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Rozelle issues mandate for NFL
requiring random drug testing
NEW YORK (AP) — A drug pro
gram that includes mandatory ran
dom testing for National Football
League players during the season
will begin with 1986 training camp
physicals this month, Commissioner
Pete Rozelle said Monday.
The National Football League
Players Association in Washington
said it will not accept the program
because it represents an unautho
rized change in the current collective
bargaining agreement.
“I feel the collective bargaining
agreement and the by-laws give me
the obligation and the authority to
protect the health and welfare of the
players and to preserve the public
confidence in the NFL,” Rozelle
said.
He said he derived his authority
from Section 8.13 (A) of the NFL
Constitution and bylaws and Article
VIII of the Collective Bargaining
Agreement.
In a statement released in Wash
ington, Gene Upshaw, president of
the NFLPA said the union would be
willing to meet with Jack Donlon, ex
ecutive director of the NFL Manage
ment Council, to discuss possible
changes in the current drug-testing
program.
Dr. Forest Tennant, Jr., an expert
in the field of chemical-dependency
treatment, was placed in charge of
the program.
NFL players “fit the target group”
for drugs in age, money and time
(the off-season is about six months),
Rozelle said.
One point in the program will re
quire more freguent urine testing,
including two unscheduled tests
during the regular season for every
player in the league
Upshaw noted the current drug
program negotiated in 1982 calls for
a mandtatory test before the season
and an extensive drug counseling
program. The NFL is the only pro
fessional sport that requires manda
tory testing, Upshaw added.
Under Rozelle’s program, drugs
to be tested for will include cocaine,
marijuana, opiates (e.g. heroin),
PCP, amphetamines, and alcohol.
Amphetamines will be tested for,
but initially handled through educa
tion and counseling, Rozelle said.
Tennant said a test for ampheta
mines can reflect the use of cough
medicine or medicine for allergies.
Rozelle said he hoped a perfected
test for amphetamines could be in
place by next year.
The commissioner said alcohol
will not be prohibited, but high lev
els of it and other indications of al
cohol problems will lead to treat
ment and possible discipline.
Anabolic steroids also will be the
subject of educational programs
while methodology is being devel
oped to handle them.
Other points of the program in
clude:
• All users of prohibited sub
stances will be placed under medical
care as soon as identified through
confirmed positive tests.
• A set of procedures will be es
tablished that in some cases will pro
vide remedies while preserving the
confidentiality of the test results. In
other cases, players who test positi-
tive will be removed immediately
from their teams’ acitve rosters, and
in extreme cases they could be
banned permanently from the
league.
Joyner sets mark at Goodwill Games
Ags' Heard, O'Neil grab gold
MOSCOW (AP) — Jackie Joyner
put together a series of remarkable
performances and shattered the
world record in the heptathlon by
more than 200 points with the first
7,000-point total in history at the
Goodwill Games Monday.
Joyner’s 7,148-point performance
in the seven-event competition high
lighted another big day for Ameri
can athletes at the multi-sport festi
val. Americans took the lead in the
gold-medal count from the Soviet
Union, 22-21.
Texas A&M’s Floyd Heard won
the 200-meter dash with a 20.12-sec-
onds clocking, while Aggie senior
Chris O’Neil swam the butterfly por
tion of the United States’ third-place
finish in the 400 relay to boost the
U.S. medal winnings.
Heard, who just finished his
freshman year at A&M, has won his
last four 200 finals, including a
20.54 finish Thursday in the Olym
pic Day event at Dresden, East Ger
many, part of the Mobil Grand Prix
series.
A&M Assistant Track Coach Ted
Nelson said Heard has been peaking
at this time of the year, because he
has been able to specialize in the 100
and 200 and running more often in
big races than he would during the
school year.
“He’s a good runner,” Nelson said
of Heard. “He’s diligent in his work
outs and does what you ask him to
do. He does the little things that the
great track runners do.”
O’Neil, who completed his colle
giate eligibility this year, also earned
a gold medal at the Goodwill Games
with a 54.23 finish in the 100-meter
butterfly to beat Texas’ Ken Flaherty
Saturday.
A&M Swimming Coach Mel Nash
said he was pleased with O’Neil’s
performances.
“Moscow isn’t the most hospitable
place,” Nash said. “It’s a little intim
idating swimming in the Soviet’s
home pool. But to win there says a
lot about him.”
