Path: bloom-picayune.mit.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!news.media.mit.edu!americast.com!usa-post Newsgroups: usa-today.sports From: usa-post@AmeriCast.Com Organization: American Cybercasting Approved: usa-post@AmeriCast.com Subject: sports Wed, Apr 29 1992 Date: Wed, 29 Apr 92 05:41:23 EDT Message-ID: 04-28 0000 DECISIONLINE: Sports USA TODAY Update April 29, 1992 Source: USA TODAY:Gannett National Information Network BLACKHAWKS WIN PLAYOFF SERIES: The Chicago Blackhawks won their Norris Division semifinal playoff series Tuesday and the Detroit Red Wings pulled even with the Minnesota North Stars in theirs. The Blackhawks won their best-of-seven series 4-2 with a 2-1 victory over the St. Louis Blues as Jeremy Roenick scored twice. The Red Wings tied their series at 3-3, beating the North Stars 1-0 in OT on a goal by Sergei Fedorov. CANUCKS FORCE GAME 7: The Vancouver Canucks forced Game 7 in their Smythe Division semifinal series with an 8-3 win Tuesday over the Edmonton Oilers. The Canucks will host Thursday's clincher. In the other Smythe semifinal, The Edmonton Oilers won their series with the Los Angeles Kings 4-2 with a 3-0 victory Tuesday. Bill Ranford stopped 26 shots for the Oilers. CONE CLOSE TO NO-HITTER: David Cone turned in a gem Tuesday night, pitching no-hit ball for 7 1:3 innings as the New York Mets beat the Houston Astros 4-0. Cone (2-1) struck out 11 and walked four en route to the win. In other NL games: Cincinnati 3, Pittsburgh 2; Atlanta 1, Chicago 0; San Diego 7, Philadelphia 6; St. Louis 2, Los Angeles 1, 10 ins.; San Francisco 2, Montreal 1, 10 ins. RANGERS BEAT YANKEES: Texas' Kevin Brown held the New York Yankees to two singles in eight innings before two relievers finished the ninth in the Rangers' 1-0 victory Tuesday. Brown (4-1) improved to 8-1 lifetime against the Yankees. In other AL games: Detroit 4, Seattle 1; California 9, Toronto 5; Oakland 3, Cleveland 1; Boston 6, Chicago 3; Kansas City 3, Milwaukee 2, 11 ins.; Baltimore 10, Minnesota 5. NETS WIN PLAYOFF GAME: The New Jersey Nets won their first playoff game since 1984, beating the Cleveland Cavaliers 109-104 Tuesday to force a fourth game in their best-of-five Eastern Conference playoff series. The Cavs, who lead 2-1, have not won a playoff series since 1976. In another East first-round series, the New York Knicks took a 2-1 lead on the Detroit Pistons with a 90-87 overtime win. CLIPPERS PULL AHEAD: In the Western Conference, the Los Angeles Clippers took a 2-1 lead in their best-of-five first-round series with a 98-88 win over the Utah Jazz Tuesday. In the other West first-round series, Seattle 129, Golden State 128. WOMEN'S TOURNEY TO EXPAND: The NCAA's women's basketball committee has approved expansion of the Division I women's tournament from 48 to 56 teams next season and hopes to make it a 64-team field - same as the men's - by 1994 or '95. The action is subject to the approval of the NCAA Executive Committee. CONNER MAKING COMEBACK: Three-time America's Cup champion Dennis Conner evened the defender final series at 4-4 Tuesday, guiding his Stars & Stripes to a 1-minute, 47-second win over America 3 off San Diego. Stars & Stripes once trailed 3-0 in the best-of-13 series. On the challenger side, Italy tied the best-of-nine series for foreign boats 3-3 with a 53-second win Tuesday over New Zealand. SAMPRAS, AGASSI WIN: Top seed Pete Sampras struggled to a 7-6 (7-3), 7-5 win over unseeded Marcelo Filippini of Uruguay in his first-round match in the $260,000 AT&T Challenge clay court tennis tournament in Roswell, Ga., Tuesday. Second seed Andre Agassi beat Sweden's Mikael Pernfors 7-5, 6-2 and seventh seed Jimmy Connors came from behind for a 7-6 (7-2), 6-4 win against Belgian Eduardo Masso. BELL UNHAPPY: Clark County (Nev.) District Attorney Rex Bell says he's unhappy that a grand jury might look into the role of the Nevada-Las Vegas' administration in the ouster of men's basketball coach Jerry Tarkanian. Author Don Yeager and Danny Tarkanian, an attorney and the coach's son, denied involvement in efforts to get a grand jury investigation. BOXING OVERSIGHT CALLED FOR: Sen. Bill Roth, R-Del., said Tuesday "there have been repeated allegations of corruption and organized crime in professional boxing over the years ... allegations of those influences still exist." Roth plans to introduce legislation for a national governing body for boxing in June. GOVERNMENT TO SELL CARDS: Federal agents in San Diego are selling 520,000 baseball cards from Topps and Donruss, appraised at $178,772, by auction in one lot. The cards were seized 18 months ago by narcotics agents investigating an El Cajon, Calif., businessman they believed was an intermediary for Colombian drug dealers. They also seized real estate worth $1 million, including the Sports Stop card shop. 24-HOUR TELEPHONE INFORMATION: USA TODAY Sports Hot Line. 95 cents a minute. 1-900-555-5555. Sports Editor: Jason P. Smith. (919-855-3491) Making copies of USA TODAY Update (Copyright, 1992) for further distribution violates federal law. This article is copyright 1992 Gannett News Service. Redistribution to other sites is not permitted except by arrangement with American Cybercasting Corporation. For more information, send-email to usa@AmeriCast.COM