Stanford Hires Stanley Part-Time

Marianne Stanley, a former USC women’s basketball coach who filed a sex discrimination suit against the school last summer, was named promotions director of the Stanford women’s basketball program, it was announced Monday.

Stanley, a coach for 16 years, including four at USC, will be responsible for marketing the Cardinal, who will play host to the NCAA West Regional in March. Stanley will not be involved with coaching, said Stanford Coach Tara VanDerveer, who hired Stanley for the part-time position. “Being around the game will be good,” Stanley said. “I’m looking forward to promoting women’s basketball.”

The hire will not affect Stanley’s litigation against USC and its athletic director, Mike Garrett.

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Natalie Williams scored a career-high 35 points and had 15 rebounds to lead UCLA to an 88-78 overtime victory over Rutgers at Pauley Pavilion.

Pro Basketball

Isiah Thomas of the Detroit Pistons rejected a trade to the New York Knicks in a meeting Monday night with team owner Bill Davidson, the Detroit Free Press reported.

“He isn’t going anywhere. He got what he wanted,” a Piston source told the Free Press.

Details of the meeting with Davidson weren’t available, but Thomas apparently was seeking a new contract. He is in the last year of a pact that pays him $2.4 million this season. Thomas has a no-trade clause, but reportedly was ready to waive it if he got a contract extension.

College Football

The Football Writers Assn. of America voted for Florida State as the nation’s No. 1 team.

Florida State edged Notre Dame, 13-12, in points from balloting by a special FWAA committee.

The Rose Bowl trailed the Cotton Bowl in its head-to-head matchup and finished third among the seven New Year’s Day college football bowls carried on broadcast television, according to overnight figures from the nation’s leading markets released by the A.C. Nielsen Co.

Wisconsin’s 21-16 victory over UCLA on ABC drew an 11.2 rating, while Notre Dame’s 24-21 Cotton Bowl triumph over Texas A&M; on NBC had a 12.5. Florida State’s 18-16 national championship-clinching victory over Nebraska in the Orange Bowl on NBC was the day’s highest-rated game with an 18.9

The Rose Bowl was the highest-game in the Los Angeles market with a 20.8.

Napoleon Kaufman of Washington, who ran for a school-record 1,299 yards last season and is only 440 yards short of becoming the school’s all-time rushing leader, announced that he will return for his senior season.

Running back Marquette Smith, one of the nation’s most heavily recruited players out of high school three years ago, said that he will transfer from Florida State to Central Florida.

Soccer

Goalkeeper Rene Higuita of Colombia ended seven months in jail and stirred hopes that he may play in the 1994 World Cup.

Higuita, Colombia’s starter before he was jailed in June, was released after posting $12,250 bail. He is charged with helping to negotiate the release of a kidnaped girl and accepting $50,000 from her father.

An exhibition between the United States and Colombia at Miami on Feb. 20 was called off to avoid a World Cup conflict. The Americans instead will play Bolivia. The switch was made so the United States will not play one of its first-round opponents in this summer’s World Cup.

UCLA’s women’s soccer coach, Joy Fawcett, has been elevated to full-time head coach status.

Miscellany

North Carolina guard Donald Williams underwent another X-ray and a bone scan and was told the injury to his left foot is tendinitis, rather than a stress fracture as feared, and he will miss the Tar Heels’ next game. . . . Wally Masur defeated Cedric Pioline, 7-5, 6-4, to help Australia to a 3-0 victory over France in the quarterfinals of the Hopman Cup at Perth, Australia.

Chief Wahoo, a rusting city landmark that some Native Americans have denounced as a demeaning caricature, was removed from atop Cleveland Stadium. But the Indians still plan to keep the Chief Wahoo logo. . . . A lawyer for former heavyweight boxer Tim (Doc) Anderson said that his client was drugged--possibly with LSD--in a 1992 loss to Mark Gastineau.