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to the the a field. C2 TIMES-ADVOCATE, Escondido, Monday, November 28, 1988 Sportsgram Sportspeople Baseball The Pittsburgh Pirates today traded infielder Denny Gonzalez to the Cleveland Indians for a player to be named later. Gonzalez, 25, spent parts of four seasons with the Pirates, batting .200 in 90 games with four home runs and 17 runs batted in. He played third base, outfield, shortstop and second base. He played 75 games last season for the Pirates' Class AAA team in Buffalo, N.Y., where he batted .296 with eight home runs and 39 RBI.

He played 24 games with the Pirates last season. Gonzalez' spot on the Pirates' roster will be filled by pitcher Bob Walk, who agreed to a three-year contract on Saturday night, the team said. Basketball 8 Undermanned with Larry Bird sidelined for four months after foot surgery, the Boston Celtics are trying to lure 7-foot Stojko Vrankovic from Yugoslavia. Vrankovic said last month that he planned on remaining with his team in Yugoslavia this year, but might sign with the Celtics for the 1989-90 NBA season. "We're serious about it," General Manager Jan Volk said.

"We're definitely giving it a good effort." a Sheila Frost sank two free throws with 15 seconds left in overtime to lift No. 1 Tennessee over No. 6 Louisiana Tech 62-61 in the championship game of the Hawaii Wahine Classic. Louisiana Tech had an opportunity to win the game, but Pam Wells could not handle a pass under the basket from Sheila Ethridge and lost the ball out of bounds with one second remaining. Tennessee inbounded the ball as time expired.

Football Quarterback Mike Tomczak of the Chicago Bears suffered a separated left shoulder near the end of the first half of Sunday's game against the Green Bay Packers. Tomczak was making his fourth straight start in place of Jim McMahon, who is on the injured reserve list with a sprained knee. Tomczak was replaced by Chargers Continued from page C1 defensive tackle Mike Charles, lofted a pass down the right sideline, where Rice was five yards from the nearest Chargers defender, safety Martin Bayless. Rice caught the ball just outside the 40 and covered the remaining 55-plus yards without a Charger coming near him. "The only person to blame is myself," said Bayless, who admitted blowing the coverage.

According to defensive coordinator Ron Lynn, when the 49ers put man in motion, the Chargers were supposed to switch from a three-deep to a two-deep zone, with Bayless responsible for half of Bayless, however, missed adjustment and went to the middle third of the field. By the time he realized his mistake it was too late. Later in the half, after Mark Malone had scored the Chargers' only touchdown on a 36-yard run cut the 49ers' lead to 14-7, the defense again self-destructed. Montana passed 18 yards to Rice on third-and-14, then hit tight end John Frank for 38 yards as Pat Miller made a coverage mistake. Six plays later, on third-and-1 at the Charger 2, Montana escaped pressure from Keith Browner and shoveled a -handed pass to Roger Craig, who took it into the end zone for a 21-7 49ers lead.

The rout was on. "We were shooting ourselves in the foot," Lynn said, "and then once they got momentum going, we couldn't get it stopped. We got our butt kicked on the ground and in the air and everywhere that you possibly could. "It's a shame because I think as the game got started I thought we were playing well and doing what we wanted to do. Then we get the one foul-up and then the next one compounded the next one and so on.

"That was our biggest concern. I Gaines Continued from page C1 that shrine as early as 1993. And they'll undoubtedly mention the 3,297 completions for 13,040 yards and 254 touchdowns. Or the 51 career 300-yard passing the six 400-yard games, the games, 42 club records and the seven NFL records. Don't forget the three Straight AFC West Championships, the four straight playoff appearances or the six times at the Pro Bowl.

But, there will be other recollections of Fouts as well. Those long, pressure-packed drives with time running out when Fouts was simply unstoppable. They said he was a competitive leader and called it mental toughness. But how do you describe the touch on those perfectly placed passes? SportsQuiz What was the Denver Nuggets original nickname? For answer, see C5. SportsQuote Miami Heat Coach Ron Rothstein after Sunday's 109-80 loss at Cleveland in which his team scored 32 points in the first quarter and 48 the rest of the game: "It's obvious we haven't learned to play 48 minutes of top-level basketball yet." Jim Harbaugh.

