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2D DETROIT FREE PRESSTUESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1990 mm- i Curry Kentucky football coach; baseball Hall results tonight sion is scheduled to hold a special session Wednesday to consider approval of a proposed deal to keep the Raiders in Los Angeles by giving them a new Coliseum to play in and $60 million in cash over the next 10 years. HORSE RACING: Rhythm, a leading candidate to win the 1990 Kentucky Derby, is the champion two-year-old colt of 1989. Sunday Silence, who won the Derby and also beat Easy Goer in the Preakness and Breeders' Cup Classic, won the three-year-old colt title in Eclipse Award voting and is expected to be named Horse of the Year Jan. 27. SKIING: Austrian Petra Kronberger won her third World Cup race of the season by capturing the women's giant slalom at Hinterstoder, Austria.

Kronberger's total time was 2 minutes, 21.44 seconds. panella, 68, remains in serious but stable condition. NFL University of Houston coach Jack Pardee and Denver Broncos defensive coordinator Phillips, whose names have been mentioned as candidates to became head coach of the Houston Oilers, said they will listen to offers. The Oilers fired coach Jerry Glanville Saturday. Phillips began his coaching career under his father, Bum, and was offered the defensive coordinator's job when Bum was fired by the Oilers in 1980.

The younger Phillips resigned, however, and worked in New Orleans and Philadelphia before going to Denver. Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley announced the formation of a team of business and community leaders to keep the Raiders in Los Angeles or to lure another professional football team if the Raiders move out. The Coliseum Commis named to Hall of Fame tonight. Results will be announced at 11. Other strong candidates include former Tiger Jim Bunning, Gaylord Perry and Ferguson Jenkms, all pitchers.

Former Tiger Darrell Evans, 42, a first baseman and pinch hitter, agreed to a minor league contract with the Atlanta Braves. He hit .207 with 1 1 homers and 39 RBIs in 276 at-bats with Atlanta last season. Doug Jones and the Cleveland Indians started the salary arbitration season. The reliever, who saved 32 games in 1989, asked for $1.15 million $200,000 more than the Indians' offer. He made $400,000 in '89.

Outfielder Carmen Castillo re-signed with the Minnesota Twins for $1.15 million spanning two years. Hall of Fame catcher Roy Campanella, hospitalized in Northridge, since late last month because of respiratory difficulty and complications associated with diabetes, is improving. Cam tially because he was 0-3 against rival Auburn. Former Phoenix Cardinals coach Gene Stall-ings said he's interested in Curry's old job at Alabama. MORE COLIEGE FOOTBALL Marshall University's George Chaump, who has never had a losing season in eight years of college coaching, was named the Naval Academy's head coach.

Chaump, 53, has coached Marshall the past four seasons, going 33-16-1. He'll replace Elliot Uzelac, who was fired by Navy last month. Navy, which hasn't had a winning season since the Middies went 6-5 in 1982, was 3-8 this past season. Former Lions and MSU coach Darryl Rogers was a candidate for the Navy job. BASEBALL Longtime Baltimore Orioles ace Jim Palmer and two-time National league most valuable player Joe Morgan are expected to be The University of Kentucky Athletics Association's Board of Directors Monday night approved the hiring of former Alabama coach Bill Curry as the frmrfmKttfrm school's football Tj jl iv Hi wj'f 1 1 coach- yiiiumyj)iiy Curry, 47, ataBI signed as Alabama coach Sunday, six days after guiding the Crimson Tide to a 10-2 record and a 33-25 loss to the national champion Miami Hurricanes in the Sugar Bowl.

He succeeded Jerry Claiborne, who retired Nov. 28. Curry was given a five-year contract with a base salary of $105,000 per year. Curry was 26-10 in three seasons at Alabama, including a share of the Southeastern Conference title this past season that earned him SEC Coach of the Year honors. But some Alabama fans never fully accepted Curry at the helm of their cherished football program, par il i 1 scholarship Stricken recruit gets KU Free Press Wire Reports MSU's Langeloh bound for trial BY m.l.

elkick Free Press Special Writer EAST LANSING Michigan State University placekick- er John Langeloh and a friend urprA hrtnnrl fnr trint Mnn- I I day on felony charges in con- Jtj nection with a party at Lange- Detroit soccer team to roll as Rockers A kid named Boqmer helped name Detroit's new soccer team the Rockers. Mike Skolnik, 9, of Livonia, one of who entered that nickname for Detroit's fledgling American Indoor Soccer Association franchise, won a name-the-team contest in a random drawing. Skolnik, nicknamed Boomer by teammates on the Livonia Jets youth soccer team, entered "Rockers" after considering all of his favorite things. "I thought of that song that goes: 'We will, we will, rock said Skolnik, a fourth-grader at John F. Kennedy Elementary School.

