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D-2 Tue.day.lune 21. 1994 SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER WW JuneJuly Russians EfflieKf tftsy rare ast NHJ.li-MIMIII, JuneJuly Sun I Mon 1 Tue Wed Thin Fri Sat A O11 CHI CJJL 15L COL COL i'i'tqc; 03 COL JLA JAjjA M0! (3a 0 (Z5 iO? MON NY NY NY PHI jPHI jPHL' 13 PHI I lo'JJ ImOnImON MON nHontt r-iRoad a Night L2.KTVU: Russia held its own through much of the first half, even though Sun I Mon I Tue I Wed I Thu i Fri Sat 20 5J TEX KC KC PET DET 30 0'L DET CAl CAL CAL B0S B0S BOS NY NY NY BAL BAl BAL MSi3 BAl 1oot BOS IBOS we did." The Russians were hurt by the loss of defender Viktor Onop-ko, said Radchenko. Onopko, who couldn't play because he was red-carded in his last game, would have been defending against Brazil's Romario, who roamed the field at will on Monday. Through a translator, Radchenko said teammate Vladislav Ternavski, assigned to Romario, "did not perform his task welL" Twice Ternavski was forced to tackle Romario to keep him from scoring. The first takedown, before the half, would've brought a red card in most matches, while the second led to a second-half penalty shot that gave Brazil its second goal Ternavski was at a disadvantage in experience, having only six caps awarded for international match competition compared to Romano's 53.

Inexperience was a problem for the Russians all around. Brazil had only one starter who has played in fewer than 30 international matches, while Russia had only one who has played in more. In order to compensate for his team's lack of experience and speed, Russian coach Pavel Sadyrin started five defenders, four midfielders and only one forward. "If you want to win against such a team as Brazil, you have to have more midfielders," he said. Sadyrin did not want to use the loss of Onopko or the decision to cut four top players from the team following a short-lived mutiny as an excuse.

But he alluded to those events by saying, 'Today the loss was more or less explainable," adding, "Under the present circumstances, (Brazil) was stronger." Through some convoluted counting system, Russia was given credit for 11 shots on goal, compared to Brazil's 17. In fact, Brazil sent more shots over the crossbar in the first half than Russia mustered all game. Radchenko's shot, stopped at the corner of the goal with 14:50 gone in the second half, was the closest the Russians came to a score all day. 4 vs 1 I Players point to inexperience as root of their troubles against Brazil By Edvint Beitiks OF THE EXAMtCR STAFF STANFORD If Brazil plays no better than it did Monday at Stanford Stadium, it won't win the World Cup, said Russia's Stanislav Cherchesov. But Brazil's effort was good enough to dominate a short handed Russian team, 2-0.

Cherchesov, Russia's backup goalie, said, "I think if (Brazil) plays in the same manner as they did today, they will not be champions." But teammate Oleg Salenko pointed out that Brazil was "controlling the ball, controlling the situation, all afternoon." Midfielder Dimitri Radchenko added, "Brazil changed from attack to defense much better than BRAZIL from Romario strikes goal in victory Brazilian forward Bebeto's looping corner kick and stabbed it home past star Russian goalkeeper Dmitry Kharin from in front of the net. Kharin could only admire the move. "We had a chance to stop it, but because Romario is a Brazilian he went for one corner of the goal. A European would have gone for the other corner. He's a great footballer." Not long after his score, Romario was mugged there is no other word in the Russian penalty area by Ternavski, which could well have earned the defender a red card and automatic ejection from the game.

But the referee let it go, Ternavski wasnt so fortunate in the second half, when Romario again was dragged down in the penalty area, this time after beating two Russians. That foul resulted in a penalty kick, which Brazilian midfielder and captain Rai took in the 53rd minute, calmly pushing a strike past Kharin. RATTO from D-l Beat goes as it was composed should have been. "I had no doubt we would not be at our absolute best for this game," Brazilian coach Carlos Alberto Parreira said. "(But) in spite of it being just two-nil, the dominance of Brazil was quite big." Indeed, the Bay Area's first-ever World Cup match ended as more of a demonstration of what we already knew that Brazil is 100 Financing Available Immediate Results Self-Improvement Self Confidence Totally Natural! No Implant! Most Patients will double in size.

