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2B Reno Gazette-Journal Tuesday, February 14, 1989 Hershiser, Clemens continue negotiating Daredevil McKinney might attempt to ski down Mount Everest Sports digest LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) Steve McKinney, who became the first person to hang glide off Mount Everest, said he might try a ski trip down the world's highest mountain if he could get the right financial incentive. "I haven't made up my mind on the thing yet," McKinney, brother of World Cup skiing star Tamara, said in an interview from Vail, Colo. "I don't know if I'm up for more misery or not. I may have had my quota." McKinney, who set five world speed skiing records betwen 1974 and 1983, performed his hang-gliding feat in 1986.

Later he made plans for a ski run down the mountain in Central Asia. But it never happened. On Oct. 6, 1987, McKinney was competing in the World Cup Speed Skiing Championships in Chile when a helicopter in which he and two other skiers were riding crashed and rolled over three times. McKinney was hurled through the bubble of the helicopter.

He suffered facial cuts requiring 120 stitches, multiple fractures of the right arm and a crushed right shoulder. Alpine Championships stars; Tomba the biggest bomb There was no movement Monday in the negotiations for pitchers Orel Hershiser and Roger Clemens, but three players agreed to one-year contracts, leaving 14 players in salary arbitration. Left-hander Sid Fernandez agreed to a one-year contract with the New York Mets for $795,000, a $215,000 raise; Jose DeLeon agreed to a one-year conract with the St. Louis Cardinals for $652,500, a $222,500 raise, and Pat Sheridan and the Detroit Tigers settled at $430,000, an $87,000 raise. Hershiser and the Dodgers are apart not only on money but on lockout language covering the 1990 season.

Los Angeles is offering $6.8 million over three years but will not guarantee that Hershiser will be paid if there is a lockout next year. Clemens and the Red Sox have not had substantive discussions in two weeks, since Clemens rejected $7 million over three years. Hershiser and Clemens are scheduled for arbitration hearings on Thursday. Fernandez was 12-10 for the Mets last season with a 3.03 ERA, but lost Game 5 of the National League playoffs to Los Angeles. DeLeon was 13-10 with a 3.67 ERA Sheridan batted .254 with 11 homers and 47 RBI.

Meanwhile, left-hander Tommy John accepted on Monday the New York Yankees' offer for a spring training tryout. John, 46 in May, will be paid $250,000 for coming to spring training and another $250,000 if he makes the team. "In the end it came down to my children," John said Monday. "I didn't want to uproot my family." John has 285 lifetime victories. College football Florida State University football star Deion Sanders received $800 in fines and six months probation Monday at Fort Myers, for grabbing a store clerk's blouse and striking a man in the Edison Mall on Christmas Eve.

Sanders, 21, pleaded no contest to two battery charges and one count of disorderly conduct. All three charges were misdemeanors. His plea came just hours after the Southwest Florida state attorney's office formally filed intent to prosecute the North Fort Myers High School superstar on three charges. Pro football Former Seattle wide receiver Sam McCullum was illegally discharged by the Seahawks when he was cut before the strike-marred 1982 season, the National Labor Relations Board ruled Monday. McCullum, then the Seahawks' player representative, must be given back pay, with interest, from the time of his release and a job "substantially equivalent" to the job he lost, the NLRB ruled in a 2-1 decision.

The board did not estimate what that amount would be. The team can appeal the NLRB ruling to the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. McCullum was a starting wide receiver when he was cut by then-coach Jack Patera. He is now 36 and retired as a player.

Fred Biletnikoff, a member of pro football's Hall of Fame, rejoined the Los Angeles Raiders Monday when he was hired as an assistant coach. Biletnikoff, who played with the then-Oakland Raiders for 14 years after being a second-round draft selection of the team in 1965, will be the team's wide receiver coach. The Raiders, who moved to Los Angeles in 1982, had winning seasons in each of Biletnikoff's 14 years with the team. A 6-foot-l, 190-pounder who attended Florida State, Biletnikoff has been an assistant coach with the Calgary Stam-peders of the Canadian Football League and in the now-defunct United States Football League for the past five years. Coach Tom Landry, stung by a 3-13 season and a last-place finish in 1988, hinted he might stay with the Dallas Cowboys into the next decade while announcing several changes on his staff on Monday.

Landry replaced defensive coordinator Ernie Stautner and pass coordinator Paul llackett. He hired George Hill as defensive coordinator and Jerry Rhome as quarterbacks coach. Landry said with the coaching changes he might stay on past next year. "I never said I wouldn't be around after next season," Landry said. "If I can find somebody (an owner) who wants me, then I might be available.

