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Sports Friday • May8,i McNair pursues NFL HOUSTON (AP) — The Hous ton businessman hoping to get the city a National Football League ex pansion team says Houston could get on a fast track returning to pro football if a stadium financing plan is in place within two weeks. NFL Commissioner Paul Tagli- abue and the league’s stadium committee would come to Hous ton June 30 if a plan is ready by May 19 when the owners begin meeting in Miami, Bob McNair said Wednesday. “Assuming that plan is satisfac tory to them, the commissioner would set a meeting for July to pre sent a stadium plan,” McNair said. “We have every reason to believe we’re going to meet that schedule.” McNair’s remarks came after he met for 90 minutes with about 85 Houston business executives to update them on an efforts to land an NFL franchise to replace the Houston Oilers, who fled to Nashville, Tenn., when city officials refused to build a new stadium. McNair wants help from the ex ecutives to pressure officials to speed up stadium negotiations with the Harris County-Houston Sports Authority. McNair has proposed that the authority build a $275 million re tractable-roof stadium next to the Astrodome, using $145 mil lion in public funds and $65 mil lion each from the football fran chise and the Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo, which also would use the stadium. Authority officials are waiting to complete financing of the new downtown baseball park, now un der construction, before negotiat ing a football stadium deal. “If it’s possible, then we should do it, and 1 will talk to (Sports Au thority Chairman Jack) Rains and see if it’s all possible,” Houston Mayor Lee Brown said Wednes day night. McNair, who once tried to by the Miami Dolphins, is founder of Cogen Technologies and hopes to convince up to 25 business leaders to invest as much as $10 million each to become minority partners in buying a team. McNair said his stake in a new team would be 35 to 40 percent. Sprewell turns down plea WALNUT CREEK, Calif. (AP) — Suspended Golden State War rior Latrell Sprewell has rejected a pretrial offer in his reckless dri ving case that could have sent him to jail for 90 to 120 days, his lawyer said. “The offer was unacceptable, and there was no flexibility in it,” John Burris told the Contra Costa Times on Wednesday. Sprewell, who was reinstated by the NBA this year after attacking ' coach EJ. Carlesimo, faces as much 1 as six months in jail if convicted of misdemeanor reckless driving. Police say Sprewell was driving at speeds up to 90 mph when he lost control of his Mercedes and rear-ended a Toyota on Interstate 680 in Walnut Creek on March 1. IWo people in the Toyota were in jured, although not seriously. The Contra Costa County Dis trict Attorney’s Office outlined its pre-trial offer to Burris during a conference Tuesday at Walnut Creek-Danville Municipal Court, said Dara Cashman, a deputy dis trict attorney. 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When I was a senior, there were probably 30 at each game.” After he struck out 20 against Houston on Wednesday to tie the major league record for a nine-in ning game, everyone wants to watch Wood pitch: fans, his team mates, even opponents. At home, he even turned on the TV to watch replays of his final strike out, the one that tied the record. “It gave me chills,” Wood said. “It started to set in a little when I saw it.” At 20 years old, the Chicago Cubs rookie can’t legally buy a beer to cel ebrate his achievement. He’s only made five major league starts, but he’s already on his way to becoming a sports celebrity. Wood, the Cubs’ top pick in 1995 amateur draft, is baby-faced and ma ture at the same time. He approach es the game like two fellow Texans who have influenced him greatly: Nolan Ryan and Roger Clemens. “I watched Nolan a lot until the past three or four years, and then I started watching Clemens,” Wood said. “I like the way they both pitch, their aggressiveness and their style of pitching.” Wood wears Ryan’s No. 34 and at tended his seventh no-hitter in 1991. “It’s a great honor to be in the same sentence with him,” Wood said. The only other pitcher to strike out 20 in nine innings is Clemens, who did it in 1986 and 1996. Clemens called Wood on Thursday to congratulate him. “He said he would send me something. He was just happy for me,” Wood said. “I was thrilled to death to hear