Detroit Free Press from Detroit, Michigan • Page 48

i DETROIT FREE PRESSTHURSDAY, FEB. 21, 1985 2D Gretzky is branching out he wants to own a team Yellen signs racquetball contract coach Mike Ditka was named the Joe Thomas Award winner by the Football News. The award, named for the late personnel director of the Baltimore Colts and San Francisco 49ers, honors the top coach in the league each season. Ditka coached the Bears to a 10-6 season. Compiled by Matt Fiorito What does Wayne Gretzky want to do besides play hockey? Apparently, he wants to own a hockey team.

When bids were opened Tuesday for the purchase of the Hull Olympi-ques' franchise in the Quebec Major Junior. Hockey League, one of them was on behalf of Gretzky, the Edmonton Oilers star. The Hull Wayne Gretzky club is 1 60,000 in debt and is being run by a management committee appointed by the Hull City Council. The other bid was made by a city official. No details on either bid will be released until they have been analyzed and a report made on them to city council March 5, said city information officer Andre Lacroix.

Quarterback charged: Northwestern quarterback Michael Greenfield' and a friend have been charged witriaggravated battery after a fight at a party in a Northwestern dormitory. -Greenfield, 19, and Ronald Bryza, Tampa Bay hires Clark assistant Larry Seiple, who coached the Lions' receivers for the past five seasons, has accepted a similar position with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Tampa Bay coach Leeman Bennett interviewed Seiple two weeks ago and offered him the job late Tuesday. "It's exactly where I wanted to go and what I was looking for," Seiple said Wednesday. Seiple is one of eight assistant coaches who were released by the Lions when head coach Monte Clark was fired Dec.

19. He is the fourth of Clark's assistants to be hired by other NFL teams. A fifth defensive backs coach Mel Phillips is thought to be in line for a job with the Miami Dolphins. Running backs coach Bill Johnson went to the Cincinnati Bengals, offensive line coach Fred Hoaglin to the New York Giants and defensive line coach Ed Khayat to the New England Patriots. Curt Sylvester I "i the roundup 19, of Elm wood Park, who is not a Northwestern student, were arrested Tuesday.

Police reports said that Tony Han, 19, a Northwestern sophomore, suffered a broken nose and cuts on the cheek when Greenfield and Bryza hit him. Football coach Dennis Green said he would take no disciplinary action against Greenfield until all the facts were known. Lots of yachts: Yachting rivals from the United States, England, Canada, France and Italy, baffled by more than 20 entries in the America's Cup challenger series, considered turning to a computer for help in selecting an opponent for the Australians in 1987. The meeting, in Hamilton, Bermuda, marked the first time challenging syndicates met formally before the races. "We're making Cup history," said Leonard Greene, chairman of the Courageous Syndicate, which has been practicing since November in Bermuda waters.

Greene said that because the traditional round-robin elimination series would be impossible with so many yachts, a computer could help determine eliminations "by computing the probability any single boat has of winning" based on performances from the trials. Which Former lightweight champion Ray (Boom Boom) Mancini, a loser Saturday in his bid to regain his World Boxing Association title, returned home Wednesday to find 200 cheering fans waiting for him at the airport, and a movie crew shooting in front of his house. Mancini's rise to boxing champion is the subject of a movie. The crew was in Youngstown, Ohio, filming exterior shots at his house, his former high school and the gym where he trained. The movie will have a happier ending than his actual career if Mancini decides to retire.

The movie deals with the relationship between Mancini, 23, and his father, Lenny. It ends with Mancini winning the title his father tried, and failed, to win. It does not cover Mancini losing the WBA title to Livingston Bramble last year and then losing to Bramble again Saturday. Mancini had said before the fight that he would retire if he lost. But at the Youngstown airport Wednesday, he Southfield's Mike Yellen, the top-rated racquetball player in the world, signed a multiyear, million-dollar contract extension with the Ektelon Co.

Wednesday. Ektelon spokesman Norm Peck said the contract "is the most lucrative agreement ever given to a racquetball player in excess of $1 million." The agreement calls for Yellen, 25, to continue playing profession seemed to be wavering. "Sure I want to fight again," he said. "But am I willing to pay the dues to get to the fight? If I am, I'll go back." Threat loses Sting: Chicago Sting owner Lee Stern is backing off his threat to boycott the Major Indoor Soccer League All-Star Game and to sell the club because of "disgraceful" officiating in the league. MISL commissioner Earl Foreman said Stern has assured him that forward Karl-Heinz Granitza and defenders Frantz Mathieu and Dan Canter will be allowed to play in this weekend's game in Cleveland.

Stern said Foreman promised that criticism about officiating would be taken seriously and that steps would be made to improve it. Sentencing delayed: North Carolina State University quarterback Percy Moorman, convicted of raping a female student, will be sentenced May 28 after an evaluation of his perceptions and ability to change, a judge ruled Wednesday. Wake County Superior Court Judge James H. Pou Bailey ordered Moorman held without bond until he can be taken to the diagnostic center at Polk Youth Center in Raleigh on March 27. 13 ET MOTORIST TORTURED ON HIGHWAY Driving a sluggish car that coughs, misses or drags on the highway can be sheer torture.

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When he retires as a player, he is expected to work in public relations for Ektelon, a San Diego-based racquetball equipment manufacturer. At 16, Yellen was one of the youngest players ever to turn professional. He is No. 1 in world rankings going into the second half of the season. Drew Sharp "I was in a sense guilty until proven innocent." Moses said the worst moment for him was walking into court the first time "and looking into 25 cameras.

That reminded us to the extent this was being covered." Elsewhere: A skier was killed when he struck a tree while skiing down Cannon Mountain's Rocket Trail, near Franconia, N.H. Mark Pen-doley, 33, of Campton, manager of the Cannon Mountain Ski Shop, was pronounced dead at Littleton Hospital about one hour after the accident Tuesday, police said. In British Columbia, Calgary businessman Ralph Scur-field, part owner of the Calgary Flames of the NHL, and Randy Paige Broyhill, 26, of Arlington, were killed Monday when an avalanche buried them on Mt. Duffy in the Monashee range northwest of Revelstoke. Former Notre Dame football coach Ara Par-seghian was discharged Wednesday from Massachusetts General Hospital, in Boston, where he was being treated for a hip injury.

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