Mike Rozier Signs Four-Year Contract With the Houston Oilers

Mike Rozier, the 1983 Heisman Trophy winner from Nebraska, signed a four-year contract with the Houston Oilers Monday that will pay him a reported $2.25 million.

He became available to the Oilers, who held his National Football League draft rights, when he bought out his contract with Jacksonville of the United States Football League.

Rozier gained 1,361 yards and finished second among USFL rushers this season.

Rozier passed the Oilers’ physical examination earlier Monday and plans to be ready for preseason camp later this month.

Bernie Kosar, quarterback for the University of Miami, will be drafted by the Cleveland Browns in the NFL’s 1985 supplemental draft today.

The supplemental draft is held every season for players who complete college or otherwise become eligible after the regular NFL draft. Teams pick in the same order as the regular draft. The Browns obtained the pick from the Buffalo Bills in exchange for draft choices.

Fifteen players are eligible for the supplemental draft, including James Corazzini, a kicker from El Camino Junior College in Torrance, and Thomas Fowler, a wide receiver from Cal State Long Beach.

A volleyball game between professional athletes, billed as a charity event, was canceled amid lawsuits and charges that the sponsoring company failed to make clear its non-charitable status.

National Sports Charities, which sold $65,000 worth of tickets and advertising for the game, never was intended as a charitable organization, said co-founder Scott Davis.

The company, formed last March, billed itself in promotional material as a group of concerned professional athletes and business people who wanted to “help those in need.”

The game, scheduled Sunday at Georgia Tech to raise money for a handicapped children’s park, was to have featured pro football players from the Atlanta Falcons, but was canceled by Georgia Tech officials.

Davis and his partner Clarence Scott, a former Cleveland Browns defensive back, were sued last month by the state Governor’s Office of Consumer Affairs for allegedly using deceptive business practices and violating Georgia’s professional fund-raisers act.

Scott and his wife, Regina, who have left the company, also have filed suit against Davis. Davis has filed for bankruptcy protection for National Sports Charities.

American Greg Lemond and four-time Tour de France winner Bernard Hinault, led the team of La Vie Claire to a 45.8 mile time trial victory in the 72nd Tour de France.

Lemond was in fourth place in the overall individual standings at the end of Monday’s race.

The 10-man team clocked in at 1 hour, 30 minutes and 9 seconds and was a minute ahead of second-place team of Kwantum.

Belgian Eric Vanderaerden, a member of the Raleigh team, still remained the overall leader with a lead of 32 seconds over Hinault.

Japan defeated the United States, 9-7, at Tokyo to even the best-of-seven U.S.-Japan Collegiate Baseball Championships at two victories apiece.

The Americans hit four home runs, including a grand slam by Matt Williams of the University of Nevada Las Vegas. Williams had another homer in the game. It was the third straight game in which the United States has hit a grand slam.

Senda Berenson Abbott, L. Margaret Wade and Bertha F. Teague became the first women to be inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame.

Abbott, is credited with organizing the first women’s basketball game in 1893. Wade coached Delta State (Miss.) to three straight national championships (1974-77). Teague coached high school basketball for four decades in Oklahoma, where her teams compiled a 1,152-115 record.

Other inductees were Nate Thurmond, a former center with the San Francisco Warriors and Cleveland Cavaliers, Marv Harshman, the University of Washington coach who retired this season. Harshman coached for forty years at Washington, Pacific Lutheran and Washington State.

Alfred Cervi, one of the top backcourt players of his day with the Buffalo Bisons and the NBA’s MVP in 1946-47, and W. Harold Anderson, who in his 39-year coaching career led Bowling Green to three NCAA and six NIT berths, also were inducted.

The University of Arizona outlined a required treatment and rehabilitation program for student-athlete drug and alcohol abuse, including possible suspension, dismissal and loss of individual financial aid for repeat offenders.

The Athletic Department, in announcing a three-phase policy, stepped up a program of anonymous testing of athletes begun last fall, but spokesman Butch Henry said the new plan was not being instituted because of any rampant problem.

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Swimmers Bengt Baron of California and Bruce Hayes of UCLA were selected to the first team of the College Sports Information Directors of America All-American team for minor sports.