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Gooden
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Despite rumors circulating during
the 1986 season that Gooden was on
drugs, his teammates said they never
would have guessed.
“I heard the same rumors that
you heard,” said Ray Knight, the
Mets third baseman, now with Balti
more. “But I never saw any indica
tion of any changes in his personal
ity. But then again, I don’t know
what you look for. What do you look
for?
“When I was in his presence, he
was always the same,” Knight told
the New York Post, “and I observed
him closely.”
Gooden’s 1986 season was rife
with erratic behavior that might
have suggested drug use, Yancovitz
said.
Before spring training even had
begun last year, Gooden tried to
hide an ankle injury. Then, he was
fined for missing a spring workout.
Initially, he said he was in a car acci
dent, and that turned out to be un
true.
In April, Gooden, his sister and
his fiancee were detained by police
at LaGuardia Airport after an argu
ment with a rental-car agent.
At the same time, Gooden’s per
formance fell off. He was 24-4 in his
Cy Young campaign of 1985, but 17-
6 last year. After giving up 17 hits
and eight earned runs in nine in
nings of two World Series losses,
Gooden missed the Mets ticker tape
parade. He said he overslept.
Last Dec. 13, he was arrested
along with a nephew and three other
friends after a late-night fight with
Tampa police. Gooden had been
pulled over in his silver Mercedes-
Benz while on his way back from a
basketball game. And, last month,
Gooden’s girlfriend, Carlene Pear
son, pleaded guilty to possession of a
stolen .38-caliber handgun that she
had tried to carry through a metal
detector at LaGuardia on jan. 30.
“Not waking up? That’s glaring.
Sweating? It could be a symptom,"
Yancovitz said. “The mood swings,
inappropriate behavior, inability to
tolerate the little troubles we have in
everyday life . . . it’s very symptoma
tic, very suspicious.”
Gooden to begin rehabilitation
NEW YORK (AP) — Dwight
Gooden checked into a New York
drug rehabilitation center Thursday
to begin treatment for cocaine use
while the World Series champion
Mets juggled their plans to start the
season.
Gooden walked briskly into the
Smithers Alcoholism and Treatment
Center accompanied by men who
kept reporters from talking with
him. A van had met Gooden’s Delta
Air Lines flight from his home in
Tampa to LaGuardia Airport on the
tarmac and whisked him to the fa
cility on Manhattan’s East Side.
It was not known how long
Gooden, 22, would remain at the
center. The average rehabilitation
period at Smithers is 28 days, said
Joyce Walker, in charge of commu
nity liaision for the center.
Gooden was placed on the 15-day
disabled list. His attorney, Charles
Ehrlich, said the pitcher “hopefully
will be back in four to six weeks”
while Mets General Manager Frank
Cashen said his “gut feeling” was
Gooden would miss at least two
months.
“Cocaine is a very serious thing
and not easy to conquer,” said team
mate Keith Hernandez, among 11
players who were conditionally sus
pended by Commissioner Peter Ue
berroth in March 1986 for their con
nection with cocaine.
Gooden checked into Smithers a
day after the Mets said a voluntary
test revealed their ace had a “drug
use problem.” Gooden chose to seek
treatment rather than face suspen
sion by Ueberroth.
The announcement came less
than a week before Gooden was
scheduled to start opening day
against Pittsburgh at Shea Stadium.
Bobby Ojeda, 4-0 with an 0.68
earned run average against the Pi
rates last season, will pitch Tuesday
in place of Gooden, who is 6-0 with a
1.49 ERA in his career versus Pitts
burgh.
Gooden’s trouble, along with her
nia surgery Monday that will put re
liever Roger McDowell out of action
for two months, took a big chunk out
of the best pitching staff in baseball.
Johnson and his players maintain
they had no idea Gooden had any
kind of drug problem. Rumors link
ing Gooden and cocaine began sur
facing last summer as he became in
consistent for the first time in his
career.
His record fell from 24-4 in 1985,
when he won the National League
Cy Young award, to 17-6, while his
ERA rose from 1.53 to 2.84.
Gooden also continued to be in
volved in a string of off-the-field in
cidents, capped by a fight with
Tampa police Dec. 13 that led to fel
ony charges. Gooden pleaded no
contest and was placed on probation.
Expansion
of NBA may
occur in
NEW YORK (AP)—The J
expansion committee red
mended Thursday that ;|
league expand to 26 team!I
adding franchises in Chain
N.C.; Min neapolis and eiditi i
ami or Orlando, Fla., for i
1988-89 and 1989-90 sea®
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recommended that Chattel
admitted for the 1988-89sei!i
Minneapolis the followingsed
and the Florida teaminontl
those two seasons.
