Arkansas-Pine Bluff wants to build a $7.5 million football stadium on a site that includes part of a cemetery. That means that as many as 50 of the approximately 300 graves in the Jane Oliver Cemetery will have to be moved. A funeral director and an archaeologist are among those working on the project, with the school hoping to have groundbreaking Oct. 24. A lawsuit by the heir of one of those buried in the cemetery must first be settled.
Tennis: Arnaud Clement, a little-known 19-year-old Frenchman, upset second-seeded Sergi Bruguera of Spain 6-2, 7-6 in the opening round of the CA Trophy tournament in Vienna.
Auto racing: Kansas City Kansas Superspeedway, a 75,000-seat, $197 million track that can accommodate NASCAR and Indy-car racing, is planned for 2000. Construction is to begin in the spring on a 1,000-acre site in Wyandotte County.
Soccer: Shu Kamo was fired as coach of Japan’s national team, a day after a 1-1 tie at Kazakhstan in a World Cup qualifier. Kamo already was under severe criticism after Japan allowed two goals in the final five minutes and lost to South Korea 2-1 in a World cup qualifier.
