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Show Sport Che Salt Lake Tribune FRIDAY/ September 26, 1997 SOCCER Page D-3 BASEBALL Page D-6 s A Guilty Plea by Albert NO WINNERS? 20 NFLPlayers Reap Rewards Of ’87 Strike Could FaceJail; herto perform oral sex in an ArlingNBC Fires Him 2! viciously biting her back and forcing the charges were untrue. “Today. given Mr. Albert's plea NBCterminates its relationship with MarvAlbert.” ton hotel room Feb. 12 because she failed to bring another man into their THE ASSOCIATEDPRESS BYRICKGO: THE DALLAS MORNING Section D ARLINGTON, Va. — After three daysthat put the details of his kinky sex life on trial, MarvAlbert pleaded guilty Thursdayto assault andbattery charges that could bring him a year behindbars and perhapsa lifetimeof humiliation. Within hours, NBCfired NEWS Marc Loganstrolled out of the Washington locker room after practice one day last summer wearing a “Players, Inc." T- shirt. Players, Inc. is a marketing subsidiary of the NFL Players Association Howironic. Ten years ago, Logan was a pawn in the NFL's effort to bust the union. Now he’s a card-carrying member of the NFLPA. Monday was the 10th anniversary of sued a statementofhis own, resigning tive play-by-play exuberant “Yesss!"” voices — with his call — later is- from the regional MSGcable network as the voice of basketball's New York 1994 strugglein a Dallas hotel room that left her holding the sportscast- Knicks. “T fully understand the position in “From mypointof view, I just felt is profound,” said Arlington County bertsaid. “In the interest of my fam: after agreeing to a deal in which pros- Commonwealth's Attorney Richard Trodden, adding that the plea bargain was endorsed byAlbert's 42-year-old charge of forcible sodomy, punishable by from five years to life in pris- NBC for standing by him. ecutors dropped the more serious ef Doug Mills/The Associ iated Press Marv Albert left court Thursday with fiancee HeatherFaulkiner and Virginia policeofficers. ers. white panties and a garter belt — bit her on the neck andtried to force her to perform oral sex on him during a which the networks found themselves like I had to end this ordeal,” Albert said outside court in a weary voice weight of the union and its members behind such products as trading cards, interactive gamesanda clothing line. All are money-makers. All funnel supplemental income into the pockets of play- Albert, who for three decades has been one of America's most distine- er’s toupee. him. (NFLPA), which throws the considerable His plea came a dayafter a surprise witness came forward with similar accusations that Albert — wearing n Albert, 56, was accused by a longtime loverof flinging her onto a bed, due to myvery painful situation,” Al “Thesignificanceofthattestimony ily. my friends and my manysupport: ers, I step aside with deep humility and will seek to reconstruct myper- accuser. As he left court, Albert thanked sonal and professionallife.”’ Albert's lawyer, Roy Black, said his client accepted the deal because the But less than four hourslater, the networkissued a statement saying it on! stood judge hadgutted his case. See ALBERT,Page D-6 by Albert becausehe gave assurances Cougs Can’t that NFL player strike, which took the John Elways, Dan Marinos and Jerry Ricesoff the field for four weeksin 1987. Let ASU Win Ruin Focus But this is an anniversary the NFL doesn’t care to celebrate. “Tt was a waste of time from the players’ point of view and a waste of time from management's point of view,” Washington general manager Charley Casserly said. “It didn't accomplish any- *thing.” But thereis a hostof players willing to argue that point. Logan and 19 other current NFL players were hired as replace- THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE parlayed that chance —a final chance for most — into careersof surprising duration. DALLAS — The Brigham Young Cougars have seen what happens when a team getsa little too giddy. Their task now is to keep it from happeningto them. ment workers during the strike. They Starting Quarterback: Tenyearslat- er, former strike player Erik Kramer opened this season as thestarting quarterback for the Chicago Bears. Darrick BYUvisits the Cotton BowlSaturdayto play Southern Methodist. just a week after shocking ArizonaState. The Sun Deyils werestill basking in their upset win at Brilz, Ray Brown and Jeff Criswell all Miami when the Cougars went upside start on NFL offensivelines. John Carney and Steve Bono have goneto a Pro Bowl. Brilz, Brown, Logan, Bono and Mike Prior wear Super Bowlrings. their helmets. It is a pratfall BYU hopes All have proved themselves to be bona- fide football players. Back then, they were viewed merely as scabs. “I wish everyone would forget about that,” Logansaid ofhis buried past. “Every now and then, someone finds out and says, ‘Aw, he wasa scab.’ It's like a joke now. But it wasn’t a joke then.” Not to the union, anyway. The collective bargaining agreement (CBA) expired in August 1987 and negotiations were ata deadend. The holdup was free agency. Baseball players had it, winning their freedom in arbitration in the 1970s. Now football players wanted it. But the ownerssaid no and continued to say noto all attempts by the union to include free agency in a new CBA. So the NFLPAdecided to draw the line and force management's hand — no contract and no free agency would mean no more gamesafter Sept. 21 The NFLplayers had walked out for 57 daysin 1982, almost destroying a season. The league wound up playing an abbreviated nine-gameschedule that year before crowning the Washington Redskins champion, Owners resolved their game would neverbecrippled like that again. So whenthe players threatenedto walk in 1987, the owners schemed to replace them. NFLPA members didn’t take that threat seriously. Guys Out There: “I can recall the players at the beginning saying, ‘No one will go see that. No one can replace me. I wear No.80, not some guy they put out there,’” recalled Gene Upshaw, execu- tive director of the NFLPA then and now. “Thenall of a sudden, after a week orso, even though they couldn’t replace them, there were guysout there.” Guys like former USFLstar Eric Tru- villion and an over-the-hill gang of veteran quarterbacks like Tony Adams, Vince Evans and John Reaves. But mostly the strikers were nobodies. Players not good enough to make NFLteams. Draft picks and free agents cut loosein recent training camps, then hired back. The strike games drew sparse crowds initially, But attendance increased bythe week, and the NFLPA grew softer in its resolve, By the third week of the strike, crowds hadclimbed out ofthe teens into the 25,000-35,000 range. Also, almost 250 veteran players had crossed the picket line and returned to work, including Joe Montana, Steve Largent and Lawrence Taylor. So the NFLPApulled the plug on the walkout, putting most of a strike labor force out of work by mid-October. But not all of them. Ironically, there are more strike players still active this season than 1987 first-round draft picks(six), to avoid Saturday. The 1-1 Cougars are 11-point favorites. “I know Bruce Snyder implored [the Sun Devils] to take the game with us as seriously as the Miami game, butI'm not sure how ready they were. Now we're in the same situation,” says Cougar Coach LaVell Edwards. It was pretty easy last year. BYU blasted SMU 31-3 at Cougar Stadium, limiting the Mustangs to 218 yards. SMU has a new coach — Mike Cavan was imported from East Tennessee State, replacing Tom Rossley. But it’s pretty much the same team, Fifteen Mustangstarters return, including quarterback Ramon Flanigan, running back Donte Womack and middle linebacker Chris Bordano. SMU (1-2) is coming off a dispiriting 46-16 home loss to Navy. But the Cougars haven't seen muchfilmof it. Instead, they have viewed the Mustangs’ 31-6 victory over Arkansas two weeksago. It isa much better attention-getter, especially following the Razorbacks’ win over Alabama last Saturday. “They dominated Arkansas,” Edwards says. “SMU didn’t have it against Navy But they have great personnel. And with it being a conference game, they'll be playing with much moreintensity. We've got our workcutout.” In fact, it’s the WAC opener for both teams * Because of the coaching change, the Mustangsarein state of flux. Flanigan, a three-yearstarter, has shared QB duties Taylorsville's Jamie Nielson, right, and Brook Noble try to block a spike attempt by Hunter's Vaioleti Purcell Thursday. The Wolverines rallied from an opening loss to win the Region 4 match in three games.Story: D-2. That’s just fine with BYUdefensive coordinator Ken Schinidl. It may be a moot point, because whoev- er the Mustang QBis, he'll mostly be handing off to Womack. The darting, 5foot-8 senioris the WAC’sleading