Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!maytag!looking!clarinews From: clarinews@clarinet.com (United Press International) Newsgroups: clari.sports.misc Subject: Sports Digest Keywords: misc sports Message-ID: Date: 4 Feb 90 20:36:37 GMT Lines: 70 Approved: clarinews@clarinet.com ACategory: sports Slugword: digest Priority: major Format: regular ANPA: Wc: 767; Id: s0538; Sel: ns--s; Adate: 2-4-325pes; Ver: sked Codes: ysz.rxx. _B_a_s_e_b_a_l_l An arbitrator has awarded Kansas City Royals slugger Bo Jackson a one-year contract worth $1 million, about $900,000 less than the outfielder sought for 1990. The hearing was heard Friday in Los Angeles. Jackson hit 32 home runs and had 105 RBI in 1989. _B_o_b_s_l_e_d_d_i_n_g Gustav Weder and Bruno Gerber of Switzerland fought off a strong bid by two East German teams to win the World Two Man Bobsleighing Championships in St. Moritz, Switzerland. The Swiss team won three of four heats for an aggregate time of 4 minutes, 19.90 seconds. _C_o_l_l_e_g_e A shakeup in the University of Pittsburgh coaching staff is one of several reasons that convinced defensive tackle Marc Spindler to turn pro. Spindler confirmed he will enter the NFL draft because, in part, Pitt head coach Mike Gottfried and defensive line assistant Frank D'Alonzo were fired. ... Pittsburgh junior forward Brian Shorter, who has paced the Panthers to four victories in five games, was named Big East-Dodge Player of the Week. Shorter, the conference's leading scorer, has averaged 23 points during Pitt's recent surge. Connecticut freshman forward Nadav Henefeld was named Big East-Plymouth Rookie of the Week. _S_k_a_t_i_n_g Marina Klimova and Sergei Ponomarenko led a Soviet 1-2 sweep in the pairs figure skating at the European Championships in Leningrad, USSR. The world champions easily defended their European title, with compatriots Maya Usova and Alexander Zhulin their closest challengers. Third place went to French pair Isabelle and Paul Duchesnay. _S_k_i_i_n_g Austrian Helmut Heoflehner claimed his third men's World Cup downhill victory in eight days, triumphing over a course in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, he conquered six years ago. Hoeflehner, winner of a downhill double last weekend at Val d'Isere, France, finished in 1:44.57. Norway's Atle Skaardal and Franz Heinzer of Switzerland tied for second at 1:44.77. ... Katrin Gutensohn, West Germany's Austrian recruit, completed a double when she won the second women's World Cup downhill of the weekend in Veysonnaz, Switzerland. Gutensohn raced the course in 1:17.86, a slim margin of 19-100ths ahead of France's Carole Merle. Karin Dedler of West Germany was third. ... Maria Walliser, a fixture on the Swiss team for the past 10 years, announced she will retire at the end of the World Cup season in March. Walliser, 27, never won an Olympic gold, but she claimed a silver in the 1984 downhill at Sarajevo and bronzes in the giant slalom and combined in 1988 at Calgary. _S_o_c_c_e_r Dutch scoring machine Marco Van Basten netted two goals on penalty kicks in a six-minute span to spark AC Milan's 3-2 victory over Fiorentina in the Italian first division. The triumph enabled Milan to keep pace with first-place Napoli, which received a pair of goals from Diego Maradona in defeating Cremonese 3-0. ... Defending champion KV Mechelen stumbled to its first loss of the season with a 3-0 loss against FC Brugge in the top Belgian League match. Anderlecht remained two points behind Brugge after an easy 3-0 victory over last-placed Racing Mechelen. ... Dutch striker Pieter Den Boer scored an 81st-minute goal to give Bordeaux a 1-1 draw with St. Etienne and maintain his club's three-point lead atop the French first division, which resumed play after a midseason break. _T_e_n_n_i_s Steffi Graf crushed Arantxa Sanchez, 6-1, 6-2, to win the $350,000 Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo. Graf, who struggled to win the Australian Open in Melbourne just over a week ago, opened play with a pair of aces and was never threatened in the 51-minute match. Sanchez, who upset Graf in the final of the 1989 French Open, won only one point in the first three games and didn't hold serve until the fourth game. _T_r_a_c_k Lyudmila Narozhilenko clocked 7.71 seconds to set a world indoor record in the women's 60-meter hurdles at the Soviet Indoor Championships in Chelyabinsk. The time bettered the old record of 7.73 held by East Germany's Cornelia Oschkenat. In a major upset, Grigory Yegorov defeated world record-holder and Olympic champion Sergei Bubka. Yegorov cleared 19 feet, 2 1/4 inches.