Nevada-Las Vegas basketball coach Jerry Tarkanian has won his battle in the Nevada Supreme Court with the NCAA, seeking his suspension for alleged infractions. The state`s high court upheld most of a district court judge`s ruling that the NCAA had violated Tarkanian`s due process rights in 1977 when it ordered UNLV to suspend him. The NCAA had placed the basketball program on two years probation in 1977, citing 38 recruiting violations, and ordered Tarkanian suspended for two years. He obtained a court injunction and continued coaching.
Jim Cleamons, who played at Ohio State and in the NBA, has been named basketball coach at Youngstown State. Cleamons was an assistant at Ohio State. Jim Wink, whose basketball teams at Ferris State made him the winningest coach at any four-year Michigan college, has died. He was 66. His record was 326-175.
Guard Troy Lewis, the leading scorer for the Purdue basketball team the past two seasons, broke a bone in his left foot during a pickup game and will be unable to practice for six to eight weeks.
Jimmy Connors needed just 52 minutes to beat Jimmy Arias, playing in his hometown of Jericho, N.Y., 6-0, 6-3, in the first round of the Hamlet Challenge Cup tennis tournament. Play was moved indoors to escape steady rain. Paul Annacone eliminated Joakim Nystrom of Sweden 6-3, 6-2; Wimbledon champ Pat Cash of Australia stopped Amos Mansdorf of Israel 6-2, 7-6 (7-2); and Andres Gomez of Ecuador beat Jakob Hlasek of Switzerland 7-5, 6-4. ”If I play like that I can`t complain,” Connors said. ”I`ve been playing like that for four months now and just need that little bit extra to get into the next plateau.”
Robert Helmick, president of the United States Olympic Committee, said
”informal conversations” with officials from Cuba and the Soviet Union during the Pan American Games have convinced him that Eastern bloc nations will not boycott the 1988 Olympics in Seoul. He said the discussions, ”though not specific, merely confirm that indeed all of the countries that can participate will be there.” The last time they held the Summer Games and everybody came was 1972 in Munich, where 123 countries took part.
A.J. Foyt broke the world record for a closed course land speed by driving the Oldsmobile Aerotech 257.123 miles an at a test center in Ft. Stockton, Tex. He also set a world record for the ”flying mile,” with an average speed of 267.399. The ”flying mile” is the average speed over one mile measured each direction. The U.S. Auto Club certified the speed runs and engine displacements on the 7.7-mile track. The previous world closed-course record of was set in 1979 at Nardo, Italy, with a twin turbocharged V-8 Mercedes-Benz. The old ”flying mile” record of 254.578 was set in 1959 at the Bonneville Salt Flats by Phil Hill in an MG.
Stan Stamenkovic, a Major Indoor Soccer League All-Star who left last year to open a pizza restaurant in his native Yugoslavia, has agreed to a one-year contract with the Baltimore Blast. Coach Kenny Cooper called the signing ”one of the most exciting days in Blast history.” Stamenkovic, 30, a midfielder, played for Baltimore for three seasons.
The World Cup Wrestling Tournament will return to Toledo in March. The tournament, held in Toledo 13 times since it began in 1972, moved to Mongolia this year.
Hutushan Heer of Switzerland won the Sri Chinmoy 47-mile race in New York in 5:35:29.
