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f those familiar with Barry Foster’s
amity understand completely why
te is anxious to leave Arkansas and
tart hauling home those NFL pay-
hecks.
Foster, a two-year starter for the
lazorbacks and a former star at
hincanville High School, has de-
ided not to return for his senior
ear and will be up for grabs in the
4FL draft, scheduled Sunday and
donday.
Projected by some as a late sec-
md-round pick, Foster says any
igning bonus and salary he receives
vill go to help his struggling family.
Foster’s mother is a single parent,
dio has been unable to work since
986, and has had neck and back
urgeries in that time. She is trying
0 raise Foster’s twin sisters, Yulena
md Selena, on $376 monthly in fed-
:ral assistance.
“My children don’t go hungry,”
Mrs. Foster said. “But since I got
lurt, I can’t work. We don’t want the
TOrld. We just want a decent living.”
"If Barry makes it in the pros, I
old him he doesn’t have to give my
nything. That makes him mad. He
ivants to help us.”
Arkansas coach Jack Crowe, who
eplaced Ken Hatfield three months
igo, said he initially had a poor time
ommunicating with Foster after the
tandout fullback announced he
would be leaving. But Crowe said he
now believes the Razorbacks should
ncourage underclassmen to enter
he draft if they are projected as
arly draft picks.
“People ask me if I am upset that
Jarry is turning pro,” Crowe said. “I
m not. 1 told him that if he can
make the money as a pro, then you
need to take it.”
Last year’s second-round draft
hoices averaged $165,000 in sala-
ies. The average signing bonus was
(255,000, with a $43,000 addition
or making the team’s roster.
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IRS: Everything coming up Roses;
ex-manager planning to plead guilty
CINCINNATI (AP) — Pete Rose
has agreed to plead guilty to failing
to report income in exchange for
avoiding harsher felony charges as
part of an agreement with federal
prosecutors to be announced Friday,
a source told The Associated Press
today.
There was no deal on a possible
jail sentence for the former Cincin
nati Reds manager, who was ban
ished from baseball last summer for
gambling.
Rose, however, would have to re
pay several hundred thousand dol
lars in back taxes as part of the
agreement, the AP learned.
Rose is expected to appear Friday
morning before U.S. District Judge
S. Arthur Spiegel, who can either ac
cept or reject the arrangement.
“There’s been some documents
filed. They’ve been sealed. Any com
ments I could make would be inap
propriate,” Assistant U.S. Attorney
William Hunt said. “I would antic
ipate that they will be unsealed to
morrow.”
The charge of failing to report in
come will be brought against Rose in
the form of an information, which is
filed by a federal prosecutor rather
than through a grand jury, the
source said.
A federal grand jury in Cincinnati
began investigating Rose’s taxes last
May. It wrapped up its investigation
earlier this year and Rose entered
the agreement with prosecutors, al
lowing him to avoid indictment, the
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TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — When a baseball struck a
10-year-old boy in the chest and killed him dur
ing a Little League game last month, league offi
cials claimed it was only the second such death in
40 years.
But a 1986 federal study documented nearly
two dozen cases in which children died after be
ing hit in the chest by baseballs.
“Parents should be aware of that danger, and
they should take some precautions,” said Albert
King, the dean of bioengineering at Wayne State
University who headed the study by the U.S
Product Safety Commission.
“Nobody should be getting hurt that badly
playing baseball. It’s a non-violent, non-contact
sport.”
William Ryan Wojick was struck in the chest by
a pitch as he batted during a game here March
18. The impact of the ball stopped his heart and
he died at a hospital 45 minutes later.
Little League officials in Williamsport, Pa., ac
knowledged they read the report evaluating 23
cases like Wojick’s soon after it was published.
But they concluded the incidents were too rare to
justify requiring child pitchers and batters to
wear chest protectors as the study panel recom
mended.
Officials rechecked their records this week and
now say Wojick was the third Little Leaguer in 30
years who died after being hit in the chest with a
ball.
“These were isolated incidents —freak things.
To take drastic measures seems inappropriate,”
said Steve Keener, national spokesman for Little
League baseball.
After he was told about the study, Wojicks’s fa
ther criticized Little League officials for not fol
lowing the panel’s advice.
“If they nad information that children should
wear chest protection and did nothing about it,
then I’m frustrated,” Jeffrey Wojick said. “It’s
not going to bring my son back. But I’m Willing to
take it to the Little League to help make the game
safe for other kids.”
But King said the Little League and many par
ents resist requiring chest protection for pitchers
and batters because they don’t think baseball is
dangerous.
“Little League should acknowledge this situa
tion and do something to help prevent it because
it is preventable,” he said.
Brewers’ bats
sing in 11-0
rout over Texas
Sports Focus: NFL Personalities
Bum’s Back ...
Coach returns to Oilers in new capacity
FULSHEAR (AP) — Direc
tions to a man’s place of business
can often offer insights into his
personality.
Behind a small forest of oaks
you’ll find Bum Phillips, the for
mer coach of the Houston Oilers
and New Orleans Saints and now
one of the more famous ranchers
in Fort Bend County.
Instead of herding helmeted
behemoths through a football
practice, Phillips is yelling at a
young cattle dog named Andy
and coaxing 20-odd head of cattle
into a covered arena.
Phillips is one of the best-liked
figures in Houston sports history,
but there’s little doubt he’s from
the country and doesn’t care to be
defined in any other terms.
“I started out in ranching and
I’m going to end up the same
way,” he said.
