Saturday, March 14, 1987 THE STARS AND STRIPES .** Page 27Canadian capturesmen's skate titleFrom press dtsjwlchesCINCINNATI — Canada's BrianOner vaulted out ofhii runner-up rutThursday night by winning the men'stitle at the World Figure SkatingChampionships,The 25-year-old Oner, who wassecond in the last three World Cham-pionships and also won a silver medalat the 1984 Olympics, hit it* if hisseven triplcjumps as he took the longprogram. That performance liftedhim from third place to the title."It felt real good," he said. "This isa much nicer way to finish off theyear, It's going to take a few weeksbefore it really sets in."The victory was assured when de-fending champion Brian Boltano ofSunnyvale, Calif., had a bad turn-induring a combination jump. Boitano,who surged from fourth place lastyear lo the championship by winningthe freestyle in which Orser skatedpoorly, also fell on his attempt at aquadruple jump,Man ley out of hospitalWASHINGTON — WashingtonRedskins defensive end .Dexter Man-ley was released 'from Georgetown.University Hospital Thursday afterbeing admitted by his wife for an al-cohol-related problem, his agent said,"This is Dexter's first step of hispersonal commitment toward solvinga problem he has with alcohol," RoyRobertson, Mantcy's agent, said in aprepared statement,"At this time, the Mantey familyrequests thai the press respect theirwishes of privacy during this difficulttime'."Dexter and his wife Glinda thankall Ihe people who have expressedconcern for him and asks for under-Handing and support," the statementsaid.Faxon takes leadORLANDO, Fla. — LongshotBrad Faxon played a bogey-freeround of 5-under-par 66 and took aone-shot lead Thursday In the firstround of the $600,000 Bay Hill GolfClassic.Steve Pale had a share of the leaduntil he three-putted for a bogey onthe 18th hole and dropped one backat&7.Tom Kile, a former winner of thistitle. Brad Bryant and Soon Simpsonwere two off the pace at 68.U.S. unlikely pick in'96COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. —Paris and Athens will be in the bestposition to host the 1996 SummerOlympic Games no matter which citybecomes the top bidder from thiscountry, represenlives from 14 U.S.cities were told Thursday."The probability of a U.S. cily gel-ling the Olympics in '96 is pretty low.Talk centers around the home of theOlympics — Athens. Greece. Parishad a strong bid in 92 and will beback in '96, said George D. Miller,executive director of the U.S. Olym-pic Center.The USOC held a one-day seminarfor U.S. cities that want to be the siteof the 1996 Summer Games.About SO delegates attended thesession, representing Allanla. Cleve-land. Columbus, Dallas, Denver,Honolulu, Houston. Indianapolis,Miami, Minncapolis-St, Paul, Nash-ville. San Diego, San Francisco andWashington, D.C.sports wireRobinson, Davis topsCHARLOTTE, N.C — Navy cen-ter David Robinson and ClarissaDavis of the University of Texas werenamed as winners of the 1987 Nais-mith trophies Thursday, given an-nually lo the players of the year formen and women in college basketball.Robinson and Davis were selectedby more than 400 men and womencoaches, sports editors and writers,and other basketball officials.The Naismith Award is presentedby the Atlanta TlpofT Club.Robinson, a senior at Navy, out-polled Steve Alford of Indiana,Kenny Smith of North Carolina,Danny Manning of Kansas and Reg-gie Williams of Georgetown to earnIhc 19th annual men's trophy. Thosefive players comprise the 1987 Nais-mith All-America men's team.Robinson, who finished his collegecareer with a SO^oint effort in a losingcause against Michigan Thursday nightin the first round of the NCAA Tourna-ment, averaged 27.5 points and 11.8rebounds per game this season.Davis, a sophomore at Texas, out-polled Cindy Brown of Cat State-Long Beach, Katrina McClain ofGeorgia, Andrea Lloyd of Texas andClemette Haskins of Western Ken-tucky, all of whom join Davis on the1987 Naismith All-America team.McPherson wins boutNEW YORK — MiddleweightMark McPherson of Lakeview, N.Y.,in his first start after a nine-monthlayoff because of a fractured banenear his left eye, registered a unani-mous ID-round decision over MikePeoples of Monticello, N.Y., Thurs-day nightMcPherson, 162, is now 20-2. He isthe brother of Mites McPherson, aformer defensive back for the SanDiego Chargers. Peoples, 160,dropped to 9-144.Undefeated junior middleweightMark Weinman, IJ6, of.New York,extended his streak to nine victories,six by knockout, when he stoppedMarvin McDowell, 149ft, of Balti-more, at 2:04 of the fifth round of ascheduled eight.NFL, networks mumNEW YORK — A National Foot-ball League spokesman on Thursdayrefused to confirm or deny publishedreports that the NFL is close toagreement en a new three-year televi-sion package,A spokesman for NBC. one of thethree major networks talking with theNFL, would only say that noagreement has yet been reached.According to several published re-ports, the league and the three net-works — NBC, CBS and ABC —havenearly reached agreement on ihcirdeals, with the league expecting lo re-ceive less money than the networksEaid in 1986, Ihe final year of a $2.1illion, five-year contract.The New York Times said ihe newcontract would give a cable networkat least eight Sunday night games.The newspaper also said ABC, whichtelevised 16Wonday night games andfive other prime-time "specials" ineach of the last five years, would buyonly ihe Monday tiigni package, leav-ing Ihc five other prime-time gamesfor inclusion, in the cable package.conversion ratesLONDON (UPI) — Friday's closingrates Tor the U.S. dollar lo other curren-cies. 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