O’Neil had the fastest butterfly
split in the 400 relay, but the U.S.
team could not overcome the Soviet
A and B teams and finished with a
time of 3 minutes, 45.64 seconds,
nearly three seconds off the winning
pace.
Swimmer Sean Killion of Cherry
Hill, N.J., beat former world record-
holder Vladimir Salnikov of the So
viet Union in the men’s 400-meter
f reestyle, and Angel Myers of Ame-
ricus, Ga., and Furman University
won her third and fourth gold med
als.
Joyner’s gold medal was one of
four earned by the United States in
the 12-event track and field pro
gram. The Americans also collected
six golds in eight events on the final
day of swimming and finished the
competition with 15 golds and 49
medals, a tremendous feat for a “sec
ond-string” team. The top U.S.
swimmers are preparing for the
world championships.
Overall, the Soviets have 67 med
als, the United States 64.
In a stunning upset in the pool,
Killion beat Salnikov in the men’s
400-meter freestyle in 3 minutes,
51.91 seconds.
Myers finished as the biggest win
ner in the pool, capturing her third
and fourth medals to go along with
one bronze.
Myers won the women’s 100-me-
ter freestyle in 56.48 and swam a leg
on the winning U.S. 400-meter med
ley relay team, timed in 4:12.54.
The Soviets, featuring their best
swimmers at the games, wound up
with 39 swimming medals, including
13 golds.
Meanwhile, the United States and
Soviet women’s basketball teams
continued on the road toward a
showdown in Thursday night’s final
game of the round-robin tourna
ment.
The Americans, with Cheryl
Miller leading the way for the third
time, defeated Czechoslovakia 78-
70. Miller scored 20 points, while 6-
foot-8 Anne Donovan added 15.
The Soviets overpowered Bul
garia 82-56, while Brazil downed
Yugoslavia 79-65 in the other game.
Ags' Kerr shines at Pan Ann Jr.
Texas A&M freshman Stanley
Kerr picked up two gold medals at
the Pan American Junior Track and
Field Championships Saturday night
in Winter Park, Fla.
Kerr won the 100-meter dash with
a time of 10.20 seconds, and
anchored the U.S. 400 relay team to
a 39.72 finish over Cuba. A&M sig-
nee Derrick Florence ran the second
leg of the relay and on Sunday fin
ished second in the 200 with a time
of 21.64. Kerr was held out of the
200 because the United States ro
tated its sprinters.
A&M recruit Percy Waddle was
part of the U.S. 1,600 relay that was
upset by Cuba and finished second
with a 3:05.44
Wimbledon lacking without McEnroe
WIMBLEDON, England (AP) —
Boris Becker, talented, exciting and
likeable, has captured Wimbledon
and its fans for the second straight
year. But talk still focused on the
missing magic of John McEnroe.
While Becker successfully de
fended his title against Ivan Lendl,
the world’s top-ranked player, the
shadow of McEnroe was every
where.
Players often mentioned his name
in interviews, and London’s racy tab
loid newspapers, severe McEnroe
critics in the past, referred to him
wistfully throughout the two weeks.
McEnroe, a three-time Wimble
don singles champion, long held the
No. 1 spot on grass and every other
surface. But he skipped this year’s
lawn party to a self-imposed sabbati
cal from the sport because of the
birth of his first child.
Now Becker, an 18-year-old West
German, can claim to be the best, at
least on grass, after beating Lendl 6-
4, 6-3, 7-5 Sunday.
“McEnroe has been the world
number one on grass for years,”
American Peter Fleming, McEnroe’s
former doubles partner, said after
losing Sunday’s doubles final to Swe
den’s Joakim Nystrom and Mats Wi-
lander.
“Right now, you have to say
Becker is the champion, but to really
earn that title, he has to beat John.”
McEnroe, who has played only
several charity exhibitions since his
first-round loss in the Nabisco Mas
ters in January, said he will return to
Grand Prix play on the hard courts
at Stratton Mountain, Vt., Aug. 4-
10, preparing for the next Grand
Slam tournament, the U.S. Open.
“Becker’s the best now, and it’s
McEnroe’s job to prove otherwise,”
Fleming said. “I think he will. It’s a
good incentive for him.”
Wilander, who was seeded No. 2
in the 128-player singles draw this
year but fell in the fourth round,
said he was looking forward to
McEnroe’s return.
“Tennis needs John,” the Swedish
star said. “He is a real personality.”
Becker also is a personality, whose
power and flashy, lunging volleys
have captured the fancy of the fans.
