O’Sullivan Beats Maree in Penn Relays 5,000

Marcus O’Sullivan, former Villanova standout who did not decide until nearly the last minute to run, outkicked former Wildcat Sydney Maree and won the Olympic Development 5,000-meter race Thursday night in meet-record time in the Penn Relays track and field meet at Philadelphia.

The slender O’Sullivan, biding his time behind the fast early pace cut out by Maree, made his big move with about 300 meters remaining and won handily in 13 minutes 33 seconds, the fastest time in the world this year and more than 18 seconds faster than his personal best of 13:51. It bettered the meet record of 13:33.6 set in 1976 by Marty Liquori of Villanova.

Maree finished in 13:37.4.

In another race, Keith Brantley, former All-American at Florida, won the men’s Olympic Development 10,000 in 28:14.0, the fastest time in the world this year.

Kansas City has notified the U.S. Olympic Committee that it wants to be considered as a possible host city for the 1992 Summer Olympic Games.

The USOC’s executive board will meet June 15 in Indianapolis to decide which American city it will support for the 1992 Winter and Summer Games. The cities will be chosen by the International Olympic Committee in October of 1986.

The IOC said that official bids for the 1992 Games have been received from Barcelona, Spain; Brisbane, Australia; Belgrade, Yugoslavia; New Delhi, Paris and London, and the combined Netherlands cities of Rotterdam and Amsterdam.

A former teller at the Keystone race track has been charged with stealing nearly $500,000 that he bet and then lost at the track.

Robert Beitz, 44, of Philadelphia, who was fired after the theft was discovered last December, was charged with theft by deception, theft by unlawfully taking, theft by failing to make required deposit of funds and receiving stolen property.

Czechoslovakia has reached the medal round of the World Ice Hockey Championships at Prague, Czechoslovakia, with a 7-2 win over Spain. The other teams in the medal round are the Soviet Union, the United States and Canada.

The International Amateur Athletic Federation (IAAF) has warned that it will crack down on agents demanding appearance money for athletes at track meets, and that it will ban athletes who violate new rules on appearance fees.

A statement issued by IAAF general secretary John Holt said that the federation’s council, convening in Rome at the end of March, “considered at length the practice of agents demanding money from meeting organizers for the participation of athletes who, it is often claimed, are exclusively represented by the agent in question.”

The Dallas Cowboys failed to appear for a benefit basketball game at Roanoke, Va., Thursday night against the Washington Redskins, disappointing a crowd of 1,800.

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Billie Moore, women’s basketball coach at UCLA for the last eight years, has signed a new three-year contract that will extend through the 1988 season.

George Harris, USC assistant water polo coach, has been named coach of the U.S. water polo team that will play in the Maccabiah Games in Israel this summer.

Tex Winter, long-time college basketball coach who spent part of his career at Cal State Long Beach, is stepping down as a part-time assistant at Louisiana State. Winter is recuperating from surgery to remove benign tumors on his throat.

Michael Cooper of the Lakers has been named to the NBA’s all-defensive team, selected by the league’s coaches. Also selected were Utah Jazz center Mark Eaton, guards Sidney Moncrief of Milwaukee and Maurice Cheeks of Philadelphia and forward Paul Pressey of Milwaukee.

Darrell Waltrip pushed his Chevrolet to a track record 90.279 m.p.h. at Martinsville, Va., to win the pole for Sunday’s NASCAR Grand National race.