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13 Pittsburgh Post-Gazcttc: Saturday, August 5, 1989 Dorsett book nicks Pitt, rips Cowboys BRIEFING Dorsett to undergo surgery; career in danger Chang upset in Volvo tennis GREELEY, Colo. (AP) Denver Broncos running back Tony Dorsett, 35, was scheduled for arthroscopic surgery today. Dorsett tore a ligament in his left knee in practice Thursday. Besides the tear, trainer Steve Antonopulos said Dorsett may have sustained cartilage and other ligament damage as well. The surgery should reveal the exact damage.

"At this point, I would say his career definitely is in jeopardy," Antonopulos said. Dorsett, entering his 13th pro season, is the No. 2 rusher in NFL history with 12,739 yards, trailing only Walter Payton's 16,726 yards. By Steve Halvonik Post-Gazette Sports Writer While he was setting NCAA rushing records and leading the Pitt football program back to national prominence in the 1970s, running back Tony Dorsett was dabbling in some of the off-field activities that have made sports headlines in the 1980s. In the uncorrected proof of his autobiography, "Running Tough," due out in October, Dorsett says that he had three different sports agents during his playing days at Pitt.

He also says that during his freshman year, he attended player parties on Mount Washington arranged by Jackie Sherrill, then a Pitt assistant to head coach Johnny Majors. "Jackie understood the black athlete," Dorsett writes. "He'd arrange for us to be taken up to Mount Washington, where we'd stay in a high rise and eat soul food. We'd have a couple beers, relax and have a good time. But we realized that just as we were treated well off the field, we were expected to work hard on the field, and we did." The events Dorsett described would appear to violate NCAA rules dealing with "extra benefits" and agents, although the statute of limitations has expired.

Pitt officials declined to comment on Dorsett's book, which is to be published by Doubleday. Dorsett, 35, is one of the biggest names in Pitt football history, a Heisman Trophy winner and one of only four players to have his number retired. He set the NCAA rushing record with 6,526 yards, and led Pitt to the national championship in his senior season, 1976. Dorsett was the first-round draft choice of the Dallas Cowboys, where he played 11 seasons before he was traded to the Denver Broncos in 1988. Dorsett, the No.

2 career rusher in National Football League history, suffered what may have been a career-ending knee injury earlier this week at the Broncos' camp. Dorsett portrays Tom Landry, the Cowboys'. former head coach, as a cold, emotionless man who remained distant from his players and assistants. Dorsett also criticized Gil Brandt, the Cowboys' former director of player personnel. Brandt's a likable guy.

You want to trust him," Dorsett said. "He'll smile at you, but you know he's got the knife ready, and when you turn he'll stick it in." Landry and Brandt were fired earlier this year when the Cowboys changed ownership. Dorsett said he received illegal recruiting offers from college coaches during his senior year at Hopewell High School, but did not identify any of the schools. He described Majors and Sherrill in fond terms, his recollection of the Mount Washington parties appearing to be an inadvertent admission of wrongdoing. Dorsett mentions his involvement with agents during his playing days at Pitt while discussing the financial problems he has endured as a result of poor representation.

Dorsett said he lost more than a half-million dollars in a bad oil deal. "I've had my moments with agents," Dorsett said. "When I was playing for Pitt I was represented for a short time by Nelson Goldberg. Then I was with Don Cronson and then Mike Trope." Goldberg initially laughed at Dorsett's accusation, then angrily denied that he had broken NCAA rules in his dealings with Dorsett. "Good old Tony could screw up a two-car' funeral without having any cars in it," Goldberg-said.

Goldberg, the founder of TCS, a defunct television syndicator, said he was not involved with Dorsett until after the player's final college the January 1977 Sugar Bowl. Goldberg said he became involved at Majors', insistence. Goldberg also said he tried to help Dorsett undo' bad financial deals he had already made with Trope but that he quit in disgust after three months. Goldberg, a Penn State graduate, said he was never officially an agent, although he had represented several football players, including Penn State wide receiver Jimmy Cefalo. Goldberg said he never took any money from Dorsett.

"I never did anything except try to help a kid out," he said. Referring to Dorsett's autobiography, Goldberg added: "It's tough when you get to his stage and you have do anything you can to make a living." Federal Express St. Jude Classic in Memphis, Tenn. Fiori, who shot an opening-round 65, was at 10-under-par 132 after 36 holes, two strokes in front of Jim Gallagher, Bob Gilder and Billy Ray Brown. Beth Daniel sank long birdie putts on the final two holes to finish with a 66 and a one-stroke lead over Rosie Jones after the first round of the Greater Washington Open in Bethesda, Md.

