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Hatfield looking
for TV sponsors
Alvin asks mayor to settle dispute
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP)
— University of Arkansas football
Coach Ken Hatfield has no hard
feelings over a requirement to se
cure sponsors to continue his tele
vised show, his agent said.
Attorney Kirk Wood of Or
lando, Fla., says he believes there
is enough time to meet Little
Rock station KATV’s require
ment.
“He wants to get that done and
I think he’ll be able to,” Wood
said.
KATV has set a Thursday
deadline for Hatfield to line up
sponsors for the show. The sta
tion has carried a Razorback
coach’s show weekly during foot
ball season since the early 1970s.
“We’ll get it done,” Hatfield
said Monday after returning
from vacation. “It’s just that we
had hoped to have it wrapped up
by now. We didn’t want to be try
ing to find sponsors at the last
minute when we were getting re
ady to start the season.”
A daily radio show on the Ar
kansas Radio Network has been
canceled because it was not finan
cially successful, according to
ARN general manager Neal
Gladner.
Wood said he wrote to KATV
president Nicholson and Gladner
in April, and again in June,
asking for proposals about re
newing each show.
The radio show consisted of
daily reports lasting five minutes
and an hour-long call-in show
each Thursday and was worth
about $20,000 annually to Hat
field.
Thursday’s deadline was set by
KATV in a June 27 response,
Wood said. Nicholson said ratings
would not justify what sponsors
were asked to pay for partici
pation on the show.
Hatfield was paid more than
$50,000 for the 1987 TV show,
sources said.
Wood said Hatfield believes
the shows are important to Razor-
back football.
“Money has never been
brought up,” Wood said. “He be
lieves the shows are important for
the program. They take Razor-
back football to the people and to
the young men he will be recruit
ing some day.
“I’m just an attorney and busi
nessman hired by Ken because he
wanted to focus on football.”
“We’re trying to have radio
and TV shows that can sell the
Razorbacks and keep the people
and high school players up
dated,” Hatfield said.
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — San An
tonio Spurs guard Alvin Robertson,
deadlocked with club management
over a new contract, will seek the
help of Mayor Henry Cisneros as an
arbitrator to end the dispute, Rob
ertson’s agent said Wednesday.
Robertson, a three-time All-Star
made $400,000 while averaging 19.6
points last season, but wants a new
six-year contract that would net him
about $1 million per season, his
agent Tom Selakovich said.
Spurs management, however, has
offered only $600,000 with subse
quent increases. Selakovich said
He said he wants Cisneros to act as
an impartial party because Rob
ertson has become part of the com
munity and losing him could hurt
the franchise and the city.
“Mayor Cisneros is involved in
San Antonio and for four years
that’s what my client has done: been
involved in San Antonio,” Selako
vich said at a news conference.
“Whatever he decides we’ll ac
cept.”
Cisneros was out of town and
could not be reached for comment.
S A rSL AIM TO l\l IO
Selakovich said other younger
players, including Spurs No. 1 draft
pick last year, David Robinson, are
getting more money for playing less
than Robertson.
He released figures that would
put Robertson at No. 4 statistically
on the court behind Clyde Drexler,
Michael Jordan and Magic Johnsc:
but far below them financially.
“We’re not asking for parity. K
just want it to be fair,” Selakoft
said.
Robertson said the thought ofi
arbitrator, especially Cisneros,
not strike him well initially.
"1 didn’t think that was the gm
est idea, but you want to be paid;
productivity,” he said. “I neverwj
to feel anger toward the San Am
nio Spurs.
“1 don’t want to be traded, butil
comes to that I will ask tobetradeo
Dawson, Raines hacked about conspiracy
NEW YORK (AP) — Andre Dawson says he
isn’t surprised that owners exchanged informa
tion about him.
Commissioner Peter Ueberroth says he en
couraged the practice and doesn’t see anything
wrong.
And Tim Raines says that if given another
chance at free agency, he may leave Montreal.
Dawson and Raines are among the players re
ferred to as the “January 8 Eight” in the Major
League Baseball Players Association’s post-hear
ing brief involving their charge that the club
owners conspired not to sign free agents.
Dawson’s name appeared on notes taken by
Philadelphia Phillies owner Bill Giles on Jan. 28,
1987. Giles wrote down numbers next to Daw
son’s name which matched the contract offered
to Dawson by the Chicago Cubs five weeks later.
The notation was “5-700 Dawson.” Dawson was
paid $500,000 by the Cubs for 1987 with bonuses
that raised him to $700,000.
“I don’t think that’s a coincidence.” Dawson
said. “That’s probably one of the reasons they
(the Phillies) never made an offer. They were
probably too embarrassed to make an offer like
that.”
He could benefit from any monetary awards if
the arbitrator George Nicolau finds the owners
guilty of collusion. But Dawson waived his right
to become a free agent again when he signet! a
two-year contract with the Chicago Cubs this
spring for a guaranteed $4.15 million.
“I’m where I want to be,” Dawson said. “That’s
behind me now. I took a gamble. 1 realized where
the game was headed and what the owners were
trying to do. I put myself out on a limb and 1 had
a good season. This year. I’m taken care of."
seven players free agents last January when lit
ruled in a 1985 case.
"1 can’t say I’m pleased,” said Raines,
signed a three-year contract for $5 million ot
May 1, 1987, the day he was eligible to re-siji
with Montreal. "I wish it would never have hap
pened. A lot of guys really only get one oppora
nity at free agency. 1 didn’t want to go freeagem
but I was forced. But that’s behind me now.Fvi
got another opportunity. I’ll look at my optic®
again.”
Lance Parrish, who left the I igers and signei
with the Phillies at a cut in salary, could becoraet
free agent again if Nicolau rules against theom
Raines was another of the eight players who
became the first to go past the Jan. 8 deadline for
re-signing with their former clubs. He says that
he would consider leaving the Expos if Nicolau
rules against the owners and then makes Raines a
free agent. Arbitrator Thomas Roberts made
“We’re just waiting for whatever decision lit
comes up with and (will) abide by it,” Parrisl
said.
Ueberroth, in an interview published in
Wednesday’s editions of the Washington
said again that he did not think ownersconspirec
against signing f ree agents.
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