Kansas State Athletes Are Arrested in Separate Cases

Kansas State quarterback Michael Bishop, the star of the 10th-ranked Wildcats’ victory over Syracuse in the Fiesta Bowl, has been arrested on battery charges at Manhattan, Kan.

In a separate incident, Manny Dies, a key player on the Kansas State basketball team, was arrested on drug and alcohol charges.

Kansas State sports information director Kent Brown said Sunday there would be no comment from the university until further details were available.

Both arrests occurred in the Aggieville area of Manhattan, an area of bars and restaurants near the Kansas State campus that is a popular hangout of students.

Bishop was arrested on two counts of aggravated battery and one count of battery and was released on $3,000 bond, according to a statement from Riley County police.

Police said they responded to a call of a fight and found three people with lacerations to the face. One victim had a broken tooth and another needed 38 stitches to the face.

Bishop threw for 317 yards and four touchdowns and ran for another score in Kansas State’s 35-18 victory in the Fiesta Bowl.

Riley County police also reported they stopped a vehicle operated by Dies in another section of Aggieville for a liquor violation.

Dies, averaging 16.3 points a game, was arrested on charges of transporting an open container of liquor, obstruction of the legal process, possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia. Dies was released on $1,500 bond.

Tennis

Mark Philippoussis spoiled Michael Chang’s 26th birthday, beating the defending champion, 6-3, 6-2, to capture the St. Jude indoor tournament at Memphis, Tenn.

The Australian finished Chang off in one hour, 19 minutes for his fifth career victory and first since the Queen’s tournament last June.

Unseeded Swiss teenager Patty Schnyder fought off two match points and upset top-seeded Jana Novotna, 6-0, 2-6, 7-5, at Hanover, Germany to win the Faber Grand Prix and her second career title.

Britain’s Greg Rusedski defeated defending champion Marc Rosset of Switzerland, 7-6 (7-3), 3-6, 6-1, 6-4, in the final of the $1 million European Community Championship at Antwerp, Belgium.

If he’d won, Rosset would have been on course to capture a racket made from 13.2 pounds of gold and studded with 1,617 diamonds. It’s worth an estimated $1 million and is given to a player who wins three times in five years.

Unseeded veteran Lori McNeil of Houston won the singles title at the inaugural USTA Women’s Challenger of Rochester, defeating sixth-seeded Anne Miller of Midland, Mich., 7-6 (8-6), 7-5, in Rochester, Minn.

Stanford swept the men’s and women’s titles at the USTA/ITA National Intercollegiate Indoor Team Championships in Madison, Wis., eight months after they swept the NCAA titles last May. The Cardinal men beat Illinois, 5-0, and the women defeated Duke, 5-3.

Soccer

Germany defeated Saudi Arabia, 3-0, at Riyadh, Saudi Arabia in its second warmup for this summer’s World Cup when it opens against the United States.

Eighteen people were injured when spectators and police clashed after an Italian League soccer match at Naples, Italy .

Twelve fans and six officers were hurt, none seriously, in battles in and outside San Paolo Stadium, where AS Roma beat Napoli, 2-0, the ANSA news agency reported.

Miscellany

Three-time world indoor champion Maria Mutola of Mozambique set a world 800-meter record of 1 minute 56.36 seconds at Lievin, France. The previous mark was 1:56.40 by Christine Wachtel of East Germany on Feb. 13, 1988.

A member of the Orlando Predators arena football team stole $3,500 that had been donated for a youth football league that he was organizing at Mount Dora, Fla., police said.

John Wesley Clark, 30, was charged with two counts of grand theft. He told authorities he cashed the checks and spent the money for his personal use, according to his arrest report.

Carlos Navarro defeated Nicky Bentz in a unanimous 12-round decision to win the World Boxing Union’s vacant junior featherweight championship at Indio.

Navarro (14-0, 11 knockouts), 21, of Los Angeles, was knocked to the canvas in the second round and bled from his nose the rest of the fight. But the southpaw controlled Bentz (30-2-1, 25 knockouts) and won the fight by scores of 115-109, 117-105 and 116-106.

The fifth-ranked UCLA women gymnasts won the second Bruin Classic at Pauley Pavilion, scoring 194.55 points to defeat No. 11 Oregon State (192.5), No. 7 Penn State (190.8) and Cal State Fullerton (189.2).