from him. He said he saw the highlights and was ex cited for me. It was just a great phone call.” There were other calls, too, from David Letterman’s “Late Show” and Jay Leno’s “The Tonight Show,” which is originating from a Chicago suburb this week. “I told him (Leno) I had to pass this time,” Wood said. “That’s just not me, I’m not very good at it.” Wood, just three years out of high school, can dominate with a fastball that’s been clocked at 100 mph. That doesn’t surprise Ion Rustenhaven, an assistant coach at Grand Prairie High in Texas when Wood was a senior in 1995. Wood’s velocity increased from the high 80s as a junior into the 90s the following year after a condition ing program that included weight training and water aerobics. “The other coaches and I would just sit there and watch the games frl he’d pitch and look at each ^ shake our heads and say," fair.’ 1 le was just so overpowe: Rustenhaven, now theheadci said Thursday. “That’s kindo way I felt yesterday. The Astros just overmatched.” Wood, 6-foot-5 and pounds, is aggressive andnoi least bit intimidated. He’safe had a confrontation with Dodgers’ Eric Young, who to step toward the mound wht ball went buzzing behindhin lier this season. Wood, in turn, stepped o: front of the mound to askls what he had to say. “He never shows anybody Cubs first baseman MarkG said. “I le doesn’t do anydant: .j' 1 the mound like some pitchers: they get you out. My God,hei years old. He doesn't event how good he is.” Manning and Dyson workout alone, await cam NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Peyton Manning packed up his Knoxville apartment and said goodbye to his friends at the University of Ten nessee. Now he stays busy studying his Colts playbook. Kevin Dyson spends his days lifting weights, run ning, working on pass routes with friends at the Uni versity of Utah and studying his Oilers playbook. Neither of the first-round draft picks is where he wants to be. They would rather be starting their new jobs in Indianapolis and Nashville. But Manning and Dyson, both 1997 graduates, are stuck working out on their own until June 1 — the first day NFL rookies can report. Manning, the No. 1 pick, asked the NFL for a waiver but was denied. “I was hoping that the Peyton Manning deal was going through, so I could go up there ear ly,” Dyson said from his home in Salt Lake City. “Looking at the playbook, you can learn only so much. You need to be on the field to get that experience.” Archie Manning said his son, already desig nated as the Colts’ starting quarterback, is miss ing out on valuable time by not being allowed to get to know his new teammates. “He could also go in with the quarterback coach and the offensive coordinator and spend an hour, two hours every day continuing to learn their offense,” he said by phone from New Or leans. “It would be very beneficial.” At least Manning had the chance to meet most of his teammates during the Colts’ three- day minicamp for rookies and veterans in April. The Oilers, who wrapped up a four-day vet erans’ minicamp Thursday, won’t have a camp for rookies until June 2. Dyson, the 16th pick, is one of nine wide re ceivers on Tennessee’s roster. “Me being up here and them being down there, they’re getting that much more advanced because I have to stay here and work out and do everything here,” he said. The rule is part of the NFL’s collective bar gaining agreement. It mandates when players can report and is intended to create alevelp j ing field for all teams. Whether the draftees: graduated is not part of agreement. "There have been many players prior to ® va ton Manning in the same situation who ha: ready graduated but were not allowed tort: to the team,” NFL spokesperson GregAiellos "They have plenty of time to work with” teams come June 1.’’ Manning and Dyson are the kinds ofpl? 15 P| the NFL wants — workaholics and perfectk Dyson is three classes short of his seconi gree, this one in environmental behavior. Dv - . | whose first degree is in sociology, has spent |\ past three summers working with the she: li department in Salt Lake City and wantsto* Cor with children. Manning, an honor student who earneftvhc degree in speech communication lasti Nhd turned down a return visit to “The LateSI ideal with David Letterman.” He chose instead fulfill three speaking engagements in It nessee this week. I 4.0 & Go Tutoring Located at 2501 S. 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