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The Battalion
Monday, October29,1990
Racing world mourns fallen horses
NEW YORK (AP) — Trainer Billy
Badgett has 32 horses in his barn
and was at Belmont Park on Sunday
tending to them.
“I thought about not getting out
of bed today,” Badgett, who trained
Go for Wand, said, “but I really can’t
do that.”
On Saturday, Go for Wand shat
tered her right front ankle while bat
tling to keep the lead over Bayakoa
in the Breeders’ Cup Distaff. Min
utes after the roar of the crowd of
some 50,000 turned into a collective
gasp, as the 3 : year-old filly was hu
manely destroyed on the track.
She died a champion, queen of the
3-year-old fillies, just as she was the
queen of her class last year when she
won the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile
Fillies.
At the request of Jane duPont
Lunger, the 76-year-old owner of
Go for Wand, the filly will be buried
at historic Saratoga.
Ruffian, another champion filly,
is buried in the Belmont infield. Fif
teen years ago, on July 6, 1975, the
unbeaten 3-year-old was destroyed
after breaking down during a match
race against Kentucky Derby winner
Foolish Pleasure.
“You know this kind of thing hap
pens,” Badgett said, “but you never
think it will be your horse.”
In one of the most tragic days in
racing history, two other horses died
and another was retired because of
injury.
Mr. Nickerson, trained by Mark
Reid, collapsed on the turn in the
Sprint and died of an apparent heart
attack. Shaker Knit, trained by Steve
DiMauro, fell over Mr. Nickerson
and suffered a severe spinal injury.
He was put down late Saturday
night.
“He couldn’t stand it (the pain),
and we couldn’t stand watching him
any more,” DiMauro said. “It would
have been inhumane to let him suf
fer.”
Also in the Sprint, Adjudicating,
who finished fourth, suffered a frac
tured right rear cannon bone. He
will be retired to stud in Japan.
Chris Antley, who rode Mr. Nick
erson, broke his right collarbone,
“It will be a while before 1 getovj
the shock,” trainer Ron McAnal
said while accepting congratulatioti
for 6-year-old Bayakoa’s seconj
straight victory in the Distaff. “Tlin
give their lives for our enjoyment.’
While there was sadness in tkj
Belmont stable area Sunday, thesai
ness did not hang like a pall.
The people who work and liveati
race track know that the one suk
thing in horse racing is uncertainty
And for Badgett, there are al
those other horses in his care-anil
hope.
“You go on. There’s nothingelst
i do. You just goon."
you can <
Nuggets slip
past Mavericks
on late basket
Tarkanian appeals to NCAA
UNLV bargains for NCAA reversal of ruling
FORT WORTH (AP) — Walter
Davis’ jumper with a minute left
gave Denver a three-point lead, and
the Nuggets held on to beat the Dal
las Mavericks 138-137 Sunday night
in the preseason finale for both
teams.
Rolando Blackman cut the lead to
one with 45 seconds left and Dallas
got one last chance, but Brad Davis’
driving hook shot rolled off the rim
at the buzzer.
Derek Harper’s 3-pointer gave
the Mavericks a 135-132 lead with
2:20 left. But Avery Johnson, Or
lando Woolridge and Davis scored to
put Denver on top 138-135.
Both teams ended the exhibition
schedule with 2-6 records. It was the
most preseason losses in Mavericks
history.
The game produced the most
points Dallas has ever scored and the
most it has allowed in a preseason
game. Yet the 137 points allowed
was Denver’s best defensive game of
the preseason.
Walter Davis scored 15 of his 16
points in the second half, 10 in the
third quarter when he went 5-for6
from the field. Seven Nuggets
scored in double figures, led by
Wooldridge with 24.
CHICAGO (AP) — UNLV bas
ketball coach Jerry Tarkanian of
fered to sit out the championship
tournament, forfeit a personal stake
of as much as $100,000 in playoff
revenue, and abstain from recruit
ing for a year if the NCAA reverses a
ruling blocking the Runnin’ Rebels
from defending their national title.
The offer was one of four alterna
tives offered to Tarkanian and offi
cials of University of Nevada at Las
Vegas in a two-hour meeting Sunday
with NCAA Infractions Committee,
capping a 13-year legal dogfight
with UNLV in July by banishing the
Runnin’ Rebels from the 1991 bas
ketball tournament.
The three other alternatives were:
• UNLV’s basketball team will
not be permitted to compete in the
1992 tournament.
• Tarkanian will sit out both the
1991 and 1992 tournaments.
• UNLV will make no network
TV appearances during the 1991-92
season, reduce its scholarships from
15 to 13, and reduce the number of
official recuiting visits from 18 to
nine in 1991-92; and allow no off-
campus recruiting by the basketball
staff for a year.
Each alternative was presented as
mutually exclusive, in exchange for
which Tarkanian promised not to
pursue further litigation against the
NCAA.
The Infractions Committee has
Similarly, both Tarkanian and
UNLV president Robert Maxsonde
dined to comment directly.
However, the 60-year-old coacti,
whose winning percentage is tht
highest among active collegt
coaches, said of the offer, “I hopt
this will be sufficient.”
Tarkanian
wide-ranging powers in the matter.
