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Show &'v:~~ ~~i\,;;.:·:..;~..,,..,_,._•:__,...;:. ~ t"t\•\ ' ,-."'~-.. ~ ~~. V.._'-,\1,lQ.,{,f,N~"''"•~{ r.·: < A< ''.,,.ftlo; "''' ' ~-.,~:~ ,_.. l ""~' ~ ':.:·,;)~ .. ~.i<i•~W4)j.f"...,~'ff._..,.,,~., ) \ .~ • "•1 • -. '~,, 1 S • ,(~~\Cf ~ .,.../ =~: : ,,t ,,,, GEST PROSECUTION RESTS IN ASSAULT CASE AGAINST MINNESOTA QB WARREN MOON: Prosecutors rested their assault case yesterday against Warren Moon after the quarterback's wife acknowledged she passed up several chances to tell her side of the story. Felicia Moon in earlier testimony repeatedly characterized the Fort Bend County district attorney's Felicia Moon office as overzealous and not interested in her version of the July 18 argument that resulted in scratches and bruises along her neck and shoulders. She admitted she ignored chances to volunteer the complete story to investigators who came to the couple's suburban Houston home, to the media who showed up at the house for a news conference she called three days after the argument, and later when she met with prosecutors. "I had an opportunity," said Felicia Moon, 39, who returned to the stand yesterday. Under repeated questioning by prosecutor Mike Elliott, she conceded she did not try to correct the publicized version of events detailed in a four-page statement she made to police and in an indictment against her 39-year-old husband. Moon, who spent 10 years with the Houston Oilers and is now with the Minnesota Vikings, faces up to a year in jail and a $4,000 fine if convicted of the misdemeanor assault charge. BASEBALL LOSES A LEGEND: The "0" could have stood for ornery, overbearing or outrageous. All of them would have been accurate. His birth certificate will say it stood for Oscar, but Charlie 0. Finley had his own interpretation. '"0' is for owner," he was fond of saying. Part innovator, mostly maverick, Finley died Monday at age 77 in Chicago's Northwestern Memorial Hospital of heart and vascular disease. His sons, Martin and David, along with their wives, were at his side. Finley was baseball's P.T. Barnum, a man who never met an idea he didn't like. Mascot mules, Day-Glo uniforms, orange balls and designated runners, he loved them. For more than a half-century, from his days as a batboy for a minor league team in Alabama to the three straight years his Oakland Athletics won the World Series, Finley fought for and sometimes against - the game he embraced. "Heaven won't be the same with Mr. Finley," said Vida Blue, one of his former star pitchers. Neither was baseball, which eventually incorporated some of his concepts - such as the designated hitter and night World Series games. SUPERBOWL XXX MVP LARRY BROWN SIGNS WITH THE OAKLAND RAIDERS: Comerback Larry Brown, whose worth on the free-agent market soared after he being voted the Super Bowl's most valuable player, is leaving the Dallas Cowboys'for the Oakland Raiders. Brown, who had two interceptions in the Cowboys' 27-17 victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers, would not disclose details of the·contract, except to say it was for more than one year. "There's a point in your life when you have to realize it's time to move on. I think I came to that page," Brown said yesterday at a news conference. The Cowboys were not expected to re-sign Brown because of salary cap restrictions and the available comerback combination of Deion Sanders and Kevin Smith. "I think the Raiders' potential is as a Super Bowl team," he said. "When I got to the Cowboys, they hadn't made the playoffs yet." Brown said "the Raiders are a very confident football team. They know what they are capable of, they just haven't gotten it done." NFL SCORES EARLY IN A SUIT AGAINST THE DALLAS COWBOYS: A jury will decide if the Super Bowl champion Dallas Cowboys violated league marketing contracts by promoting companies on their own. In a victory for the league, U.S. District Judge Shira Scheindlin on Monday re jected the motion to dismiss by Cowboys owner Jerry Jones and ruled the suit by NFL Properties can proceed. No trial date was set. The NFL sued the Cowboys last September for more than $300 million, saying the club had broken its agreements regarding club trademarks and logos. NFL lawyers argued last week that its negotiating stance for deals it makes on behalf of all the football teams are weakened when one team promotes its