rusher, averaging nearly 142 yards per game Like last week, the Cougar defense will have to play without a couple of major cast members. Already missing suspended cornerback Omarr Morgan for one more game, BYU will again be without strong safety Chris Ellison, who continues to seek answersto a knee injury. Surgery and a redshirt season are possible. The newsis better for junior corner- back Jack Williams. Subbing admirably for Morgan, Williams pulled a hamstring at ASU and waslisted as doubtful. But he began running at practice Wednesday and has been upgradedto questionable. Junior Derick Bates will again replace Ellison. If Williamscan't go, junior Tony For Tag: No Place Like Home Adopted Utahn, Family Avoid ‘Hopping Around’ THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Betweenpatting the owner on the head and takingfriendly swipesat a teammate. Greg Ostertag explained Thursdaythat henever really thought about abandoning the Jazz to test his value on the NBA free agent market “Oneof mygoals comingout of college was to be able to stay with a team throughout mycareer,” he said. “I’m not into that hopping around.” So Ostertag didn't have any problem “They were a little shell-shocked against Washington, but they went out, competed and hungin there against ArizonaState,” he says. worth about $30 million — no hopping required — thatwill keep himin the Jazz Fields or freshman Roderick Foreman Schmidt is not nervousat the prospect a Sonics uniform for the final time, Details, D7. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS GERLACH, Nev. — The champagne flowed in the winner's circle ceremony But thecircle was a spot in the Nevada desert and the celebrants wereBritish And theyhad just smashedthe land speed record. Smashingly. “It's a hell of a good record. I've been workingsix years to get rid of it,” Rich- ard Noble said as he saw his mark fall on signing a six-year contract extension lineup through the 2003-04 season. Even See SIGNING, Page D-7 See RACERS, Page D-6 Cincinnati 4, St. Louis 3(14) Houston9, Chicago1 Detroit 1 NewYork 5, Cl jeveland 4 (10) Baltimore 3 Chicago 10, Minnesota 5 Texas 8, Anaheim5 National League Atlanta 3, Phila delphia 2 (10) 3, Floi rida Shawn Kemp free agent after next Speed Record Thursdayin the car drivenby his protege. Kansas City 2, Milwaukee1 Toronto 4, Greg Ostertag to Snowbird,” she said Ostertag actually will make about $650,000 next season thelast in his orig three-year deal after being chosen out of Kansas University as the 28th pick of the 1995 NBA Draft, According to the NBA's labor agreement, he would have becomea Unsatisfied Racers Smash season hadhenotre-signedwith the Jazz beforeOct. 1 American League Boston 3, his wife, Heidi, acknowledged shedidn't he loves want to leave town, as muc to ski “NowI canbuythat six-year pass BY MICHAEL C. LEWIS will start. As opposed to last week, Sonics Trade Kempin Three-Way Deal Shawn Kemp's trade demand wasfulfilled Thursday night when the Seattle SuperSonics made a three-way trade with Milwaukee and Cleveland, sending Kemp to the Cavaliers in a swap also involving all-stars Vin Baker and Terrell Brandon. ‘The Sonics will receive Baker from Milwaukee; the Buckswill get Brandon and Tyrone Hill; the Cavswill get KempfromSeattle and Sherman Douglas from Milwaukee. A sum of moneyalsowill be included in the deal, although it was not immediately clear who would receiveit from whom. A trade of Kemp had been expected since the dis gruntled forward declared last May that he had worn R COPY BLOCK PARTY with redshirt freshman Chris Sanders. : 2 Los Angeles 9, Colorado 5 TV Highlights (USA) 6 a.m. — f, Ryder Cup ces 5:30 p.m, — Baseball, At Janta at Mets CWGN) 6 p.m. — Baseball, Cubs at Cardinals CFSR) p p.m. s— MLS Soces Rapidsat Wizard British fighter pilot Andy Green as- sumedthe world land speedrecord witha CESPN) 7 p.m. — Baseball, Dodg. delayits football broadcast. ers at Rockies Cougs On Live TV Saturday's Brigham Young: Southern Methodist football game will be televisedlive (1 p.m.) at the Time Out Passes Interruptus: Career interception ratios of eight all-time great NFLquarterbacks @ Fran Tarkenton: 1 of every 24 Marriott Center. BYU officials have arra a satellite feed via thi White Network. KSL-TV will air the game on tape-delay, starting at 4pm A programming conflict with the Ryder Cup golf event led KSI. to oe B Bobby Layne: 1 of 15 |