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Brian Bosworth: Million-dollar man

IU football transfer dies of stroke?

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) - Parnell Sylvio, a junior tailback hoping to make the Indiana University football team as a walk-on, collapsed after two morning runs on the first day of pracice and died of an apparent stroke, officials say. Sylvio, 20, from Bayside High School in Queens, N.Y., died about 6 p.m. Friday in Bloomington Hospital, some nine hours after collapsing at the school’s football field, said Sports Information Director Kit Klingelhoffer. “They are suspecting a stroke but are performing an autopsy,’’ Klingelhoffer said. Results of the autopsy were not available Friday night, the hospital said. Klingelhoffer said he believed it was the first time ever a Hoosier football player had died while training. “This is a tragedy of the worst kind,” Coach Bill Mallory said. “This deeply affects all of us, players, coaches and staff. We grieve for his family and friends.” The 6-foot, 200-pound Sylvio played junior college football at Nassau Community College in Garden City, N.Y., where he also had run relay sprints for the track team, Klingelhoffer said. He had no known history of physical problems. He and other junior college transfers and freshmen had reported for practice Wednesday, with returning players scheduled to come in next Tuesday. Thursday was spent on

McGwire sets record

ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) - Oakland’s Mark McGwire broke the major-league record for home runs by a rookie Friday night with his 39th homer of the season in the sixth inning against the California Angels. McGwire, who leads the majors in home runs, hit the first pitch from Don Sutton for a two-run homer to left field with two outs. That moved McGwire past Wally Berger of the 1930 Boston Braves and Hall of Famer Frank Robinson of the Cincinnati Reds in 1956. McGwire, the Athletics’ firstround pick in the June 1984 free agent draft, broke Al Rosen’s American League rookie home run record with his 38th last Tuesday

No disciplinary action planned for Canadian swimmer

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - After “60 hours of hell,” Sally Gilbert can put aside worries about her future in swimming and concentrate on competing in the Pan American Games. The head of the Pan American Sports Organization announced Friday that no disciplinary action is planned against Gilbert, a Canadian whose drug test showed traces of a banned substance contained in a cold medication. Canadian team officials were notified of the test result Tuesday, but did not learn until PASO President Mario Vazquez Rana’s announcement Friday that Gilbert would not be punished. She had faced a loss of a Pan Am bronze medal and a suspension of up

weightlifting and running drills, Klingelhoffer said, and Friday was the first day of regular football practice for the new players. Sylvio had completed runs of 880 and 440 yards, with a 10-minute break in between, when he complained he was not feeling well, Klingelhoffer said. “He came into campus on Wednesday and went through all the testing yesterday,” Klingelhoffer said. “He ran them (the 880- and 440yard runs) with no problems, showed no effects during the runs of having any problems. It was about five minutes after the 440 that he started developing problems. He started complaining of leg problems and didn’t feel quite right,” he added. Trainers transported Sylvio by golf cart from the track to the nearby football stadium, where he collapsed about five minutes later, or about 8:45 a.m. Paramedics were on the scene about five minutes after that to rush him to the hospital, Klingelhoffer said. “When they took him there, he was not breathing on his own,” Klingelhoffer said. Three hours after arriving at the hospital, he resumed breathing on his own, but his condition worsened around 3:30 p.m., Klingehoffer said. There was no mention of Sylvio in the Hoosiers’ pre-season media guide, and Klingelhoffer said he had no statistics available on him.

night in Seattle. He now has 25 this season against right-handers and 14 against lefties. It was his 22nd homer on the road and only his second home run this month. McGwire, whose homer gave him 89 runs batted in, already has established an Oakland record for most homers by a right-handed hitter and still needs eight more to tie teammate Reggie Jackson for the club’s all-time single-season mark. Jackson hit 47 in 1969. McGwire hit three home runs for the A s last season in 53 at-bats at-bats fewer than the number necessary for him to have qualified as a rookie in 1986.