It could let the original ruling stand,
accept any one of the proposals, or
repackage portions of UNLV’s four
proposals.
Four of the committee’s six mem
bers attended Sunday’s second hear
ing with UNLV officials. They de
clined to comment on the matter.
Chairman D. Alan Williams said
only that a decision would be made
“in a timely fashion.”
UNLV officials met with the coni'
mittee a month before the postsei
son ban was announced, and severs
of them as well as Tarkanian et
pressed shock at the severity of tit
penalty announced injuly.
There had been considerablt
speculation since then that UNLf
would offers sanctions ofitsownit
an attempt to convince the NCAA®
overturn the 1991 postseason ban.
Tarkanian said he was willing®
sit out this postseason if a bargain
could he struck that would allow ibis
year’s team, which returns All
American Larry Johnson and thret
other starters from a team that wis
35-5, hack into the tournament.
The offer by Tarkanian togiveup
as much as $100,000 stems fronu
contractual agreement he has will
the university, providing him will
10 percent of any revenue generals!
for the school through postseason
play.
According to estimates, UNLV
pocketed about $1 million for wii'
ning the national championship.
Nike forced to
pull Robinson’s ads
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Can you
say, “Pull that ad from prime time?”
If you’re Nike Inc., you can. Reac
tion to a Nike commercial featuring
San Antonio Spurs center David
Robinson doing a parody of “Mr.
Rogers’ Neighborhood” was so neg
ative it now will be shown only after
11 p.m., Nike officials said Friday.
The Beaverton, Ore.-based
sneaker company said the decision
was made Wednesday after two days
of complaints about the ad, which
was broadcast on ABC’s Monday
Night Football this week.
The commercial, promoting
Nike’s $135 Force basketball shoes,
shows Robinson, the NBA rookie of
the year, tying his shoes.
Robinson looks into the camera
and says: “Can you say, ‘Kick some
butt?”’
The children’s TV star Fred Rog
ers, known for his soothing manner
and cardigan sweaters, often asks his
young viewers if they can say a word.
A Nike employee, who asked not
to be identified, said the ad gener
ated several negative telephone calls.
“They were not happy with it,”
the employee said. “Being associated
with Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood, a
lot of people thought it was targeted
to 3-year-olds.”
Of the three major networks, only
NBC refused to run the spot, cre
ated by the Portland, Ore., agency
Wieden & Kennedy.
When the parody gets too close,
Rogers himself has stepped in. Ear
lier this month, Rogers and his Fam
ily Communications Inc., owners of
the trademarks and copyrights for
the show, sued the White Knights of
the Ku Klux Klan and three men
who created racist and anti-gay tele
phone messages that imitated Mr.
Rogers’ distinctive cadence.
In a settlement, the men agreed to
destroy the tape-recorded messages.
Bowden worrying about
Seminoles’ bad reputation
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) —
Florida State coach Bobby Bowden
said Sunday he doesn’t want his
12th-ranked Seminoles getting a bad
reputation for fighting, but acknowl
edged that may be part of the price
for success.
“Coaches better quit telling their
kids the other team is dirty,” said
Bowden. ‘“Let’s go get old dirty Flor
ida State.’”
Bowden, whose 200th career
coaching victory Saturday was over
shadowed by a game-ending brawl
among players, said some coaches
try to get their teams fired up for an
opponent by using questionable tac
tics.
Bowden was referring to pub
lished statements last week following
Florida State’s 20-17 defeat at Au
burn.
Instead of being able to bask in
the afterglow of the 42-3 rout of
LSU, Bowden’s 200th will be better
remembered for the unruly ending
— and a cascade of boos from the
crowd of 60,111 that sent both teams
into their locker rooms.
“I told our kids it was a shame to
see a game as well played as it was,
that it had to end up that way,” said
Bowden.
Bowden said athletes normally
don’t intentionally draw penalties,
istakes.
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden
—Boris Becker, playing one of
the best indoor matches of his ca
reer, breezed to a 6-4,6-0,6-3vic-
tory over top-ranked Stefan Ed
berg in Sunday’s championship
match at the Stockholm Open.
Becker turned an early hard-
hitting duel into a rout in the sec
ond set and destroyed any hopes
of what was supposed to be a
dream final between the world’s
No. I and 2 players.
The German, who also won the
event in 1988, served and re
turned to near perfection on the
fast Supreme Court at the Globe
Arena.
In the first two sets, he held six
times at love and lost only three
points with serve. He lost two of
those points in game 10th of the
first set, when the Swede got to
30-all for the only time.
But Becker responded with a
deep, hard serve to go to 4
Edberg’s lob sailed long on the
next point, giving Becker the set.
Edberg will keep his No.
:rg will keep
ranking on the ATP computer
despite the setback, but Becker is
breathing down his neck. By next
month’s ATP Championships in
Frankfurt, Germany, Becker
could finally achieve it for the
first time.
Becker’s triumph boosted his
indoor record to 25-1 for the
year, the only loss coming to
third-ranked Ivan Lendl in To
kyo recently. Since the beginning
of 1988, only four players have
defeated Becker indoors.
“It’s awfully tough to return his
serves indoors, when there is
sun and wind,” Edberg said be
fore the title match.
Edberg dropped his serve
the third game of the first set af
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break was enough for Becker.
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