Browns Look Ahead

Fri., June 28, 1996

Compiled From Wire Services

Bill Futterer, a marketing executive who helped bring NFL and NBA expansion teams to North Carolina, was appointed president of the Cleveland Browns Trust. Futterer, hired by the NFL, will coordinate a variety of business and marketing activities for the expected return of the Browns in 1999.

Representatives with the NFL are looking into rape allegations at a party attended by several players.

A woman told police Saturday she was raped by three men after attending a party at the Marriott Hotel in Fort Wayne, Ind. The party was attended by several NFL players, including participants in a football camp put on by Steelers’ Rod Woodson.

Former NFL lineman Luis Sharpe’s failure to complete a court-ordered drug rehabilitation program could cost him up to four years in prison. Sharpe, recovering from a second gunshot wound in less than a year, may also face additional criminal charges stemming from a brawl with police, who found him with a bullet wound in his neck Tuesday night.

Sharpe remained hospitalized Thursday in serious but stable condition as police attempted to learn who shot him and why.

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