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New evidence revealed linking
Rose to bets placed on Reds
CINCINNATI (AP) — Baseball
investigators told a state judge
Thursday they have extensive evi
dence that Cincinnati Reds manager
Pete Rose bet on his team’s games.
Special investigator John M.
Dowd said the substantial evidence
includes telephone records, signed
checks and betting sheets in the
manager’s handwriting.
Dowd told Judge Norbert Nadel
and a courtroom crowded with re
porters that testimony against Rose
has been corroborated.
“There are nine witnesses who, in
one way or another, have given in
formation about Pete' Rose betting
on baseball or the Reds,” Dowd said.
The first public glimpse into
Dowd’s report confirms that baseball
has evidence that could get the ma
jor leagues’ all-time hits leader
banned for life from the game.
Rose’s lawvers filed suit this week
in Hamilton County Common Pleas
Court trying to block a hearing next
Monday in New Yprk with baseball
commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti
— the final step before the commis
sioner could act on the allegations.
Dowd was baseball’s only witness
Thursday during a day-long hearing
before Nadel, who will decide
whether to give Rose a temporary
restraining order blocking the hear
ing with Giamatti. The hearing was
recessed late Thursday afternoon
before Dowd could be cross-exam
ined by Rose’s lawyers.
The hearing will resume Friday,
with a decision from Nadel expected
at the conclusion.
Rose’s lawyers have characterized
Dowd’s report as biased, filled with
hearsay and based on the testimony
of a few criminals. Dowd and base
ball attorney Louis L. Hoynes Jr. re
jected those contentions Thursday.
“There is evidence, substantial
and heavily corroborated evidence,
that Mr. Rose bet large sums of
money on major-league baseball
games and on games of the Cincin
nati Reds,” Hoynes said, in his open
ing statement.
Hoynes and Dowd bristled at con
tentions by Rose’s lawyers and sup-
E orters that the investigators were
iased against the manager.
Dowd said a handwriting expert
employed by baseball investigators
had concluded that the handwriting
on three “betting sheets” is Rose’s.
The three slips indicate wagers on
professional sports, including base
ball games, and were taken from
Rose’s home by Paul G. Janszen, who
claims to have run bets for the man
ager.
Rose wants the court, not Gia
matti, to determine whether he bet
on Reds’ games.
Two former Carter H.S. athletes
charged in robbery investigation
DALLAS (AP) — One of two
state champion football players
charged in the robbery of two
Dallas video stores Thursday lost
his invitation to play for the col
lege that awarded him a schol
arship.
Former Dallas Carter cor-
nerback Gary Bernard Edwards,
17, and All-American defensive
back Derric Damion Evans, 18,
each were released on $10,000 in
bonds Wednesday from the Lew
Sterrett Justice Center.
Evans was considered the best
of the 1989 recruiting class at the
University of Tennessee, but
coach Johnny Majors said he will
not be allowed to play for the Vol
unteers.
“Because of the serious charges
involving Derric Evans, I have de
cided that he will not be allowed
to participate in football at the
University of Tennessee,” Majors
said. “In no way am I making
judgment of the facts concerning
Derric’s case.”
Evans and Edwards were ar
rested shortly after 7:30 p.m.
Tuesday, just hours after a Video
Exchange clerk was robbed at
gunpoint of $175 in cash. Detec
tive Hollis Edwards said the two
match the description of two men
who robbed two video stores at
gunpoint.
Majors said he would release
Evans from his national letter of
intent if the teen-ager asks. That
would allow him to accept a schol
arship at another school, but he
would have to sit out a year and
would lose a year of eligibility.
Lt. Jerry Calame said the pa
perwork on the two robberies has
been completed and “it’s in the
mail” to the district attorney’s of
fice. A spokeswoman from the
district attorney’s office said the
cases had not been filed by 4 p.m.
Meanwhile, Calame said, police
are looking into whether the two
could be linked to other rob
beries, as well.
“We have several more (cases)
still under investigation,” Calame
said. “They’re in different stages.
Some are almost completed and
others, we still have to go out and
make some calls and snow some
pictures.”
Evans and Gary Edwards were
starting seniors on the Carter
team, which last season became
the first Dallas Independent
School District team since 1950 to
win a state football
championship.
Gary Edwards has accepted a
football scholarship to Houston.
