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NFL enacts
rule to limit
steroid use
NEW YORK (AP) — It probably
doesn’t mean the return to the days
of 240-pound linemen, but the NFL
is getting tougher on the use of ster
oids, which for more than a decade
turned some marginal players into
near-300-pounders.
The league said Tuesday that
players caught using steroids a sec
ond time could be subject to disci
pline by Commissioner Pete Rozelle.
The warning was contained in Ro-
zeile’s annual drug memo sent to all
NFL training camps.
The discipline was not specified in
the 15-page document and league
officials sought to play down the
change.
“Last year we tested the players
for anabolic steroids for the first
time, this year we are again testing,”
said NFL spokesman Joe Browne.
“The difference this year is that
we have told the players that they
could face possible disciplinary ac
tion. However I am not suggesting
suspensions for testing positive for
anabolic steroids at this time.”
Doctors and other critics of ster
oids have long warned of their ad
verse side effects, including the
long-term possibility of cancer, steri
lity and various other maladies or
diseases.
The NCAA began a testing pro
gram two years ago that resulted in
several football players, including
All-American linebacker Brian Bos-
worth of Oklahoma, being banned
from bowl games. Bosworth, who
said he took them only once, now
plays for the Seattle Seahawks.
Rozelle’s first mention of steroids
was in his 1987 message on prohib
ited drugs, which also include co
caine, marijuana and ampheta
mines.
“The League no longer merely
condemns the misuse of these sub-
| stances,” he said in last year’s memo.
“They are prohibited in any quantity
for any purpose.”
That phrase was also contained in
this year’s message.
But Rozelle went further this
year, noting that players in whom
steroids are detected in camp-open
ing drug tests are subject to the ran
dom testing for “reasonable cause,”
similar to that imposed on those who
test positive for other substances.
If that takes place at training
camp, Rozelle said, the player will
then be re-tested within four weeks.
If that test turns up positive, he will
then undergo a complete medical
evaluation by the team physician and
the NFL’s drug advisor, Dr. Forrest
Tennant.
“Each instance in which a second
positive test for anabolic steroids is
confirmed will be handled on a case-
by-case basis,” Rozelle wrote. “In
volved players will be subject to ap
propriate discipline by the commis
sioner.”
Sports
Rockets sign guard Woods on
may go after Malone next
Houston club
HOUSTON (AP) — The Houston Rockets
signed free agent guard Mike Woodson to a five-
year contract Tuesday, one day after trading
popular Robert Reid to the NBA expansion team
Charlotte Hornets.
New Rockets Coach Don Chaney said one of
his immediate needs has been met with the sign
ing of Woodson, who played under Chaney with
the Los Angeles Clippers. His other need is for a
forward to play alongside star center Akeem Ola-
juwon.
“One of my immediate needs for this team was
to have a bona fide shooting guard. As far as I’m
concerned, Mike will be the starting guard,”
Chaney said during an afternoon news confer
ence at The Summit.
Woodson said deciding with which team to
play was a new experience for him since being
traded three times throughout his nine-year Na
tional Basketball Association career.
“I wanted to get out of L.A.,” Woodson said
who played for the Clippers the last two seasons.
“The last two years has been very, very frustrat
ing as far as winning ballgames.
“This is a team I think I can play for. I had it
mapped out a list of teams I thought I could play
for and this was probably the number one team.
This is a big moment for me. I don’t think when
you play this game no one likes to lose.”
Woodson, who is the first player signed by the
Rockets under the new collective bargaining
agreement between the NBA and the player’s as
sociation, said he also talked to Phoenix, Detroit
and the Clippers.
Speculation continues that the Rockets may
sign another free agent, Moses Malone, who
earned NBA most-valuable player honors during
a previous tenure with Houston.
The 6-foot-5, 198-pound Woodson led the
Clippers in scoring the last two seasons, averag
ing 18 points and 3.4 assists in 1987-88 and 17.1
points and 2.7 assists during the 1986-87 season.
