UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, November 8, 1995
5B
Ballplayer wins marriage suit
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Dave Winfield has finally proven that a Houston woman isn't his common law wife — 10 years after she first sued him.
On Monday, Sandra Renfro Kuydendall gave up her case and admitted that no marriage relationship existed between herself and the baseball player. The case had been scheduled to go to trial for the second time starting today in Houston.
no marriage, whether ceremonial, informal or common law, has ever existed between Sandra Renfro Kuydendall and Dave Winfield," said a consent decree signed by Judge Lisa Millard and Kuydendall.
"When you tell lies, you eventually get caught," Winfield said in a statement issued by his agent, Jeff Klein.
"This has been a monumental waste of time, money and emotion," Winfield said. "I was never married to the woman, and the issue was never even discussed. I was determined to go to court to clear my name."
The consent decree acknowledges that Winfield is the father of Kuydendall's child, Lauren Shane, age 13. Winfield previously admitted this. The proceeds of the sale of a Houston condominium, which had been frozen in the case, will be released to Winfield.
Winfield will pay $26,000 to Kuydendall's attorney for legal fees, according to the consent decree.
Kuydendall said she decided to end the legal battle after speaking to her daughter.
"She wanted everything to be resolved." Kuvendall said.
In June 1989, a jury ruled that Winfield and Kuydendall had a common-law marriage, and Winfield agreed that October to pay $163,000 in alimony and attorney fees. But in October 1991, the First Court of Appeals voted 2-1 to throw out the verdict and ordered a new trial, finding State District Judge Allen
Earle Lilly, Kuydendall's lawyer, said $20,000 will be put in trust for the daughter.
Daggett erred in his jury instructions.
"According to the Yankees' schedule that Kuydendall apparently used to support this story, Winfield should have been in Texas on April 11," Klein said. "But a series of snowstorms in New York the previous week caused the team to play an unscheduled doubleheader. They didn't arrive in Texas until the following day."
The judge continued custody and child support orders entered in 1990 and 1994.
"I am pleased that my daughter finally knows the truth about her mother and me," Winfield said. "We always loved and provided for Shanel, but our relationship has been affected by this. I'm glad that she's now old enough to understand, and I hope we're able to move on from here."
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Kick remains a 'Saint' after 25 years
The Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS — Tom Dempsey was an unlikely hero.
Born without part of his right foot, he wore an orthopedic shoe and kicked for the New Orleans Saints — an expansion team that won just 12 games in its first four years.
Of course, if Dempsey played for a better team he probably wouldn't have made NFL history with a 63-yard, game-winning field goal — a record that stands 25 years later.
"It's a desperation play, not something a team is going to try too often," Dempsey said. "It would have to be the last play of the half or the last play for the game, probably the last play of the game. No one would risk it otherwise."
It was certainly a desperation play when the Saints tried it.
On Nov. 8, 1970, New Orleans was trailing Detroit 17-16. Billy Kilner passed 17 yards to Al Dodd, who got to the Saints' 45-yard line
before he ran out of bounds to stop the clock with two seconds left.
"Nobody believed it when Dempsey ran out there," said Lawrence Webster, 68, who was at the game. "We had already started to leave and stopped on the stairs to watch it. Thank God. If we'd already been in the car, I'd have killed myself."
Lots of people claim to have seen the kick, everyone in New Orleans and maybe everyone in Louisiana, Dempsev lokes.
"I don't know where they were. It was the smallest crowd we'd had, there were only about 63,000 there at the start of the game, and a lot of them had left before I kicked," Dempsey said.
The Saints were 0-6-1 entering the game. Coach Tom Fears was fired the week before, and J.D. Roberts was coaching his first game.
Legend has it that Roberts started to send in the punting team but backfield coach Don Heinfrich, who has since died, sent on the kicking队 as the Lions players
began laughing.
"I didn't know how long it was," Dempsey said. "I knew we were behind the 50, but I didn't look to see how far. I didn't want to know."
Dempsey, who once kicked a 67-yarder in practice, knew he hit the ball well. But he wasn't sure it was good until the officials raised their arms and his teammates began jumping on him.
The kick broke the mark of 66 yards set by Baltimore's Bert Rechlarh in 1963, and the Saints won the game 19-17.
"It's like winning the Masters with a 390-yard hole-in-one on the last hole." Lions coach Joe Schmidt said.
Dempsey planned no celebration to commemorate the anniversary. The Saints honored him before Sunday's game against the St. Louis Rams.
"It's been a lot of fun, but it'll be broken someday." Dempsey said. "When the right kicker gets in the right situation, it'll go the way every other record goes."
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