European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 5, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday december 5, 1990 the stars and stripes a Page 23u.s. Whips . In openers amps Watt Morrissette Charles Caldwell. Game High 32 Points by Walt Morrissette staff writer shape Belgium a the americans came Here with a Brand new team. It achieved familiar results. Charles Bates scored All 17 of his Points in the first half and Charles Caldwell pumped in 22 of his game High 32 Points after intermission to help the . Begin its shape International military basketball tournament title defense by overwhelming a deployment depleted United kingdom 122-52 tuesday. Clyde Harp added 15 Points Andrew Marshall scored 12 and Jay Mclean hit for 10 As the americans took a 62-25 halftime Lead and kept on running. Bonnie Daye Dobie Strong and Gerald Davis added eight Points each As both Daye and Strong buried a pair of three pointers. Norman Johnson led the . With 22. A they were really Hurt by the persian Gulf crisis a . Coach Bob Abbott said. A they lost a lot of players off last years team. They were going to pull out but at the. Last minute they decided they had enough players.�?�. The . Suited up Only in players two below the limit. The . Was Able to plays amp be tourney All 12 players and All 12 scored. But the . Coaches know the next games wont be As easy. The other countries coaches in the tourney do not think the defending champions Are favored to make it Back to Back titles since the . Is returning Only one starter Daye from the 1989 team. Quot the coaches Here had picked us As the fifth Best team Here a Abbott said with a smile a Italy France Greece and Belgium wore rated ahead of  Quot we expect the rest of our games to be Tough a Safe representative Tom Burkett said. Quot Italy France Belgium and Germany All brought their cism teams Here. So they be been together for  Italy cruised past Germany 89-57 to open the tournament tuesday Belgium beat the Netherlands 83-61,. And France was to take on Greece in tuesdays evening session. The . Team was to scout the France Greece game with intense interest because the americans have to beat these two teams to get to fridays semifinals. The . Will play France wednesday night and Greece thursday night. Rosemont 111. A commissioner Fay Vincent monday listed negotiations with the umpires and expansion fees allocation As baseball a toughest problems heading into 1991. A Vincent was unable to attend the Winter a meetings because of a respiratory illness but a text of his speech was made available. The contract with the umpires expired after the season and talks will Start soon. A these negotiations Are right around the Corner and the potential for another dispute is very real a Vincent said. A i have been working with our league presidents a Bill White and or. Bobby Brown a who will be conducting these negotiations and will continue to follow this pro Cess in our Effort to reach an equitable and sound agreement for the leagues As Well As the  Vincent said there could be a problem in dealing with the allocation of expansion fees. The National league is scheduled to expand by two teams in 1993. A traditionally expansion fees have been paid directly to the expanding league and then divided equally a Mong the teams of that league. Also in the past expansion in Deavors Only those teams in the expanding league shared the Burden of supplying players for the expansion draft. A in the current expansion process the american league has requested that it receive a share of the expansion fund and in return will make its players available in the expansion  Vincent said he has asked that each league form a committee to discuss the  7 the commissioner added he was optimistic the collusion Issue would be settled a this week a a . After four years of collusion hearings and decisions the owners and players Are near a settlement _ the agreement which still has to be. Ratified by the 26 clubs would award approximately 300 players $280 million in damages and also Grant a new look free Agency to 16 players directly affected by a conspiracy not to sign free agents from 1985-1987. A should the settlement be approved by the ownership this week Quot Vincent said a then finally we can put this episode be a amps Wall mor Russatto Andrew Marshall. It ,. I adds 12 Points commission Floy Vincent a. Predicts collusion settlement Hind us for Good and move Forward a arbitrator Thomas Roberts ruled on sept 21,1987, that the clubs conspired to a a destroy free Agency after the 1985 season in what came to be known As collusion i. Arbitrator Gcorge Nicolau ruled against the owners in collusion ii and Iii although baseball executives denied acting in concert documents traced a pattern of information trading at the urging of former commissioner Peter Ueberroth in an attempt to hold Down spiralling player salaries. A a a a a a a a a a a Quot a Richmond a. A Bryant Stith returned from an ankle injury and scored 20 of his 28 Points in the second half monday night to rally no. 21 Virginia to an 84-80 Victory Over 11 the ranked Pittsburgh in the opening game of the acc big East Challenge Virginia 4-2 took the Lead to stay on a spinning 12-foot jumper by Stith that made it 73-71 with 4 10  3-Pointer with 2 30 left gave the Cavaliers a 76-72 Lead and Pittsburgh 4-1 never got Elos or. V a a \ the Cavaliers who were playing their sixth game in 11 Days also got 18 Points from John Crotty 15 from Kenny 3 Urner and 14 from Anthony Oliver. Jason Matthews led the panthers with 24 Points. Sean Miller added 11. Virginia built its Lead As High As six Points Early and was up 22-18 with 831 left in the opening half when Stith the Cavaliers top scoring threat went Down while battling several players for a rebound. Stith who already had eight Points needed to be assisted from the floor with what was diagnosed As a sprained right ankle. With Stith out for the rest of the half Pittsburgh quickly took control in route to a 44-4u halftime Lead. A Stith started the second half and scored eight consecutive Points at one stretch 10 rally the Cavaliers from a 52-44  Page 21 Ohio state and North Carolina rounded out the top 10. The hoyas who have yet to beat a division team had l164 Points 54 More than Indiana which rebounded from last weeks los to Syracuse with wins Over local rivals notre Dame and Louisville. Urcla 4-0which has set the schools Sage game scoring twice this season including sunday night with a 149-98 win Over Loyola Mary mount had 1,097 Points. The buckeyes who have broken the 100-Doint Mark m each of their victories this season had 1,069 Points 71 More than North Carolina 3-1. Which dropped from fourth to 10th after losing to Souter Carona 76-74 in the semifinals of the tournament of champions in the first meeting of the Border rivals in 18 years. Pittsburgh was no. 11 with 957 Points and was followed by Alabama Georgia Connecticut Southern Mississippi Oklahoma St. Johns Louisiana state Michigan state and Georgia tech. _. The final five in the balloting were South Carolina Virginia Texas Temple and Kentucky. Michigan state 1-2 dropped from fifth to 19th after losing to Nebraska 71-69 and Bowling Green 98-85. Virginia 3-2which lost to new Orleans 60-55, is the Only team besides Michigan state ranked with two  Carolina 4-1 joined the top 25 for the first time since the gamecocks were in the top 20 for two weeks Early in the 1988-89 season. Temple h it which was 19th in the preseason poll rejoined the ton 25 after beating Crosstown rival Villanova 70-57, knocking out the wildcats who had been 24th in the first regular season poll. V Missouri and Louisville joined Villanova As teams to fall from the top 25. Missouri 2-1j lost its season opener at Rutgers last week while the cardinals opened their season with the 72-52 loss to Indiana on saturday. From Page 21 the Orange and Cotton seem certain to be ranked higher. Florida state moved  spots to sixth after beating Florida 45-30, while Penn state Rose three places to seventh and Washington went from ninth to eighth. _ Houston climbed from uth to ninth after beating Arizona state 62-45 and Tennessee Rose from 12th to 10th after Downing Vanderbilt 49-20. V Florida which can to play in a bowl because of Mcaa probation dropped five places to 11th, Alabama which Hadnot been ranked since the first poll of the regular season moved Back into the top 25 after beating Auburn 16-7. Alabama has won seven of eight since dropping its first three games. Auburn 2qtn last week dropped out of the rankings for the first time this season