"And one of my favorite World Wrestling Federation teams is called the Rockers. Besides, Detroit is the home of rock 'n' roll. "I think the soccer team will be tough like the wrestlers are. My friends said it was cool, and my teacher told everybody about it." More than 1,000 names were submitted to team owners and management for approval. As the grand prize winner, Skolnik will receive two season tickets to the Rockers' 1990-91 season, plus VIP tickets to the AISA All-Star Game at Joe Louis Arena, with dinner, and limousine transportation.

"I never rode in a limo before," Skolnik said. "And my whole team's going with me to the Ail-Star Game." The game, matching the AISA All-Stars against the Soviet Red Army team, will be Jan. 20. The Rockers begin play in November. For more information, call 567-7474.

By Scott Walton Sportspeak Cincinnati Reds owner Marge Schott, after signing outfielder Eric Davis to a three-year contract that calls for $9.3 million in base salary, plus incentives that could make him baseball's highest-paid player: "He better be good." KANSAS CITY, Mo. Christopher Lindley, the 17-year-old Kansas basketball recruit whose right foot was amputated Sunday, will receive an academic scholarship to the 4 university. Lindley remained in serious condition Monday in intensive care at Truman Medical Center. He was injured Saturday night when he tried to jump aboard a moving train but fell, and the train ran over him. His left foot also was injured.

"The University of Kansas will provide Chris Lindley with a scholarship," university Chancellor Dr. Gene Budig said. "We want him as a student on the Lawrence campus. He is a fine young person. Nothing is more important than education, and we want Chris to have access to a first-class academic program.

"KU stands behind him at this difficult time." Lindley, a 6-foot-9 senior who averages 21 points, would have played tonight for the Raytown South High Cardinals (11-0) against Lee's Summit. The game was postponed until Feb. 1. Lindley signed a letter of intent in November to play for the Jayhawks next season. Raytown South coach Bud Lathrop said it would have been difficult to play the game.

"This gives us some time to clear things up and just try to go on," he said. "I think I could coach', but I don't know if my heart would be in it." Kansas coach Roy Williams said Monday that Lindley' "was a great, great, prospect (and is) a great kid. I think that's the thing that will be extremely important to him. When Chris Lindley signed that national letter of intent, he joined my family. He's always going to be part of the Kansas basketball family.

"It's something that you never dream of happening." Sgt. Pete Edlund of the Kansas City Police Department said Lindley and two friends were trying to jump aboard the slowly moving train, but Lindley "fell and tripped and the train ran over him." His friends were not injured. JAYHAWKS HIT NO. 1: Kansas completed its spectacular rise from oblivion by reclaiming the No. 1 spot in the polls it last held for five weeks in the 1956-57 season.

The Jayhawks (15-0), who began their Big Eight season Monday night at Nebraska, were unranked in the preseason polls; fourth in the Associated Press and second in United Press International after the first week; and second in both polls since. "I think the polls are vastly overrated at this time of the year," Williams said. "I think they mean more once they get into the conference race. At the same time, it means that people think that our kids have accomplished something this season; we're proud of that fact and we don't want to belittle that. Maybe it does say that our kids have accomplished something so far, but the best thing about our team is that they do understand that it is early in the season." Defending national champion Michigan (10-1), which played defending Big Ten champion Indiana on Monday night, moved from fifth to third in AP and from fifth to four th in UPI.

(Complete polls are on Page 5D.) NOTEBOOK: Abe Lemons, who is in his 34th year of coaching, said he knew it was time to retire "when I saw my team play." Lemons, known for his quick wit, will retire when his contract at Oklahoma City University expires in June. His career coaching record is 586-335. "I'm not gonna make 600 wins," Lemons said. "But you say six, and then you want seven. I'm not really doing that good a job.

I feel I've slipped. You need somebody who can tolerate a team making 28 turnovers and not mentioning it." Lemons started his coaching career with Oklahoma City in 1955 and stayed there for 18 years, taking the Chiefs to the NCAA Tournament six times and to the National Invitation Tournament twice. He then coached three years at Pan American before going to Texas for six years, coaching the Lpnghorns to the NIT championship in 1978, an NCAA appearance in 1979 and another NIT appearance in 1980. He returned to Oklahoma City in 1983. After two losing seasons, the Chiefs dropped into the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics.