Chicago Bears defensive end Richard Dent, who broke his ankle in Sunday's game against Green Bay, will be replaced by Sean Smith, a second-year player from Grambling. Dent will not need surgery, but he will be out at least six weeks. Coach Bruce Arians, long criticized for Temple's dismal football performance during his sixyear tenure, says he will not return to the Philadelphia school next fall. The report, on WCAU TV, came just 24 hours after Arians said he intended to finish the remaining year on his contract. According to the station, Arians says he has received other offers.

a Steve Miller, Kansas State athletic director, says he is "99.9" percent sure he will name a new football coach early this week. Meanwhile, speculation has centered on Charlie Bailey, although the Memphis State coach has publicly disavowed interest in the job. Golf Mark Calcavecchia shot a 3- under 69 to win the $297,500 Australian Open golf championship at Royal Sydney by six strokes over Mark McCumber. Calcavecchia finished with a four-round total of 269, 19-under-par, equaling Jack Newton's tournament course record, set in the 1976 New South Wales Open. It was the sec- ond-best winning total in an Aus- tralian Open behind South African Gary Player's 264 at Kooyonga in Adelaide in 1965.

I Larry Mize overcame a double bogey and shot a 73 to capture the $750,000 World Open Golf Tournament at Kaimoncho, Japan, by one stroke.Mize finished with a 4-under par 284 on the on the par-72 Kaimon course at the Ibusuki Golf Club in southern Japan. Auto racing Geoff Brabham overcame a one-lap deficit to drive his Nissan GTP to a victory in the inaugural GTE World Challenge, which matched some of the top drivers and cars from the IMSA series with those from the European Group sports car endurance series at Tampa, Fla. Brabham, who won nine of 15 races during the regular season to capture the IMSA GT series championship, led the final 61 laps around of the 117-lap, 222.3-mile race at the Florida State Fairgrounds. Tennis Henri Leconte of France edged Jakob Hlasek of Switzerland 7-6 (7-3), 7-6 (8-6), 6-4 in the championship match $490,000 Belgian Indoor Championships in Brussels. Leconte, ranked 13th in the world, won $74,500.

I Boris Becker rallied for a 6-7 (7-3), 6-3, 6-4 victory over Ivan Lendl in an exhibition before 4,500 fans at Boston Garden. Chris Evert beat Martina Navratilova 7-6, 7-5 on a slow surface in the Forum as part of the exhibition Challenge Series. Evert still trails in this long-standing series, 43-38. Miscellaneous Kirk Everist and Julian Bailey scored four goals apiece as top-seeded California beat second-seeded UCLA 14-11 to win its second straight NCAA water polo championship. The Golden Bears have won four of the last six NCAA titles and a total of eight.

A Pacific-10 Conference team has won the NCAA tournament 17 times in its 20-year existence. John Times Advocate Mike Charles can't stop Joe Montana from tossing 96-yard TD pass. think if you let those guys get their momentum going and get them into synch and they start feeling confident that they can do what they want to do, then they're a difficult team to stop because they've got a lot of weapons. It became just what we feared." The 49ers rolled up 475 yards, including 203 on the ground. Both were season highs against the Chargers this year.

Chief among the weapons was Montana, who completed 14 of 22 passes for 271 yards and three touchdowns in just under three quarters of work. Rice caught six of Without doubt, this man was a master of his trade. one of the greatest to ever play the a darn good third draft pick. Fouts will enter the Hall of Fame. For all those reasons and more.

For now, he is the 80th man to have his number retired by an NFL team and the only one by the Chargers. Fouts beamed as he ended his last journey across the stadium turf. He stood with his wife and two children as a thousand balloons were lifted to the heavens. He watched as a few splendid highlights from the days of Charger Power were flashed on Diamond Vision to the tune of Whitney Houston's "One Moment in For Fouts, this was one of the best moments. There were goose bumps all around.

Then the Chargers and 49ers re- Mike Tyson, center, is baptized Rev. Jesse Jackson says a few Will religion CLEVELAND (AP) After he was baptized by immersion at Holy Trinity Baptist Church, heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson said religion is going to change his life. Tyson was baptized Sunday in a ceremony attended by the Rev. Jesse Jackson, boxing promoter Don King, and a crowd of about 700 people at a Baptist church on Cleveland's east side. "I felt so clean, so pure and reborn, and I think (religion) is going to change my life Baptism is an unbelievable experience," Tyson said after the cere- The Associated Press by Rev.

