Tomba Bounces Back to Win in Slalom

Alberto Tomba of Italy won a World Cup slalom on Tuesday at Sestriere, Italy, one day after finishing 17th in a giant slalom.

Tomba, in two runs down his favorite Kandahar course, defeated Austrian slalom specialist Thomas Stangassinger by 0.75 seconds.

Ole Christian Furuseth of Norway was third in his best slalom finish in two years.

It was Tomba’s second slalom victory of the season and fifth in seven years in Sestriere.

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Germany’s Jens Weissflog, with a best jump of 96 meters and a total of 238.5 points, beat Norway’s Espen Bredesen and Austria’s Andreas Goldberger in the second stage of the ski jumping World Cup at Predazzo, Italy.

Baseball

Mike Scioscia, 35, agreed to a minor league contract with the Texas Rangers, but Manager Kevin Kennedy said the former Dodger catcher probably would make the major league club as a backup to Ivan Rodriguez.

The Dodgers agreed to terms with Jeff Treadway on a minor league contract that will pay the infielder a guaranteed salary of $500,000. Treadway, a left-handed batter who will turn 31 next month, batted .303 with two home runs and 27 runs batted in in 97 games for the Cleveland Indians last season.

Third baseman Randy Ready agreed to a minor league contract with the Montreal Expos and will report to spring training as a non-roster player.

A record 273 baseball players made $1 million or more this year, topped by Chicago Cub second baseman Ryne Sandberg at $6,379,213, according to a salary study by the Associated Press.

Jurisprudence

Prosecutors filed criminal charges against two neo-Nazi skinheads in the beating of a U.S. luge athlete in Oberhof, Germany, in October.

A 16-year-old from Suhl and a 21-year-old from the Bavarian city of Bamberg were charged with causing grievous bodily harm in the Oct. 29 attack, regional prosecutor Heim-Juergen Nebel said.

Duncan Kennedy of Lake Placid, N.Y., was beaten by about 10 people outside a discotheque after some had insulted his black teammate.

Running back Harvey Williams of the Chiefs was acquitted of assaulting a woman in a Kansas City bar on Sept. 20.

Former Oklahoma State and Raider quarterback Rusty Hilger pleaded guilty in Purcell, Okla., to trying to buy cocaine from an undercover police officer in August. Hilger was given a deferred three-year sentence on a felony charge of attempting and conspiring to buy cocaine.

Miscellany

Roberto Duran, 42, stopped 21-year-old Tony Menefee in the eighth round at Bay St. Louis, Miss., in the 100th fight of his career. Duran is 91-9.

Marianne Stanley, who filed an $8-million sex discrimination suit against USC and Athletic Director Mike Garrett, is being considered for a marketing and promotions position with the Stanford women’s basketball team.

Cheryl Levick, a Stanford associate athletic director, said she is trying to schedule an interview with Stanley, who coached 16 seasons, four at USC. Her contract with USC was not renewed last June after she asked to be paid similarly to George Raveling, USC men’s coach.

Robert Bell, Stanley’s attorney, said she is interested in the part-time, temporary opening.

Meanwhile, Stanley is awaiting a decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco. She asked the panel to overturn a federal judge’s ruling and reinstate her as USC women’s coach.

Germany and Argentina, perennial World Cup contenders accustomed to huge crowds, will play before more empty seats than spectators at the Orange Bowl today. Promoters had hoped for a crowd of 30,000, but said only 15,000 tickets had been sold for the rematch of the 1986 and 1990 World Cup finalists. The Orange Bowl seats 75,000.

Coach Bob Knight of Indiana, having served a one-game suspension imposed by the university, will not be further disciplined by the Big Ten, assistant conference commissioner Mark Rudner said.

Quarterback Glenn Foley, who led Boston College to a 41-39 upset of then-No. 1 Notre Dame last month, will lead the East team in the East-West Shrine Game next month at Stanford.

An Italian entry in the Whitbread Round the World Race that lost its rudder 11 days earlier arrived in Fremantle, Australia. Guido Maisto, skipper of the Whitbread 60 Brooksfield, said that when the rudder shaft snapped inside the boat in winds of 40-50 knots, the blade bashed a one-foot hole in the bottom, and the boat took on three tons of water.

An Illinois congresswoman has called for an investigation of an NCAA committee that she says includes members who are proponents of genetic and racial superiority. Rep. Cardiss Collins (D-Ill.) accused the NCAA of hiring a closely knit group of researchers who were members of what she described as the Beyondism Foundation. The foundation, Collins said, favors hereditary improvement by genetic control.