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C2 The Morning News Tribune Saturday Sept 8 1990 Morning Report League withdraws support of Express LEAGUE FOOTDALL By Dong Drowley The News Tribune games at the Tacoma Dome but meet Its financial obligations and was forced to move to Stadium BowL The most expensive tickets to home games at Stadium Bowl was $850 Despite the 600 to 700 season tickets sold only 300-300 people showed up at one time for games Where those ticket holders were Gutherie doesn't know a good question" she said teams coming in were really impressed with our facilities Stadium Bowl is far superior to the Dome The field is absolutely superb and the setting is Yet no one came to watch a team that comp a combined 3-18 record In the two years the chise was based in Seattle and Tacoma But even with Friday's developments Gutherie and Corbin have hope that the Express can be resurrected the league looks solid at the end of the season we may approach potential Tacoma investors and see if they're interested in operating next said Corbin who is trying to place Express players with other teams would love for the Express to come back" Guthrie said was our ultimate goal to get local investors The Tacoma Express got derailed Friday morning probably permanently In a statement made at 10:30 am Friday Express general manager Bob Corbin announced that the team would cease operations officially Corbin said "The league (Minor League Football System) pulled the rug from under us" The league pulled out after having made a commitment to keep the franchise afloat at least through the end of the season even if no local investors could be found This week the MLFS changed that decision said Judie Guthrie the team's public relations director The demise really began in July The Express welcomed a Soviet team into the Tacoma Dome for an exhibition game The occasion marked the first time a Soviet team had played in the United States But the Tacoma team took heavy losses on the game The exhibition won by Tacoma 32-0 was Included in the some 600 season tickets sold but the remainder of interested fans had to pay 13350 a seat Only 1303 showed up and that financial disaster led directly to the Express going bankrupt The team was taken away from then-owner Worth Skinner who received all funds from the season tickets Guthrie said The league took over operations and to date has put 130000 into operating the Express disappointed because the league had committed to us that they would finish out the season" Guthrie said "We had four games left and three were on the road With the cost of getting people to away games the league felt It was taking away from the other Guthrie said she had taken numerous calls Friday afternoon from people wondering when the next home game would be how much tickets were and even a few wondering whether the team had anyone who could speak before organisations The Express planned to play its regular-season ON THE DIAL I Fine tuning The U8 Open tennis tournament goto down to bustnoss today with three greet matches starting at 6 am on Channel 7 Top seeded 8tefD Oral takoe on OabrMa SabatM In the title match which la aandwlchad between the Borte Becker-Andre Agassi and John McEnroe-Peto Sampras semifinals Today 8 am Tennis: US Open 9 am Footba California at Wisconsin ESPN 9:30 am Feotbalfc Tennessee at Mississippi 8t TBS 10 am Uaaebalt: 8eattle at Boston 710AM 10 am Feotbalfc Tha Cougs with Mika Price 10 am Auto racing: NASCAR Grand National PSD Noon Footbadi Pec-10 preview Noon Variety: Sportsweakand -CBUT Noon Drag racing: NHRA U8 Nationals 09 1230 pm FaatbaB: San Joes 81 at UW 1000AM 12:30 pm FootbaN: Oklahoma at UCLA 63 1 pm CycBng: World Champkmshlpa 69 I pm Football: damson at Virginia ESPN 1:30 pm OoN: European Open P8N 3 pm Footbath Wyoming at WSU 710AM 6B 3 pm Golfe LPGA Ping Championship 4 pm Golf: LPGA Pina Championship PSN 4:30 pm FaatbaB: MiamT(Fla) at Brigham Young ESPN 7 pm BaeabaO: Atlanta at San Dingo TBS 735 pm BaaobaK: Trappers at Tlgera 850AM 830 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LPGA Ping Championship PSN 1130 pm Horse racing: Longacree Today BASSO AIL: HAPPENING: Today PRO BASEBALL Seettle Mariners