Upon Further Review, Foster Still Has Record

Greg Foster is still in the record books. Two days after Britain’s Colin Jackson thought he broke Foster’s 60-meter hurdles record of 7.36 seconds, embarrassed track officials acknowledged that Jackson had only tied the mark.

A review of the photo-finish print from Jackson’s run Saturday at a Britain-U.S. meet at Glasgow revealed that his time was fractionally slower than originally judged. The difference was enough to round the Briton’s time up to 7.36, instead of 7.35.

Baseball

Sen. Howard Metzenbaum (D-Ohio), chairman of a Senate subcommittee on antitrust, monopolies and business rights, criticized baseball for weakening the authority of the commissioner.

He called the owners’ actions “totally absurd.”

The owners announced Friday that they had eliminated the commissioner’s power to act “in the best interests of baseball” from most business areas, leaving them intact only in issues dealing with integrity of the game.

“It makes the commissioner’s position a nullity,” Metzenbaum said. “It flies in the face of the promises the owners made to Congress to preserve the office of the commissioner.”

The Angels announced they have hired former infielder Rick Burleson, 42, as roving minor league baserunning coach. Tom Lawless, who served in that capacity the past two seasons, will manage the Angels’ Cedar Rapids minor league club. Angel conditioning coach Jimmie Reese, 92, who was too ill to be in uniform the second half of the 1993 season, is scheduled to leave today to rejoin the team for the opening of their spring training camp in Tempe, Ariz.

Montreal relief pitcher John Wetteland agreed to a one-year contract for $2,225,000. Houston outfielder Luis Gonzalez agreed to a one-year deal worth $1.63 million.

TV-Radio

All-sports radio station XTRA today will announce a lineup change that involves a new morning show. Beginning next Monday, nighttime host Rick Schwartz will be joined by Mike Berger and Jeff Prescott and the three will do a daily 5-9 a.m. sports-entertainment show. Berger and Prescott will move over from XTRA’s FM sister station.

The “Loose Cannons,” Steve Hartman and Chet Forte, will move to a 9-noon slot, followed by Jim Rome and then Lee Hamilton.

Details for a new nighttime show have not been finalized. KMPC’s Joe McDonnell and Tony Femino, formerly of KMPC, are possibilities, or Pete Rose’s Florida-based syndicated show might be moved. Rose’s show is now on XTRA after midnight.

ABC-TV and the Atlantic Coast Conference have reached a multiyear agreement to extend the network’s live coverage of ACC football games, beginning in 1996.

Football

The Dallas Cowboys decided Monday to forgo the NFL’s “franchise player” designation for the second consecutive year, but they declared Erik Williams a “transition player,” which will allow teams to match any offer made to the Pro Bowl tackle.

Linebacker Michael Cofer, who spent the 1993 season on injured reserve because of a knee injury, was waived by the Detroit Lions.

The effort to bring a Canadian Football League team to Baltimore this year will be all but completed today when Mayor Kurt Schmoke announces that he will lease Memorial Stadium to Jim Speros, a Virginia businessman who has been vying for months to bring professional football to Baltimore.

Names in the News

Derek Anderson, Ohio State’s leading scorer with a 15-point average, will miss the rest of the season because of a knee injury. . . . Tracy Austin defeated Monique Javer, 1-6, 6-0, 6-3, to advance to the second round of the IGA Tennis Classic at Oklahoma City.