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4 Altus (OK) Times, Thursday, June 22, 1989
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Place winners from Altus in the wrestling competition in the Sooner State Games Finals
here last weekend included (front row, left to right) Paul Roberts, Thumper Womack,
David Robinson, Frank Billarrial, Cole Bagwell, Greg Ornelas, (middle, from left) Orlando
Gibson, Tony Durrough, R.C. Babione, Charlie McConyille, Stephen Parks, Robert Carnes,
(back, from left) Billy Zang, Perry Robison, Shane Richardson, Rodney Williams, Nito Her-
nandez and Michael Hammack. (Staff Photo by Jim Henson)
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agine a context in which that would all the reasons, ” Duncan said,
happen." ,, ,, , , Duncan said his discussions with
Ine Times Herald said the drug in- Switzer did not include references to
vestigation involves Scott Hill, who any new negative events affecting
resigned under pressure in March, the Sooner football program, such as
Hill had been responsible for a drug investigation.
coaching running backs and -
recruiting high school players since eOklahoma foothal program
1977 was placed on NCAA probation in
December. In a span of about five
Oklahoma athletic director Donnie weeks in January and February, five
Duncan told The Associated Press he football players were arrested on a
was unaware of a drug investigation variety of criminal charges,
involving Hill. e. .. . . .
Starting quarterback Charles
Duncan said that, as far as he Thompson pleaded guilty to con-
knew, Switzer’s resignation was bas- spiracy to distribute cocaine. Three
ed on the reasons given during Mon- former Sooners are to be tried in
day’s news conference. Switzer said September on rape charges. Another
he felt it was time for new leadership player pleaded no contest to shooting
for the Sooners and that he was with intent to injure in the wounding
drained. of a teammate.
“My conversation with Barry was
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6 p.m. - Altus Merchants at Reds’ manager bet on his own team, Rose, speaking Wednesday night
Stillwater (American Legion putting him in jeopardy of a lifetime after the Reds lost a doubleheader to
doubleheader). ban. Rose’s lawyers tried to discredit the Braves at Atlanta, was informed
Auto Racing the betting sheets in a lawsuit filed of the reports on the handwriting and
8 p.m.-Dirt track stock car racing Monday against Giamatti.
at Quartz Mountain Speedway. A state judge scheduled a hearing
8 p.m. - Asphalt track stock car today on Rose’s request for a tem-
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salary hissreguar 250 monthly titles and 12 Big Eight Conference Switzer resigned Monday after six benefits,
salary. untisnextJune d then will championships. He was the fourth- months of turmoil which saw the
PeKet.$4100as part of a winningest coach in college football Oklahoma program wounded by a
tae" settlement. history. three-year NCAA probation and five
Interim university president David in addition to hiring Gibbs and ap- Playerssharged nncidentsainvoly-
Swank discussed terms of the proving a salary of $88,000 a year for sityrshdrugimndsmxuahtsmntr
$225,000 settlement on Wednesday him, the regents also approved the rollover contract '
after it was approved by the univer- settlement with Switzer and gave
basketball coach Billy Tubbs a year-
Basketball fingerprints, the AP has learned. "Rose is claiming the sheets are
2 p.m. - Annual Altus High School The betting sheets, if judged forgeries," The Times source was
Alumni game at Cletus B. Street authentic by Commissioner A. quoted as saying. “He says he didn’t
Fieldhouse. Bartlett Giamatti, would give write them, but we’re as confident as
Baseball baseball tangible evidence that the we could be that he did."
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Swank said the regents received
legal advice before making the set-
tlement.
On the day the regents formally ac-
cepted Switzer’s resignation, a
Dallas newspaper published a story
... ___________o_._ saying that a pending lie-detector
sity’s board of regents. basketball coach Billy Tubbs a year- There were no dissenting votes on test and a drug investigation involv-
The regents also voted unanimous- ly salary of $88,000. The $88,000 for the settlement with Switzer, ing a former coach may have played
ly to hire former defensive coor- Gibbs is $1,000 more than Switzer although regent Sarah Hogan had a part in Switzer’s departure.
dinator Gary Gibbs as Switzer’s sue- made. earlier questioned the propriety of
cessor. ~ c . . . . - . , the agreement. Hogan said the 1 can assure you there has been
„ . The Switzer settlement included a regents were not legallv bound t no request made of him (Switzer) to
Swank called the settlement with $145,000 lump payment to the former Fvid te onensatin take a polygraph test," Swank said.
Switzer “abundantly fair consider- coach on June 1,1990. It also provid- p ompensa Andy Coats, a lawyer hired to help
ing the contributions he has made to ed that Switzer would be paid a Swank said it was a negotiated set- the school on NCAA matters, said he
the university and the state.” salary of $7,250 a month until that tlement that was fair to all concern- also knew nothing about polygraph
Switzer announced Monday he was time. Until Feb. 1, Switzer is to be on ed. He said allowing Switzer to re- tests.
stepping down as coach of the “special assignment" with the main on the university payroll until “I’m sure I would know about it if
Sooners after 16 seasons, during school, but his duties were not outlin- Feb. 1 would permit him to take ad- it was connected with the NCAA in-
which his teams won three national ed. vantage of all of his retirement vestigation," Coats said. “I can’t im-
SCOTTSBLUFF, Neb. (AP) — A could sell their complimentary game you’ve got 150 players running
frustrated Barry Switzer resigned as rickets. around out there - and you don’t
Oklahoma’s football coach Monday, Plus, he said, academic re- know what they did the night
saying the NCAA does not quirements are more strict today, before,” said Osborne who has a
“recognize the financial needs of That forces many athletes to attend 158-36-2 in his 16 years as Nebraska’s
young athletes,” a point on which summer school, prohibiting them head coach.