Seattle at Boston 1035 am HORSE RACING Longacree Gates open 11:30 am first race 1 pm Festive race: 660000-addod AM Cup for $-year-olds and up Allies and marse 114 miles COLLEGES FootbaN San Joes 8toto at Washington 12:30 pm Wyoming at Washington State 3 pm soccer UC-Sente Barbara vs Washington Newport H8 1 pm Pierce CC at Fraser Valley (BC:) Clemens may miss a start or 2 but leave team Twenty-game winner Roger Clemens will miss one or two starts because of tendinitis in his right shoulder but vowed Friday not to leave Ms Boston Red Sox teammates stranded down the stretch have time or four starts left" Clemens said a lot to be had this season You get chances that Ryan not done yet The Texas Rangers are "excitkl thrilled and that Nolan Ryan wants to pitch another year and picking up the 1991 option on his $33 million contract is a according to team spokesman John Blake A Roee for the plucking Doug and Sammle Maya' covert interview with inmate Pete Roee has created quite a stir Prison officials say It never happened the National Enquirer says it did The pictures and story taken by the Point Moss Miss couple appear in the Sept 11 issue The 39-year-old musician-photographer and his 32-year-old wife a reporter for the Mississippi Press in Pascagoula said they caught up with Rose on Aug 35 while he was watching a baseball game on television with fellow inmates in Marion 111 by putting on a concert money was one thing but the thrill of doing it was Mays said Rose thought it was great we wmt to that much creative Moves The Pittsburgh Pirates acquired out-fielder-infielder Lloyd McClendon from the Chicago Cubs for a player to be named by Oct 5 The Houston Astros have obtained the contracts of catcher Tarry McGriff right-hand pitcher Kolth Kaiser and left-hand pitcher Butch Henry from the Cincinnati Reds to complete the trade of BIO Doran to the Reds Hearing delay Yankees executive vice president Leonard Klelnman testified for two hours in New York on the second day of his hearing before commissioner Fay Vincent The proceeding was then recessed for at Inst 10 days Vincent is inquiring stout role in the $40000 payment made by Yankees owner George Stelnbrenner to gambler Howard Spin and what Kleinman did to help Spira establish a bank account Tony honored The late Tony Conig la ro who Mt a tome run in his first at-bat for the Boston Red Sox nearly 30 years ago was remembered fondly in ceremonies at Fenway pari Commisfioner Vincent and Mrs Jean Yawkey principal owner of the Red Sox Joined in the tribute on Memorial Conigliaro whose career was shortened when he was Mt in the face by a pitch in 1967 died Feb 34 from complications from a severe heart attack suffered on Jan 9 1982 He was 44 Paul Westtiead meets the Denver prase Friday after being named the new Nuggets coach Westhead promises wild Nuggets The Associated Press tended one contract modified the contracts to two others and signed a rookie obtained in a draft-day trade before giving John WMIams a $265 million seven-year deal the NBA team revealed Friday By matching a Miami offer to Williams the payroll Thursday night soared through the $1187 million salary cap limiting the ability of the front office to rework contracts of veterans or sign free agents Another chance? Phoenix Suns first-round draft pick Jayson WMama who appeared set to sign a reported $15 million contract with an Italian pro team now wants to re-open negotiations with the NBA dub Exactly 24 hours after dismissing Doug Moe as head coach the Denver Nuggets introduced Paul Westhead as his successor Friday and Westhead promised a style of play even more frenetic than Moe favored college my team scored as many as 181 points in a Westhead said at a news conference we have eight more minutes You seen anything yet As coach at Loyola-Maryinount the past five seasons Westhead was the architect of a relentless fastbreak offense and fullcourt pressing defense Costly Cavs The Cleveland Cavaliers ex vaNeybeN Pierce CC at Big Bend CC 2 pm MOTOR SPORTS Spaneway Speedway Late Modal Championships Foreign Stocks Hobby 8tocka and Thunder Cere Time trtalB 6 pm South Sound Spnedway NASCAR 8upnr Stocks Chargers and Bombers Time trials 6 pm Sunday COLLEGES