Martina Navratilova breaks a string on her racquet in a match last year. Navratilova made an out-of-court set
tlement offer to former lover Judy Nelson yesterday.
Top Cuban pitcher
may play in majors
By The Associated Press
NEW YORK Rene Arocha, the
Cuban national team pitcher who
defected to the United States in
July, may play major league base
ball in the United States, the U.S.
Justice Department confirmed
yesterday.
Arocha's U.S. agent, Gus Domi
nguez, said earlier in the day that
the commissioner's office has
arranged for teams to scout Aro
cha in a few instructional league
games and then hold a special lot
tery-style draft. Date of the draft
was not announced.
In Washington, Duke Austin, a - -
was not until major league base
spokesman for the Justice Depart- ball got clarification from INS that
ment's Immigration and Naturali- he became eligible to play.
zation Service, said Arocha was
A right-hander, Arocha was
legally free to play for a major
league team, although it wasn't clocked at a top speed of 84 mph in
a workout in July at Miami's
necessary for baseball to wait for
Grapeland Park by Herb Ray
the service's go-ahead on a draft.
bourn, director of Latin American
"It isn't INS saying you can go
scouting for the New York Yan
ahead and draft him, it's INS say
kees.
ing he can stay and work in the
'country," Austin said. While that could be considered
' He said this approval is fairly too slow by major league stan
'routine for Cubans who defect. dards, Arocha said at the time that
1 Dominguez, in a prepared he was clocked after three days of
`statement from Los Angeles, said throwing, which left his arm tired.
that after the instructional league He said he was capable of throw
tryout, teams interested in the ing in the 89-92 mph range.
ilaYle Mit& Mrtriffiffelrififittrfr' "'lttgeliTlMlTMltiltilitayet but
the commssioner, who then would would not be looked upon as a
conduct a lottery. premium player," Houston Astros
"That's what we're looking at, but scouting director Dan O'Brien said
the detail s haven't been recently. "He would probably fall in
announced," baseball spokesman the next level of players in terms
Jim Small said. "We are taking of ability."
some steps to make him available Arocha says he is 25, but at a
before the draft next June. Right news conference announcing his
now, we're waiting for the results defection on July 12, reporters were
of a physical." told he was 27. Other reports
The team that wins the lottery pegged his age at 28.
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Millard:
now more serious
By The Associated Press
EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn.
Further damage was discovered
yesterday when Minnesota
Vikings defensive tackle Keith
Millard underwent arthroscopic
surgery on his right knee for a
cartilage tear, the team said.
"Damage to the previous
anterior cruciate ligament
reconstruction was discovered,"
a brief statement from the
Vikings said. "A decision will me
made later on a future course of
action."
Magnetic resonance imaging
tests over the weekend had
indicated the cartilage tear.
Cartilage damage is considered
less serious than torn ligaments.
Dr. David Fischer, Vikings
medical director, told KSTP-TV
that "the situation is much more
complicated than we had hoped.
Seattle approves ticket-buyout for
By The Associated Press
SEATTLE The King County Council on
-- Tifesdafariiitovenpending $200,000 to help buy
200,000 tickets for the cash-strapped Seattle
Mariners' remaining 13 home games.
Yesterday's action, approved by a 7-2 vote, was
aimed at preventing financially distressed
Mariners owner Jeff Smulyan from invoking an
attendance-linked escape clause in his King
dome lease.
There was no immediate comment on the vote
from Smulyan. He and team president Gary
Kaseff were en route to Baltimore for the
owners' meetings.
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Navratilova wants to settle
By The Associated Press
FORT WORTH, Texas Martina Navratilova made
a settlement offer on Tuesday to a former companion
who has filed a palimony lawsuit against the tennis star.
Judy Nelson emerged from a courtroom late yes
terday and said she would consider the offer over
night before deciding whether to accept it and end her
legal quest for a share of the nine-time Wimbledon
champion's assets.
Nelson, who had a seven-year relationship with
Navratilova, said both sides have compromised in
trying to reach a settlement.
"Neither of us ever wanted this to happen. It has, and
we're in it, and I think that we would both like to see
the pain and the suffering stop so that we can both
recover from it and get on with our lives," she said.
Nelson said the lawsuit is about more than the
millions of dollars she could win in a judgment.