I told my new coaches this. "I have no intention of retiring unless it is forced upon me. I feel good. I survived the onslaught of last season." Stautner, the Cowboys' defensive coordinator for 20 years, was reassigned to work on special projects and will retire after the 1989 season, Landry said. Rhome, who was offensive coordinator for San Diego last season, replaces Hack-ett, who has been reassigned to work on special projects for the club.

Hill, who was fired after the 1988 season with the Indianapolis Colts, was defensive coordinator under coach Ron Meyer for four seasons. Stautner joined the Cowboys in 1966 as defensive line coach following two years as a player-coach. The San Diego Chargers gained two coaching assistants and lost one Monday with the hiring of Ted Tollner and Joe Madden and the departure of Rhome. Tollner, a former Southern Cal head coach who worked with receivers in Buffalo last year, will become the Chargers' quarterback coach, a club spokeswoman said. Madden, who used to work with newly appointed San Diego coach Dan Henning in Atlanta, will be responsible for the Chargers' special teams.

Henning was appointed last Thursday to succeed the fired Al Saunders as Chargers head coach. Auto racing Geoff Bodine, whose attempt to win the pole position for the Daytona 500 was ended by ignition problems, led second-day qualifying Monday. Bodine, the 1986 Daytona 500 winner, covered a lap around the 2.5-mile, high-banked oval at Daytona International Speeway at 193.528 mph. That lap puts Bodine seventh overall among 59 drivers who now have posted qualifying speeds in two sessions of qualifications for Sunday's $1.7 million race. Ken Schrader and Darrell Waltrip, Bodine's Hendrick Motorsports teammates, clinched the top two starting positions in the 500-mile event with the two fastest laps on Saturday.

Schrader's 196.997 gave him the pole position for the second straight year, while Waltrip turned a lap of 195.916. Rick Wilson was second-quickest Monday at 192.287, improving from the 189.402 he turned in Saturday. Larry Pearson, the son of former NASCAR star David Pearson, was next at 190.315, jumping from his previous qualifying lap of 188.233. Quotebook "He was determined to get dressed and get ready for the game. The sad thing is we probably could have used him." Charlotte forward Kelly Tripucka, about a man who walked into the Charlotte Hornets' locker room and tried to dress for a game.

The Hornets lost, No one has ever skied Mount Everest from the summit. "But I'm convinced it can be done," McKinney told the Lexington Herald-Leader. "You'd have to be roped up and ski it properly short, controlled turns. It's not a place to go fast. "And you'd need luck with the weather, a heavy snowfall for a good surface.

You couldn't do it on ice." McKinney said he might try the Mount Everest ski run later this year. "The problem is," he said, "I can't take a hard fall. There's not a lot of muscle holding my arm in the socket." McKinney said he suffered nerve damage in his right shoulder. But he added, "If you fall on Everest, it's curtains anyway." In his youthful days, McKinney once fell while skiing at 125 mph, got up and, on his next run, set a world's record at 131 mph. "But I can't do that anymore," he said.

"I'm 35 and I have a little boy to be taken care of." McKinney's son, Stefan, is 3V2 years old. and an embarrassed Carlo Valentino, president of the Italian Ski Federation, promised some changes. "The team must be rebuilt," Valentino said. "Tomba must be rebuilt like the rest of the team. He must mature and learn to defend himself against distractions.

The federation will keep him under control." Tomba began the season overweight and out of shape, his off-season interrupted by too many parties and commercial endeavors. Observed West Germany's Armin Bittner, "Maybe Tomba took it too easy. He was not aware of how much training the other skiers were doing. He had a great season last year, but he stayed at the same level over the summer while the other skiers improved. What happened to him is understandable." Tomba, 22, has complained of diminished concentration and lack of luck this season.

Already facing criticism at home from the media and his fans, he knows he must rebound in the remaining World Cup races. "After my disappointments here, the only thing left for me to do is to concentrate on the World Cup events that are left," Tomba said. The men have three races in Aspen this weekend and two races in Canada the fol- bunch of conservatives. This is a hometown team, and we feel that we are providing the community with a service that's needed." To ensure success, Pitts said he has hired Norman Palmer, a former minor league baseball player, to handle sales full-time for the broadcasts. "It's all he will work on," Pitts said.

