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The University Daily Kansan
Thursday, August 20, 1999
Redskins lure Fryar back to the field
The Associated Press
Apparently, Irving Fryar isn't satisfied just talking to football players. The 36-year-old receiver has turned in his microphone for a helmet and pads.
Fryar, a 15-year veteran with New England, Miami and Philadelphia, has agreed to terms with the Washington Redskins and will leave his television reporting job.
The wide receiver retired last December following the Eagles' season and has been working as a football analyst at WPVI-TV in Philadelphia.
Fryar, who signed yesterday, could be in uniform for the Redskins' exhibition game by tonight.
Luring Fryar back on to the field has been in Washington's plans for months, and negotiations intensified in recent weeks.
WPVi sports director Gary Papa said Fryar agreed on Tuesday to come back, left for Washington on Wednesday and had a physical and tryout scheduled at Redskin Park yesterday.
Fryar, a five-time Pro Bowl selection, originally decided against playing anywhere else because it would mean moving his family. After failing to meet performance incentives needed
for a contract extension with the Eagles, he became a free agent.
"I won't change my mind. I'm done. I am done." Fvrar said after last season.
Terms of the agreement were not available. Neither Fryar nor his agent, Michael George, were available for comment. Redskins director of player personnel Vinny Cerrato only would say that the Redskins were in negotiations with the receiver.
Fryar, who will turn 37 next month,
caught 46 passes for 556 yards with the
Eagles last season. He last made the
Pro Bowl in 1997, when he had 86 receptions
for Philadelphia.
Broncos
Free safety Tori Noel was diagnosed with a herniated disc, an injury that might be career threatening. The team said surgery would keep Noel out for the year, if not longer.
The 24-year-old Noel collided with running back Olandis Gary at practice. He was motionless on his back and remained that way as team trainer Steve Antonopulos and his staff attended to him. He was later taken away by ambulance.
No paralysis was involved.
New York added to its receiving corps
NFL Roundup
with the signing of Quinn Early. The 12-year veteran has caught 454 passes in a 12-year career and will compete with Dedric Ward and Dwight Stone for a spot behind starters Keyshawn Johnson and Wayne Chretb.
Early played for Buffalo for the last three years following stints with the Chargers and Saints.
The Jets training camp at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y., is only about 10 miles from where Early attended high school in Great Neck. Giants
Giants
His return was brief, but Mark Collins decided to call it a career where he started. Collins, a cornerback on the Giants' two Super Bowl championship teams, re-signed with the club for the purpose of announcing his retirement.
Collins, who played nine games with Seattle last season, wanted to end his 13-year career with his original team.
A second-round draft pick from Cal State-Fullerton in 1986, Collins played eight seasons with the Giants. He started on both of their Super Bowl teams and was in the starting lineup
for 104 of his 112 games with New York. Collins also played three seasons with Kansas City and one each with Green Bay and Seattle. In 168 career games, he had 749 tackles, 27 interceptions and three touchdowns, two on interceptions and one on a fumble recovery.
Bears
Collins is the third member of the Super Bowl teams who re-signed to retire as a member of the Giants. Center Bart Oates and defensive tackle Leonard Marshall did the same.
Chicago signed linebacker Antony Jordan after releasing veterans Andre Collins and Jim Schwartz.
Jordan, waived by the Indianapolis Colts earlier this week, started three games last season and had 27 tackles. The 6-foot-2, 239-pound linebacker, who also plays on special teams, was selected in the fifth round of the 1998 draft.
Schwantz, who returned to the Bears last season after playing in Dallas and San Francisco, was one of just two current Bears who played for Mike Ditka, Dave Wannstedt and Dick Jauron. The linebacker played in all 16 games last season and led Chicago with 23 special teams tackles.
Bengals draft pick still holding out on signing deal
The Associated Press
Rookie quarterback Akili Smith has missed so much of Cincinnati's training camp in his contract holdout that he is unlikely to be of much use this season, Bengals quarterback Jeff Blake savs.
Smith, Cincinnati's top draft choice, would be Blake's backup if he signs. But he is missing practice time needed to learn the Bengals' offense, Blake said.
"He could come in and play, but I don't think he could be productive," Blake said of Smith. "He could get'
"It took me two years to lear his offense," said Blake, a Pro Bowl starter after his 1995 season with Cincinnati.
said of Smith. "He could get by on athletic ability, but that will only take you so far ... That's why they have training camp."
The Bengals have failed in their latest effort to sign Smith, the former Oregon star.
Management and Smith's agent, Leigh Steinberg, are at odds about how Smith would earn his money. The Bengals say they have offered a six-year deal for nearly $45 million. Under that proposal, Smith would average $4.7 million per year for six years if he participates in 55 percent of the plays and, as the contract progresses, has thrown for 2,500 yards in two of the three prior seasons.
Bengals president Mike Brown said Smith's side didn't like the performance requirements.
"They find that absurd, and we find that more absurd that they look at it like that," Brown said. "They want us to give everything to their guy. We want him to earn some of it."
Steinberg said he had sent a series of proposals to the Bengals in an attempt to close the deal.
Former NFL player killed by police had drugs in system
The Associated Press
SAN DIEGO — Former NFL player Demetrius DuBose had the drug Ecstasy, cocaine and alcohol in his blood when he was fatally shot by police who suspected him of burglarizing a Mission Beach home last month.
But an autopsy report released Wednesday also shows that police shot him 11 times, mostly in the back and stomach.
