Georgia’s Dooley Is Hospitalized

Georgia Athletic Director Vince Dooley was hospitalized Tuesday at Athens, Ga., because of abdominal pain.

Dooley, 71, was in stable condition and undergoing tests at St. Mary’s Hospital. The cause of his pain was still unknown early Tuesday evening.

School officials said they had been in contact with Dooley, who was being kept at the hospital overnight.

Dooley is in the last year of his contract and will retire in June after 40 years at the school. He wanted a contract extension but was turned down by university President Michael Adams, angering Dooley’s supporters.

Adams found out Dooley had been hospitalized shortly after a school meeting.

“Dr. Adams was concerned to hear the news and wishes Coach Dooley well,” spokesman Tom Jackson said.

Dooley coached the Georgia football team for 25 years, winning six Southeastern Conference titles and the national championship in 1980. He has been the athletic director since 1979.

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Miscellany

The International Ski Federation reversed the disqualification of Austrian skier Rainer Schoenfelder at last month’s World Cup slalom in Park City, Utah.

Schoenfelder was second-fastest in the men’s slalom Nov. 23 but was disqualified. Schoenfelder claimed a course worker who had fallen next to a gate distracted him and caused him to go off the course. Race officials let him take the run over after an initial ruling, but after the final run officials received 10 protests and reviewed video footage and eyewitness accounts a second time.

The repeated run was thrown out because Schoenfelder did not immediately stop and say the downed worker, who had a broken hip, caused his slip-up, course referee Gunther Hujara said.

Schoenfelder’s combined time had been two-hundredths of a second behind Finland’s Kalle Palander. The Austrian Ski Federation immediately appealed the decision, which listed Schoenfelder as not finishing.

The federation reversal is open to further appeal, but U.S. Alpine director Jesse Hunt said the U.S. Ski Team would not fight the order to reinstate Schoenfelder.

Olympic champion Lenny Krayzelburg, who sat out several months because of shoulder surgery, will compete in his first significant swimming competition since April when he takes part in the U.S. Open, which starts Thursday at Federal Way, Wash. Krayzelburg resumed training in August, leaving the Trojan Swim Club at USC to join Dave Salo’s Irvine Novaquatics, in part because of rival backstroker Aaron Peirsol.

“To be honest, that’s one big reason why I came here,” Krayzelburg said. “I’ve seen all the success Aaron had. I’m never afraid to accept the fact or learn from someone who is my competitor.”

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Passings

Robert “Duck” Dowell, former basketball coach and athletic director at Pepperdine and a standout college and professional basketball player in the 1930s, has died. He was 91. Story, Section B.