own. I $: ,,~,~~- ' NATIC:lNAL SPO,RTS I Stockton steals mark in Jazz win SALT LAKE CITY IAP) - John Stockton set the NBA career record for steals and added 14 assists last night, leading the Utah Jazz over the Boston Celtics 112-98. . With 8:21 to play, Stockton snatched the ball out of the hands of Eric Williams for his · 2,311 th steal, one more than the previous record set by Maurice Cheeks. Stockton's big play came after Boston's Rick Fox passed to Williams at the baseline. Utah's eight-time All-Star slapped the ball loose, then passed 16 seconds later to Chris Morris for a 3-pointer that put Utah up 10072. Karl Malone scored 24 points for the Jazz, who won their ninth straight over the Celts. Greg Foster had 16 points, Antoine Carr IS and David Benoit 14 for Utah, which has won 13 of 16 overall. Stockton added six. Stockton, in his 12th year, entered the game with 2,309 steals, one shy of the record Cheeks built in 15 seasons. Averaging 1.68 steals per game this season, he tied the record with 5:08 left in the second quarter when he tipped a pass out away from Eric Montross and into the hands of Utah's Antoine Carr. Carr passed back to Stockton as he fell out of bounds, and the Stockton then whipped the ball to Greg Foster for a 20-footer and a fohn Stockton 45-38 lead. Iverson & Co. upset UConn By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Rattled by a suffocating defense that produced 14 steals - eight by Allen Iverson - and denied Ray Allen the ball, the third-ranked Huskies saw their chance of a perfect Big East season end Monday night in a 77-65 defeat to the 11thranked Hoyas. In addition to the steals, Iverson had 26 points on 11-for-21 shooting and six assists. The Huskies had 12 turnovers at halftime and Allen, second only to Iverson in the league scorin,g race, was l -for-9 with two points. Doron Sheffer tried valiantly to take up the void. He led the Huskies with 23 points on 6-of8 shooting from 3-point range, but he also had nine of Connecticut's 20 turnover . Georgetown, bolstered by a sellout crowd of 19,035 that provided by far the Hoyas' most vocal support this season, led 43-3 1 at halftime. A spectacular dunk by Iverson just 47 seconds into the second half sent a message that any comeback attempt would be difficult. Calhoun immediately call a timeout, and used another after a 7-0 run that made it 55-36 with 16:09 left. When Aw hit a jumper with 13:53 remaining to make it 59-39, it marked the first time Connecticut had trailed by 20 points this season. The game was the fifth in an eight-game stretch that has Georgetown pl.1ying seven ranked teams. But this one was the big revenge match, because last year Connecticut became the first Big East team to beat the Hoyas three times in a season. Deion decides on football By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Deion Sanders is going to be a full-time football player this year, but said yesterday he didn't rule out playing baseball again. "I made this decision for the love of football, my family and for the city of Dallas," he said. "Now I can find out just how good a football player I can be playing in two positions." Sanders said his baseball earnings wouldn't have matched the $2.S million he made last year playing for the Cincinnati Reds and San Francisco Giants. Next season, the Cowboys will need Sanders to be healthy and available for every game because they are thin at comerback and could use another wide receiver. Dallas' defensive backfield may be in trouble because Super Bowl MVP Larry Brown is a free agent and unlikely to be re-signed, Kevin Smith is recovering from a tom Achilles tendon, and Clayton Holmes, who is suspended by the league for drug abuse, was recently cut . The Cowboys need another wide receiver because Cory Fleming never panned out, and he, too, was recently cut. Kevin Williams flourished late in the season as a second receiver, but he could be more of a factor working out of the slot. Sanders saw limited time at receiver last season and showed flashes of potential. He scored on a 21-yard reverse in the NFC playoffs against Philadelphia and caught a pass that led to Dallas' first score in the Super Bowl. One issue that Sanders had to resolve before putting baseball on hold was his contract with Nike. However, the shoe company was heavily involved with the Cowboys, so the two sides likely will be able to cut a deal. |