They were undefeated in 1986-87 before losing in the NAIA Tournament. Last year's team was 12-14, the fifth losing year in Lemons' coaching career. Lemons said he would continue to work at basketball clinics and with his shoe contract. Otherwise, he said, "I'll be in the mall walking with the guys." Senior forwardcenter Patrick Elmore of The Citadel is the Southern Conference player of the week. He scored 53 points and hac 22 rebounds in two games.

Dominic Dumanclc, a 6-foot-1( freshman from Yugoslavia who is ineligible this season at Pitt unde Proposition 48, has four years of eligibility remaining, the NCAA ruled loh's house after MSU's homecoming game. East Lansing District Court Judge Jules Hanslovsky denied Langeloh's motion to dismiss the case. Langeloh, 22, and MSU graduate Paul Butland of Troy were bound over to Ingham County Circuit Court for Jan. 24 arraignment on two counts each of operating an establishment without a liquor license and selling alcohol without a liquor license. Butland is the older brother of Spartans punter Josh Butland.

1 Hanslovsky ruled that Butland took money for beer that was purchased by Langeloh. Langeloh's lawyers argued that the Oct. 21 gathering of 300 to 400 people at Langeloh's house was a party among friends, not a profit-making enterprise. The party was broken up by local and state police in riot gear. Several other students facing similar charges from that weekend accepted plea bargains from the prosecutor's office and pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges.

Langeloh and Butland refused to plea to a lesser offense. MAC PLAYER: Western Michigan guard Mark Brown, a senior from Hastings who totaled 71 points and 14 assists in three flames, is MidAmerican Conference player of the week. NAIA PLAYERS: St. Mary's College forward Joachim Jerlchow, a freshman exchange student from Denmark who totaled 34 points, 26 rebounds, 15 blocks in three games, and Concordia senior center Gretchen Krug of Carleton (totaling 34 points, 19 rebounds In two games) are NAIA District 23 players of the week. MIAA PLAYERS: Hope sophomore center Wade Gugirto of Midland who had 18 points and nine rebounds Saturday in a 91-83 win over Northwood Institute and Alma College senior center Stephanie Mills of Frankfort, who scored 20 points in Saturday's 57-46 win over Kalamazoo College, are Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association players of the week.

SPECIAL OLYMPICS: Oakland County Special Olympics is hosting an invitational ice skating competition Saturday at 6:30 p.m. at the Detroit Skating Club, 888 Denison Court in Bloomfield Hills. Volunteers who can skate are needed. Call Nancy Joseph, 674-4924. Spectators are welcome.

Dolphins' owner was tough, successful Kree Press Wire Reports MIAMI Joe Robbie is being remembered as a tough and proud man who withstood considerable criticism in a quarter-century as the owner of the Miami Dolphins. Sports today Television 3:30 p.m. rjM) CBA basketball: Quad City at Wichita Falls. 5:45 QFgD Harness racing from Northville. 7:15 tW) Red Wings Today.

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Chicago, 7:30 p.m., the Palace, Auburn Hills. Sold out. Oakland University vs. Concordia College, 7:30 p.m., Lepley Sports Center, Rochester. Plenty of tickets.

Call 370-3190. Hockey Red Wings vs. Minnesota, 7:35 p.m., Joe Louis Arena. Scattered $16 and $9, plus $16 standing-room tickets left. Call 567-6000.

Harness racing Northville Downs 1 1 races, 7:30 p.m., 301 S. Center St. Call Robbie, the only owner the history of the two-time Super Bowl champions, died Sunday at age 73 in a Miami area hospital. He is survived by his wife, Elizabeth, and nine children, three of whom are with the front office. His wife said control of the team will remain with the family.

The family requested that no information about his ailment be released, but Robbie had to use a respirator when attending the team's last home game Dec. 24. Funeral arrangements were 1 Joe Robbie EOS Ticket update Fight Night at the Palace Jan. 20, 7:30 p.m., the Palace. Auburn Hills.

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For information, 377-8600. SCOREUfiES pending. The family requested services be restricted to the family, close friends and Dolphin and stadium staff. Born July 7, 1916, in Sisseton, S.D., Robbie had been a successful trial lawyer before getting involved in football at age 49. He secured the Dolphins franchise in the American Football League in August 1965.

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