Man's aoeeer Pierce CC at Fraser Valley (BC) tournament PRO FOOTBALL Seattle Seehewfce Seattle at Chicago 10 am PRO BASEBALL Seattle Mariners Seattle at Boston 1035 am HORSE RACING Longacree Gatos open 1130 am drat race 1 pm Feature race: 635000-edded Seattle Handicap for 3-year-oidsand up 114 miles COLLEGES: Fresh start Dottle Module refreshed after a one-week absence from the LPGA tour shot a 4-under 68 to take a one-stroke lead after the first round of the Ping-Cellular One Golf Championship In Portland Sherri Turner Betsy King and Nancy Brown were tied for second at 3-under 69 in a round that featured two holes in one on the 6261-yard Columbia-Edgewater Country Club course Mayfair leada Billy Mayfair shot a second straight 65 to take a one-stroke lead in the Classic in Coal Valley 111 His 10-under 130 after 35-holes was one shy of the record McBee for the defense Defending champion Rives McBee started where he left off in last Bank One Senior Golf Classic recording a 6-under 66 to take a two-stroke lead after the first round In Lexington Ky ODDS frr ENDS: Report finds steroid use among teens increasing Teenagers appear to be using more body-building steroids despite the health risks and in the case of athletes coaches may be encouraging the trend fed- erel health official! aald Friday A report by the Inspector general of the Department of Health and Human Services estimated more titan 350000 adolescent! mostly boys have need steroids Dash to perfection Leroy BurroS completed a perfect IAAF Mobil Grand Prix season in the 100 meters in Athens Greece heating world record-holder Carl Lewis for the second consecutive time Burrell out of the blocks quickly was timed in 1004 seconds in the Grand Prix final for hie eighth victory on the International track and field circuit With It came the Grand Prix 100-meter title worth $10000 and the men's overall title worth $25600 Boxing notes Mike Tyson will try to fight Alex Stewart again this time Dec 8 in Atlantic City The fight originally scheduled for Sept 22 had tobe postponed when the former heavyweight champion was injured in training camp Heavyweight Riddick Bow remained undefeated stopping former World Boxing Council champion Plnklon Thomas on an eighth-round technical knockout Compiled from News Tribune news services by Stephanie Simone Cocaine charges Two Mankato State football players Wesley Jonee Winfield 21 and Corey Lee King 18 and a former player George Brown Jr 22 were charged Friday with trying to sell cocaine Mankato Minn authorities said Gonzaga wins again Gonzaga won its second five-game match against the University of Washington volleyball team in a week to open the inaugural Eddie Bauer First Serve Invitational with a 15-13 4-15 8-15 16-14 154 victory and improve to 44 for the season UW (2-2) met Purdue in a later match GOLF: Pros hand amateurs biggest loss in Hudson Cup history The professional capped the most lopsided victory in the history of the Hudson Cup matches at Broadmoor Golf Gub in Seattle by beating the amateurs 174 in the 42nd edition of the team competition among Northwest players In the individual matches held Friday the pros had a 9-1 advantage to add to their 8-2 advantage posted the first day in two-man competition Gary Undoblad of Indian Canyon in Spokane was named the winner of the Larry Lam burger Award for the best professional and Dick CartmcU of Meadow Springs in Richland won the Chuck Congdon Award as the top amateur Geiger leaving Stanford to become Maryland AD Andy Geiger named athletic director at the University of Maryland on Friday said his biggest challenge would be to perception about the of the school Geiger the athletic director at Stanford since 1979 was given a five-year contract at $125000 per year His appointment is effective Oct 1 SWC future The Southwest Conference should be ready in four to six weeks to announce specific internal changes in its operations commissioner Fred Jacoby said SWC presidents with the exception of the defecting University of Arkansas met in Dallas to read a $100000 study commissioned by the league The study will to released today TAKE HOME THE RIDE OF YOUR LIFE! 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