His infectious, bubbly style is differ-
Sherrard continues
holdout with Dallas
THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. (AP)
— Mike Sherrard, the Dallas Cow
boys’ first-round draft choice, re
jected a second contractual offer of
$1.5 million and is one of four rook
ies now listed as holdouts, officials
said Monday.
Sherrard, along with the other top
four choices — Darryl Clack, Mark
Walen and Max Zendejas — have
not signed contracts and didn’t ap
pear at training camp when it started
Sunday, team spokesman Doug
Todd said.
The Cowboys did reach
agreements Sunday with sixth-
round choice Lloyd Yancey, 10th-
round choice Bryan Chester and
12th-rounder Chris Duliban, Todd
said. Terms were not disclosed.
Although the Cowboys’ new five-
year offer that Sherrard rejected
Sunday is substantially higher than
the original $865,000 package, agent
Leigh Steinberg said the two sides
are far from an agreement.
Steinberg wants $1.6 million for
four years. Broken down to four
years, the Cowboys have essentially
offered $ 1.22 million to Sherrard.
Steinberg said he is basing his re
quest on contracts signed last year by
four NFL wide receivers drafted in
the first round. A1 Toon, Eddie
Brown, Jerry Rice and Jesse Hester
received an average of $1,576 mil
lion for four years.
“I can’t accept a contract that is
$300,000 short of what Jesse Hester
got last year,” Steinberg said. “Un
fortunately, this is a serious money
difference.”
Steinberg said, meanwhile, that he
would accelerate negotiations with
the United States Football League’s
Arizona Outlaws, who have offered
Sherrard $1.9 million for four years.
Cowboys vice president Joe Bailey
said he has made an offer that is
“fair to the base salary structure of
our team.”
Dallas Coach Tom Landry said he
will remain patient with the absence
of the top four draft choices.
“I can’t blame the kids,” he said.
“They have agents who want more
money. But I don’t think it’s our
fault, either. It’s going to hurt them
to miss the time in camp, but they’re
still going to have to prove it in camp
against the veterans.”
Landry will conduct rookie camp
this week. Veteran players are
scheduled to report Sunday.
Horner’s homers
Atlanta slugger says record takes
backseat to team's division race
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Bob
Horner, who entered the record
book with four home runs in one
game, said Monday that he was
more concerned with the Atlanta
Braves’ place in the standings
than his place in history.
“I just blacked out,” Horner
said, recalling his final trot
around the bases after lining a
Jeff Reardon fastball over the
left-center field fence in the ninth
inning of Sunday’s game in At
lanta against Montreal.
“What can you possibly think at
a moment like that?” Horner
said. “In one vein I was happy I
did it, but in another vein I’m
sorry it really didn’t help the
cause.”
Montreal won the game, 11-8,
despite Horner’s heroics. He hit
solo homers in the second and
fourth innings and a three-run
shot in the fifth, all off Expos
starter Andy McGaffigan. He
popped out against Tim Burke in
the seventh.
Only 11 players in major
league history have hit four home
runs in one game, the last being
Mike Schmidt of the Phillies in
1976.
Three players, including
Schmidt, needed extra innings to
do it. And four players — includ
ing Schmidt, Lou Gehrig, Rocky
Colavito and Bobby Lowe — have
done it in consecutive at-bats.
“You don’t ever plan on some
thing like that happening to you,”
Horner said before Monday’s
game with the Phillies. “You’re
very lucky if it happens once in
your career. I’ve savored the mo
ment.”
Horner, who on Sunday joked
that he had “a good week today”
jumped into a tie for the National
League lead with 17 homers,
even with Glenn Davis of Hous
ton and Mike Marshall of Los An
geles.
“I suppose it’s nice, your little
niche in history,” he said. “Every
body’s been reminding of that, so
it’s hard to forget it. It was one of
those things that happens that
you never forget. But it would
have been nice to win.”
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ent from that of McEnroe, but he
has twice proven that he can win at
Wimbledon.
“Man, young man, boy,” Lendl
said. “Whatever you call him, call
him champion.”
In 1985, Becker became the
youngest, the first German and the
first non-seeded player to win the
world’s most prestigious grass-court
tournament. On Sunday, the fourth-
seeded Becker became the lowest-
seeded player to win the
championship since Sweden’s Bjorn
Borg won as the No. 4 seed in 1976.
“I thought perhaps it was a little
early to win Wimbledon at 17 last
year,” Becker said. “But now I think
I would like to keep on winning it.”
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