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 will be sentenced July 29 and could face time in jail and a fine.

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Larry Martin Demery, 20, was sentenced to life in prison for his role in 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.

Ohio University quarterback Chet Feldman and Ohio State defensive end Matt Finkes, charged with assault and resisting arrest after an altercation Friday night at a party in Athens, Ohio., said their arrest was a case of mistaken identity and pleaded innocent.

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 was top-seeded in the French Open over defending champion Thomas Muster. Steffi Graf and Monica Seles were top-seeded on the women’s side.

Marc Rosset upset Boris Becker in consecutive sets to lead 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.

Horse racing

Dash For Cash, a two-time world champion quarter horse and acclaimed sire, was put to death at age 23 because of a progressive neurological disease. Dash For Cash won 21 of his 25 races and earned $507,688 between 1975 and 1977. Trained by C.W. “Bubba” Cascio and ridden by Jerry Nicodemus, Dash For Cash won nine stakes races. As a stallion, he sired 729 winners who together have earned nearly $36.8 million.

Miscellany

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, which began in 1975, will be in Bay St. Louis, Miss., or Atlantic City, N.J.

Boxers applying for a California license would have to have a negative AIDS test under a bill approved by the state Assembly.

Defending champion Ameth “Ali’ Aranada was knocked out in the third round of his NABO junior-welterweight title fight at the Forum by Hector Quiroz of Sonora, Mexico. Aranada, of Tijuana, Mexico, fell to 12-3; Quiroz improved to 21-1.

Big 12 Conference 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 was named basketball coach at the University of New Hampshire.