He established career season-highs in assists
(273), free throw percentage (.868) and minutes
played (2,534) last season. He has a career aver
age of 15.1 points in 629 games.
Woodson was the 12th pick in the first round
by New York in 1980 after an outstanding col
lege career with Indiana. After one season with
Knicks, he was traded to New Jersey for former
Rockets’ star Mike Newlin. Early in the 1981-82
season New Jersey traded Woodson with a first-
round draft pick to Kansas City for Sam Lacey.
He spent five seasons with the Kings including
one in Sacramento before being traded to Los
Angeles in August 1986 with Larry Drew, a first-
round draft choice and a second-round draft
pick for Junior Bridgeman, Franklin Edwards
and Derek Smith.
Woodson has not avearged below 15 points a
game in six of the last seven seasons, and he
scored his career-high 48 points while with the
Kings in 1983 — making 22 of 24 from the field
in that game. He has not made less than .800
from the free throw line in each of the last five
seasons.
The Rockets traded 10-year veteran Reid on
Monday for guard Bernard Thompson and a
second-round draft choice in 1990.
Chaney said the main reason Reid was re
leased was that once they shed Reid’s $475,000-a-
year salary, the Rockets had room under the
NBA’s $6.7 million salary cap for Woodson.
Woodson, who was making about $375,000
with the Clippers, will be paid a salary nearly
identical to Reid’s by the Rockets although exact
terms of Woodson’s contract were not disclosed.
“When you’re making deals and trying to im
prove your team, you make business decisions,”
Chaney said. “Basketball is run like a business
nowadays.”
The Rockets now believe they have solved
their problems at shooting guard with the addi
tion of the 30-year-old Woodson and No. 1 draft
pick Derrick Chievous of Missouri.
Skins’ Schroeder wants starting job or trade
CARLISLE, Pa. (AP) — Jay Sch
roeder, displaced as the Washington
quarterback in last year’s Super Bowl
season after a Pro Bowl year in 1986,
said Tuesday that he would prefer to
be traded rather than remain a
backup to Doug Williams.
“I’ve had a blast playing here,”
Schroeder said. “But then again, if
you’re not going to play, it’s not the
place to be. You’d rather start some
where else and take your chances on
getting to the (playoffs) with some
body else.”
Schroeder led the Redskins to the
NFC Championship game in 1986,
his first full season.
But last season he was benched
twice due to ineffectiveness, the last
time for good. Williams replaced
him in the regular-season finale and
went on to lead Washington to a 42-
10 Super Bowl victory over the
Denver Broncos.
Schroeder and Redskins Coach
Joe Gibbs had a one-on-one talk late
Monday night to discuss the situa
tion. Gibbs categorized the confer
ence as “a good talk,” but Schroeder
said the discussion did little to make
him feel better about his situation.
“I walked out feeling the same as I
did when I walked in,” he said.
“Nothing’s new.”
Schroeder, who is 27 to Williams’
33, replaced an injured Joe Theis-
mann in Week 11 of the 1985 sea
son. He helped the Redskins win
that game and four of the next five.
In 1986 he threw for 4,109 yards
and 22 touchdowns to help Wash
ington move to within one game of
the Super Bowl.
“This situation is hard because
I’ve been there, I like the feeling of
being there and I want it again,”
Schroeder said. “Nine time out of
10, once the young guys go out there
and play, they find out it’s fun. They
want to be out there all the time, and
when they’re not, they say the things
I’m saying.”
Schroeder said there “have been
talks” between his agent and officials
of the Los Angeles Raiders concern
ing a possible trade. Asked when
such talks last occurred, he replied,
“I don’t want to answer that.”
There were reports before the
draft that the Raiders were attempt
ing to put together a package of
draft choices for Schroeder and San
Diego also expressed interest. But
both said they thought the Redskins’
asking price was too high.
With Williams coming off knee
surgery and third-string quarterback
Mark Rypien still waiting to see his
first minute of NFL action, it would
appear that the Redskins would be
reluctant to trade Schroeder.
