Surprise, NHL fate still undecided
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Fans get the
shaft in NHL
soap-opera
Will there over be o dec ision
on the fate of the National
Hoc key I.eague season' Will
thoy play or not? Is a deadline
n deadline or is it just a mean
ingless figure of speech to get
.1 hoc kev fan alt excited over
nothing? These are the ques
tions that are going through
the minds of many, if not all
hockey fans.
The season has been hang
ing by a thread for the past 102
days and now it has all come
down to one final day The
waiting has been too long.
Being an avid hockey fan.
I awakened at 8:>l) a m., one
minute prior to the 12 noon
eastern daylight time dead
line. to listen to MSi’N for the
decision on whether or not
there would be a season. 1
stumbled out of bed and
dragged myself to the couch
to find the comfortable sur
roundings of all armchair uth
Turn to MCTYRE, Page 12
Owners put the ball in the players’ court
NEW YORK (AIM The
NHl. Icm Lout has come down
to one Inst offer from the
league Take it or leave it Sea
son or no season The owners
said Tuesday night that it's all
up to the players
I his is the final tin.il. final,
final, final offer." Boston Bru
ins president Marry Sinden
said.
"We've given (NHl. i uni
missioner) Gary Bettman a
mandate to do the deal on our
guidelines." Edmonton Oilers
owner Peter Pot klington said
Canadian Praca said th<
owners voted l‘f-7 Tuesday to
send to the union a proposal
that was similar to the plan the
league's Board of Governors
rejei ted earlier in the day
If the players refuse, there
will Is- no NHl. season
and hockey will become the
first major professional sport
to lose an entire season to .1
labor dispute.
Jeremy Roenick. player rep
resentative of the Chicago
Hlackhawks, said the NHL
Players Association would deal
with the proposal Wednesday
"Everybody is tired." he
said “Everybody is going home
and going to sleep and we'll
pick it up in the morning."
Neither Bettman nor NHL
Players Association head Bob
Coodenow were available for
comment.
Free agency was by far the
most contentious issue in the
round-the-clot k negotiations
that Bettman and Coodenow
STRIKING A
DEAL?
WHO: NHL
players and
owners
WHAT: 102
day worV
stoppage
coming to a
head on
Wednesday
THE FUTURE: Any hop.':; of
a 1994 95 season hinge
on whether Of not the
playws accept the owners
final oiler
CMS HAi f
start oil Monday morning, r.i<
mg against a league-ini posed
noon Tuesday deadline for
canceling the season
But that deadline came and
went with the season still alive
harwiy Now it remains to lie
seen if the owners have made
an offer the players can live
with.
Under terms of the contract
management is sending to the
union, players would have the
right to become unrestru ted
free agents when they reach lit
years old in the first three years
of the contract and when they
reach 31 in the last three years
Because owners reportedly
have the right to reopen the
agreement after the third year,
players may never see the tl
year-old benefit.
Smden doesn't have mm h
sympathy
We started out with and
we're going to abide know
ing full writ that we needed a
salary tan," hit said We
changed the cap to a tax. and
wo didn't get that, either '
In the proposal that was
rejected by the owners Tues
day. players would have
l*x ortie unrestricted free agents
at :\Z \cars old in the first year
and at t 1 in the last five Play
• • wet;! w ■ 11.u u;
to land free agency at to
"It s disappointing that we
offered M in the first year and
:tl in the next five and they
didn’t accept it." said llol>
Qtrkum. player rep of the Ana
heim MighH Dili is !l seerns
that they 're stut k on tJ
Hartford Whalers (.M |im
Rutherford agreed that the
Board of Governors was "split
ting hairs "
"And this isn't the time to do
that." In* said The main issue
is the age of free agency
(ftfier key component* of the
contract the owners rejected
Three salary arbitration
walkaways over each two-year
period for players receiving
awards of at least $"iri(),00<)
SH50.000 salary <ap for
first-round draft pick*
—Draft for 10-year-olds with
18-year-olds having the option
to got in
All were compromises
skewed toward the owners
of the staled "final" positions
of each side
Running back, officers indicted in Cincinnati incident
CINCINNATI (At1) Cincinnati Beng.ds
running bai k Derrii k Fenner and two city
policeman were indicted Tuesday by a Hamil
ton County grand jury
Fenner was indicted on misdemeanor
charges of disorderly conduct and resisting
arrest He will plead innocent, his lawyer,
Kenneth Lawson, said,
Polii e officers Andre Foldings and Claudia
Vercellofti were incite ted on felony charges
of {Hirjurv and obstruction of justice and mis
demeanor charges of obstruction of justice,
Hamilton County prosecutor Joseph Deters
said.