"The report doesn't say he was under the influence of drugs," said Brian Watkins, an attorney for the DuBose family. "But regardless, nothing justified him being shot multiple times in the back."
The autopsy report, usually a public record, was sealed while the San Diego Police Department conducted an internal investigation into the July 24 shooting, said Lloyd Amborn, a representative for the San Diego County Medical Examiner's office.
Amborn said the office decided to make the document public after police investigators Tuesday submitted their report to the district attorney's office, which investigates all police shootings resulting in injury or death.
The blood tests revealed only a trace of alcohol — about the equivalent of one beer — in DuBose's system the night he was killed, but there was a significant amount of cocaine, a stimulant, and Ecstasy, a methamphetamine-type drug that can cause hallucinations, according to the report.
He likely had ingested cocaine a few hours before the shooting and Ecstasy up to a day earlier, said Dwight Reed, forensic toxicology manager for the San Diego County Medical Examiner's office.
He could only guess at the effect the combination had on DuBose's behavior and said that he didn't know anything about his tolerance level.
DuBose's family hired their own investigator and another autopsy after police initially refused to release details of his death. They thought excessive force was used because DuBose was African American.
DuBose's roommate, Randy West, had said DuBose slipped onto a neighbor's balcony for a better view of the sunset and fell asleep on a bed, which didn't indicate someone who under the influence of cocaine, Watkins said.
One of the tenants found DuBose, asked him to leave and called police, who already had received two burglary reports for the neighborhood, authorities said.
While West and DuBose were trying to resolve the situation with the neighbor, police arrived. After questioning the men, police tried to arrest DuBose. When he refused, police tried to spray him with Mace, but DuBose ran down an alley. They caught him and suffled, and then he got away again.
weapon that consists of two wooden sticks joined at the ends by a short chain or rope. That's when the officers fired.
DuBose was shot 11 times with 9millimeter guns, many of the copper-jacket bullets ricocheting throughout rather than exiting his body. the autosys showed.
When they caught him a second time, they struggled with him. He somehow managed to get the officers' nunchucku, a martial arts
He was shot five times in the chest and abdomen and six times in the back. The report didn't specify which shot was fired first, although eight were labeled fatal.
District Attorney Paul Pfingst will decide within the next few weeks whether criminal charges are warranted against the officers, representative Gayle Falkenthal said.
"The district attorney's findings don't cover personnel or disciplinary action," she said. "And nothing stops a civil lawsuit from being filed by the family."
Watkins said he would reserve a decision until the district attorney concludes his investigation.
Chief Dave Bejarano won't comment on the case until that time. either, police representative Bill Robinson said Wednesday. The officers are on administrative duty pending the outcome. Their names haven't been released.
DuBose played for Notre Dame from 1899 to 1992 and was a team captain. He was a second-round draft pick of Tampa Bay in 1993 and played four seasons with the team as a linebacker.
Coming off loss Wildcats bet on their new blood
The Associated Press
MANHATTAN, Kan. — Jonathan Beasley says he is not bothered at the prospect of replacing the only Kansas State quarterback who beat Nebraska in 29 years.
Bishop, Eric Horton and Darnell McDonald.
Despite two heartbreaking losses that ended last season, the Wildcats seems genuinely upbeat heading into a season without Michael Bishop, Eric Hickson and
David Allen shrugs his shoulders when asked about replacing K-State's career-rushing leader.
And Aaron Lockett, when reminded that he is one of only two returning Wildcats who caught a pass last season, just grins.
"I have faith in the youngsters we have," said Bill Snyder, who also will be without kicker Martin Gramatica.
The Wildcats are coming
off an 11-2 season in which they had the national championship game squarely in their sights but squandered it in a double-overtime loss to Texas A&M in the Big 12 Conference title game. Three weeks later, they lost to unranked Purdue in the Alamo Bowl and saw what had been the finest season in 103 years of Kansas State football turn into one of the most bitterly disappointing.
This year, as they take their first steps toward regaining all that momentum, their biggest void is at quarterback.
In two years as a starter, Bishop walked off the field as a loser only three times. His powerful arm and legs led K-State to its finest two years, getting the Wildcats close to a national title game in the Fiesta Bowl.
Beasley, who was a backup in 1996 and 1997 and a redshirt last season, can throw about as well as Bishop but is not as quick on his feet.
He'll be competing with junior Adam Heim
"they both have some experience in our svs
tem. They've had the opportunity to play and compete for several years," Snyder said. "This will be Adam's fifth year and Jon's fourth year. Jonathan's being a backup quarterback for two of those three years, and was a redshirt the other has given him an opportunity to get a lot of reps on the practice field. What they don't have is an ample amount of playing time under stressful conditions."
Beaslev said that whenever a great quarterback left, Kansas State had had somebody step in and do the job.
Beasley: Says she is not worried about replacing Bishon
The Wildcats took a big blow when running back Frank Murphy broke a bone in his foot during conditioning exercises on July 24. He could be out as long as eight weeks.
But the No. 1 running back spot was probably going to go to Allen, among the nation's most dazzling punt returners of 1998. Allen returned punts for touchdowns in three consecutive games and tied an NCAA record with four touchdown returns. He broke his own Big 12 record with 730 yards in punt returns.
"I'm really excited about this year because now at tailback I get more of an opportunity to play and see what I can do there," said Allen, who had 31 carriers last year.
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