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1 NPSL may absorb other league "i Summer breeze It's a cold day in July for Dennis Martinez and the Montreal Expos during their series in San Francisco's Candlestick Park. AP One league's demise is another league's gain. That's what the National Professional Soccer League is finding these days. The league's board of directors has admitted the Baltimore Blast of the defunct Major Soccer League, and three other MSL teams might join the NPSL in the next few weeks, commissioner Steve Paxos said. Paxos said the NPSL will know within a couple of days whether St.

Louis will be able to meet the league's financial conditions and be admitted. He also said serious talks are taking place between the NPSL and former MSL clubs in Cleveland and Wichita. Paxos said the league wants to expand carefully. "We don't want to double in size overnight," he said. "You can overgrow and run the risk of destroying what you've built up." The addition of Baltimore gives the NPSL 11 teams, including the Detroit Rockers, the defending league champions.

The MSL and NPSL were the two major' professional indoor soccer leagues until July 10, when the MSL folded after 14 years. By Ken McDonald HORSE RACING: Eau Claire, native Julie Krone, the all-time leading female rider, is planning to sue after an obscenity referring to female genitalia appeared in front of her name on television monitors at a New Jersey track and simulcast outlets last week. Krone's lawyer said he plans to file a multimillion-dollar suit against the broadcast firm and the employee responsible later this week. "Julie is horrified," said her lawyer, Dennis Drazin. "We got in touch with people at the race track; they confirmed the story.

They are also horrified." The incident occurred last Wednesday before the running of the Matchmaker Stakes from Atlantic City Race Course, just as Krone and her horse, Plenty of Grace, came onto the track. Harold Snyder, president of International Sound of Baltimore, said the graphic appeared for about lVz seconds before it was yanked. Steve Johnson, the employee who typed it into the system, was fired on the spot, he said. "It was supposed to have been proofread, but this all comes up very quickly and apparently someone just glanced at it," Snyder said. "It was pure error on the operator's part, but it was pure stupidity from the person typed it into the machine.

"We're just truly sorry it ever happened." Drazin said the suit would seek at least $10 million in punitive damages, plus whatever compensatory damages are allowed from the company and Johnson. Krone could not be reached for comment. BASKETBALL: The San Antonio Spurs and new coach Jerry Tarkanian liked what they've seen of guard Lloyd Daniels enough to sign him to a two-year contract. Daniels, 24, who never has played in college or the NBA, was a schoolboy basketball star in New York before experiencing personal troubles, including a drug arrest and getting shot during an alleged drug dispute. Then-UNLV coach Tarkanian had recruited Daniels to play for the Run-nin' Rebels, but he never did after getting arrested while buying cocaine in a crack house in Las Vegas Detroit's Roy Tarpley, banned from the NBA after repeated violations of the league's substance-abuse policy, was named the United States Basketball League's player of the year.

Tarpley, formerly with the Dallas Mavericks, played center for Miami and was leading the USBL with a 32.2 scoring average and a 17.0 rebounding average when he left the team to play in Greece. CYCLING: Former champion Stephen Roche was an easy winner in the 16th stage of the Tour de France and defending champion Miguel Indurain of Spain retained the overall lead. Roche, of Ireland, crossed the rain-spattered finish line 46 seconds ahead of Russian Viacheslav Ekimov to win the hilly 132-mile stage between Saint-Etienne and La Bourboule. Five stages remain. NFL Washington Redskins wide receiver Ricky Sanders ended a one-day holdout by signing a two-year contract worth approximately $1.9 million.

That leaves the defending Super Bowl champions with 10 players, including Olsen, Proben share lead after two at Michigan of Kiwi yachtsmen foaming over New Zealand's yachtsmen have either established the first record of the 1992 Olympics or been the first to admit extensive substance abuse 600 cans of beer in less than two hours. Unlike other athletes who stay off alcohol before big events, yacht racers from all nations were knocking it back at a party thrown Monday night by the Kiwis in Barcelona. Dingle's dunk dents Bengals' Mike Dingle showed up at the Cincinnati Bengals' training camp at Wilmington College in Ohio with football on his mind, but he couldn't resist the basketball he spotted at the college's Hermann Court arena. Dingle, 6-feet-2 and 240 pounds, dunked and the glass backboard shattered. SPORTS TODAY Television 1:30 p.m.

HMD Baseball: Baltimore at Chicago White Sox. 1:30 d2D Baseball: Los Angeles at NYMets. 5:00 QEES) Bicycling: Tour de France, today's highlights. 6:00 CSD Track and field: IMF Mobil Grand Prix from Rome (taped). 6:10 CEsD Off to the Races from Hazel Park.

7:30 QSD Motorcycle racing: World Grand Prix In France (taped). 8:30 (MS) Baseball: Atlanta at St Louis. 10:30 CESD Trackside at DRC. 11:00 CESD Table tennis: U.S. Open finals in Midland (taped).

12:00 a.m. Team tennis: Los Angeles at Vail (taped). of a Proben, who teaches at Indianwood Country Club, worked up a three-shot lead after 13 holes, but three-putted both the 16th and 17th greens. "If you get above the hole there, you have no chance," he said. "But I was pleased.

I didn't make a lot of putts, but you can't beat the sun and these views. A lot of guys have a chance to win." Amateur Gary Domagalski, a golf-equipment sales rep from Okemos, jumped back into the picture with a four-birdie 70 and is one shot back at 144. He conceded there might be less pressure on him: "I don't know if it's an edge, but I sure don't worry about the money," said Domagalski, who gave up his pro career six years ago. Detroit Golf Club assistant Barry Redmond, who shared the first-round lead, shot 73 for 145. By Jack Saylor Free Press Sports Writer BOYNE FALLS The temperature went up Tuesday, while the wind and the scores went down.

