Path: bloom-picayune.mit.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!news.media.mit.edu!americast.com!americast.com!usa-post Newsgroups: usa-today.sports From: usa-post@AmeriCast.Com Organization: American Cybercasting Approved: usa-post@AmeriCast.com Subject: sports Wed, Jul 15 1992 Date: Wed, 15 Jul 92 05:08:08 EDT Message-ID: 07-15 0000 DECISIONLINE: Sports USA TODAY Update July 15, 1992 Source: USA TODAY:Gannett National Information Network AL WINS 5TH STRAIGHT: The American League was not content to win the All-Star Game for the fifth straight time Tuesday. It won 13-6, a record-bashing massacre. The AL set records for hits (19)and tied the record for runs. Will Clark's three-run, eighth-inning homer kept the AL from matching a record for margin of victory. National League starter Tom Glavine allowed four runs in the first inning for the loss. GRIFFEY JR. LEADS OFFENSE: MVP Ken Griffey Jr. led the American League, which won Tuesday's All-Star game 13-6, in its offensive attack with an RBI single, home run and double in his three at-bats. Griffey Jr., 22, is 5-for-8 in three All-Star Games. Ruben Sierra also homered for the AL and even pitcher Charles Nagy singled. The blowout was the biggest since the AL's 13-3 roll in 1983. DREAM HOCKEY TEAM MAY FOLLOW: Taking his cue from the U.S. Olympicbasketball Dream Team, acting NHL President Gil Stein said Tuesday that allowing superstars like Wayne Gretzky, Mario Lemieux and Brett Hull to represent Canada and the USA in the Winter Olympics could help the league attract a U.S. network television contract. LINDROS SIGNS WITH FLYERS: Junior hockey sensation Eric Lindros agreed to terms with Tuesday the Philadelphia Flyers. A news conference is set for Wednesday morning to introduce Lindros, who reportedly will earn more than $2 million a year - making him one of the NHL's highest-paid players. BECKER UPSET AT MERCEDES OPEN: Three months ago, Olivier Delaitre spoiled Bjorn Borg's comeback on clay. Tuesday, the Frenchman sidetracked Boris Becker's Olympic plans with a 6-3, 6-4 upset. It's back to the drawing board for Becker on clay after the second-round loss at the Mercedes Open at Stuttgart, Germany. Becker was playing his first tournament since losing to champion Andre Agassi in the Wimbledon semifinals. U.S. OPEN RAISES PRIZE MONEY: The U.S. Open tennis tournament has increased its prize money 18%, from $7,250,000 to $8,556,600 for this year's tournament, which runs from Aug. 31-Sept. 13. The men's and women's singles champions will earn $500,000 each. NO DECISION MADE IN HEARING: A hearing on a tampering charge against the New York Knicks by the Washington Bullets regarding the signing of free agent Harvey Grant will reconvene Wednesday. No decision was reached Tuesday, the opening day. The Bullets have accused the Knicks of being overzealous in pursuing Grant, saying they made contact with the free agent forward before July 1 in violation of NBA rules. JETS SIGN NEBRASKA'S MITCHELL: Ready to launch training camp Wednesday, the New York Jets have a new tight end but lack their veteran quarterback. Johnny Mitchell, the Jets' No. 1 draft pick from the University of Nebraska, agreed to terms Tuesday. Mitchell, 6-3, 253 pounds, left Nebraska after two seasons and was the 15th player picked. Quarterback Ken O'Brien is one of three unsigned Jets veterans. WILSON TRIES OUT WITH FALCONS: Free agent quarterback Wade Wilson, cut by the Minnesota Vikings last week, is trying out in Atlanta. Wilson, 33, threw in passing drills and took a physical exam Monday, then was back on the field Tuesday. He was to earn $1.2 million with the Vikings this season but said he verbally agreed to a salary cut of about 25% last Tuesday, hours before being waived. ROSENBACH BACK WITH PHOENIX: Quarterback Timm Rosenbach, who missed the 1991 season because of major right knee surgery and missed most of last season, can go full speed when the Phoenix Cardinals open camp Sunday in Flagstaff, Ariz. General manager Larry Wilson said Rosenbach is returning three weeks earlier than expected. LINO STILL LEADS TOUR: Jean-Paul Van Poppel of the Netherlands outclassed his fellow sprinters in the first mass finish of the 1992 Tour de France to win the 135-mile 10th stage Tuesday. France's Pascal Lino held his overall lead for the seventh day - 1 minute, 27 seconds ahead of Spain's Miguel Indurain and Greg LeMond remained in fifth place overall, 4:27 off the pace. WBL CONSIDERS CHANGES: Hoping to put the unexpected folding of two teams earlier this season behind it, the World Basketball League, which holds its fifth annual all-star game Wednesday in Youngstown, Ohio, is fighting to ensure its long-range future. Future plans for the WBL include eliminating plans for foreign divisions and possible changes in the height rule that restricts those over 6-foot-7. AUSTRALIANS BRING THE BEER: Barcelona Olympics officials had advertised an alcohol-free athletes' village. That was before the Australian yachtsmen checked into the housing complex last weekend. The Australians, among the first to arrive of the more than 14,000 athletes and officials staying in the village, brought their own beer. After a bit of wrangling with security, they were permitted to keep it. MULLINS REMEMBERED AT UMISS: The memory of Chucky Mullins lives on for coach Billy Brewer and his University of Mississippi football team. Mullins, who would have been a senior defensive back this year, died in May 1991 of respiratory complications about 18 months after he was paralyzed while making a tackle in a 1989 home game against Vanderbilt. 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