"We want this to work." Todd Karli, the voice of Western New Mexico State University football, basketball and baseball, will be the team's play-by-play announcer. Karli is a USC graduate who did USC baseball radio broadcasts for two seasons. "He contacted me," Patton said of Karli, who will come to Reno in March to McKinney unveil new lowing week, before the season culminates in Japan in March. The women have two downhills at Canada's Lake Louise this weekend, two subsequent races in Steamboat Springs, and the Japan finale. Vail and Beaver Creek received high ratings for their staging of the championships, which saw Switzerland claim 11 total medals to Austria's six but both countries tie with three gold medals.

Nierlich, an emerging 22-year-old gate skier, was the only double gold-medalist, winning the giant slalom and slalom. "The whole organization was absolutely fabulous," said Serge Lang, one of the founders of the World Cup. Vail organizers were praised for their course preparation and event management. Crowds tended to be disappointing, however. "What we found is that people don't want to sit in the stands," said Bob Knous, president of the organizing committee.

"They preferred to buy a lift ticket and watch part of the race from the course. I think we need to educate the American public about ski racing. Still, once all our numbers come in, I think we will outdraw the Super Bowl crowd (of work in group sales and radio production. "I told him he could have the job if he was willing to sell, produce and raise money so the club wouldn't have to subsidize anything. I've listened to some of his tapes.

He sounds top-notch to me." Pitts said he is confident there will be an audience for the Sox's games. The Silver Sox open their season at home April 7 against the Modesto A's. "People here take pride in things locally," Pitts said. "That's why I'm confident this whole thing will work." Said Patton: "The fact that this is a Christian station doesn't bother me at all. It comes in clear all over town.

Maybe they can throw in a few prayers during the broadcasts. It certainly can't hurt." By John MossmanAP VAIL, Colo. The world's best skiers began leaving this posh Rocky Mountain resort on Monday, some with considerably more momentum than others as they plunge into the final leg of the World Cup season. The 1989 World Alpine Ski Championships made instant stars of Austrians Rudolf Nierlich and Ulrike Maier, West Germany's Hansjoerg Tauscher and Switzerland's Martin Hangl, while affirming the status of Vreni Schneider, Marc Girardelli, Pirmin Zurbriggen and Tamara McKinney. Italy's Alberto Tomba was the big loser.

After nine victories and two Olympic gold medals a year ago, "La Bomba" exploded in the faces of his fans and coaches, failing to win a world championship medal in a performance that mirrored a so-far disappointing World Cup season that has seen him win but one race. Moments after Tomba fell face-first in the first run of Sunday's final event the men's slalom the Italian head coach, Josef Messner, toppled with him. Messner announced his resignation under fire. Italy failed to win a world championship medal for the first time since 1970, Silver Sox From page 1B Pitts said the station's goal is to provide Reno with a service and in addition, to convince more male listeners to tune their dials to 1340-AM. During the fall, KRCV broadcast several Wooster High School football games.

"Our constituency of listeners is basically female," Pitts said. "You have to do things on purpose to get the men. This will give us the opportunity to draw listeners who might not necessarily relate to our station. "Hopefully, this will show people that people who listen to KRCV aren't just a Mancini From page 1B that's no spring chicken. No problem, says Mancini.

"You can be a young man and an old fighter," he said. "I don't consider myself a foolish person. I know I wouldn't come back if I thought I'd embarrass myself. He is also quick to point out that Camacho hasn't been in the ring much over the past few years. Since Mancini retired in 1985, Camacho has had only eight fights three in the last two years.

"People say I've been out four years," Mancini said. "How has he lived the last four years? He likes to live on the edge. How has he taken care of his body over the last four years? I think it will be a lot harder on him than it will on me." Few people doubt that the fight will take its toll on both fighters. After all, Mancini is famous for knock-down drag-out brawls. He thinks the key to success this time around is his attitude.

As for Camacho, Mancini said "his style is a sharp style. It depends on reflexes, timing and sharp shooting. You have to stay active to do that Active is one word that Mancini should have used to describe himself. With an acting career in Hollywood, it seems he has plenty to keep busy. In his own words, "acting is like going into training." He hopes to be in some world- class ring "I Boat' percent want do the the You've to to the Mancini talk After the visited patient people But "I said.

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Besides jumping rope song "Hollywood Nights," showed he has time to to his following, too. answering questions from media Monday, Mancini briefly with a handicapped named Richard as over 50 waited for autographs. he's not the Mr. Hollywood-type. like acting a lot," Mancini "It's a nice lifestyle.

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