Phillips is as much at home on
winding country roads, creaky
old bridges, cattle pens and cut
ting horses as he was straddling
the sidelines in the Astrodome
and Superdome.
But Phillips won’t be home on
the ranch on Sundays this fall.
He’ll be back in the Astrodome
and other NFL stadiums as a
color analyst for the Oilers’
broadcast network on KTRH-
AM.
Phillips also will accept a lim
ited number of public appear
ances and speaking engagements
on behalf of the Oilers.
It will be Phillips’ first associa
tion with the NFL since he retired
from the Saints in 1985, saying
“I’m just loading up the wagon
and not worrying about which
mule it’s hitched to.”
He hasn’t regretted riding
away.
“When I walked away from
football I forgot it at that instant,”
Phillips said. “Coaching does that
to you. You get your butt beat
one week and you’ve got to forget
reaching does that to
you. You get your butt beat
one week and you’ve got to
forget it. I guess I was
ready to get out because I
truly didn’t miss it.”
— Bum Phillips,
Former Oiler’s coach.
it and play the next week.
“Evidently, I learned that les
son well. I guess I was ready to
get out because I truly didn’t miss
it. I got right into the cattle busi
ness and I’ve been thinking about
that ever since.”
So why return now, even to the
radio booth?
Because, after the horses have
been fed and watered and he’s
driving home in his pickup truck
late at night. Bum has memories.
He remembers returning to
the Astrodome to 50,000 crazed
“Luv Ya Blue” fans after losing
the AFC championship game to
Pittsburgh in 1979.
“That was a great feeling to
have everyone in town, all on the
same page, everybody pulling in
the same direction,” Phillips said.
“I’d like to see that get started
again.”
He shook his head and spit to
bacco on the ground.
“You expect to see 50,000 fans
at a major championship game,
not coming out and to see a team
that just got the hell beat out of
it.”
That was when Bum, speaking
through teary eyes, told the fans
“This year we knocked on the
door, next year we’ll kick the SOB
down.”
But the Oilers never kicked
down the door to the Super Bowl,
and Phillips left under less than
harmonious circumstances.
It has taken 10 years and the
departure of Ladd Herzeg as Oil
ers general manager to get Bum
back in the Astrodome.
“I wasn’t trying to hide out; I
just wasn’t interested in the peo
ple who were running it at the
time,” Phillips said. “I didn’t have
any ax to grind. I was just happy
doing my thing.”
Even last season after Herzeg’s
departure, Phillips was conspicu
ously absent from a reunion of
Oilers players at a home game.
“I can’t put it in words, but it
just didn’t feel right to be there,”
Phillips said. “It was like there
was still a division there. Now it’s
different.”
Oilers owner Bud Adams is
glad to have Phillips associated
with the Oilers once again.
“People on the street thought
there was animosity between us,
but that was never the case,” Ad
ams said. “There are always going
to be personnel changes. That’s
just a part of the game.
“We thought he’d be a positive
addition to the broadcast team.
He’ll add charisma.”
Oilers Executive Vice Presi
dent Mike McClure, who left the
Oilers in 1981 and returned prior
to last season, wanted to bring
Phillips back into the fold.
“I just thought it was the ap
propriate thing to do. He was
such a big part of a successful
Oiler era,” McClure said.
Fans likely will expect to hear
the homey style that made Phil
lips among the most quotable
coaches.
Phillips is eager to give the ra
dio booth a try, out he won’t force
it.
“If it gets to the point I don’t
want to do it any more or they de
cide I’m not what they want, they
don’t owe me a damn thing,”
Phillips said.
ARLINGTON (AP) —Chris Bosio
pitched a four-hitter for the Ameri
can League’s first complete game of
1990, and Milwaukee took batting
practice against the opposing pitch
ers for the third time this week as the
Brewers trounced Texas 11-0
Thursday night.
On Wednesday, the Brewers de
feated the Rangers 11-6. At Fenway
Park on Monday, Milwaukee routed
Boston 18-0. In its last four games,
the Brewers have scored 42 runs.
Greg Vaughn and B.J. Surhoff
each homered for the Rangers on
Thursday off Bobby Witt (0-2).
Bosio, who led the Brewers with
15 wins last season, struck out five
and walked one. There have been
four complete games in the National
League this season.
Bosio (1-0) retired the first nine
batters before Gary Pettis and Rafael
Palmeiro singled in the fourth. After
Julio Franco popped out, Bosio
grabbed Ruben Sierra’s hard
comebacker and turned it into a
double play.
Milwaukee took a 2-0 lead in the
first inning on a walk to Billy Bates,
Surhoff s double, and Robin Yount’s
RBI single. The second run scored
when Dave Parker grounded into a
double play.
Vaughn hit his first homer of the
season, a 430-foot shot to center
field, to give Milwaukee a 3-0 lead in
the second.
Yount’s leadoff triple and Par
ker’s sacrifice fly put the Brewers
ahead 4-0 in the third inning and
Surhoff hit a solo homer in the fifth.
The Brewers got three runs in the
sixth inning off reliever Brian Boha-
non with the help of an error by Pet
tis in center field.
After singles by Rob Deer and Ed
gar Diaz, Bates singled to center
where Pettis slipped and let the ball
roll past him. Deer and Diaz scored
with Bates taking third. Surhoff
scored Bates with a sacrifice fly.
Milwaukee made it 10-0 in the
seventh in reliever Ramon Manon’s
major- league debut on an RBI
groundout by Diaz and Charlie
O’Brien’s run-scoring single.
Parker drove in the Brewers’ final
run with a run-scoring double in the
eighth.
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