Miscellany

Sat., Jan. 18, 1997

Compiled From Wire Services

A search and rescue report says retired auto racing star Bobby Unser told friends before his ill-fated snowmobiling trip that his destination was some lakes inside a federally protected wilderness.

But Unser disputes the report’s conclusion, saying he got lost and that the New Mexico Department of Public Safety misconstrued his friends’ remarks to search and rescue volunteers concerning his direction.

The Phoenix franchise in the WNBA is expected to become the first of the league’s eight teams to name a coach when it introduces Cheryl Miller on Monday at a news conference before the Phoenix Suns-Detroit Pistons game.

LSU will not release freshman forward Lester Earl from his national letter of intent to play basketball, the school announced. Earl quit the team Dec. 29 after being suspended by coach Dale Brown.

French skier Adrien Duvillard sustained a serious, but not life-threatening, head injury, a punctured lung and broken ribs when he crashed into a security fence at 55 mph during a World Cup downhill practice run in Wengen, Switzerland.

At Wiesel, Germany, Italy’s Deborah Compagnoni, the Olympic and world champion, blazed down the icy, bumpy course in the first run to take a big lead, then survived a few mistakes in the second heat for a victory in a World Cup giant slalom event, ahead of Anita Wachter of Austria.

In San Diego, German Carty scored on a header in the eighth minute to lift Peru to a 1-0 soccer upset of the United States in the opening match of the U.S. Cup on Friday night.

Former NFL quarterback Art Schlichter will serve at least eight years in prison once he completes treatment for compulsive gambling.

Schlichter, 36, pleaded guilty Friday in Indianapolis to two counts of forgery and one count of theft, all felonies.

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