A decision between Miamia
Orlando will be madeb'il
league in October.
Each city would pay$32.5a
lion foi its franchise if the M
Board of Governors goes ;l
with the recommendationk:I
meets April 22 in New Yort|
three-quarters vote of then
is needed for a franchise toIkI
cepted.
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We were such a long shot ctl
date,” said Dan Lohwassej
spokesman for NBA Cl
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much of a chance of even mici
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real decisions until after d
22,” said Bob Stein, the atitj
for the group which would rettl
pro basketball to Minneafl
where the Los Angeles 1 |
franchise originated. “Now&tf
just hoping the restofthel&|
agrees.”
SMU near decision on fate
of football in 1988 season
DALLAS (AP) — Southern
Methodist Interim President Wil
liam Stallcup said Thursday he
will decide within the next few
days whether to scrap SMU’s
1988 football season.
“I haven’t gotten all the infor
mation I need to make a deci
sion,” Stallcup said after a meet
ing of the interim executive
committee of the board of trust
ees. “I’m trying to keep an open
mind until I get all the facts.”
The NCAA has banned SMU’s
1987 football season and limited
the Southwest Conference school
to seven road games 1988. The
penalties, announced in Feb
ruary, stemmed from $61,000 in
payments to 13 Mustang football
players.
“I’m trying to talk to different
constituencies of the university to
get their feelings on (dropping
football),” said Stallcup, adding
that interim athletic director
Dudley Parker has not yet deter
mined how many players will stay
at SMU to play next year.
But even if there are enough
players, he said he might decide
to cancel the 1988 season out of
safety considerations.
“Even if there were enough to
field a team, you’ve got guys play
ing against numbers four timeras
large,” he said, adding that hav
ing a small team with walk-ons
who might not be in top condition
increases the risk of injuries.
Stallcup said the potential loss
of football revenue in 1988 was
not figuring in his decision.
There may be an advantage in
bringing the football program “to
a complete halt and starting fresh
and clean. If we give up the ’88
season we could get off to a better
start in 1989,” Stallcup said.
SMU officials have discussed
scheduling fall events such as
Homecoming and Parents’ Week
end, which have traditionally cen
tered around football, around
soccer. Stallcup said such a deci
sion has not been made, but that
he supports the idea.
“I like the idea of playing our
sports events on campus,” he
said. The soccer team plays on
Ownby Field on the SMU cam-
E us; the Mustangs football team
ad been playing in Texas Sta
dium in nearby Irving.
Stallcup called the first meet
ing of the interim committee —
appointed Mar. 20 after the
board of trustees abolished the
Board of Governors — routine.
He said the committee heard pro
gress reports from several trustee
groups.
Hagler isn’t intimidated
by Leonard’s comeback
LAS VEGAS, Nev. (AP) — Mar
velous Marvin Hagler is aware of
Sugar Ray Leonard’s popularity, but
he also is secure in his talent and in
his place in boxing.
“Just because he won a gold medal
and became America’s sweetheart,
doesn’t mean I’m a bum,” said the
middleweight champion, who will
fight Leonard in a scheduled 12-
round bout Monday night at Caesars
Palace.
Leonard is coming out of retire
ment for the challenge, and a lot of
boxing people think the challenge is
too late.
Leonard, who won a gold medal
in the Olympics almost 12 years ago,
has had just two fights in almost 62
months. His last fight was a ninth-
round knockout of Kevin Howard
May 11, 1984.
“I don’t believe he has any busi
ness in there with me right now,”
Hagler said Thursday. “He’s been
sitting on the other side (outside) of
the ring (as a television boxing ana
lyst) and thinking he has the tools to
do it. That’s great. It makes me a lot
of money.”
Hagler is guaranteed $12 million,
and promoter Bob Arum said that
Hagler should get at least $15 mil
lion. Leonard is guaranteed $11 mil
lion.
“I need a new breath of air, like
something to motivate me,” Hagler
said of Leonard’s challenge, which
has been criticized in some quarters
because of retinal surgery op
ard’s left eye that promp
retired in 1982.
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Hagler said. "He’s theonelM
the choice. I’m goingiitthereJ
job. My job is to defend t
middleweight championship
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as title fight by the World!
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pion, but would declare the^J
cant should Leonard win.
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