So, the stage is set for a wild dash for the cash in the final round of the first Michigan Tournament of Champions. Dan Olsen of Haslett and Bob Proben of Lake Orion shot one-under 71s on Boyne's kinder, gentler Alpine course to share the second-round lead at 143, also one under, in the $100,000 event. But eight players remain clustered within six shots of the lead as the scene shifts to the disaster-laden Monument course for today's 18-hole finale. "Anybody can win tomorrow," said Olsen, 22, who qualified by winning the Michigan assistant pros' championship. "But I like being in the lead.

It's really hard to come from behind." SHOWS quarterback Mark Rypien and No. 1 draft choice Desmond Howard of Michigan, without contracts. Phil Simms ended his one-day holdout by signing a one-year, $1.6 million contract to be the New York Giants' backup to quarterback Jeff Hostetler. HOCKEY: The final piece of the Eric Lindros trade fell into place when the Quebec Nordiques obtained left wing Chris Simon and a 1994 first-round draft pick from the Philadelphia Flyers. The Nordiques had already received goaltender Ron Hextall; de-fensemen Steve Duchesne and Kerry Huffman; centers Mike Ricci and Peter Forsberg; the Flyers' first-round pick in '93, and $15 million for the rights to Lindros.

AUTO RACING: Bobby Hillin Jr. was hired to relieve or substitute for injured driver Davey Allison in Sunday's DieHard 500 at Alabama's Talladega Superspeedway. Allison came away from a spectacular accident last Sunday at Pocono International Raceway with a broken and dislocated right wrist, a fractured collarbone and two broken bones in his right forearm. The plan for Allison, who is expected to remain hospitalized for several more days, was for him to drive one or two practice laps Saturday and take the green flag Sunday to earn Winston Cup series points. Allison finished 33rd at Pocono and lost the series lead to Bill Elliott.

no second guesses" about perhaps missing the big payoff. If he wins, the low pro takes the loot. "Now, I thoroughly enjoy playing a game of golf," he said. "The fun part is still being able to compete at this level against these guys I've played against for years." Proben's earlier concerns about the senior and female contenders using tee boxes set forward of the pros' 6,872 yards appeared unfounded. Despite the advantage, the low senior is Alex Redmond, Barry's father and a teaching pro at Knollwood Country Club.

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398-1000. But when winds rose in the second half, Old Bear slipped away. Bayer described it as "blowing like Billy B. Damned." By Wylie Gerdes BASEBALL: The Lincoln Park Ford Motor Rails won their third straight Bahe Ruth state senior championship under coach Tom No-land with an 18-6 victory over Lansing Calkins at Lincoln Park High. In a 10-run fourth inning, leftfielder Wally Johnson singled twice, drove in three runs and scored twice.

In other games, Grosse Pointe Farms City Park beat Alpena, 7-2, in the 14-year-old division and Detroit West 7 topped Lansing, 12-8, in the 13-year-old division Jason Reed threw a no-hitter in leading the Dearborn All-Stars to a 22-0 victory over the Northwest Detroit All-Stars in the Junior League World Series tournament for 13-year-olds in Taylor. Reed walked one and struck out seven and Adam Brown went 3-for-4 with 3 RBIs. Tim Plcclnl of Bloom-field Hills Lahser High signed a letter of intent to attend Northwood Institute. BASKETBALL: Lee Flfzpatrlck, a two-year starter at Oakland University, signed a one-year contract to play in Germany with the TSV Ansbach club. Fitzpatrlck, a 6-foot-8 forwardcenter from Birmingham Brother Rice High, averaged 9.5 points and 7.5 rebounds last season.

GOLF: Arlene Alessl of Birmingham shot an 86 in winning the championship flight at the Women's Metropolitan Golf Association at Forest Lake Country Club in Bloomfield Township. Joy Johnsen of Union Lake won the first flight with an 86. HOCKEY: Michigan State assistant coach Tom Anastos resigned to enter private business In the Detroit area. Anastos, a Dearborn native, is former head coach at Michigan-Dearborn. TRACK: Nedra Shumacher of the Detroit Cheetahs was named most valuable player in the youth division (13-14) at the Flint International Meet.

Shumacher won the long jump (13feet, 11 inches), was second in the high jump (4-10) and won the 400 meters in 1 minute, 5.6 seconds. V. uJLLLilL i "I hit a lot of greens, but I had four or five putts that just didn't want to go in," he said. Warwick Hills Country Club assistant Jody Berklich, a co-holder of the first-round lead with par 72, hailed the bogey train early, carding four bogeys and three doubles en route to 80. But many others headed in the other direction.

Novi pro Bob Makoski improved from 81 to 68. The biggest leap was Karen VandenBerg of Augusta, from 96 to 76. At least four pros remain within stretching distance of grabbing the husky $25,000 winner's check. The winner also qualifies for next month's Michigan Bell Showdown. Tom Gieselman (71) and Jim St.

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The Mackinac wrapped up Tuesday in blazing northern Michigan sunshine, a total contrast to the damp and dreary race itself. The last official finisher, Scrimshaw, crossed the line at 7:15 a.m. Tuesday. The final results left Cygnus with the overall flag in the Performance Handicap Racing Fleet division. Sensation was first in International ment System.

Among the most popular victories was Bayer's. The 64-year-old Grosse Pointe Farms sailor has been in 47 straight Mackinacs, including 26 on the short course. The Mackinac used the shorter course until 1971, when the 298-mile route via the Cove Island buoy was adopted. This race was the first time both courses were offered. Bayer's strategy was to stay on the direct route to Mackinac, but Old Bear did dive close to the Michigan shore in search of wind.

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