Gene Littler survived an 18tb-hole bogey to shoot a 5-un-der-par 67 for the first-round lead at the U.S. West Showdown Classic in Jeremy Ranch, Utah. Elsewhere Matt Biondi won the 50-meter freestyle in the fastest time in the world this year. Biondi, of Moraga, was timed in 22.36 seconds at Southern Cal's Olympic Pool in the U.S. National Swimming Championships.

A federal magistrate in Salt Lake City ordered three Utah football players and a former team member to remain in jail through the weekend, pending a detention hearing on cocaine distribution and conspiracy charges. Wide receiver Cedric Riles, 21, Riverside, linebacker Errol Martin, 21, Oakville, Ontario; offensive lineman Sean Henderson, 20, Clovis, and former tight end Clyde French, 24, Carson, were arrested Thursday night. Soviet hockey star Vladimir Krutov has been released by the Red Army and could begin negotiations with the Vancouver Canucks of the NHL within two weeks, agent Mark Malcovich said. In the district Arena Football will announce Monday whether or not suspended coach Joe Haering will replace interim Gladiators coach Darrel "Pop" Jackson, who is leaving. Owen Dougherty has been named baseball coach at Indiana University of Pa.

Quoting 'em Yankees manager Dallas Green, asked if he thought owner George Steinbrenner was getting ready to fire him: "I don't really give a damn." From local and wire dispatches Michael Chang became the second top seed in two days to be ousted as he lost to unseeded Jim Grabb, 6-2, 6-4, yesterday in the quarterfinals of the Volvo International tennis tournament in Stratton Mountain, Vt. Chang, seeded second, fought off two match points, but slammed an easy overhead into the net to lose the match. Andre Agassi, the defending champion who was seeded first, lost to 20-year-old David Wbea-ton Thursday. Third-seeded Brad Gilbert advanced to the semifinals with a 6-4, 7-5 victory over Glenn Layendecker. Pro football Quarterback Neil Lomax said his arthritic left hip was so bad it was unlikely he could play for the Phoenix Cardinals and that he will decide by Monday whether to retire.

"I haven't been able to get out there and do the things I'm capable of doing," said the 30-year-old Lomax, who has limped through training camp. The two-time Pro Bowler is entering the second year of a guaranteed four-year, $5.7 million contract. Soccer A Britishgovernment report blamed police for the stadium crush that killed 95 soccer fans last April and said the officer in charge "froze" when it was time to make a decision. The 71-page report said authorities at the Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield, England, failed to recognize how big their job would be or how to cope with' problems when they developed. Chief Superintendent David Duckenfield, who was in command at the stadium, was singled out for criticism in the report and was suspended within hours of its release.

Golf Ed Fiori shot a 4-under-par 67 for a two-stroke lead after the second round of the $1 million Green's luck improves in Outlaws' races AUTO RACING division and Vince Randisi of Windsor, N.Y., won for the fourth time in the street stocks. Gault ran Saturday night at the Clearfield Speedway and won the late-model feature. Gary Conklin of Phillipsburg took the feature in the track's grand national division and Jesse Mayhew of Clearfield won in the pure stocks. stown Speedway, Steven Peles of Glen Campbell, captured his eighth late-model win at the Laurel Highlands track this season. Peles has been practically unbeatable there since Glenn Gault of Hubbard, Ohio, decided to do his Saturday night racing elsewhere.

Kurt Halbedl of Imperial won his sixth victory in the four-cylinder CT ATT A Df A "DTYEXT PEMTED fi9 mII Acres of Trees and Shrubs. 111 Tree Jackson getting key job 40-lap, late-model feature. He won $2,000. The limited late-model feature went to Kip Moore of Georgetown, Pa. Rick Armstrong of Blooming-dale, Ohio, won in the spectator stocks.

Sprint-car racing returns to the PPMS half-mile track this Wednes-' day and Aug. 23, and the Motordome "70" Speedway has booked a USA Sprints show Aug. 24. PPMS will be the first stop on the eastern tour for the USA Sprints organization and the first sprint race at Motordrome since 1983. At PPMS last Saturday night, the leaders in the three racing divisions added to their point totals and season earnings.

