The National Football League owners said Saturday the players must move off their demand to change the free agency system, but the head of the players` union, Gene Upshaw, said he refuses to give up the fight for player movement as a second strike in five years approached. ”This is just an attempt to try to divide us again,” said Upshaw. Owners have voted to field teams composed largely of nonunion players in the event of a strike. ”Games played (during a strike) will count toward the Super Bowl,” the owners said in a statement.
Pierre Larouche scored two goals and assisted on two others, and Lucien Deblois` second goal of the game with :02 left in the second period broke a 4-4 tie and led the New York Rangers to a 6-5 victory over the U.S. Olympic hockey team in Lake Placid, N.Y. . . . Serge Boisvert scored a pair of second- period goals to pace the Canadian Olympic team to a 5-4 victory over the Calgary Flames in Calgary. Brad McCrimmon scored twice for the Flames.
A team of U.S. college players beat the Soviet team Zalgiris Kaunas 126-122, taking seventh place and leaving the defending champion Soviets last in the Intercontinental Cup basketball tournament in Milan, Italy. Winston Crite led the U.S. with 33 points and James Dixon scored 32.
Seventeen-year-old Bianka Panova of Bulgaria became the first rhythmic gymnast in 12 world championships to score a perfect 40 while winning the individual competition in Varna, Bulgaria.
Cindy Hill shot a 5-under-par 67 to tie Missie Berteotti for the lead after three rounds of the $225,000 LPGA Safeco Classic in Kent, Wash. Berteotti shot a 2-under 70 to match Hill at 8-under 208 after 54 holes. One stroke back was Jan Stephenson (71). . . . Bob Charles, a runner-up in each of his last two tournaments, fired a 6-under 66 to take a two-shot lead after two rounds of the Crestar Senior Classic in Richmond, Va. He was at 10-under 134. Defending champion Chi Chi Rodriguez (68), Dale Douglass (68) and Larry Mowry (69) were tied at 136. . . . Ian Woosnam of Wales shot a 3-under 69 for a one-stroke lead over Tony Johnstone (66) after three rounds of the Lancome Trophy in St. Nom La Breteche, France. Woosnam, who is seeking his fourth European title of the season, was at 198.
Charles Bevier won the Great Cal Harbor 10-kilometer race in Northport, N.Y., with a time of 29:42.2, beating Filbert Bayi, the former world record-holder in the 1,500 meters and mile, by more than 30 seconds.
Roberto Pagnin of Italy won the 149-mile Tour of Lazio in Rome in 6 hours 18 minutes. The expected duel between world cycling champion Stephen Roche of Ireland and Italian Moreno Argentin never materialized. Roche fell at the halfway point of the race and dropped out 12 miles from the finish. Argentin was 12th.
