Winter SportsNorway’s Lasse Kjus and Atle Skaardal...
Winter Sports
Norway’s Lasse Kjus and Atle Skaardal won World Cup championships and Kjetil Andre Aamodt and Ingeborg-Helen Marken won races on home snow at Kvitfjell.
Kjus won the men’s overall title, and Skaardal won the super-giant slalom championship by finishing third in the race, which was won by Aamodt in his first victory in two seasons.
Marken won the last women’s super-G of the season.
American Donna Weinbrecht beat Candice Gilg in the finals of a World Cup dual mogul competition at Salen, Sweden. . . . Defending champion Doug Swingley pulled away from the pack, dashing to the Yukon River and leaving his nearest Iditarod competitor 90 minutes behind.
College Football
The NCAA put Mississippi State on one-year’s probation after determining that an employee and two boosters made improper inducements to potential football recruits.
Former Nebraska quarterback Tommie Frazier was released from a hospital after 11 days of treatment for a blood clot in his right leg.
Pro Football
The Pittsburgh Steelers and San Diego Chargers, the last two AFC champions, will meet in Tokyo on July 28 to begin the second decade of “American Bowl” exhibition games. . . . NFL attendance set a record last season with an average crowd of 62,682 for each regular-season game, 46 more people per game than the previous record, set in 1994. . . . The Miami Dolphins failed to match the San Diego Chargers’ three-year, $9.6-million offer to defensive end Marco Coleman. . . . DThe Dallas Cowboys decided not to match the New York Giants’ five-year, $10-million offer to reserve offensive lineman Ron Stone. . . . Linebacker Michael Brooks, the leading tackler for the New York Giants the past two seasons, signed with the Detroit Lions as a free agent. . . . Former Tampa Bay defensive lineman Santana Dotson will sign a three-year contract with the Green Bay Packers that is expected to average about $1.6 a season.
Golf
Tour rookie Tim Herron tied the course record with a 10-under-par 62 for a two-stroke lead in the first round of the Honda Classic at TPC Eagle Trace in Coral Springs, Fla.
Jurisprudence
Lawyers for Lord Danielle As Saddiz Al Amin Sallam U’allah, who changed his name from Daniel Green in jail, presented evidence for jurors to consider in deliberating whether he should get life in prison or death after being convicted of killing James Jordan, the father of Michael Jordan.
Miscellany
Pete Sampras, ranked No. 1 in the world, limped into the quarterfinals of the ABN AMRO indoor tennis tournament in Rotterdam, rallying to beat Jakob Hlasek, 6-7 (8-6), 6-4, 6-4, after twisting his ankle in the second set.
Beginning next month, pro boxers will have to take an AIDS test to fight in New Jersey. Larry Hazard, commissioner of the State Athletic Control Board, said that anyone who tests positive will be banned from boxing in the state.
Names in the News
Former Philadelphia Eagle owner Leonard Tose, who squandered his fortune on drink and gambling, was evicted from his French-style mansion on Philadelphia’s Main Line on his 81st birthday.
