European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 20, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Monday August 20. 1990 the stars and stripes Page 25 Barkeep protest nil scrambling the stars and stripes by Michael Cranberry los Angeles times san Diego a furious Over efforts by the National football league to a scramble a its telecasts owners of several san Diego sports bars said saturday that collectively they plan to protest the move through the courts. A i spoke with my attorney for tvo hours this afternoon and plan to seek an injunction before the first regular season game sept. 9 a said Norman Lubovitz who owns slug go a a sports bar with three san Diego area outlets. John comas who owns Pounders a sports bar in Pacific Beach calif., said that he planned to join Lebovitz As do owners of other establishments that receive nil broadcasts by use of a satellite a a dish stationed on the i support the preliminary injunction Quot comas said. A i can understand not showing san Diego Charger Home games a which i Don t do but this is comas said that he had been involved in efforts in Miami and Phoenix ariz., to contest the a Fly a right to limit the programming available at sports bars. He said that such bars and restaurants a a survive on being Able to show sporting events not carried on local stations. A a it a the reason we exist Quot he said. A a it a upsetting very upsetting Quot said Mark Indigaro manager of first round draft a sports bar in Ocean Beach Are they Gonna do next a a take away the National basketball association a the a Fly a latest move announced Friday seeks to limit its audience to network affiliates and Cable channels by scrambling the signals beamed from satellites 22,300 Miles above the Cable channels have scrambled for years but by use of an authorized a de scrambler and a fee paid to the network have give i dish owners an option. The nil is planning such option which owners of sports bars say will Ryn them out of business. A you Drift screw Troun Dewith gras terbots America Quot said i Bovitz whose family oriented restaurants Champion Chicago teams. A a in a going to try and get 5,000 bars and restaurants to Stop Selling Bud and Miller Lite Beers for one Day. Those Are the a Fly a big sponsors. Well hit Mem where it hurts a Val Pinchbeck the a Fly a vice president in charge of broadcasting said saturday that Lebovitz and comas were a not the first to contest the league a and wont be the he called their efforts he said that the league had been a concerned about sports bars for years and How they be a proliferated not just in san Diego and Southern California but All Over the he said the league had pursued lawsuits against such bars in Buffalo Tampa Dallas Kansas City Detroit new Orleans Houston Chicago Miami and St. Louis. He said sports bars a do nothing but steal our signals a which he equated to wiretapping. A a we be won every court test in this area a said Pinchbeck reached by Telephone in Houston. A going Back As far As 10 years we be won but those cases involved the rights of local bars to show nil games played in those cities. Scrambling a minus the option to do scramble a is something new. A if its Legal for the nil to do this then the Law needs to be changed a Lubovitz said. A who is Val Pinch cad or the nil to Tell me i can to make a living a to try to run me out of business i la do everything possible under the Law to respond to this and you can bet ill have backers. A i Only moved to san Diego because 1 knew 1 could see my Chicago bears on satellite. No one is Gonna take that away. Win Maebashi Japan a Greg Lem Ond of the United states will have More than his fans rooting for him when he tries to become the first Man to win both the tour de France and the Premier Road title at the world cycling championship in consecutive years. Sponsors of this years championship especially Are hoping for Victory from the three time tour de France Champion As Japan and Asia hosts their first world championship Competition. High powered funding mainly from the Japan cycling promotion association has made the 87th world cycling championship which begins in this Central japanese City on monday one of the most costly single sports events Ever held in Japan. The championship is costing sponsors z billion yen $13 million spokesman Masahiro Katsura said. Japan hosted the summer olympics in 1964 in Tokyo and the Winter olympics in 1972 in Sapporo but those were Multi sport competitions. Katsura said the prize Money will be paid to each country a cycling federation rather than to the competitors themselves. The first world cycling championship was held in Chicago in 1893 and the first tour