‘Wrist watch’ may be over for rejuvenated Danny White
THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. (AP)
— Second-string quarterback Danny
White threw a series of 50-yard
passes and walked to the sidelines
with a big smile.
“The wrist watch is dead and bur
ied,” he said. “You can burn it.”
The 36-year-old White was
plagued throughout the 1987 season
by calcium deposits in the wrist of his
right arm which kept him in pain.
His performances suffered accord
ingly as he suffered 17 interceptions
with only 12 touchdowns passes.
The heralded “wrist watch” devel
oped because nobody, including
White, knew how he would pass in a
game because of the wrist’s condi
tion.
White hopes his 13th year in the
NFL will be his lucky one. He
dreams of a scenario where he
wrests the starting job from Steve
Pelluer and finally gets the Cowboys
into the Super Bowl.
“I feel I can regain the consistency
I had in the past and get my job
back,” White said. “My wrist is no
problem. The pain is gone. This
year there is no ice, no tape and no
braces. Last year it was painful ev-
erytime I played.”
Pelluer turned in back-to-back
mistake-free performances as Dallas
knocked both St. Louis and the Los
Angeles Rams out of the NFL play
offs in the final two games of the sea
son.
But Coach Tom Landry was im
pressed with White’s early perfor
mance in training camp this week.
“He’s been looking good but we’ll
find out,” Landry said. “Two-a-day
workouts take their toll.”
The Cowboys were 6-2 in the
1986 season before White was
sacked by the New York Giants’ Carl
Banks. White’s wrist was broken and
so were the Cowboys’ hopes of a
playoff season.
“It has been one of the toughest
things to get over,” White said.
Tyson may be
near agreement
with manager
NEW YORK (AP) — Lawyers for
heavyweight champion Mike Tyson
and his estranged manager, Bill Cay-
ton, said Tuesday they are hopeful
they can agree this week to allow Ty
son to face Frank Bruno on Sept. 3
in London.
The agreement, if reached, would
also postpone until a fall trial the is
sue of whether Cayton will manage
Tyson until 1992, when the contract
which Cayton claims to have will ex
pire.
During six hours of conferences
and negotiations in New York State
Supreme Court, the attorneys met
twice with Justice David H. Edwards
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“Let the record show that the at
torneys for the parties have been in
conference with the court this' af
ternoon in an attempt to resolve
some of the differences,” Edwards
said from the bench.
Tyson’s lawyers agreed that until
the court reconvenes he will make
no attempt to negotiate sites for him
self. Cayton had already been re
strained by the court from making
deals for Tyson.
“The only thing that happened to
day was that we agreed to preserve
the status quo,” said Peter Parcher, a
lawyer for Tyson.
Tyson did not appear at the hear
ing, which consisted only of brief
statements from Justice Edwards
and an agreement by the lawyers to
continue negotiating until Thurs
day.
Tyson claims that he terminated
his contracts with Cayton and is not
committed to Cayton and his com
pany. Cayton, who co-managed Ty
son with Jimmy Jacobs until his part
ner’s death on March 23, alleges that
upon Jacobs’ death he became Ty
son’s sole manager into 1992.
The litigation over Tyson’s man
ager has put on hold his plans to de
fend the title against Bruno in Lon
don. Thomas Puccio, Cayton’s
lawyer, agreed with Parcher that
successful negotiations in the next
48 hours could allow that fight to
take place.
“I think it’s fair to say that the par
ties have made it possible for the
Bruno figl^t,” Puccio said. “We’ll
have to see whether that can be
worked out.” ' '
If they can agree on the Bruno
fight and a method to ensure that
the $21 million Tyson earned for
knocking out Michael Spinks can be
safely frozen, then the overall issue
of whether Cayton is Tyson’s man
ager would be postponed several
months until a full trial can be held.
Earlier in the day, Puccio filed a
46-page response to Tyson’s order
to show cause and more than 100
pages of affidavits and news clip
pings in an attempt to show the
court that Tyson considered his con
tract with Cayton valid until shortly
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