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Roscnstein offers a FREE 20 MIN. CONSULTATION fcsjE2CsitTK, Mi? Ivstttvti Cdsmric Slight Call (413) 832-1002 wen Brazil'! Bebeto gets mad at himself to do better against the Cup's stronger teams to keep advancing. But when it comes down to it, they may well have a crucial edge it was being outshot 7-1 at one point A corner kick in the 27th minute led to Brazil's first score as Romario knocked the ball past goalkeeper Dmitri Kharin. Commenting on Brazil's for wards, Kharin said, "Romario and Bebeto are ordinary people, as we are, which was visible throughout the game. Unfortunately, they are also stronger.

That, too, was visible throughout the game." Brazilian coach Carlos Alberto Parreira said the Russian team "has three or four very good players. I think they can qualify (for the second round). "Defending with 10 men, they really did everything possible to make life miserable for Brazil But Brazil did everything possible to make sure that strategy did not work." The Russians next play Sweden, on Friday in Detroit EXAMfCR'JOHN STOHfcV for missing a shot in the first half. up front "If we had strikers like Bebeto and Romario," Russia's Sadyrin said, "maybe we could have won." no problem with any of them," Parreira said, noting the fairly obvious. "He (Ternavski) did not perform his task well," said midfielder Dmitri Radchenko of the man assigned to hang with Romario.

"But we get (Viktor) Onopko (who missed Monday's game because of a red-card suspension) for the next game." That would be against Sweden Friday in Pontiac, and presumably the Russians will see a few more friendly faces. They had barely more fans in the stadium than players on the pitch, and in all ways this was a Brazilian home game. "The atmosphere was very completely a Brazilian ambience," Parreira said. "We felt as though we were home all the time." TRUE, the crowd was not the utterly raucous, can't-hear-yourself-fish-for-your-car-keys din that we come to expect from the Brazilians, but Stanford Stadium is not an acoustically friendly place, and besides, as one Brazilian official said, the fans here are the rich. The working-class yobs who make the noise and supply the nation's soccer angst are home, watching on TV and, well, making noise and supplying the angst In all, this was what it was billed to be, nothing more and nothing less.

Brazil performed as expected, and if the grading curve gets harder Friday here against Cameroon, well, the days between now and then will be relatively peaceful ones for the potentially edgy favorites. Every day without a whole country on your back is, after all, to be Horn pi Road Night (4, KRON 'garnet1 garnet garnet "hoador C. In tha Bay Area TUESDAY Major league baseball A vs. Kansas City, Oakland Coliseum, 7.05 p.m. Summer basketball S.F.

Bay Area Pro-Am League: San Mateo vs. Bay Raiders, Potrero Hi Recreation Center, 6 p.m. WEDNESDAY Major league baseball A va. Kansas City, Oakland Cokseum, 7:35 p.m. Summer basketball SF Bay Area Pro-Am League: Bay Pride vs.

East Bay, Potrero HI Recreation Center, 8 p.m, THURSDAY Major league batebtll A vs. Kansas City, Oakland Coliseum, 1:05 p.m. (loHowing exhibition game between Colorado Silver Bullets and Oakland Oaks, 10.30 am). Horse racing Thoroughbreds, Golden Gate Fields, Albany, Post time: 1 p.m. Roller hockey Oakland vs.

Los Angeles, Oakland Coliseum Arena, 7:35 p.m. Summer basketball SF. Bay Area Pro-Am League: Dream Team vs. Oakland Believers, Kezar Pavion, 8 p.m FRIDAY Soccer World Cup, frst round: Brad vs. Cameroon, Stanford Stadium, 1:05 p.m.

Major league baseball A's vs. Detroit, Oakland Coliseum, 7:05 m. Horse racing Thoroughbreds, Golden Gate Fields, Albany. Post time: 4 m. SATURDAY Major league baseball A's vs.

Detroit, Oakland Coliseum, 1:05 m. Horse racing Thoroughbreds, Golden Gate Fields, Albany. Post time: 1 p.m. Roller hockey Oakland vs. Sacramento, Oakland Coliseum Arena, 7:35 p.m.