If cons icted. the officers i ould face up to :t
years in prison. Fenner could face up to five
months in jail.
The grand jury has teem investigating im.i
dents that allegedly began when Fenner was
arrested outside n lav i*m early Dec 12. hours
after the Bengal* had lost to the New York
Giants
Police alleged that the manager of the Park
town Gift* Iwr. George Beatty, offered Kddings
and Ven.ellotti $5,000 eac:h to pursue the ong
inal charges against Fenner as misdemeanors
rather than felonies Beatty Inis l>e«n indict
ed on bribery charges. He denies w rongdo
ing
Fenner was charged last month with resist
tng arrest, resisting arrest while intoxic ated
ami inciting vioimca, a felony Ihose charges
were dropped in what Deters then (lust nlxtd
as a Itti lit at decision
The officers are accused of lying to a grand
jury and obstructing inturnal pulice investi
gations. Outers said
The officer* have denim) similar adminis
trative charges. The offir ers were suspended
without pay Dec. 23 pending a hearing on
whether they should tm fired.
Prosec utors alleged that Beatty met with
Eddings outside a district police station Dec:
J5 to offer the bribes and that Eddings improp
erly failed to arrest Beatty at that time
Trio of Bruin juniors decide
to stay for another year
LOS ANGE1.ES (. .P) — Three
UCLA juniors coming off out
standing seasons have decided to
stay, in school and play their
senior years for the Bruins nest
fall, the school announced Tues
day.
The three are outside line
backer Donnie Edwards and
wide receiver Kevin Jordan,
both honored by The Associated
Press as third-team All-Ameri
cans. and offensive tackle
Jonathan Ogden, who allowed
just one Hack last season
Edwards led the Bruins in
several defensive categories. He
made 106 tackles. 19 more than
any of his teammates, and tied
a school record with 12 sacks.
Iordan caught 73 posses for
1,228 yards and seven touch
downs last season. He made at
least si* receptions in nine of
UCLA's 11 games He needs just
19 catches next season to set a
school career reception record
Prep coach on leave as district
investigates conduct allegations
KIRKLAND, Wash. (At1) The boys basketball coot h ol Juani
ta High School has l>een placed on leave white the Lake Wash
ington School District investigates allegations of "improper con
duct" with two former players
Jtm Mi Donald was pun ml on paid administrative leave Mon
day after the school district learned of the allegations from a third
party Saturday, the Journal American of Bellevue reported
District spokesman Dan Youmans this morning would provide
no additional details, confirming only that McDonald was on leave
and that the district was conducting an investigation.
A private investigator was hired and the matter was referred to
Kirkland police. Youmans said. Both are standard practices, he
said.
January I 1. I 995
Volume on. I'Mic 74
Sailing team hits
rough tides
Ih© University o( Oregon
s.i .'hj loam found the stormy
w-oather and choppy .Vito's
of l ong Beach, California
unkind th past weekend
I>v Ni I'thwestem District
champs could only muster a
isv overall pine ng agamst
some ot she top sailing teams
m the nation
the regatta was finally
decided by protest on the
last day with Stanford, Navy,
' M.i'y . i ilh-eC .i
Guard an vying tor a piece ot
the tale
I tie Oregon sailing team is
winding down it s most suc
cessful racmg season to date
w>th first or second-place
liooo-'S in all the district
races The string of top ! n sh
os i? w luded a top ranking at
the sioop district champ
onsNps earlier this season at
the I !• -versify of Wasting'on
* Thi* has easily been our
best season," team captain
Dane vV he-,ter seat
We vo rat C'd in seven
national regattas including
race-. ' i , >' 11.1 a- uj Mass.i
’• ,se"'.
Hie saiting team s next
race wni be m Portland the.
weekend
PAC-10 STATS
Scoring offense
Average
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Proper'
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10 WasV,:- e
63 I
DIVISION I HOCKEY
the lop ton leam*; in ih« Divi
sion I (Twin's ico hockey poll
published t>y Hie t roy
Record, with tirst-ptace votes
in parentheses, records
through Jen 8 points. and
previous ranking
Record
1 M.i-ei.M,16 t 5
2 Boaonp 13)_1? S3
3 CokyedoCoaeoe ir 60
t;13 4 0
M : • -J.I • n • t
6 Ik?*1: • , i<-_ !3 60
rpenvw14 60
8 M-rmwou...11 12
9 trowHanpywa\2 4 3
10 Qarkny6 S 2