"It's about Martina honoring a contract, an
agreement that she did honestly and that we both
wanted," said Nelson, a former beauty queen. "I really
don't want to look at the dollars and cents of it. I mean
it goes beyond that."
Nelson met twice privately with Navratilova on
knee
Keith has some decisions to
make. I have a lot of evidence,
but I cannot make the decision
for him."
Fischer declined to reveal
further details, citing doctor
patient confidentiality.
Coach Jerry Burns told the
station Millard's health was the
first priority.
"There's no question that Keith
Millard is a great football play
er, and whatever decision he
makes relative to these latest
findings, he's got to take into
consideration his future and his
well-being," Burns said.
Before yesterday's surgery,
Millard had said he hoped to be
back in the lineup for the game
against Detroit Oct. 6.
The surgery was on the same
knee Millard injured last Sep
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"All along we've said we're working on long
term solutions. That's where we're focusing our
efforts," Mariners spokesman Dave Aust said
after the council : vote. "We'll continue to work
toward long-term solutions."
Councilman Brian Derdowsky said he believes
the loss of baseball would hurt the community,
and considers the investment necessary to keep
the Mariners in Seattle.
The ticket-buyout plan is expected to cost
about $600,000, with the additional $400,000
coming from businesses.
The council's one-third share of the tickets will
be distributed through social-service agencies
and non-profit organizations to "young people,
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Tuesday, calling the discussions the first talks the two
have had since ending their relationship earlier this
year.
Earlier Tuesday, the women returned to a state
district courtroom for the second day of a prelimi
nary hearing in the lawsuit. Navratilova's attorneys are
trying to have Nelson's attorney removed from the
case, saying he has unfair knowledge of Navratilova's
financial status having previously worked for her.
Both women cried when a videotape was played
Monday showing them agreeing to a non-marital
cohabitation agreement.
Nelson contends Navratilova reneged on the 1986
agreement in which Nelson was to get half of the
estimated $5 million to $9 million the tennis player
earned during their relationship
"I would like to have settled this before it ever
began," said Nelson, 45, of Fort Worth. "Every day and
every night, I hope that tomorrow will be the last day
and the last night." -
She declined to say how 'much Navratilova `had
offered her in any proposed out-of-court settlement.
Nelson said she had been forced to cash in some of her
retirement savings for support since her split with
Navratilova earlier this year.
US team
Finland
By The Associated Press
HAMILTON, Ontario Team
USA already owns a Canada Cup
victory over Finland. To make the
finals, though, the Americans will
have to do it again this time,
without the home-ice edge.
The Americans and Finns square
off again today night in Hamilton,
Ontario in the first of two
semifi
nal games. The winner meets the
winner of tomorrow night's Cana
da-Sweden semifinal in the best-of
-3 finals, beginning Saturday night
in Montreal.
The United States finished the
preliminary round with a 4-1-0
record, including Monday night's 4-
3 victory over Finland at Chicago
Stadium one of the smallest ice
surfaces in the world. The Copps
Coliseum has an NHL-regulation
200-by-85-foot surface that gives the
free-skating Finns more room to
operate.
faces
in Cup
There's als6 a lot mote pressure
than in the first meeting. This time,
the loser goes home.
"This is the scary Ipart," said
Team USA center ; I'at LaFontaine.
"If we win and Canada wins, it
would set up for a great finals. But
the Finnish team didn't get rattled,
they stayed composed. We're going
to have to play a limit, of a hockey
game Wednesday
Finnish coach Pentii Matikainen,
whose team is in the Canada Cup
semis for the first Ow. is looking
forward AO the t Our) match, too.
"We missed a lht of places to
shoot. That's one of things we have
to do better," he said.
Both Matikainen and Team USA
coach Tim Taylor have to decide
who to start in goal. Markus Ket
terer excelled in the first four
games for Finland and Jukka
Tammi made 32 saves Monday
night. Taylor played Mike Richter
in the first four games.
Mariners
the elderly, the disadvantaged and the disabled
people who otherwise probably wouldn't be
attending the ball game," councilman Paul
Barden said.
"The private sector is going to be buying the
other two-thirds. We don't have any idea what
private enterprise might do with their tickets,"
Barden said.
Meanwhile, civic and community leaders say
Smulyan may be asking too much if he expects
the community to raise franchise revenue by
about $l6 million in one year.
At the request of business and government
officials, Smulyan announced Friday what it
would take to keep the team in Seattle.
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