to 18 months, which could have carried through the 1988 Olympics in South Korea. Her teammates on the 800-meter freestyle relay team also could have been forced to give up their medals. “I’m relieved that the situation has apparently been resolved,” said Gilbert, of Vancouver. “Now I can concentrate on swimming, and only swimming, for the rest of the meet and I can put this behind me.” The 17-year-old Gilbert took the medication after getting it from a teammate, Anne-Marie Andersen, Canadian officials said. “Two young, delightful Canadian women (were) subjected to 60 hours of hell,” said Dr. Andrew Pipe, the chief medical officer for the

SEATTLE (AP) Brian Bosworth signed an sll million, 10-year contract with the Seattle Seahawks Friday, joining a team he once said he wouldn’t play for and giving them an added boost into the upper rank of NFL contenders. The signing, announced by Seahawks spokesman Gary Wright, capped negotiations that began June 12, when the Seahawks won the rights to draft the All-America linebacker from Oklahoma in the NFL’s supplemental draft. He brings to the Seahawks, who missed the playoffs last season despite finishing with five straight wins and a 10-6 record, the potential to be a dominating force inside. Bosworth joins a linebacking corps that already includes Pro Bowler Fredd Young and two promising rookies Tony Woods and Dave Wyman, the first two picks in the regular draft. Bosworth’s deal, a series of 10 one-year contracts, reportedly includes a $2.5 million signing bonus that would pay him $500,000 immediately and distribute $500,000 payments each year from 1997 to 2000. His yearly salaries start at $300,000 and go up yearly to $400,000,

sports

U.S. dominant in basketball play

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) “This isn’t an all-star team,” mused Rex Chapman, “this is an all-around team.” Indeed, the U.S. men’s basketball team at the Pan Am Games has been dominant on both ends of the court, scoring an average of 97.5 points in four round-robin victories and allowing just 67 points per game. The opposition shot just 37 percent from the field. Chapman, the team’s secondleading scorer at 14 points per game, said the team knew defense would be stressed. “When Coach picked the team, he looked at people at both ends, not just offense,” said Chapman, at 19 the youngest member of the team. “The first couple of weeks, defense was what we worked on.” The work paid off handsomely as Coach Denny Crum’s squad advanced to Sunday’s quarterfinals as the top team from Pool A and will face the fourth-place finisher from Pool B, which will be decided Saturday. “I’m pleased we’re undefeated,” the Louisville coach said. “I think we’ve made progress. Coming in we were ready. If we don’t win it, it won’t be because we weren’t ready.” Danny Manning of Kansas leads the balanced scoring at 14.5 per game, followed by Chapman, Navy’s David Robinson at 12.5 and Pervis Ellison of Louisville at 10.8. There are three players between 7.8 and 7.5 per game. The minutes played have also been balanced. Chapman leads with an average of 22 per game, while Jerome Lane of Pittsburgh is low at nearly 10. “They knew coming in everybody would play and I don’t think they’re the kind of players who look at things like that,” Crum said. “They’re

Canadian delegation. Vazquez Rana said Gilbert’s test showed “a minimal positive reading.” “The case of the Canadian girl is over. It is finished,” said Vazquez Rana, speaking through a translator. “There is really nothing there. “When a girl says voluntarily that she’s going to take medication for a cold, a very light reading will come out in the test,” Vazquez Rana said. Even an aspirin can show positive, he said. Gilbert took the medication for a cold the Friday before her Sunday relay event, Canadian officials said. After her first urine sample showed a positive result, a second part also

$500,000, $600,000, $700,000, $1 million, sl.l million, $1.2 million, $1.3 million and finally to $1.4 million in 1996, the New Tribune of Tacoma, Wash., reported. Curt Warner, who signed a $5.21, five-year deal in the offseason, is currently the highestpaid Seahawk. Bosworth, known for his multicolored hairdos, earrings and outspoken ways, had a year of football eligibility remaining at Oklahoma but completed work for his degree, making him eligible for the NFL draft. He would have been chosen in the first five of the regular draft but bypassed it because he didn’t want to be taken by Buffalo, which had the third pick, or Green Bay, which had the fourth. He then opted for a special supplemental draft, but said he would sign with one of only six teams the two in New York and Los Angeles along with Philadelphia and Tampa Bay. However, he opened negotiations soon after he was taken by Seattle, which picked 18th of the 28 teams and had 11 capsules in the weighted draft compared to 28 for Tampa Bay, which picked first, 27 for Indianapolis, 26 for Buffalo and so on.

