U.S. Soccer Team Lends Moore to German Team
The United States national soccer team sent forward Joe-Max Moore to Saarbrucken of the German second division on a one-season loan Wednesday.
Moore, 23, was a member of the 1994 U.S. World Cup team but did not play in the tournament. National team member Eric Wynalda has played for Saarbrucken.
U.S. soccer officials said that European clubs still are interested in Alexi Lalas, Marcelo Balboa, Paul Caligiuri, Cobi Jones and Mike Sorber, whose contracts expire Oct. 31. Claudio Reyna and Frank Klopas are free to make their own deals.
The USSF also is talking with England’s Football Assn. about an exhibition game against England at Wembley Stadium on Sept. 7.
Basketball
Shawn Respert of Michigan State had 26 points on 10-for-11 shooting, including all six of his three-point shots, as the U.S. Goodwill Games team defeated the Finnish national team, 122-65, in its final exhibition game.
The United States closed the first half with a 42-15 run for a 60-30 halftime lead at Espoo, Finland.
Gerald Eaker was kicked off Ohio State’s basketball team after police said he shot a tire on a teammate’s car. Another player, Greg Simpson, was suspended indefinitely for his role in the shooting.
Swimming
The Janet Evans Invitational swim meet will begin today at USC. It features world record-holders Evans and Jenny Thompson, and Kristine Quance. Jeff Rouse, who has the world record in the 100-meter backstroke, and Greg Burgess, 1992 Olympic silver medalist in the 200 individual medley, lead the men’s field.
Football
The Pacific 10 and Western Athletic conferences have agreed to a three-year contract to have teams meet in the Freedom Bowl at Anaheim Stadium for the next three seasons.
Ray Flaherty, a Hall of Fame end who played on the New York Giants’ 1934 NFL championship team and coached the Washington Redskins to titles in 1937 and 1942, died Wednesday in Coeur D’Alene, Ida. He was 90.
Flaherty, credited with introducing the screen pass, began his professional career with the American Football League’s Los Angeles Wildcats in 1926. He played for the NFL’s New York Yankees in 1927 and joined the Giants in 1928.
Tennis
Top-seeded Michael Stich defeated fellow German Carsten Arriens, 6-2, 2-6, 6-2, to move into the third round of the Mercedes Cup tournament in Stuttgart. Another German, Bernd Karbacher, upset eighth-seeded Paul Haarhuis of the Netherlands, 7-6 (9-7), 6-2.
Stefan Edberg took 62 minutes to rout Alex Antonitsch, 6-2, 6-1, in the second round of a Washington, D.C., tournament. No. 3 Wayne Ferreira, No. 9 MaliVai Washington and No. 12 Amos Mansdorf, the defending champion, lost.
France, with French Open finalist Mary Pierce leading the way, was among four countries to advance to the quarterfinals of the Federation Cup in Frankfurt, Germany. Japan, Germany and South Africa also advanced.
Cycling
Nelson Rodriguez of Colombia conquered a tough course in the Alps to win a stage of the Tour de France, and Miguel Indurain moved closer to his fourth consecutive victory. Indurain finished fifth to hold his lead of more than seven minutes over Richard Virenque of France with four days left.
Field Hockey
The United States advanced to the semifinals of the women’s field hockey World Cup when it beat China, 1-0, in Dublin, Ireland. Leslie Lyness scored five minutes into the second half.
Names in the News
Karch Kiraly, who has been off the pro beach volleyball tour since June 11 with a bruised kidney, will play at a Chicago event this weekend. . . . First-round draft pick Jason Kidd failed to show at the Dallas Mavericks’ mini-camp this week, although Kidd reportedly said he would attend. . . . North American Boxing Federation super flyweight champion Johnny Tapia was arrested in Albuquerque, N.M., on charges he and two other men tried to sell what they claimed was crack cocaine to an off-duty police officer. A police report identified the substance as soap. . . . The Detroit Red Wings waived left wing Bob Probert.
