Marathon Winner Gets Out of Hospital

Uta Pippig, who won her third consecutive Boston Marathon after being slowed by diarrhea and menstrual cramps, was released from the hospital Wednesday after being admitted a day after Monday’s race.

“She was very, very dehydrated because she lost so much fluid,” said Dieter Hogen, her coach of 10 years. “Everyone is very optimistic. Uta feels very good. She’s getting around. She can do what she wants.”

Pippig had not experienced these problems before. Hogen said doctors at an unidentified hospital conducted blood and other tests, and the results are expected today.

Hogen said if it had been any race but the Boston Marathon--and any Boston race besides the 100th--Pippig wouldn’t have finished.

Jurisprudence

A trial for Dallas Cowboy receiver Michael Irvin on drug charges was set for June 24, but a judge took no action on several media organizations’ request to lift a far-reaching gag order.

Irvin and two women, Angela Beck and Jasmine Nabwangu, were indicted April 1 on felony cocaine possession charges and misdemeanor marijuana charges. Irvin will face trial alone.

Attorneys for five media organizations urged District Judge Manny Alvarez to lift or modify restrictions on an extensive gag order in the case issued March 26 by Criminal Judge John Creuzot.

Alvarez did not immediately rule on the requests, but gave lawyers one week to try to settle their differences on the matter.

Peter Graf was charged with evading $13 million in taxes by failing to report as much as $28 million of his daughter Steffi’s income.

The prosecutor’s office in Mannheim, Germany, filed the charges against Graf and tax advisor Joachim Eckardt for tax evasion between 1989 and 1993.

Tennis

Top-seeded Pete Sampras defeated Lionel Roux of France, 6-3, 6-2, in the second round of the Japan Open at Tokyo. Second-seeded Michael Chang joined Sampras with a victory over Germany’s Alex Radulescu, 6-2, 3-6, 6-1.

Top-seeded and defending champion Thomas Muster of Austria and fourth-seeded Sergi Bruguera of Spain advanced to the third round with straight-set victories at the Barcelona Open.

Pro Football

The Oakland Raiders, seeking help at offensive tackle, acquired former USC standout Pat Harlow from the New England Patriots for a second-round draft pick received hours earlier from San Francisco.

The Atlanta Falcons have offered quarterback Jeff George a three-year contract worth between $10 million and $10.5 million--about $2 million a year less than the five-year, $25-million deal he turned down last fall.

Indianapolis Colt General Manager Jim Irsay said he has formally assumed control of the team, which he has been running since his father, Robert Irsay, suffered a stroke last fall.

Miscellany

The Master’s College pulled the plug on its baseball season this week after seven players and other students were found to have engaged in “sinful acts,” Athletic Director Bill Oates said.

The team will return next year under assistant coach Monte Brooks. Current Coach Jack Mutz has stepped down to become full-time assistant athletic director, a move Oates said was unrelated to the Mustangs forfeiting their final nine games.

Neither Oates nor Mutz would comment on the nature of the transgressions that brought an end to this season, except to say school policy was violated. The Master’s, a fundamental Christian school, prohibits students from dancing, swearing, gambling, smoking and drinking alcohol.

King defenseman Philippe Boucher had surgery Tuesday to remove torn cartilage from his right wrist.

U.S. soccer Coach Steve Sampson had emergency surgery for acute appendicitis, three hours after checking himself into Westlake Medical Center. Sampson, 39, was listed in satisfactory condition.

Michigan State will forfeit its five football victories of 1994 because it used an ineligible player. University President M. Peter McPherson said NCAA regulations were violated by an academic advisor in order to keep a player eligible and that a technical violation occurred when a Florida man gave gifts to recruits.

New Mexico center Kenny Thomas has offered to settle his lawsuit against the NCAA by sitting out the Lobos’ first four basketball games next season. Jack Kitchin, the NCAA’s outside legal counsel, said the NCAA was studying the proposal and planned to respond to Thomas’ lawyers next week.

Cincinnati signed Charles Williams, a point guard from Chaffey College, and is now one player over the NCAA’s scholarship limit, a university spokesman said.