Henry Payden, left, as words about the champ. change Tyson? service and final baptism, Tyson wore a long white robe as he sang and clapped his hands to gospel music. After two visits to the church earlier this fall, Tyson said he planned to buy a home in the Cleveland area. The modern, wood-beamed church, a former dairy that is undergoing a $1 million renovation, was so packed with parishioners and visitors that some people had to sit with the choir. Rev.

Henry Payden, the pastor who baptized Tyson, said, "Mike, now your job is to take mony. the message of Christ to the Throughout the three-hour people." Former Green Bay star RICHMOND, Calif. (AP) Former Green Bay Packer kickoff-return star Travis Williams spent a few years on the streets himself, but today he's straightening out his life and wants to help other homeless. "I get a natural high off of it," Williams said last week after returning from a protest by the homeless and their advocates in Chargers Notes Home field is becoming a disadvantage By Jay Posner Times Advocate Sportswriter SAN DIEGO Home-field advantage? Not the Chargers. Incredibly, the one touchdown the Chargers scored in Sunday's 48-10 loss to San Francisco at San Diego Stadium equaled their season high for offensive touchdowns in a home game.

The season total is now three in six games. San Diego has scored only 47 points in six games, and the defense has accounted for 14. What's the problem? "I wish I knew," said backup quarterback Babe Laufenberg, who played the fourth quarter Sunday. "Maybe we should turn into the Globetrotters and just take it on the road." Before Sunday's touchdown, a 36-yard run by starting quarterback Mark Malone in the second quarter, the last time the offense reached the end zone was during the first quarter of the Oct. 9 game against New Orleans nearly 13 quarters ago.

And since they're not scoring at home, the Chargers obviously winning at home, either. They now have dropped five straight here since upsetting Seattle in the Sept. 18 home opener. It's only the second time since 1975 Rams Denver, regaining its big-play capability, had three scoring drives Continued from page C1 Seattle and the Los Angeles Raiders, who meet Monday night. The Rams suffered their fourth straight loss and fell to 7-6.

tion from the fans, Fouts became quite stoic. "Fans will be fans," said Fouts. "I remember days that was me on the receiving end of those boos." Of course, we all knew what he was really thinking. As for the ceremony and reception, Fouts called it "A great day. I was overwhelmed.

It really brought back the memories." It was vintage Fouts working his magic on that field. "Nice getting down on that turf again," he said. "To be able to communicate with the fans was great. Everything I said, I meant. I really feel part of this team.

Now, I'm a Fouts then watched the rest of the game with his family. Most of the fans left this slaughter early. Their cheers were spent at halftime. It wasn't like the old days. Palmer's words too critical for Chiefs KANSAS CITY, Mo.

(AP) Kansas City Chiefs running back Paul Palmer could be suspended for the rest of the season, reportedly because of comments he made about the team's coaching staff on Saturday. Palmer, the team's leading rusher, was suspended Sunday morning before the Chiefs' game with the Pittsburgh Steelers. Team officials said he was suspended for "conduct detrimental to the team." NFL rules allow a player to be suspended for up to four weeks for conduct detrimental to the team. The Chiefs have three weeks left in their season. Chiefs General Manager Jim Schaaf said Palmer's case would be reviewed on a week-to-week basis.

A teammate who asked not to be identified told the Kansas City Star and Times that Palmer was suspended because he said he did not believe the coaching staff would return next season. The comments, made on a team bus Saturday, reportedly were overheard by strength and conditioning coach C.T. Hewgley. Neither Schaaf, Hewgley, nor Coach Frank Gansz would comment on that report when contacted after the team returned to Kansas City Sunday night. Palmer returned to Kansas City alone Sunday and also refused to comment on the suspension.

"I don't know why I didn't play today," Palmer said. "I really have no comment." Asked whether his suspension had anything to do with his complaints about his playing time, Palmer said: "Leave me alone, please." help the homeless of 23 years. Recently, activist Susan Prather returns to streets to Washington, D.C. "One day I want to be another Mitch Snyder (a leading homeless advocate)." Williams, 42, quit the National Football League and returned to his hometown in 1975 to open an arcade that folded a few months later. After that, he was troubled by unemployment, alcoholism and the drug overdose death of his wife that the Chargers have lost five games at home in a single season.