Nebraska coach Tom Osborne full-time work. “When we recruit players, we look
agrees. Osborne said he was surprised by at character pretty hard. We try to
‘About a third of your players are the timing of Switzer’s resignation. have a disciplined program”
living at or below the poverty level,” “My initial reaction was that if he Osborne said of the school’s clean-
said Osborne, who became the was going to quit, he would have quit cut image. “Then, we’re probably
highest winning percentage among three or four months ago,” Osborne pretty lucky.”
active collegiate football coaches said. “Having gone this far and hav- Osborne said even without Switzer
after Switzer’s resignation. “It’s a ing gone through spring football, I the Nebraska-Oklahoma rivalry will
tough deal.” thought certainly he’d be coaching remain important.
Osborne . was in Scottsbluff next year.” "It will be to me,” said Osborne,
Wednesday to speak at a meeting of Switzer had been under fire since whose Huskers will battle Oklahoma
the Husker Beef Club, a Nebraska December when the Sooners were Nov. 18 in Lincoln. “The thing you
booster organization. put on three years’ probation for are concerned about is their players.
I d like to see that (the NCAA violating numerous NCAA rules. They’ve got excellent players ”
rules) liberalized,” Osborne said. “I Since then five Oklahoma football Osborne doesn’t think the’ proba-
think we need to do some things to players have been charged with tion will have any influence on the
enable the players to have a little bit felonies, adding fuel to a raging fire. Sooners’record this fall
of spending money. Osborne prides himself on running “The kids coming in, not too many
I d like to see a little bit more a disciplined program. But, then of those guys are going to play
done for the players because ...we’re even discipline has its limitations. anyway,” he said. “Maybe two,
asking more and more of them. And, “Every morning when you wake
in return, we’re giving them less.” up as a football coach, you realize (See ‘ OSBORNE next page
Osborne hinted he wouldn’t mind P 8
seeing things return to the way they
were in the 1960s, when players
received a $15 per month stipend and
Switzertsno longer football coach at Report links polygraph test, drug probe to Switzer's departure
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not commenting on anything like
racing at Altus Speedway. porary restraining order as part of that. Any other baseball questions? I
SUNDAY the lawsuit. Rose wants Hamilton thought it was in the courts right
Baseball County Common Pleas Judge now. I’ll say it again, I’m not going to
1 p.m. - Altus Merchants at Norbert A. Nadel to prevent Giamat- talk about it."
Stillwater. ti from holding a hearing on the Baseball officials don’t have the
~ gambling allegations Monday in New fingerprint report, and are trying to
NEW YORK (AP) — Rickey York — the last step before the com- get it from the FBI, a lawyer
Henderson’s stormy five-year rela- missioner would impose any penalty familiar with the commissioner’s in-
tionship with the New York Yankees on Rose. vestigation told the AP.
ended when baseball’s No. 1 single- Rose’s lawyers and John M. Dowd, “John (Dowd) has been trying to
season base stealer was sent back to who investigated the allegations for obtain information from the FBI
the Oakland Athletics for two middle Giamatti, were expected to be called about fingerprints on any documents
relief pitchers and an outfielder. as witnesses at the hearing today.
Henderson, a Bay Area native who Dowd’s 225-page report on the
was traded to the Yankees in allegations includes three "Pete
December, 1964 in a six-player deal, Rose Betting Sheets” supplied to in-
was returned to the Athletics for vestigators by Paul G. Janszen, who
relievers Eric Plunk and Greg claimed to have run bets for Rose to
Cadaret and Luis Polonia, a part- bookmaker Ronald Peters. Janszen
time starter in left field. later became an FBI informant
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Sporting Evidence grows against Rose
events
CINCINNATI (AP) — Baseball’s Rose’s lawyers revealed the they may have and have asked
THURSDAY evidence against Pete Rose includes sheets' existence Monday in their Rose’s lawyers to join them in mak-
Baseball an expert’s determination that his lawsuit, and released cor- ing that request,” said the lawyer,
6 p.m. - Annual Altus High School handwriting is on betting sheets in- respondence that confirms Rose sup- who spoke on the condition of
Alumni game at Kiwanis Park. volving Cincinnati Reds’ games, plied handwriting samples at anonymity . “They have not done that
Banquet sources familiar with baseball’s in- baseball’s request to help an analyst as of yet.”
6:30 p.m. - Seventh Annual vestigation have told The Associated examine them. The lawsuit said Rose also is being investigated by
Jackson County Athletic Hall of Press. nothing about the analyst’s conclu- a federal grand jury in Cincinnati
Fame Induction cermonies and ban- A handwriting expert who examin- sions. that is examining his taxes.
quet. ed the betting sheets for major Janszen, who last week completed Reuven J. Katz, one of Rose’s five
FRIDAY league baseball concluded the hand- a six-month sentence in a halfway lawyers, declined to comment when
Baseball writing on the sheets is Rose’s, house for failing to report income asked about the betting slips. Rich
Altus AA American Legion team several sources have confirmed for from the sale of steroids, gave the Levin, a spokesman for Giamatti,
enters Wichita Falls (Texas) tourna- the AP. betting sheets to federal authorities also declined to comment.
mcnt. The New York Times also reported while he was investigated, a source In the suit, Rose’s lawyers allege
Football today that the FBI has determined told the AP. He kept a copy, and later that Janszen stole three pieces of
7:30 p.m. - Annual Altus High the slips of paper bear Rose’s finger- supplied that to baseball’s in- paper from the home of the Reds
School Alumni game at Hightower prints as well as his handwriting, vestigators when they started look- manager.
Memorial Stadium. Baseball’s investigators are trying to ing into Rose’s gambling, the source In a letter May 18 from Dowd to
SATURDAY obtain the FBI’s evidence on the said.
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