Path: bloom-picayune.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: Sat, 14 Nov 92 16:22:11 EST Message-ID: \SE D;SPORTS;SPORTS ROUNDUP \BY Steve Repsher \CR THE WASHINGTON TIMES S=NEW STORY Rockies win coin flip, will tell all Monday The coin flip that baseball fans have been waiting for, it turns out, has already been held. The National League announced yesterday that the coin toss was held Wednesday. The Colorado Rockies called "heads" and won the toss to determine whether they or the Florida Marlins get to pick first in the expansion draft. There's still an element of surprise left, however, because the Rockies plan to wait until 7 p.m. EST Monday to announce what they will do. Colorado can choose between picking first throughout the first round or picking first in the second and third rounds. The three-round draft will start at 2 p.m. Tuesday in New York. The NL had said that the coin flip would be held next Monday in New York. Instead, it was held Wednesday during the owners' meetings in Scottsdale, Ariz. * At least 10 clubs have contacted Ozzie Smith, a free agent after 11 years as the Cardinals' shortstop. But all in all, he would rather go back to St. Louis. "If he had his way, he'd already be signed with the Cardinals and be out enjoying things with his family," said Smith's agent, Debra Ehlmann. "But that hasn't happened so now we're just letting the free-agent process work." * Grady Little, manager of Atlanta's Class AA affiliate in Greenville, S.C., was promoted to the same position with the Braves' Class AAA club in Richmond. Little becomes International League team's third manager in three seasons. Phil Niekro managed Richmond in 1991 but elected not to return this year and was replaced by Chris Chambliss. The St. Louis Cardinals on Thursday named Chambliss as a hitting instructor. S=NEW STORY Golf Mike Standly, who did not win a tournament in his first two years on the PGA tour, moved into the lead at the halfway point of the Kapalua International in Kapalua, Hawaii, after a second-round 66. Standly's two-day total of 9-under 135 left him one shot ahead of Steve Pate, Davis Love III and defending champion Mike Hulbert. * Gibby Gilbert and Larry Laoretti shot a 5-under 67, the day's best score, as the United States won three of four matches from a Japanese team on the opening day of the Du Pont Cup matches for seniors in Kitaura, Japan. Gilbert and Laoretti beat Japan's Chin Seiha and Masaru Amano, who shot a 71 over the 6,817-yard Kitaura Golf Club course. S=NEW STORY Tennis Top-seeded Jim Courier came from behind to beat France's Guy Forget 6-7 (4-7), 6-4, 6-4 and reach the semifinals of the $1.11 million European Community Championship in Antwerp, Belgium. Courier next meets No. 6 Richard Krajicek, who saved a match point before downing third-seeded Petr Korda of Czechoslovakia 3-6, 6-1, 7-6 (9-7). Second-seeded Michael Chang scrambled in the backcourt to beat Michael Stich of Germany 6-3, 6-4 to join his fellow American in today's semifinals. Chang will play Australian Mark Woodforde. Woodforde beat Sweden's Magnus Larsson 6-0, 7-6 (7-2). * Marc Rosset of Switzerland upset top-seeded Karel Novacek of Czechoslovakia 6-4, 6-2 on a night of surprises in the Kremlin Cup in Moscow. The upset wave in the quarterfinals caught up two local favorites, two-time defending champion Andrei Cherkasov of Russia and 18-year-old Andrei Medvedev of the Ukraine. S=NEW STORY Short takes Rick Mast stole the thunder from the Winston Cup championship contenders and retiring star Richard Petty by winning his first career pole with the first-ever 180 mph lap at Atlanta Motor Speedway for tomorrow's NASCAR Hooters 500. The driver from Rockbridge Baths, Va., driving an Oldsmobile Cutlass, toured the 1.522-mile oval at 180.183, breaking the track record of 179.499 set by Rusty Wallace in November 1988. * Jockey Chris Antley was thrown heavily to the track by his mount, Koluctoo Jimmy Al, shortly after the start of the sixth race at Aqueduct in New York. Antley was taken to Long Island Jewish Hospital. A spokeswoman at the emergency room said Antley was conscious when he arrived and was being evaluated. * Earle Meadows, the gold medal winner in the pole vault at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, died of natural causes at his Fort Worth, Texas, home. 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