"Ih' proposed moving the Jan. 1 game from its longtime downtown Dallas home to suburban Texas Stadium, the bowl association's president said. Kansas State quarterback Chad May has been arrested in Manhattan, for driving under the influence. HOCKEY After spending most of his adult life playing for or coaching with Al Arbour, Lorn Hennlng succeeded his former boss as coach of the New York Islanders. Arbour retired after last season his sixth in his second stint as the team's head coach.

Henning, 41, becomes only the fifth coach in the franchise's 22-year history, and Arbour has been behind the bench for 19 of those seasons. BASKETBALL Stanford, the nation's No. 2 women's team according to a very early preseason poll, will compete with Tennessee, Purdue and Louisiana Tech in the second annual women's basketball Hall of Fame Tipoff Classic in Jackson, beginning Nov. 19. The Cardinal will oppose Purdue in the first round.

Riordan High's most successful basketball alumnus, Kevin Res tanl was named the San Francisco school's new varsity coach, succeeding athletic director Ron Isola. The NBA Board of Governors voted 25-1 with one abstention Tuesday to reject the sale of the Minnesota Timberwolves to a group that planned to move the team to New Orleans. The board followed the recommendation of the league's relocation committee, which decided last week that the proposal by Top Rank of Louisiana was inadequately financed. GlanU-Culver line MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL Favorite Odds Underdog Tuesday NATIONAL LEAGUE CWONNATU Giants aonrx. PITTSBURGH.

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Soccer World Cup: Germany vi. Span (ESPN, 14-Spamsh) 1p.m. Batebtll Gante vi. Cincinnati, 4:30 p.m. Soccer World Cup: Nigeria Bulgaria, (14-Sparwh) 4:30 p.m.

Bateball New York v. Atlanta, (TBS) 4:38 p.m. Baseball A vs. Kansas City, (SC) 7 PJIL Boxing Sharmba Mtchei v. Steve Johnson, 9 p.m.

Soccer Work) Cup: Nigeria vs. Bulgaria, tape delay, (ESPN) 9:30 p.m. RADIO TUESDAY Baseball Giants Cncmnati, KNBfl (680) 4:30 p.m. Baseball A's va Kansas City, KFRC (610) KNTA 1430-Spanish) 7 p.m. TELEVISION WEDNESDAY Tennla Wimbledon, (HBO) 6 a.m.

Soccer World Cup: Romania vs. Switzerland, (ESPN, 14-Spamsh) 1 p.m. Soccer World Cup: United States vs. Colombia, (ESPN, 14-Spamsh) 4:30 p.m. Baseball New York vs.

Atlanta, (TBS) 4:35 p.m. Basketball NBA Crwmponshp: New York vs. Houston, (4, 3, 8) 0 p.m. Baseball Seattle va. California, (ESPN) 7:30 p.m.

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Houston, joined in progress following Giants baseball, KNBR (680) 8 p.m. jf I'fili tU' ASU football reprimanded for violations FROM EXAMINER 8TAFF AND WIRE REPORTS THE PAC 10 announced Monday it was placing Arizona State's football program on probation for a year for recruiting violations, including making too many telephone calls. Athletic director Charles Harris called the decision "fair and reasonable," and said the school "will take the appropriate steps to cor rect those things we have done wrong." During the one-year probation, Arizona State and head coach Brnc Snyder have aereed to sub- mit to a compliance review. The conference said ASU has reprimanded its football coachim? staff and forbidden coaches from telephoning recruits or their parents from July 1 throueh Julv 21. the first three weeks such calls are allowed during the 1994-95 football recruiting season.

Washington State, already on probation for breaking NCAA scholarship rules, had two years added to its probationary period for letting ineligible athletes play, the Pac-10 said. As a result, the university will remain on probation until June 1997. The school said it reassigned BobM Bonace, director of compliance and eligibility, after the conference claimed she knowingly certified a football player as eligible even though she knew he failed to meet the NCAA's satisfactory, progress rule. The athlete played in eight games in the 1992 football season. Defensive lineman Jerry Ball, a three-time Pro Bowler, signed with the Los Angeles Raiders on Tuesday.

