Kosar’s Contract With Browns Could Be Worth $5.2 Million

The five-year contract rookie quarterback Bernie Kosar signed with the the Cleveland Browns will pay him at least $5.2 million and makes him one of the four richest quarterbacks in the National Football League, the Cleveland Plain Dealer said.

The contract could pay him thousands of dollars more under its individual and team incentive clauses, the paper said.

However, only the $1 million signing bonus and his first-year base salary of $1 million are guaranteed. That means the Browns would not have to pay Kosar any part of his salary if he is released after the 1985 season.

The signing bonus includes deferred payments through 1988, as follows: nothing this year, $400,000 in 1986, $400,000 in 1987, and $200,000 in 1988.

A total of $2 million of Kosar’s annual base salaries, $400,000 per year, also is deferred. It will be paid to Kosar over 10 years from 1991 through the 2000 at the rate of $200,000 annually, plus interest.

Kosar’s base salary jumps from $1 million this year, to $1.1 million in 1986, $1.2 million in 1987, $1.3 million in 1988, and $1.4 million in 1989.

But in actual dollars, minus the deferred money and signing bonus, he will collect $600,000 this season, $700,000 in 1986, $800,000 in 1987, $900,000 in 1988, and $1 million in 1989.

Joe Barry Carroll again asked the Golden State Warriors to trade him to the Milwaukee Bucks, but the Warriors rejected the request, the San Francisco Examiner said.

Warriors owner Franklin Mieuli was quoted as telling Carroll, “You play for the Warriors or you play for nobody.”

The paper reported that the 7-foot center, who left the Warriors to play in Italy last season, met with Mieuli Friday in the Warriors Oakland office at Carroll’s request.

“I told him ‘no way.’ We did not match the offer (by Milwaukee) in order to trade him. I told him he was part of this team,” Mieuli said.

Carroll said “he was sorry to hear that and got up and left,” Mieuli told the Examiner.

Jockey Charles Hinojosa died of severe head injures Sunday night, two hours after his horse fell during the ninth race at Charles Town Race Course and another horse toppled on him at Charles Town, W.Va. He was 24.

Hinojosa was riding Captain’s Saddle in the ninth race. Track officials said Fleeton, ridden by William Sollars Jr., fell on Hinojosa after his horse stumbled. Sollars was treated at the hospital and released.

Tim Hovland of Playa del Rey and Mike Dodd of Manhattan Beach defeated the top-seeded team of Singin Smith of Santa Monica and Randy Stoklos of Pacific Palisades to win the $13,000 Miller High Life Hermosa Beach Open Pro Beach Volleyball title.

Finishing third was the team of Andy Fishburn of Santa Monica and Jay Hanseth of Pacific Palisades.

The winners earned $5,200.

Ubaldo Sacco of Argentina stopped Gene Hatcher of Fort Worth, Tex., in the ninth round to win the World Boxing Assn. junior welterweight title in a scheduled 15-round fight at Campione D’Italia, Italy.

Sacco opened a deep cut over Hatcher’s left eye in the fifth round and pounded away on the wound until the ring doctor stopped the bout at 1:28 of the ninth.

“My eye was bleeding badly and giving me trouble,” said Hatcher, whose record dropped to 23-3.

Sacco, who will celebrate his 30th birthday next Sunday, raised his record to 47-3-1.

Jim Clack, former National Football League offensive lineman, remained in intensive care Sunday in a North Carolina hospital following a traffic accident in which he and his wife suffered multiple internal injuries, officials said in Rocky Mount, N.C.

Clack and his wife, Pattie, were injured in a two-car accident in their hometown of Rocky Mount Tuesday night and have been in Nash General Hospital since then, said Bill Stancil, a hospital spokesman.

With the Pittsburgh Steelers, Clack alternated at center with veteran Ray Mansfield from 1972-74 until being switched to guard in 1975, when he started in all 14 regular-season games on the Steelers’ second Super Bowl championship team.

Later he was traded to the New York Giants, where he played from 1978 until his retirement in 1981.

Auburn football Coach Pat Dye said the Alabama-Auburn series could be canceled if Alabama Coach Ray Perkins doesn’t change his attitude about the game’s location.

Dye said that beginning in 1989 the rivalry should be rotated every other year between Auburn’s Jordan-Hare Stadium and Legion Field in Birmingham, where it is now played.

Perkins has said the game should stay in Birmingham, where neither team has a home-field advantage.

“Ray has come across with the attitude that if you don’t let me hit first then I’m taking my bat home,” Dye said about Perkins’ published comments concerning the rivalry’s location.

“I guess the series could be canceled,” Dye said, but that decision would be made by Auburn President James Martin and the school’s board of trustees.

American Freddie Spencer, riding a Honda, scored a double victory in the Grand Prix de France motorcycle race, winning in both the 250cc and 500cc categories at LeMans, France.

In the 250 race, Spencer finished ahead of West German Anton Mang and Italian Fausto Ricci, both also on Hondas.

In the 500 race, he outlasted Frenchman Raymond Roche, on a Yamaha, and American Randy Mamola, on a Honda.

Before Sunday’s challenge, Spencer had won in the 250 category five times.