Consistent Tomba Ignores Pain, Wins Again

Alberto Tomba of Italy won his third World Cup slalom of the season on Tuesday, skiing down the Lech Am Arlberg, Austria, course twice in a combined 1:44.73, 1.49 seconds faster than Thomas Sykora of Austria.

It was the fifth consecutive victory in the slalom for Tomba, going back to last season, and he won despite pain from a rib injury suffered in Sestriere, Italy, last week when he ran into a pole.

Labor

The National Labor Relations Board has dismissed an unfair labor practice charge filed by major league baseball’s Player Relations Committee against Bobby Bonilla and John Franco of the New York Mets. The charge had been filed after the two were quoted as threatening players who might cross a picket line.

NHL teams’ union representatives met in Toronto to discuss issues that have divided players and to determine bargaining strategy. Among the issues on their agenda is the league’s proposed payroll tax. The union opposes it, but some players have said they would accept a tax.

“It won’t happen,” said Jeremy Roenick of the Chicago Blackhawks. “We will lose the whole season. We are a capitalist society. We don’t live in old Russia where it was communism. To put a cap on our salaries goes against everything our government and living here in North America stands for.”

Miscellany

Two Southern California ticket brokers, Ticket Time and Top Of The Line Ticket Service, agreed to pay more than $36,000 in fines in conjunction with problems that resulted in hundreds of fans being unable to get 1994 Rose Bowl tickets for which they had paid.

Salt Lake City’s hopes of playing host to the 2002 Winter Olympics received a big boost when a 200-page International Olympic Committee report praised its plans.

ITT Corp. is prepared to make concessions so its casino gambling interests won’t jeopardize the conglomerate’s acquisition of the New York Knicks and Rangers along with Madison Square Garden, Inc.

Russia defeated the Czech Republic, 1-0, in the championship game of the Izvestia Cup hockey tournament.

Former Dodger Don Newcombe’s suit against Coors Brewing Company for using his picture in a magazine ad was dismissed by District Judge Steven Wilson.

Blenda J. Wilson, president of Cal State Northridge, has a report on the school’s athletic program that presents four funding options, all of which would maintain Division I status but three of which would eliminate football.

Wilson said she would present a decision on the program’s future in January.

Names in the News

Oklahoma quarterback Garrick McGee is out of the hospital after being treated for an infection, but it is doubtful he will be able to play against Brigham Young in the Copper Bowl on Dec. 29. . . . Arkansas State linebacker Dedrick Greenleaf, 20, was found fatally shot in his car on a remote East Texas country road. . . . Frank Klopas, who played for the U.S. World Cup soccer team, signed with Apollon Athens.