Ball played six seasons with the Detroit Lions before being traded to the Cleveland Browns last season. The Philadelphia Eagles resigned running back Vaughn Mt-brtMl and signed rookie draft picks Marvin Coodwln and Ryan McCoy. Hebron, signed last year as a rookie from Virginia Tech, led the Eagles with three rushing touchdowns and finished with 297 yards on 84 carries, a 3.3 average. Cotton Bowl officials have CORRECTION Sunday's Examiner listed incorrect starting times for Thursday's baseball pameg at the Oakland Coliseum. The all-female Colorado Silver Bullets play the Oakland Oaks at 10:30 a.m.

The A's will play the Kansas City Royals at the new time of 1.05 p.m. That game had been scheduled for 1115 p.m. Rai saw his boot as the turning point "It was the decisive moment in the match," said Rai. "If I can convert that shot, it takes all the emotion out of the Russians." Maybe. But it didn't look as if the Russians vastly inexperienced in international competition and playing in their first World Cup since the breakup of the Soviet Union had much emotion earlier.

From the start, they also appeared to have very little chance against a Brazilian squad that is seeking a fourth World Cup title. The score might well have been 5-0 or 6-0, if Brazil had converted several good chances. Russian coach Pavel Sadyrin realized he was overmatched and quickly went with one forward, four midfielders and five defenders. Sometimes it looked like 10 defenders, as Russia packed in around Kharin. That obviously didnt do much for the Russians' scoring potential.

"They defensed us en masse," Parreira said. "But we didn't let ourselves fall into the ploy of the Russians' counterattacking. We defended them well, and we tried to keep the ball going." The Brazilians clearly will need far and away better than Russia, and pretty fun to watch as well than what we didn't exactly how good Brazil has to be to win the big salt shaker. Indeed, to ask that Brazil Bhow the full depth and breadth of its game against a team that essentially allowed it free run of one half of the field would have been to ask too much. The first round is about winning, about getting three points in the bank and moving on.

This, they did. They also won by a wide enough margin that the hypercritical Brazilian fans who filled all but perhaps 50 of the 81,061 bench seaU at Stanford Stadium and cheered every Brazilian but Parreira had little to grouse about as they collected their instruments and left the building. BASICALLY, they met the difficult standard, and can move on to Friday'g match here against Cameroon without having to drop harmful phrases like, "We should have done better," or "We are unhap- BHAZIL 1 CAMtROON (Cm 1 Hound IS if. $9041201 7S K'NOSWAY TRAVEL l3 mwi lit, tm jam (408) 878 6929 (408) 978-0930 1 11 i 19 I py with our play." Having the best players on the field always makes those nit-picky complaints about efficiency and style seem, well, nit-picky. And make no mistake, in the dynamic conjurers Romario and Bebeto, the Brazilians had the best players.

The Russians tried to mark them both tightly, but they shook loose with regularity, and it took less than a half-hour for them to combine on the driving of the nail. It was a simple thing, really, but mostly the reward of repetition. The Brazilians needed about five minutes to explain to the Russians how the game was going to be played have the ball, and you don't, and with the exception of one hard 6hot by Sergei Yuran in the 15th minute, smothered easily enough by Brazilian goalkeeper Claudio (Dont Call Me Claudio) Taffarel, the Russians seemed to agree. Thus, after a series of near-misses and corner kicks, Bebeto and Romario finally combined on Brazil's fourth corner with a nifty bit of work for the first goal Bebeto offered the ball to Romario's left foot about 10 yards from goal, and having shaken the persistent but under-clubbed Russian defender Vladimir Ternavski, Romario was free to deliver the goods, hard and low into the right corner of the net, at 26: 11. THE REST of the game stayed in this vein, and though the Russians might have had the territorial edge in the second half, after Rai converted from the penalty spot at 52:5 1 (a desperate Ternavski hauled down Romario in the box as he was breaking toward goal), that advantage was irrelev ant "Any Russians on Romario or Bebeto, well, they had absolutely I 4.