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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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Former Grand Predrie standout dominate
CHICAGO (AP) — He was a high
school sophomore in Texas, just 15,
when a scout watched him pitch for
the first time.
“I guess word got around,” Kerry
Wood said. “More and more started
coming. 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.’’
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turned down a return visit to “The LateSI ideal
with David Letterman.” He chose instead
fulfill three speaking engagements in It
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