Path: bloom-picayune.mit.edu!enterpoop.mit.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!americast.com!americast.com!americast-post Newsgroups: americast.twt.sports From: americast-post@AmeriCast.Com Organization: American Cybercasting Approved: americast-post@AmeriCast.com Subject: Headline Article Date: Tue, 24 Nov 92 14:12:10 EST Message-ID: Lines: 133 \SE D;SPORTS;SPORTS ROUNDUP \BY Michael Farine \CR THE WASHINGTON TIMES S=NEW STORY Lindros to miss a week with sprained left knee Rookie sensation Eric Lindros of the Philadelphia Flyers will be out for at least one week with a sprained left knee, the club said yesterday. Lindros, 19, was examined and treated yesterday afternoon by team physician Arthur Bartolozzi. A magnetic resonance imaging test confirmed the ligament sprain, Bartolozzi said. "It's no long-term injury," club spokesman Joe Klueg said. "He'll be out at least one week, possibly two weeks." Philadelphia coach Bill Dineen said Sunday the 6-foot-4 center could have been out for up to four weeks. Lindros was injured in the first period of Sunday night's 4-4 tie with the Buffalo Sabres. Just 1:40 into the game, Lindros and teammate Mark Recchi sandwiched Buffalo defenseman Petr Svoboda against the boards. Lindros landed awkwardly on his left knee and could not get up. Lindros, who needed help getting off the ice, was walking on his left leg within half an hour. S=NEW STORY Basketball Spurs coach Jerry Tarkanian suffered chest pains over the weekend and underwent hospital examinations in Houston and San Antonio. * Dennis Rodman was reinstated by the Detroit Pistons following a three-hour meeting with club officials. Rodman, the NBA's leading rebounder last season, had been suspended without pay since last Thursday because he refused to play. S=NEW STORY Colleges North Carolina tailback Natrone Means was the top vote-getter for the 1992 all-Atlantic Coast Conference team announced by The Associated Press. Means, a first-team member last season, got 96 first-place votes and seven second-place votes in balloting by the Atlantic Coast Sports Writers Association for a total of 199 points. The next closest challenger was Florida State linebacker Marvin Jones, who got 192 points on 92 first-place votes. Maryland's Marcus Badgett was a first-team selection at wide receiver and Mike Jarmolowich was a first-team selection at linebacker. (Complete list, D6) * A North Carolina State basketball player was found dead in his dormitory room last night. Police said he died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Anthony Robinson, a 6-foot-9 junior forward from Havelock, N.C., was found dead after he failed to show up for an exhibition game against Brandt-Hagen. * Temple named Clemson defensive coordinator Ron Dickerson its head football coach, giving Division I-A its only black head coach. * Colorado State football coach Earle Bruce was fired for creating what the school said was a climate of "intimidation and fear." The 62-year-old Bruce, fired by Ohio State in 1987, had two years left on his contract. He refused to quit Sunday during a meeting with university president Albert Yates, and Bruce said he intended to fight for his job. * Buddy Nix, the dean of Southern Conference football coaches this season, was fired by Tennessee-Chattanooga. * Mike Brasseur, a right-handed pitcher from Robinson High School, has signed a letter of intent to play baseball at George Mason, Patriots coach Bill Brown announced. * Suspended senior Carlus Groves was dismissed from the Tennessee basketball team, coach Wade Houston said. Groves, the team's No. 2 scorer last season, missed the Volunteers' first two games for violating team rules. S=NEW STORY Horse racing Bret Hanover, who retired as the richest and fastest harness racing horse of all time, died in Lexington, Ky., over the weekend at age 30. He had been suffering from colic and was humanely destroyed Saturday night at Castleton Farm, where he had stood at stud. Bret Hanover won 62 of 68 races and $922,616 during his career from 1964-66. S=NEW STORY Jurisprudence Former major league pitcher Dick Drago was arraigned on charges of failing to pay $35,000 in child support. Drago, 47, who lives in Fort Myers, Fla., offered no explanation for the late payments during his court appearance in Haverhill (Mass.) District Court. But his lawyer, Ann Randazzo, said the amount owed was closer to $1,500. Drago was brought to Massachusetts this weekend on a fugitive from justice warrant issued by the state department of revenue. Maryann DiNatale, an Essex County assistant district attorney, said Drago collects about $37,000 a year from a baseball pension. But his ex-wife, Carol Castiello, of Boxford, said, "over the years, it's been one excuse after another - 'I can't afford it. I can't afford it.' " S=NEW STORY Motorsports A reluctant A.J. Foyt again hinted that the end of his racing career may be at hand. But as in the past, he couldn't quite bring himself to rule out one more try at the Indianapolis 500. The four-time Indy winner, still walking with a limp from serious injuries that have limited his racing schedule the past two years, named young Robby Gordon as his team driver for the 1993 IndyCar series, including Indianapolis. "I'd prefer to answer that question later," he said of an official announcement of his retirement as a driver. This article is copyright 1992 The Washington Times. Redistribution to other sites is not permitted except by arrangement with American Cybercasting Corporation. For more information, send-email to usa@AmeriCast.COM