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DANNY MANNING Leading balanced scorer looking at winning.” Indiana guard Keith Smart did not play in the second half of Thursday’s victory over Venezuela because of what Crum described as a “tender knee.” Team physician Dr. David Joyner said Friday that Smart had suffered a bruised knee in the previous game against Mexico, and it stiffened against Venezuela, so he was rested. Joyner said Smart would be fine for Sunday’s game. Brazil remained the only other unbeaten team Friday with a 103-98 victory over the U.S. Virgin Islands. The silver medalist from 1983, Brazil, 3-0, can clinch the top spot in Pool B with a victory Saturday over Canada. Oscar Schmidt led Brazil with 23 points as the Virgin Islands finished round-robin play 0-4 and will meet Argentina, 0-4, for ninth place on Sunday.

was analyzed in the presence of Canadian officials. If an athlete is to be punished, the PASO medical commission, after the second test, makes a recommendation to the organization’s executive council. If the council accepted the recommendation, Vazquez Rana would announce the positive results and mete out punishment. There was no PASO announcement “because there has been no doping infraction,” Pipe said. The delegation first learned Tuesday that an athlete had tested positive for the presence of pseudoephedrine, a banned substance contained in cold medicine,

Fight breaks out at Cuban boxing match

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) A strange thing happened at the Pan American Games boxing competition. A fight broke out. Nearly a dozen Cuban boxers rushed into the stands Friday night and pummeled anti-Castro demonstrators who taunted them and tried to tear up a Cuban flag. Two people, blood streaming down their faces, were taken to a local hospital, where they underwent treatment for cuts and bruises. “What you basically had was a donnybrook,” said James Campbell, deputy Indianapolis police chief of operations. It took about 30 police some 15 minutes to restore order. Cuba’s Pablo Romero, a two-time light heavyweight world champion, threw uppercut after uppercut to the head of a demonstrator crouched in the bleachers. His teammates helped rescue the Cuban flag and held off the other demonstrators. “Three of them had one guy on the floor and were twisting his legs and jumping on him,” said Ed Usher, a spectator sitting nearby. Julio Mena, an official with the Cuban team, said his fighters were watching the competition in the ring when about six demonstrators began taunting them and tearing the flag. “They began to insult us and our revolution,” Mena said. “We are not going to tolerate that. We are going to respond to all provocations.” Police made one arrest, charging Ramon Delemos, 35, a Dominican native from Dayton, Ohio, with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest. The two people taken to Community Hospital were identified as Pedro Tamayl, 43, and Felix Toledo, 45, both of Miami. “We were just waving the flag when they took it from us r ” said Juanna Isa, one of the demonstrators. “Two members of my family are gravely hurt.” Isa identified herself as a CubanAmerican from Miami and a member of the Cuban-Independent and Democratic Party, the same group that fought with members of the Cuban delegation last Sunday at a

Cubans, U.S. top

baseball teams

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) The powerful Cuban and U.S. baseball teams kept rolling through the Pan American Games and into a head-on confrontation, while the United States surged past the 200-medal mark Friday. The Cubans hit seven home runs, giving them 14 in four victories, and Omar Ajete pitched a one-hitter in a 13-1 rout of Venezuela. Next up for the Cubans on Saturday is the U.S. team, which ripped Netherlands Antilles 14-1. “The game tomorrow against the U.S. is the most important for us in the tournament,” Cuban Manager Higinio Velez said. “Not because of any rivalry but because the U.S. team is the best team we have to face. In order to win the gold, we will have to beat the U.S.” Cuba didn’t win any gold and took just one bronze in the first six events Friday. But the United States got four gold medals, six silver and a bronze. That pushed the U.S. total to 209 medals, 85 of them gold. Canada moved into a tie with Cuba in total medals. The Canadians won two gold and three bronze Friday, giving them 95 medals. The Cubans also have 95, but their 46 gold are 28 more than Canada has gotten. U.S. gold medalists Friday in-