Ben Miley scored his third late-model feature win, Bobby Henry posted win No. 4 in the limited late-models and the spectator stock feature went to Ray Yanko. Last Friday night at the Sarver half-mile, Ralph Spithaler of Evans City won the regular sprint feature with Ron Davies of Warren, Ohio, taking the late-model main and Tommy Kristyak of Sandy Lake the modified feature. Cal Hull of Oil City picked up a win in the six-cylinder division and Terry Rosenberger of Ford City won in the limited late models. Kristyak broke the transmission on his racer early in the evening, borrowed a gear-box from fellow modified competitor Dick Rankin of Fairmount City and motored past Rankin and the rest of the field to win his second straight feature.

Last Saturday night at Jenner- WE CARRY EVERYTHING FOR YOUR GARDENING NEEDS: FOUNTAINS LAWN ORNAMENTS LARGE PLANTERS FIBERGLASS FISH PONDS By Bill Steinbach Tim Green of San Jose, had not won a World of Outlaws feature race since 1984. But Monday night, he left Lerner-ville Speedway in Sarver, with the first-place trophy, $5,000 and 150 additional points to keep him in contention with a six other drivers for the Outlaws season championship. Green is some 700 points behind leader Bobby Davis but, with about 21 races remaining on the Outlaws' schedule, Green has a better than mathematical chance of capturing the top prize. He already has earned close to $70,000 this season. It represented a shapr turnaround for Green.

After the Outlaws' show was rained out at Lernerville July 26, he had traveled to eastern Pennsylvania with the other Outlaws for two nights of racing at the Williams Grove Speedway at Mechanicsburg and a third night at Lincoln Speedway in Hanover. His best finish in three nights was 20th and, clearly, some changes were in order when he returned to Lernerville. "I kind of went back to basics again," said Green as he explained how he adjusted the suspension on his sprint car. "Lernerville is similar to the tracks I'm accustomed to in California, and that helped a bit, too. Everything seemed to click." Green figures he may have finally found the winning formula for his Gambler chassis sprinter.

"This feels good to me, after the kind of year we've been having. We've been so close and then we were way out to lunch. Now, hopefully, we're coming back." Pennsylvania Motor Speedway ran the first of three August midweek events Wednesday, and the results were mixed. The field for all three divisions was excellent, but the crowd was a bit sparse. Davey Johnson of Imperial, who And Shrubs Now Thru AUG.

3 1ST DECORATOR FAUCETS SUNDIALS Of course, he would have preferred that last year, too, just as he would have preferred Ricketts not get hurt and the Steelers win the Super Bowl. "I was hoping with him and Tom Ricketts together, they could learn together instead of putting the burden on one guy," he said. The weight, though, is back on Jackson's shoulders. All he has to do is keep the Dexter Manleys, Lawrence Taylors and Pat Swillings away from Bubby Brister. Or else.

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"That guy's one of the premier pass rushers in the league," said Tom Donahoe, the Steelers' pro personnel director. "That's a tough way to break in." The Steelers had no choice after left tackle Buddy Aydelette suffered a career-ending knee injury early in the exhibition season. Jackson took the beatings like a man, swallowed hard and learned the position. "I thought it was a great experience, but if I had to make a choice I'd rather not have taken that path," Jackson said of '88. "Last year was like a guessing game.

Under the circumstance, I had no choice. I just tried to do the best I could do." Blackledge wants Jackson to become more consistent. He also prefers not to start Wolfley at left tackle again. 9 "T-M 4 CENTER fc ElIX2 ijj 'j HOWfcM J) 1 SI iMHESfsflMLa .1 MH I STALLARD GARDEN CENTER PENN HILLS EXIT 6 Pennsylvania I Nurserymen's Association, Inc. P-3' nnnn nnnnn er? NOTES Brister did not throw yesterday because of a sore right bicep muscle.

Coach Chuck Noll said Brister should be ready to throw today when the Steelers hold a practice in full-game uniforms at Latrobe High School Stadium. An autograph and photo session begins at 3:30 with practice at 4. A 25-play scrimmage has also been advertised, but Noll may not hold it because so many of his players are hurt. Tickets are $5. The Steelers signed free agent Charvez Foger, 5-11, 200.

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The contract would pay Brister $700,000 in base salary this season, $800,000 next season and $900,000 in 1991. Bonuses and incentives would push it near $1 million annually. On another negotiating front, Doc Daniels, the agent for unsigned No. 1 draft pick Tim Worley, became angry after talking with Boston yesterday. "He has me negotiating against myself," Daniels said.

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