| Show I 6C Thursday May 27 1999 Sports Standard-Examin- er SPORTS BRIEFS Parcells coach Jets this season will HEMPSTEAD NY - De- spite the impending sale of New York Jets coach Bill Parcells isn't going anywhere for at least one more season Parcells said Wednesday that John Hess son of the late owner had assured him there will be no changes in the front office through the 1999-200- 0 campaign “He told me there’d be nothing that disturbs this season” Parcells said Wednesday at the start of a three-da- y veterans mini-cam- p “All I'm worried about is that I le said for me to run the operation as I’ve been running it and if I need any help from the estate in doing that to let him know I was comforted a great deal about that” Parcells entering the third contract that year of a pays him approximately $24 million annually reportedly has a clause in the deal that protects him financially if the relationship six-ye- ar is severed early for any reason Parcells 57 won’t confirm whether he plans to retire following the coming season COURTS: Strawberry pleads no contest future uncertain TAMPA Fla - Darryl Strawberry pleaded no contest to drug and solicitation charges Wednesday and awaited word on whether he would ever play baseball again The New York Yankees outfielder was sentenced to 18 months of probation and must be tested for drugs twice a week during that time Even though he will not go to jail Strawberry’s latest legal entanglement leaves his baseball future unclear He is on leave from the Yankees and faces possible suspension as a multiple offender of baseball’s drug aftercare program Commissioner Bud Selig promised a swift decicision AUTO RACING: Bobby Labonte captures 600 pole for Coca-Col- a CONCORD NC - Bobby Labonte upstaged everyone in qualifying for the Coca-Cola 600 Dale Earnhardt Jr settled for upstaging The Intimi-datfirst-roun- Wednesday night Earnhardt trying to make the field for his and ed first Winston much-anticipat- Cup race had a 184407 in his only allotted lap around Lowe’s Motor Speedway at Charlotte “I ain’t never been that nervous in my life” said Earnhardt whose lap guaranteed him the eighth starting spot in Sunday’s 43-cfield It also put him seven spots ahead of his father sevenar time Winston Cup champion Dale Earnhardt Labonte third in the 1999 Winston Cup standings won his third pole of the season and the 16th of his career HORSE RACING: or Labonte won the pole for NASCAR’s longest race with a fast lap of 185230 mph on will Silverbulletday colts in Belmont NEW test YORK Silverbulletday will try to foil Charismatic’s Triple Crown bid in the Belmont Stakes and become the first filly to win the race in 132 years “She’s a pure athlete and athletes sometimes do things they are not supposed to do” owner Mike Pegram said of the decision to have Silverbulletday make her debut against colts in the testing 1 1 Belmont on June 5 Silverbulletday winner of 1 1 of 12 starts and unbeaten in five races this year will be only the 21st filly to start in the Belmont The only winner was Ruthless in the first Belmont in 1 867 Charismatic is bidding to become the 12th Triple Crown champion and first since Affirmed in 1978 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL retirement returning to KU LAWRENCE Kan - Lynette Woodard the collegiate scoring leader and first woman to play for the Harlem Globetrotters said Wednesday she will retire from professional basketball and return to Kansas as an assistant coach all-ti- GOLF: a Japa- UGAGOLF: Defending champ ousted at Senior Match Play - SALT LAKE CITY Glen Hatch defeated defending champion Dave Hedderman 3 and 2 Wednesday in the quarterfinals of the Utah Golf Association Senior Match Play Championship Playing at Old Mill Golf Course Hatch was joined in today’s semifinals by Dennis Wood Don Sessions and Jim Bums The net division semifinalists are Jack Drinville Jim Douglass Leroy Atencio and Jim Stewart COLLEGE ATHLETICS: Irvin named athletic director at Dixie College ST GEORGE - Dexter Irvin has been named athletic director at Dixie College Irvin is the athletic director and girls basketball coach at Kirtland Central High School in Kirtland NM Irvin also has worked at Western New Mexico University Clarendon (Texas) Junior College and San Juan College in Farmington NM He replaces John Wardenburg who resigned to become boys basketball coach at Pine View High School - Manchester United wins Europe’s triple crown BARCELONA Spain -Manchester United scored two goals in injury time to beat Bay-er- a Munich 1 Wednesday and capture the Champions Cup the biggest club title in European soccer Teddy Sheringham and Ole 2-- Gunnar Solksjaer scored the goals that gave Manchester its first triumph in the prestigious Palmer group negotiating to buy Pebble Beach Fla from Lone Cypress Co nese partnership Sources told the magazine that the deal is close to completion for a price of about $1 billion SOCCER: Woodard announces ORLANDO d Palmer confirmed Wednesday that the group is “in serious negotiations” to buy the prized Pebble Beach Calif properties Pebble Beach golf course is close to being sold to a group that includes Arnold Palmer Clint Eastwood and former baseball commissioner Peter Ueberroth according to Golfweekcom web site competition since 1968 United also became the first English team to win the triple crown of league championship Football Association Cup and the Champions Cup - Standard-Examin- staff er and IRL CART hold talks on unification INDIANAPOLIS - The big names may be coming back to the Indianapolis 500 Alter four years of bitter rivalry that threatened the future of open-wheracing in the United States CART and the IRL have talks about begun bringing the two racing circuits together Word of the negotiations came as teams prepared for this weekend’s race at the Indy 500 which has lost its luster during the feud n as the drivers stayed away “I can confirm that there have been some very informal talks with Tony George” said Andrew Craig president and CEO of MiCHEUN 65000 mnn COODfrtAR Symmetry t CC TOO 30 Mi Warranty Starting at P15575P14 wm 020S6SC5 P20570R15 76 99 P22SK9H6 P2I570R15 KN P22M0fll6 sen 50 000 GlQ P19V75R' Aoaomal The Associated Press on GOOD'VEAStCona 10-2- 5 GT & II store details Aquahandler"! wire services ana m tno AUTO RACING Sim Warranty starting at P18560TR14 P19S60TP14 60 69 64 66 66 96 Pncn very BFSooeMcft Mil 74® PiaWWRU P19&MHR15 599 P17VS5HRH 9190 5690 P20S55HR15 96 99 MW P2&60HR15 01 88 PZ&5SHR16 P20S55TR1S P2&S5TR16 zn avaaatfc Pncnnry starting P18560HR141 P17V7GSA13 MftgP?1W6Sm$ t4K 60 99 P77MCSflt$ 77 Pifcwiu 73 66 POOMOHS1J Addffion him Aodwomi &n ffifj ft aOOOOMtaWvrvny' ttartngat 7766 mum H9MM114 PJ0M5HI5 PneM my LT?3575ni5 son Addition) PWBSI1J P31550VDU I S3 66 40 66 P22SS03t1 '0199 Stortw 1 LT28S75R16 14699 36 99 Pncn wy rvaMbt MSCMELtSM $12399 PJ4S452017 KttOOOtrMfeWvrcnty- XCX APT - 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