Pipe said. He said the substance is present in the over-the-counter medicine Chlortripolon Decongestant, which Gilbert took, believing it to be Chlortripolon. The decongestant contains the banned substance, the other medicine does not, Pipe said. A small amount of the substance does not enhance performance, he said. Gilbert got the medication from Andersen, a teammate who purchased the tablets at an Canadian airport on her way to Indianapolis, Pipe said. Andersen asked the Canadian medical staff if Chlortripolon was all right to take and was told that it was, Pipe said. He said he has not been

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baseball game at Bush Stadium. The fight occurred during the ninth bout at the Convention Center, a 132-pound meeting between Marc Menard of Canada and Jorge Migliasso of Argentina. The bout continued while police tried to restore order. The remaining bouts on the card also went off as scheduled. “It was definitely a provoked incident,” said Jim Fox, executive director of the USA Amateur Boxing Federation. “We’ll have to be more cautious from now on.” Canadian fighter Nick Rupa, who witnessed the incident, said one of, the demonstrators punched Romero as he tried to take a Cuban flag from him. “Someone slugged him and he went crazy,” said Rupa. who also said Romero grabbed an Indianapolis policeman by the throat when the officer tried to intervene. After the fight, Pan Am officials moved the Cuban fighters to a different section of the bleachers and ringed the group with police officers and security guards. Police questioned Isa and three men but made no further arrests. “Everybody’s denying everything,” said Indianapolis Police Capt. Charles Kaiser. Inside the ring, Cuban and American fighters remained undefeated after two days of competition. Three Cubans won Friday night along with U.S. fighter Arthur Johnson, the only American in action. Johnson stopped Canada’s Corey Burton with a barrage of punches in the second round of the 112-pound fight. He meets Cuba’s Adalbert© Regalado, who also won, in a Monday quarterfinal bout. Defending Pan Am champion Candelario Duvergel of Cuba barely escaped with a 3-2 decision over Alicio Morales of Puerto Rico at 139 pounds while teammate Juan Torres, the world champion at 106 pounds, scored a unanimous decision win over Scott Olson of Canada.

cluded Skip Clinton of Lauderhill, Fla., in men’s figure roller skating and Deena Wigger of Fort Benning, Ga., in women’s smallbore rifle. BASEBALL Ajete had a perfect game for 6 2 3 innings in a game shortened to seven innings because of the 10-run rule a game ends when a team is at least 10 runs ahead after seven innings. He then walked Jose Garcia and shortstop Luis Ulacia was given an error on a groundball when he went for a force play at second base but made a bad throw. Miguel Castaneda then blooped a single to right field, ending the nohitter and shutout. But right fielder Jorge Garcia threw out Luis Borjas at third base to end the game. Joe Slusarski of Springfield, 111., pitched all seven innings for his second Pan Am victory. SWIMMING Susan Habermas of Gaithersburg, Md., won her second gold medal of the meet, winning the women’s 200 individual medley. Habermas also was on the victorious U.S. 800 freestyle relay team. Tom Williams of St. Charles, 111., set a Pan Am record of 22.58 seconds in a men’s 50-meter freestyle heat, the sixth fastest time ever recorded in the event.

able to determine which member of the medical staff gave the advice to the swimmer. “In a sense, she asked the wrong question and got the right answer,” Pipe said. “It is unreasonable to expect a young swimmer to make the pharmaceutical distinction” between the two types of tablets, Pipe said. He said he believed the Canadian medical staff acted appropriately. Canadian swim Coach Tom Johnson allowed Gilbert to swim Thursday. He had pulled her off the 400meter freestyle relay team that won a silver medal on Tuesday because of the uncertainty over her status on the drug test.

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