"People have to dread coming to your home field to play," Malone said. "They have to feel that for them to come in here and beat you, it's going to take nothing short of a miracle. You should have an advantage and that, obviously, hasn't been the case for us." Despite the lack of productivity, though, Chargers Coach Al Saunders said Malone "actually played pretty solid football all through the game." Malone completed 17 of 32 passes (and had five others dropped), but the completions accounted for just 136 yards. He also was intercepted twice, though he said neither theft was his fault and blamed Jamie Holland in particular for the second theft, by Tim McKyer. "The wide receiver runs a great route, we have the coverage we want, he's open, I throw the football to him, he stops and the DB (McKyer) keeps going," Malone said.

"The DB didn't make a great play; we screwed it up. You can't let a guy beat you back to the ball." Asked to assess his performance, Malone said, "I kept getting on the phone (with offensive coordinator Jerry Rhome) and I kept hearing, 'It's not your fault, hang in there, keep doing what you're I thought for the most part I made good reads, threw the ball where I was supposed to. We dropped a lot of balls again and had a lot of penalties. "That's frustrating because you of a single play in the game. The first came early in the second quarter when Elway fired an off-balance 39-yard TD pass to Mark Jackson.

Elway's running produced a second touchdown and a 14-10 halftime lead. The Rams squandered two scoring opportunities late in the half when Mike Lansford hit met Williams, and encouraged him to patch up his life. She helped get him a job as a security guard at a soup kitchen, allowing him to afford a $200-a-month hotel room. Now, he's rallying on behalf of those who need homes. "We'll still keep campaigning," he said.

"We'll still put on the pressure." can't take care of all those things. All you can do is make reads and throw the football." Both Malone and Laufenberg said they heard the crowd chanting, "We want Fouts! We want Fouts!" as the Chargers returned to the field for the second half. "I knew that was going to happen," Laufenberg said. "I got a chuckle out of it, actually." Malone wasn't quite so amused. "People can say what they want to say and do what they want to do," Malone said.

"That's really no concern of mine. I'm not out there playing for them. I'm out there playing because I love to play the game. When things aren't going real well, they're going to scream and holler for whomever else. "The guy sitting on the bench the greatest place to be.

You haven't made any mistakes and they're all over the guy who's starting." Malone was told that if it was any consolation, the fans also booed owner Alex Spanos. "You get beat like we got beat today," Malone said, "everybody's going to get booed. It's just the nature of the ballgame." Numbers: The 96-yard touchdown pass from Joe Montana to Jerry Rice was the longest play in 49ers history. The previous long was a 93-yard pass from Steve DeBerg to Freddie Solomon on Sept. 28, 1980 Chargers tight end Rod Bernstine caught a careerhigh nine passes for 80 yards the passes for 171 yards and two touchdowns, and Craig rushed for 87 yards and scored three touchdowns.

The Chargers' offense had no such production. San Diego drove inside 49ers territory on its first three possessions, but Gary Anderson's fumble at the 19 and a pair of punts kept the game scoreless. Two other drives were halted by Malone interceptions and two more ended when. the Chargers couldn't convert on fourth down. "They're damn good," Saunders said.

"We certainly weren't as good as they were today." turned for the second half, and Fouts was escorted off the field. As quarterbacks Mark Malone and Babe Laufenberg warmed up on the sidelines, the chant of "We Want Fouts" engulfed the stadium. Both Malone and Laufenberg pretended not to listen. How do you compete with a legend? Moving upstairs to the press level, Fouts visited the CBS television booth for a second. Off the air for a commercial, Kenny Stabler congratulated his old rival.

"That's gotta be a great feeling, buddy," said the Snake. "All those people screaming for you." "It chills," replied Fouts. "But how about that booing they gave the owner?" Both Stabler and Fouts laughed, then regained their composure as the "On the Air" cue appeared. Later, when asked by the press what he thought of Spanos' recep- the right, then the left upright on field-goal attempts. Denver then scored three straight TDs in the third period.

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