Texas Impostor Enters Guilty Plea

Ron Weaver, who played football at the University of Texas under an assumed identity last season, pleaded guilty Monday to misusing a social security account number.

Weaver, 30, took the name of a younger acquaintance, Joel Ron McKelvey, after his own eligibility to play college football expired at Sacramento State in 1989.

Weaver used McKelvey’s name and social security number while playing two seasons at Pierce College and one season at Texas. He also played four years under his own name at Sacramento State.

Weaver will be sentenced July 29. McKelvey has not been charged.

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Larry Martin Demery, 20, was sentenced to life in prison for his role in the killing Michael Jordan’s father, the same sentence a friend he testified against was given for his role in the 1993 murder of James Jordan.

Demery had pleaded guilty last year to first-degree murder in the death of Jordan, 57, and testified against his lifelong friend Daniel Andre Green, 21.

Green, whom Demery said shot Jordan in his car as he awoke from a nap along a North Carolina highway, was sentenced in March.

Ohio University quarterback Chet Feldman and Ohio State defensive end Matt Finkes, who were charged with assault and resisting arrest after an altercation Friday night at a street party in Athens, Ohio. said there arrest was a case of mistaken identity. Both players have pleaded innocent, a pretrial hearing was set for June 14.

The NCAA stripped Alabama of another scholarship, this time for failing to notify it of loans to players guaranteed by a Birmingham tire dealer. The action brings to 14 the number of 1996-97 football scholarships taken from Alabama for violations of NCAA rules.

Tennis

Pete Sampras, the top-ranked player in the world who is still seeking success on clay, was designated top-seeded in the French Open over defending champion Thomas Muster.

Steffi Graf and Monica Seles were the top-seeded on the women’s side. The pair share the top spot in the world rankings.

The organizing committee for the two-week tournament that opens May 27 went along with the tennis rankings of the professional tennis associations despite Muster’s dominance of the clay courts.

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Marc Rosset upset Boris Becker in consecutive sets to pace Switzerland over Germany in the opening round of the World Team Cup at Duesseldorf, Germany, while Spain defeated Sweden 2-1.

Rosset defeated Becker, 7-6 (7-4), 6-4, and Jakob Hlasek sealed the victory by defeating David Prinosil, 3-6, 6-1, 6-3, as Switzerland avenged its Davis Cup defeat against Germany earlier this year by winning, 3-0.

Sergi Bruguera overcame a dismal start to defeat Thomas Enqvist and send Spain on its way to victory over Sweden. Bruguera rallied for a, 1-6, 6-4, 6-4 victory and Alberto Costa made sure of Spain’s victory by defeating Magnus Larsson, 6-2, 6-3.

Miscellany

Colin Montgomerie rallied to defeat Costantino Rocca in the Andersen Consulting World Championship of Golf at Thame, England while defending champion Barry Lane was knocked out of the match play tournament by Miguel Angel Jimenez.

Montgomerie was 2-down to Costantino Rocca after seven holes but pulled even by the turn and won the match 1-up. Lane was even with Jimenez through 15 holes then three-putted No. 16--his fourth three-putt of the day--to fall 1-down. He halved the last two holes to lose the match.

Former WBC and IBF champion Larry Holmes said his final fight will be against 27-year-old Anthony Willis. The 70th fight of Holmes’ pro career that began in 1975, will apparently will be Atlantic City, N.J., but could be Bay St. Louis, Miss., on the Gulf Coast, where Holmes has fought five times since 1993. . . . Big 12 presidents, overruling most of their football coaches, voted to proceed with initial eligibility standards that are tougher than the NCAA’s and those of most other conferences. . . . Stanford assistant coach Jeff Jackson has been named head basketball coach at the University of New Hampshire.