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COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) —
jaryland basketball coach Lefty
iesell has agreed to resign his po
sition and become an assistant ath-
|ic director at the school, a source
se to contract settlement negotia-
jns said Tuesday.
Driesell, who had once vowed to
finish out the remaining nine years
of his contract, has scheduled a news
conference for 8 a.m. CST today,
Yh hours before school Chancellor
John B. Slaughter will conduct one
of his own.
Hlhe separate news conferences to
announce Driesell’s reported new
job came about after he and Slaugh
ter couldn’t agree on a mutual meet
ing
The Associated Press learned that
Driesell, after being told on Tuesday
that the chancellor wanted to meet
with the media at 10 a.m. today,
scheduled his own for one hour ear
lier.
Because of the logistics involved,
Slaughter later agreed to start his
news conference at 9:30 to accom
modate the movement of people and
television equipment between the
two sites on the Maryland campus.
Attorneys for Driesell and the
university had been negotiating for
weeks on a settlement of the remain
ing years of the contract, and it was
reported earlier Tuesday that an
agreement had been struck.
“We are in sync on suitable terms
for an agreement,” James J. Mingle,
an assistant attorney general hand
ling negotiations for the university,
said. “It is just a matter of final re
view by the clients.”
Driesell, Maryland’s coach for 17
years, has been under attack since
basketball star Len Bias died of co
caine intoxication on June 19 and
subsequent revelations that other
players were involved in drugs or
had academic difficulties.
The settlement came just four
days before the Terrapins begin
practice for the 1986-87 season. The
delayed opening of practice, 17 days
later than the starting date allowed
by the NCAA, is in keeping with
Slaughter’s decision to set the sea
son-opening game back one month.
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■SAN DIEGO (AP) — Larry Bowa,
the former All-Star shortstop whose
team won a minor-league title in his
first managing job, was named man
ager of the San Diego Padres Tues-
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Boros took over as manager of the
team three days into spring training
when Dick Williams resigned and
guided the Padres to a 74-88 record
and a fourth-place finish in the Na
tional League West.
“Looking at 1986, I think we’re all
responsible for the poor showing of
our ballclub,” McKeon said. “That
includes me, the manager, the staff
and the players. We want it to be
known that we do not want Steve to
shoulder all the blame for that situa
tion.”
Bowa, the Padres 11th manager in
the organization’s 18 years, led the
Padres’ Class AAA farm club in Las
Vegas to an 80-62 record and the
1986 Pacific Coast League title.
A shortstop who played 16 years
in the major leagues, Bowa collected
2,191 hits for a .260 lifetime batting
average before retiring after the
1985 season.
He passed on a $250,000 contract
offer to play as a utility infielder for
the New York Mets this season to be
gin his managerial career.
“I certainly feel that Larry has a
chance to be an outstanding major
league manager,” McKeon said.
Boros, 50, who was in Tahiti and
unavailable for comment, had
served as manager of the Oakland
A’s in 1983 and a portion of 1984.
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| NEW YORK (AP) — Game 7 of
thelWorld Series between the Boston
Red Sox and the New York Mets was
the most-viewed baseball game ever,
eclipsing the final game of the 1980
World Series between Philadelphia
and Kansas City, NBC said Tuesday.
| (The 1986 fall classic went up
against “Monday Night Football” on
AB( and NBC said the World Series
handed the weekly TV football
game its lowest rating ever: an 8.8
with .i 14 share.
; The matchup presented a di-
lemm;i for New York sports viewers,
with the football Giants outplaying
the! Washington Redskins, 27-20,
while the Mets were defeating the
Red Sox, 8-5.
In Washington, however, the au-
.diepce forsook the baseball
I championship for the Redskins.
NBC research estimated the
Game 7 of the series Monday night
was seen in 34 million homes, while
thelsixth and deciding game of the
1980 series was seen in an estimated
32 inillion homes.
Game 7 received a national rating
of 88.9 and a 55 share, compared
with a 40 rating and a 60 share for
the|1980 game.
Mets celebrate win
in ticker-tape shower
NEW YORK (AP) The
world champion Mets basked in
sunshine, confetti and adulation
Tuesday as an estimated 2.2 mil
lion New Yorkers hailed their
heroes in a thunderous, chaotic
ticker-tape parade.
“The team is in a euphoric
state,” said Mets co-owner Fred
Wilpon, also expressing the mood
of the city. “We are absolutely
thrilled.”
Fans knocked over police bar
ricades and flooded the streets of
lower Manhattan in a riot of joy
as open limousines carrying team
members threaded their way
slowly up Broadway.
People dangled from trees,
perched on ledges and cheered
from rooftops and windows along
the one mile route to City Hall.
“What the Mets have done is to
take New York, the international
capital, and turn it into a small
town today,” said Mayor Edward
Koch, who rode in the lead car of
the parade with Gov. Mario M.
Cuomo and Mets Manager Davey
Johnson.
Their car was preceded by two
Sanitation Department snow
plows that scooped up ankle-deep
debris so the parade could pro
ceed. On a gloriously sunny, crisp
fall day, the skies rained tons and
tons of paper.
“The whole last three days
have been unbelievable,” said
Mets third baseman Ray Knight,
the most valuable player of the
World Series in which the Mets
beat the Boston Red Sox by win
ning Game 7 Monday night. “I’ve
got goosebumps.”
“This means everything,” said
second baseman Wally Backman.
“This is what life is all about in
New York City.”
About two dozen people were
treated for minor injuries, most
of them caused by “pushing and
shoving and excitement,” Emer
gency Medical Service spokeswo
man Donna Osso said.
The Police Department de
ployed 2,500 officers, many of
them on horseback. Police re
ported only one arrest.
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