de France in 1903. Lemond one of cycling s most visible and popular stars won the tour in 1986 and 1989 before his dramatic Victory last month taking the Overall Lead in the next to last stage. Lemond captured the world championship title in 1989 after winning it for the first time in 1983. He is to compete in the professional individual 261-Kilometer 162-mile Road race on sept. 2, the final Day of the track races Are to be held aug. 20-26 in Maebashi 100 Kilometres 62 Miles Northwest of Tokyo at the Green dome a newly built 333-meter 1,099-foot velodrome with a maximum incline of 42 Deg Rees. One of the toughest in the world. The Road race to follow will be in Utsunomiya 80 Kilometres 50 Miles Northeast of Maebashi. In the Road races competitors must negotiate 18 laps around a 14.5-Kilome-ur nine mile course with a 190-meter 627-foot height total of 176 riders Are to compete in the Load race the highlight of the 10-Day Chiampi Enship. A Monde a toughest Competition could Tome from two other former champions Stephen Roche of Ireland and Pedro Holgado of Spain. Urzi. W around the Nair Burgering curves Sas m the Sauber Mercedes of Jean Louis Schoesser and Mauro Baldi left Lead the Toyota of Johnny Dumfries and Roberto Ravaglia and Raul Boesel s porsche during the sports prototype world championship round at the nor Burgering sunday. The Schlesser Boldi combo triumphed to grab the world championship Lead. Drug accusations made Switzer resign Oklahoma City apr Barry Switzer says in his autobiography that he resigned As Oklahoma football coach after a meeting at which he was accused of being around drugs and gambling on College football including the sooner in a a bootleggers a boy a Switzer writes that he stepped Down six Days after meeting with former interim president David Swank and other school officials. Excerpts from the Book which is scheduled to reach stores in september were printed saturday in the daily oklahoman. Switzer writes that at the meeting in june 1989, Swank told him he had information that Switzer had been in a Las vegas hotel room in 1983 where cocaine was used that he had bet on games and manipulated the drug testing of sooner players. Some of the information came from the . Attorneys office in Oklahoma City Swank told Switzer. The former coach writes that none of the allegations were True but he realized after the meeting that his career at Oklahoma was Over. A the publicity from my coming out with my Side of the Story would doom me a Switzer writes. Switzer suggests that Swank May have made up the allegations. He also claims that getting him to resign was one of Swank Stop priorities after being named interim president. Swank declined comment. A until i really see what the Book says its hard to make any comment a he said. Switzer a resignation on june 19, 1989 came after Oklahoma was placed on Mcaa probation and Only months after his players were involved in a rape a cocaine Sale and a shooting. One of those arrested and sent to prison was quarterback Charles Thompson whom Switzer says tested positive for cocaine use twice during 1988 and spent the summer prior to the �?T88 season in a rehabilitation Center. In the Book written by Switzer and Bud Shrake with a Forward by Penn state coach Joe Paterno the 16-year head coach discusses several topics including his own Early Days and several former players and assistant coaches. Switzer says a former University president told him at a meeting in 1984 that a if you win the National championship the regents wont fire you even if we catch you smoking dope. A the at comment an athletic department official told Switzer was proof that administrators a expect us to pay lip service to All the High sounding goals but what it really comes Down to is Money and winning and they really control Switzer also discussed Brian bos Worth calling him a one of the greatest players Ever to play for the University of but he writes a i have some problems with this Guy you Call the a the Boz was an expletive who strutted around Norman like he owned the place both stifling and intimidating people a Switzer writes. Shoulder injuries ended How Orth a Post Oklahoma career with the Seattle sea Hawks. The homesickness that helped end Marcus Dupree a Brief career at Oklahoma in the 1980s Hurt an even More promising career Switzer writes. A Marcus you could have been the greatest Ever to play the game a the former coach says. Switzer writes that his father a Bootlegger was shot in the Chest by a jealous Girlfriend and both died in a car Accident As she drove him to a Hospital. After his Mother s suicide in 1959, Switzer says �?o1 Felt like i was the one who had caused her to pull the
