European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 23, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 26 the stars and stripes wednesday january 23,1991 sports wire Maxwell club cites Cunningham Shell from wire reports Philadelphia eagles quarterback Randall Cunningham was named Winner of the Bert Bell award As nil player of the year by the Maxwell football club tuesday and Art Shell of inc los Angeles raiders was named coach of the year. Cunningham Winner of the Bell award in 1988, beat fellow quarterbacks Joe Montana of san Francisco and Warren Moon of Houston in the vesting by nil coaches football writers and fans. Buffalo s Bruce Smith and the 49crs�?T Jerry Rice finished fourth and fifth. Montana won last years award named for the late Bert Bell a former nil commissioner and eagles owner. A a a a a a a. A a a a a a. A a a a Shell won the second annual Earle a a Greasy Neale award As outstanding pro coach. Buffaloes Mair Levy finished second followed by Kansas City Smarty shot Tanh Cimer san Francisco a George Seifert and Dallas Jimmy Johnson. Shell at 44 the youngest coach in the nil led the raiders to the acc West title in his first full season As coach after taking Over in october 1989. Cunningham and Shell will receive their awards at the Maxwell clubs annual dinner feb. 19.rebels running away in a poll new York a Nevada Las vegas was a unanimous no. 1 for the third straight week in the associated press College basketball poll announced monday and new Orleans made its first appearance in rankings since 1987. A univ 13-0 received All 64 first place votes and 1,600 Points in balloting by a nationwide panel of sports writers and broadcasters. The top four teams remained unchanged from last week with Arkansas 17-1 no. 2, followed by Indiana 16-1 and Ohio state 15-0. Arkansas received 1,518 Points Indiana 1,448 and Ohio state 1,434. Complete poll on Page 22. Warriors Hardaway chosen new York Tim. Hardaway of the Golden state warriors was named the Aba player of the week for the period ending sunday. Hardaway a second year Point guard led the warriors to a 3-1 record on a four game Road trip As he Quot it Davis cup postponed Melbourne Australia apr seven Davis cup first round series including the world group matches Between France and Israel were postponed tuesday because of the Gulf War and officials said there was a Remote Chance the entire Competition could be scratched. The International Tennis federation also announced that the de fending Champion United states is. Mexico series was under review for Security reasons but remained scheduled feb. 1-3 in Mexico City. It vice president Brian Tobin said a decision on the Usa Mexico series was expected wednesday. A we heard this morning that they Are still ensuring the proper Security in Mexico a Tobin said. The it Tennis ruling body said that in addition to France is Rae scheduled for Marseille France those matches postponed included Bangladesh at Bahrain Syria at sri Lanka Kuwait at Singapore saudi Arabia at Malaysia Senegal at Egypt and Cote do Rivoire at Algeria my of the postponed matches had been scheduled for feb. 1-3 except the Algeria match which was set for Jan. 30-feb. 1. All were tentatively rescheduled for March 2931, the it  skipping pregame show Sun Valley Calif. A sundays super bowl will reach troops overseas but the pregame to show wont. The armed forces radio and television service said tuesday it will not carry the pregame to special because of time reserved for news from the persian Gulf War. Abc will continue super bowl tradition by televising a 2-hour show leading to the nil title game Between the new York giants and Buffalo Bills. The pregame segment starts at 4 . Est with Kickoff at 6 18 . In Tampa Fla. Arts which feeds an and other military networks in Europe and goes to . Troops in saudi Arabia added that it wont air John Madden a annual pre super bowl special. Madden a show is scheduled for saturday on lbs. Arts said it will carry the super bowl on to starting at Midnight get plus pick up the lbs radio pregame feature at 11 45 . Averaged 32.5 Points 11.8 assists and 5.3  acquire Tucker. Buffalo . A the Buffalo sabres traded Little used Center John Tucker to the new York islanders on monday for future  faces new charge Newport Beach Calif. Todd Marinovich arrested for investigation of Possession of cocaine also allegedly was carrying a Small amount of marijuana police said monday. Sgt. Andy Gonis of the Newport Beach police said that an envelope containing four tenths of a Gram of marijuana allegedly was found on Marinovich the Southern Cal quarterback who recently was suspended from the  sign Catcher Cerone a new York a Catcher Rick Cerone stayed in new York monday by signing a one year contract with the mets. The 36-year-old Cerone from Cresskill n.j., was waived by the new York Yankees on Jan. 14 after playing in just 31 games Las season. He will be the 42nd player to perform for both the mets and , White agree to terms Toronto a Center fielder Devon White and the Toronto Blue jays reached terms monday on a one year contract for $750,000.Montana to have hand surgery Santa Clara Calif. A Joe Montana will undergo surgery on his broken right hand this week and will not play in the a Fly a pro bowl on feb. 3 in Honolulu. The san Francisco quarterback will have two screws placed in the fifth metacarpal Bone above the Little Finger in his passing hand. He was injured in the fourth Quarter on the 49ers�?T 15-13 loss to the new York giants in the pfc championship game sunday. A nil cancels super party Tampa Fla. A because of the War in the persian Gulf the nil on monday cancelled its annual super bowl party. The league said it expected the game Between the acc Champion Buffalo Bills and pfc Champion new York giants to go on As scheduled sunday but that it would Monitor Middle East events up to Kickoff time. Officials said they Felt it would be inappropriate to conduct the party. Webb Rushing to nil Knoxville Tenn a Tennessee tailback Chuck Webb out most of the 1990 season with a knee injury is giving up two seasons of eligibility to try for a shot at the  s crash injures woman los Angeles a Hall of Fame Pitcher Don p1 Drysdale was arrested for investigation of felony Drunken driving following a traffic Accident that injured a woman police said tuesday. Open it  a 1 f 8 a a a 5" n v y i. Former Champion Steffi Graf protests a Call during her defeat on tuesday. From Page 21 it up. You never really know what to expect. I have to improve my net game. I chose the wrong tactics to come in too much today. I just have to play  Graf the three time defending women a Champion and top seed had not lost in the quarterfinals of a grand slam event since the 1986 French open. She had not lost in the australian since the third round in 1984 and had never lost in this stadiums Center court. Graf starting her 180th week at no 1 in. The rankings had beaten Novotna in five other grand slam tournaments including last years French Wimbledon and . Open. All were straight set victories except for a 1989 meeting on grass at Brighton England. Fernandez a tall Skinny native of the dominican Republic ranked no. 4 in the world said she is stronger and More aggressive than last year. �?�1 think its a matter of movement moving up on the Ball and not waiting for the Ball to come to you a she said. A a it a not so much muscling the Ball or banging it Over. I just have to keep taking the Ball Early and play close to the Baseline to open the angles. A a in be tried to get stronger and fitter. I used to play the Ball the same Way move my opponent Side to Side but its easy to play someone like that. In a trying to take More  relying on ground strokes with occasional ventures to the net Fernandez won seven straight games. She has dropped Oulu 17 games in her five matches and has won 11 of 12 Here Over the past two years