Authors deny Osborne's allegations
By TOM VINT
AP Sports Writer
LINCOLN, Neb. A Sports Illus
trated magazine writer has denied alle
gations by Nebraska Coach Tom
Osborne that he and the author of a book
on Nebraska football offered a former
player payment for information damag
ing to the program.
Osborne told reporters in a news con
ference Saturday that former Corn
husker Nate Mason was led to believe
former Sports Illustrated writer Armen
Keteyian would pay him for information
regarding illegal payments or drug use
involving Cornhusker Heisman Trophy
winner Mike Rozier.
Keteyian wrote the book, "Big Red
Confidential: Inside Nebraska Foot
ball," which detailed several allegations
involving Rozier and other former
Nebraska players.
Keteyian, in a telephone interview
Saturday, denied Osborne's allegations
of payments offered to Mason when
Keteyian and fellow Sports Illustrated
reporter Martin Dardis interviewed
Mason in 1986. Mason was Rozier's
World Cup flare-up causes controversy
By The Associated Press
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil While officials from
Brazil and Chile traded accusations yesterday, soc
cer's governing body made no decision on Brazil's con
troversial 1-0 victory in a World Cup qualifier.
With 22 minutes left in the game on Sunday at Mar
acana Stadium, a fireworks rocket thrown from the
crowd of 160,000 landed near Chile goalkeeper Roberto
Rojas.
Players and team officials surrounded Rojas and
he was taken off the field covered with what appeared
to be blood. Brazil officials said the injury was either
faked or self-inflicted.
Chile walked off the field after the incident and Bra
zil was given a 1-0 victory by referee Juan Carlos
Loustau of Argentina.
"I am absolutely certain he was not hit," Dr. Lidio
Toledo of the Brazilian team said. "I also can guar
antee that the red liquid they said was blood was just
Mercurochrome. The flare that fell is for signalling
and is not explosive."
O Globo, a Rio de Janeiro newspaper, published a
front-page photo showing the flare landing behind
Rojas and the goalkeeper beginning to fall backwards.
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roommate for three years at Nebraska.
"I certainly did not or neither did
Armen in any interviews I had with
Nate Mason or anybody else there offer
any money, inducements or whatever,
or I didn't hint at it or convey 'tin any
fashion," Dardis said in a telephone
interview yesterday. "As I told Nate
Mason on the tape, the only thing I was
concerned with was the truth."
"I believe it's a calculated act on
coach Osborne's part to discredit me
and the book," Keteyian said in a tele
phone interview from Bloomfield Hills,
Mich.
Osborne said Saturday that the book's
claims of illegal payments and cocaine
use by Rozier at Nebraska failed to
include comment from Rozier's room
mate.
Osborne said Mason called him after
the interview and said it was implied
that he would be paid for an interview
about Rozier but when Mason said he
hadn't seen Rozier do cocaine or receive
illegal payments, Keteyian the another
person ( Dardis ), said they wouldn't pay
him for the interview.
`But he felt the message was loud and
Rojas' wife, Maria de los Angeles, denied the charge
that it was staged yesterday during an interview with
reporters in Santiago, Chile.
"Such a ridiculous allegation doesn't even deserve
an answer," she said. "I would like to show them my
husband's playing shirt, which was thick with blood."
Chilean officials said he sustained a 1 1 / 4 -inch cut that
needed five stitches to close.
"He's doing fine, but the doctors ordered him to stay
ip bed for at least three days," his wife said.
Rojas was examined in the dressing room Sunday
by Brazilian doctors. They said he had a cut on his
forehead but no other injuries.
"We can affirm there was no burn and no explo
sion," said Dr. Talvane de Morals.
Sergio Stoppel, president of the Chilean Soccer Con
federation, said Chile would ask FIFA to order the
game replayed.
"The television pictures we have seen have not been
enough for us to evaluate the seriousness of the inci
dent," FIFA general secretary Joseph Blatter said
yesterday. "That is why we are awaiting the referee's
report and the report of our two match commissioners
to tell us more. I would particularly like to know, for
example, why the match did not continue."
clear that what they were going to do
was pay him if he would say Rozier used
these things," Osborne said of his talk
with Mason.
Dardis, who still works for Sports
Illustrated, said the claim was "ridicu
lous" and he defended himself and
Keteyian.
"I worked with Armen about three
years and I always felt he was straight
up and have conveyed that to other peo
ple about his attitude," Dardis said. "I
feel very strong about people's rights
and protecting the innocent. There's
numerous, numerous things that never
get printed that we find . . . because it
either couldn't be proven or it wasn't
strong enough or we didn't have enough
sources. We may have fully felt that it
happened but we said we can't do this
or if this is all we've got we've got to for
get it. I wasn't certainly unfair in any
thing I did at Nebraska, or didn't feel
that way."
Dardis said he and Keteyian had
taped the interview with Mason and had
kept the tapes.
Calls by The Associated Press to
Mason's telephone number provided the
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Nebraska media by Osborne have not
been answered. The AP's attempts to
reach Rozier through his agent, brother
Bill Rozier, have been unsuccessful.
Osborne said he wasn't completely
displeased with the book. He said
Keteyian and a 1986 NCAA investigation
have failed to implicate the coaching
staff or administration in any wrong
doing at Nebraska. He also said he
believed Keteyian had done a conscien
tious, if unbalanced job of reporting
about Nebraska football.
He said he believed the slant was to
turn up negatives about a program con
sidered by many coaches across the
country as one of the cleanest in major
college football.
The book hit some Omaha sales out
lets Thursday. It deals with reports of
illegal ticket sales by athletes, booster
payments for game performances, ster
oid use and drug use.
Keteyian said he wrote the book to
demystify the Nebraska football pro
gram. He said he feels the book is about
one of the class programs in the coun
try, but one that has its share of prob
lems.
Agustin Dominguez of Spain and Eduardo Rocca
Couture of Uruguay, members of the 1990 World Cup
Organizing Committee, were at the match.
"It is the rust time a team has left the field this way
in a World Cup qualifying match," Blatter said.
"Brazil is in the World Cup. I don't have the slightest
doubt of that," Brazil Coach Sebastiao Lazaroni said.
"It's a pity that it ended this way, with this setup this
Chilean farce. They didn't want to play, they had it
preplanned to arrange an excuse. Anything would
have served for them to abandon the field."
Police detained Rosemary Melo Nascimento, a 24-
year-old secretary who reportedly threw the flare.
"I didn't mean it," she was quoted as saying by the
Jornal do Brasil, a Rio de Janeiro newspaper. "I didn't
even know what would happen when I pulled the
string."
Police Officer Ribeiro Franco, head of the local pre
cinct, said Nascimento would not be arrested because
charges were not pressed and because there was no
evidence she intended to injure Rojas.
Brazil, the only team to qualify for every World Cup,
became the first country to advance out of qualifying.
It joined Argentina, the defending champion, and
Italy, the host nation, which got automatic berths.
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