Tomba Wins Second Slalom Title of Season

Three-time Olympic champion Alberto Tomba, off to his best start since the 1987-88 season, scored his second consecutive slalom victory Monday at Sestriere, Italy, in the first World Cup race run under lights.

The Italian superstar clocked the fastest time in both runs, down the icy Kandahar course, for a winning combined time of 1 minute 53.61 seconds.

Tomba defeated Thomas Fogdoe of Sweden by six-hundredths of a second. Michael Tritscher of Austria was third, nearly two seconds behind the winner.

Tomba’s victory was the 35th of his career.

College Basketball

North Carolina, a winner over Villanova in its only game last week, remained the solid choice for the No. 1 spot in the Associated Press men’s poll.

North Carolina (5-0) received 52 first-place votes and 1,631 points from the national media panel to easily outdistance UCLA (3-0), which held second with five first-place votes and 1,508 points.

Tennessee (7-0) remained No. 1 in the AP women’s poll. USC is 22nd.

Senior forward Terrance O’Kelley, whose academic performance has disappointed Long Beach State Coach Seth Greenberg, was suspended for one game, the school announced.

Swimming

Five Chinese swimmers who tested positive for banned substances at the Asian Games were suspended for two years by FINA, the international swimming federation.

Four male swimmers, including quadruple Asian Games champion Xiang Guoming, and women’s World Championship gold medalist Zhou Guanbin were suspended by FINA to back the two-year bans handed down by the Chinese federation.

The five were among 11 Chinese athletes, including seven swimmers, who tested positive for dehydrotestosterone at the October games in Japan. The other two swimmers, world champions Lu Bin and Yang Aihua, have already received two-year bans for failing out-of-competition tests conducted before the games.

Also suspended were Asian Games 50-meter freestyle gold medalist Hu Bin, 400-meter individual medley bronze medalist Fu Yong and 200-meter butterfly silver medalist Zhang Bin.

Names in the News

The St. Louis Cardinals moved to strengthen one of the worst pitching staffs in the National League, signing free agents Danny Jackson and Tom Henke.

Doug Duennes, 42, was named director of stadium operations for the Dodgers.

Rod Marinelli, 45, became USC’s defensive line coach, after coaching Arizona State’s defensive line the last three seasons.

Vic Shealy has been hired as Azusa Pacific’s football coach. It is the first head coaching job for Shealy, 33, who was an assistant at Baylor for two years and an assistant at Austin Peay for six years.

Penn State’s Joe Paterno was selected by the Maxwell Football Club as its 1994 coach of the year.

Miscellany

Three Southern Methodist University football players were arrested in Denton, Tex., and charged with sexually assaulting a 16-year-old girl at a motel.

Defensive backs Weldon G. English and Calvin Robinson Jr. and wide receiver Eric D. Yarbrough were being held on $50,000 bond each. Each is charged with one count of aggravated sexual assault.

Gary Thomas, a former Baylor assistant men’s basketball coach; Dan Pratt, coach of the Kansas City (Kan.) Community College men’s team, and Darrel Johnson, former Baylor men’s basketball coach, pleaded innocent to federal fraud charges. They and five others are accused of rigging correspondence-course exams and fixing grades.

Carlos Gonzalez of Mexico City stopped Wilber Kigundu of Richmond, Calif., in the eighth round of a welterweight bout at the Forum. Gonzalez is 40-2 with 36 KOs; Kigundu is 12-6-1 with 6 KOs.