U.S. Must Play Mexico Without Ramos
Veteran midfielder Tab Ramos, disqualified for receiving his second yellow card in the CONCACAF tournament in the United States’ 1-0 victory over Costa Rica Wednesday, will not be playing for the U.S. in Sunday’s Gold Cup championship game against Mexico at Mexico City.
Mexico routed Jamaica, 6-1, Thursday night.
Ramos was disqualified for one game when he received the second yellow card for refusing to leave the field after sustaining an injury in the 42nd minute against Costa Rica. U.S. Soccer officials protested the decision but were unsuccessful in getting a reversal.
Additionally, the United States could be without defender Fernando Clavijo, who has a strained left hamstring.
Hockey
The Mighty Ducks have signed two free agents--defenseman Myles O’Connor and center Shaun Van Allen.
O’Connor and Van Allen have had limited NHL experience. O’Connor, 26, played in seven games with New Jersey last season and had no points. Van Allen, 25, has spent the last five seasons in Edmonton’s organization.
Track and Field
Jackie Joyner-Kersee lost her battle with her husband and coach, and will compete in only one event instead of two at the World Championships at Stuttgart, Germany in August.
Joyner-Kersee, the world record-holder in the heptathlon and the American record-holder in the long jump, will be limited to the multi-event competition, at Bob Kersee’s insistence.
Joyner-Kersee won the heptathlon and long jump at last month’s USA-Mobil Championships at Eugene, Ore.
Names in the News
Jesse Ferguson, rebounding from his recent loss to heavyweight champion Riddick Bowe, scored a ninth-round technical knockout over a bloody Rocky Pepeli in Biloxi, Miss. . . . Former Oregon basketball coach Don Monson was awarded $292,000 by a jury in a breach-of-contract lawsuit against the university. . . . Former Nevada Las Vegas assistant football coach Pete Peltzer, who has spent the last 2 1/2 years in a coma since suffering a massive heart attack, died Wednesday in Topeka, Kan. He was 42. . . . Young Corbett III, who held the world welterweight title briefly 60 years ago, has died at 88. Corbett, whose real name was Ralph Giordano, won the welterweight championship from Jackie Fields in San Francisco on Feb. 22, 1933. . . . The United States defeated Spain, 89-62, behind 19 points from Arkansas’ Corliss Williamson in the Under-22 World Basketball Championships at Burgos, Spain. . . . Jean-Pierre Bernes, the general manager of European soccer champion Olympique Marseille, was freed from prison, a day after he categorically denied any role in a match-fixing scandal.
Auto Racing
Bill Elliott dominated qualifying for the NASCAR 500-kilometer race at Talladega, Ala., to earn his first Busch Grand National pole.
The use of active suspensions and traction-control devices will be allowed through the end of the Formula One season, the circuit’s governing body decided in a reversal of an earlier ruling.
Miscellany
A martial arts festival--a joint Russian/American business venture--will be held on Saturday at the Century Plaza Hotel and Tower, starting with demonstrations at 9 a.m.
