Injury Puts an End to Go For Gin’s Racing Career

Go For Gin, winner of the 1994 Kentucky Derby, was retired from racing Tuesday because of a leg injury.

Trainer Nick Zito said Go for Gin had suffered “a little tear of the tendon sheath” in his left foreleg.

“He could run again, but he needs time off--three months,” said Zito, arriving in Baltimore with his entry in Saturday’s Preakness. “That would leave time for just one race before the Breeders’ Cup, and that wouldn’t work.”

Go For Gin finished his career with five victories in 19 starts, and earnings of $1,380,866. He has not won in nine starts since last year’s Derby.

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The field for the Preakness fell to 11 on when Citadeed was ruled out because of an injured left foreleg. Citadeed, the English colt who finished ninth in the Kentucky Derby on May 6, developed an inflammation on Tuesday, trainer Richard Violette said.

Football

Lloyd Carr, appointed Michigan’s interim football coach a week ago when Gary Moeller resigned in the wake of a drunken confrontation with police, will serve at least through the 1995 season, the school said.

The expansion Carolina Panthers of the NFL signed free agent wide receiver and kick returner Dwight Stone, who had 5,103 all-purpose yards in eight seasons with Pittsburgh, to a one-year contract.

Louis Oliver, once a top-round Miami draft pick, re-signed with the team as a free agent. The 29-year-old safety agreed to a two-year contract with the Dolphins after a short stint at Cincinnati.

Tennis

Scott Humphries and Paul Goldstein won their singles matches, then teamed to win the No. 1 doubles as Stanford completed an undefeated season with a 4-0 victory over Mississippi for the NCAA men’s tennis championship in Athens, Ga.

Baseball

Dave Gorrie, who coached baseball at Pepperdine and is a member of the College Baseball Hall of Fame, will speak to the Community College Board of Trustees today at Pierce College in an effort to save the baseball program at Los Angeles City College. LACC decided to drop the baseball program after 63 years. The meeting starts at 3:30 p.m. at the Pierce Campus Center.

The Daiei Hawks in Japan plan to release former National League slugger Kevin Mitchell in a dispute over a knee injury.

Mitchell wants medical treatment, but Japanese doctors who examined the injury don’t regard it as serious enough to affect his playing, the Kyodo News Service reported.

Mitchell, 33, who left the Cincinnati Reds as a free agent, signed with the Hawks for an $5.3 million. He is batting .247 with six home runs in 28 games.

Jurisprudence

A federal jury began hearing the case of former NBA player Jeff Ruland, who claims his basketball career ended when a Boston Celtic ball boy accidentally crashed a ball cart into his leg in January, 1992.

Ruland, who was playing for Philadelphia at the time, is suing the Celtics for compensation for missed games, mental anguish and attorney’s fees.

World Boxing Assn. light-heavyweight champion Virgil Hill has pleaded innocent to a weapons-possession charge brought after a shootout at a nightclub in Mays Landing, N.J., where he was a customer. Hill handed a loaded pistol to a bouncer on his way into the club, his lawyer said.

Miscellany

The NBA expansion draft to stock the Toronto Raptors and the Vancouver Grizzlies will be conducted June 24. Existing teams will be able to protect eight players and none of the teams will lose more than one.

Richard Pound, an International Olympic Committee vice president, agrees with the decision by the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games to set aside prime tickets for government officials.

Somalia’s Olympic track team won’t train in Barrow County, Georgia, if it’s not wanted, said Ali Osman Ali, secretary general of the Somali Olympic Committee.

Some Georgians objected to the Somalia team’s training in their county because of the way some Somalis treated U.S. soldiers in 1993, when troops were in the African nation to help deliver food and keep peace. They cited pictures of a Somali mob dragging an American soldier’s body through the streets of Mogadishu.

Names in the News

Joe Montana will be a studio analyst on the pregame show “NFL Live,” for NBC, the network announced. The hiring will be announced today.

Starting point guard Michael McClain of Washington, who was suspended in February and later pleaded guilty to a fourth-degree assault charge in a case that involved women’s basketball star Rhonda Smith, is leaving the Huskies’ basketball program.