, when the NHL's participation helped the popularity of the sport in some countries but stirred less interest than anticipated in North America.
Better TV ratings in North America are expected in 2002 because games can be shown live rather than on tape as the games from Nagano, Japan, in 1998.
However, Bill Daly, the NHL's senior vice president of legal affairs, said in an interview Tuesday night at the Florida-Tampa Bay exhibition game that there were ongoing discussions with NBC about the situation.
"TV is very important," Daly said. "It's important for the exposure of the game and for the NHL players. And for us to take a hiatus in the middle of the season, [TV] is very important."
There was no immediate comment from the
Fasel also met with reporters.
"By the end of the year, we hope to finalize some different points," he said. "It's very important [for the NHL to be in the Olympics]. It helps promote the game. It's not financial. It's about promoting the game."
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