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Spinks calls it quits after loss
Razorback hoop star
faces uncertain future
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP)
— Arkansas basketball coach No
lan Richardson said Wednesday
that he won’t deal with forward
Ron Huery’s team status until
matters related to Huery’s week
end arrest are resolved.
Richardson said in a statement
issued by the UA sports informa
tion office that he’s more con
cerned about the 21-year-old Hu-
ery as a person than as an athlete.
Huery was arrested at 2 a.m.
Saturday in Memphis, Tenn., and
was charged with carrying a dan
gerous weapon, public drunken
ness, reckless driving and driving
under the influence of intoxicat
ing substances.
A police report said Huery was
driving a car with a flat tire at a
high speed. Police said they
found a loaded 9mm automatic
pistol and about 20 rounds of am
munition in the vehicle.
“I’ve talked with Ron and his
mother, and my concern at this
point is Ron as a person rather
than his basketball future,” Rich
ardson’s statement said. “I want
to make sure he receives the
guidance and counseling he
needs at this time.”
Gary Steverson, who coached
Huery in high school, said Huery
told him he didn’t know a pistol
was in the car.
“He said it belonged to some
one else and that he was unaware
it was there,” Steverson said.
The police report said Huery
registered 0.15 on a breathalyzer
test, but Steverson said Huery
told him that the test did not reg
ister above the legal level of 0.10
until he took it a third time.
The 6-foot-6 Huery led the Ra-
zorbacks in scoring last year with
13.4 points per game.
NEW YORK (AP) — Michael
Spinks, the only light heavyweight
ever to dethrone a heavyweight
champion, tearfully announced his
retirement Wednesday, a month af
ter Mike Tyson ended his quest to
regain the crown.
“I’ve never retired from anything
except selling newspapers,” the 32-
year old Spinks said, breaking into
sobs between words, then wiping
away the tears.
“It’s been a tough 12 years. But I
have to admit, it’s been fu,n.”
Spinks, whose 91-second loss to
Tyson at Atlantic City, N.J. June 27,
was the only one in his 32 profes
sional Fights, said he will join his pro
moter and manager Butch Lewis as
an agent-advisor to young athletes.
An Olympic middleweight cham
pion in 1976, Spinks turned pro six
months later and quickly won eight
straight Fights before taking time off
to help his brother Leon win the
world heavyweight title from Mu
hammad Ali.
He won his first pro title in 1981
when he defeated Eddie Mustafa
Muhammad to capture the World
Boxing Association light-heavy-
weight title, then beat Dwight Mu
hammad Qawi on March 18, 1983 to
unify the championship.
On Sept. 22, 1985, having beefed
up from 175 pounds to more than
200, he became the First light heavy
weight to take away the title from a
heavyweight champ when he out
pointed Larry Holmes in 15 rounds
for the International Boxing Feder
ation championship.
“Twelve years is a lot of time for
getting run at and having to duck a
lot of punches,” said Spinks, who
said Lewis had advised him to quit
while he still had his health and $25
million in the bank.
“But I look at some of the older
guys—Jersey Joe Walcott, Smokin’
Joe Frazier; Archie Moore, Muham
mad Ali. They made 12 years look
like six months.”
Frazier, in fact, was one of those
on hand during the tribute to
Spinks. And that former champion,
who fought his last fight at 37, sug
gested that Spinks might be quitting
too soon.
Lady Ags sign
lefty hurler
A southpaw will man the mound
for the First time since 1983 for the
Lady Aggie softball team next sea
son.
Tammy Capijla, a 5-foot-9 left-
handed pitcher from Norwalk,
Calif., signed a scholarship with
Texas A&M for the 1989 season.
Capilla had a 15-4 record with a 0.14
earned run average, 139 strikeouts
and three walks during her senior
season at Leffingwell Christian High
School. When she wasn’t pitching,
Capilla played first base and ran up
some impressive offensive statistics
— a .651 average with five homers
and 32 runs batted in.
“Tammy has the potential to step
right in and help us immediately,
not only on the mound but at first
base as well,” said Bob Brock, A&M’s
softball coach. “She is another in the
long line of pitchers from California
who are sometimes overlooked dur
ing the recruiting process.
“I am very impressed with her
ability. She throws with a lot of veloc
ity, and with continued work on her
movement, she can develop into a
fine collegiate pitcher.”
Appeals court rules NCAA records
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal appeals
court ruled that the NCAA and the South
west Conference may keep the public from
seeing their investigation files which are not
subject to Texas open records laws.
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, in a
ruling made public Wednesday, reversed a
Texas federal judge who said news reporters
had the right to see information on recruiting
investigations at conference schools.
A three-judge panel of the appeals court
said the two organizations are not “govern
mental bodies” under Texas law, although
they receive public funds, and therefore can
not be forced to open their records.
The case went to court when reporters
tried to find out about a football recruiting
scandal at Southern Methodist University.
News organizations maintained that the
Texas Open Records Act of 1973 gave public
access to information from any organization
supported in part by public funds.
District Judge James Nowlin found in 1986
that because both organizations received pub
lic funds they couldn’t keep records secret.
However, the appeals court panel reversed
his decision after checking numerous rulings
by the Texas attorney general to determine
what constitutes a “governmental body” un
der Texas law.
“On the one hand,” Judge Henry Politz
wrote, “. . . the NCAA and the SWC provide
services to Texas public universities, but ob-
protected
viously not as speciFic or Finitely measurable
as done by a company which sells pencils or
repaints buildings.
“On the other hand, there apparently is
some common purpose of objective between
the association and the universities, or they
would not be drawn to each other. . . .”
The appeals court noted that “general sup
port” is required for an organization to be
designated a governmental body.
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