Confusion surrounding the sports world bordering on chaos
When describing the current state of
athletics, I am reminded of the 1919 “Black
Sox” scandal involving eight players of the
Chicago White Sox which rocked the world
of sports.
The players were convicted of
intentionally losing games in the World
Series for money, which caused outrage
and sadness across the country. One
heartbroken young boy said “say it ain’t so,
Joe,” to player “Shoeless” Joe Jackson, who
was involved in the scheme.
Today, the urge to cry out “say it ain’t so”
is stronger than ever. We have certainly
seen wrongdoing or speculation of
misdeeds in sports in the past, but the
current confusion surrounding the sports
world seems to be bordering on rampant
chaos.
In the past year, there have been more
sports scandals than I can remember. The
Pete Rose saga, the resignations of football
coaches Jackie Sherrill and Barry Switzer
amid controversy, and penalties which
prevented the 1988 NGAA basketball
champion Kansas Jayhawks from
defending their title.
Also, debates over professional players
salaries and enough horror stories about
Jeff
Osborne
Assistant Sports Editor
steroids to stretch to the moon and back,
with Olympic runner Ben Johnson and
former South Carolina football player
Tommy Chaiken leading the list. Oh, and
let’s not forget the plight of former
Cincinnati Bengal Stanley Wilson, who
threatened to squeal on teammates for an
article in Penthouse because he was busted
for drug abuse and they weren’t.
Sportsmanship was once the name of the
game, but all too often thees days the rule is
take the money and run, and if you’re
caught doing something wrong, make sure
someone else gets blamed.
The controversy revolving around Pete
Rose of the Cincinnati Reds, a legend in
baseball, seems to have dragged on forever.
Whether Rose actually bet on his team or
not still remains to be answered, but things
don’t look good for the man who had the
world at his feet a few short years ago when
he set a record for number of base nits in a
career.
The resignations of Coach Barry Switzer
of Oklahoma and Jackie Sherrill of Texas
A&M came within six monhts of each other.
Both had successful, but controversial
programs (with Switzer and his team having
more success and controversy). The
Sooners and Aggies had both become
perennial conference champions (except in
1988), and were making national headlines
with their exploits both on and off the field.
Joe Paterno, football coach at Penn State,
once said he would keep coaching at the
college ranks because he “didn’t want to
leave college football to the Jackie Sherrills
and Barry Switzers'of this world.”
At all levels, sports are increasingly
becoming a big business, with the pleasure
side being pushed aside in the shuffle. A
“win at all cost” attitude is seen as normal,
and good sportsmanship is becoming
increasingly rare.
Sports once provided people a chance to
relax, unwind and take time off from the
real world. Now, sports are filled with
corruption and controversy, a mirror image
of the real world.
Sportsmanship is defined by Webster’s
Dictionary as “fair play; the ability to win or
lose graciously.” Recently, events have
seemed to prove that it’s whether you win
or lose, not how you play the game (just
don’t get caught). Successful coaches can
get the ax for one season of
disappointment.
Sports can be a source of entertainment
and pride if we keep everything in
perspective. Even those of us who get paid
(in money or an education) for playing or
writing about sports should realize the
greatest victory comes from wiining within
the rules.
Competing for pleasure has faded with
the advent of a multi-billion dollar sports
industry.
Nowhere else has the significance of
buisiness’ role in sports been portayed
better than with Jerry Jones’ Dallas
Cowboys. The callousness of Jones’
dismissal of Cowboy personnel who had
been loyal to the organization for years.
The firing of Tom Landry was a painful
awakening for fans. Landry’s long record
of success didn’t even get him the chance to
step down gracefully from an organization
he had put over a quarter of a century of his
life into. The last cornerstone of what once
was America’s Team was swept away like
yesterday’s news.
Jones’ granting of a contract worth over
11 million to rookie quarterback Troy
Aikman has stalled salary negotiations
throughout the league. Players with first-
rate talent now threaten to fight Mike
Tyson (Tony Mandarich) or play baseball
(Deion Sanders) unless they get as much or
more than Aikman. Maybe we should let
them carry out their threats. Life goes on.
Fans need to reclaim the game from the
muck and mire of controversy. Sure, it’s
fun to win, but does it really mean anything
if you have to brek the rules to get there?
If the time comes when the answer is yes,
then we have twisted the meaning of sports
into an ugly spector of what it once was—
entertainment, and a way to teach
cooperation among players and the
importance of rules.
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