European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 24, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday May 24, 1991 the stars and stripes b Page 27 sports wire Nicks offer Riley 5-year, $5 million Deal from wire reports new York a is Pat Riley willing to take a pay Cut to get Back into coaching the new York kicks Are offering their vacant coaching Job to Riley who led the los Angeles lakers to four Aba titles in nine years. The teams offer is believed to be for slightly More than $5 million for five years. Riley makes More than $1 million per year As an Aba analyst with Abc to speaking engagements endorsements and other ventures. He reportedly wants $1.5 million per year from the kicks. A we Are going to offer him the Job a team president Dave Checketts said wednesday. A there is no time Frame. We Are going to give him a reasonable amount of time to make his  Riley could not be reached for comment on wednesday. He was in Georgia for a speaking , Mcdowell suspended new York a outfielder Mark Whiten of the Toronto Blue jays and Pitcher Jack Mcdowell of the Chicago White sox were suspended for three games each thursday by american league president Bobby Brown. Mcdowell immediately appealed the decision through the major league baseball players association Jne Aning his suspension will not take affect until after a hearing before Brown. Toronto had an off Day thursday and Union lawyer Michael Weiner said Whiten would decide Friday whether to Appeal. If Whiten does no to Appeal he will miss the Blue jays weekend series at California. The two players were involved in a fight during sundays game after Mcdowell threw a pitch behind Whiten about Waist High one itch after allowing a Home run that put Toronto ahead 4-3 in the fifth inning. Whiten then charged the Mound and hit Mcdowell with a Roundhouse punch in the left Eye precipitating a Bench Clearing incident. After a five minute Melee Whiten and Mcdowell were  player killed by baseball Milford Conn. A a Milford High school student died wednesday after being hit in the head with a baseball during practice this week. Peter Butanowicz 15, a freshman at Joseph a. Foran High school died at Yale new Haven Hospital from the injuries suffered on the practice Field monday Hospital  Conroy hurls no hitter new Britain Conn. A Brian Conroy pitched a no hitter As the new Britain red sox beat the Reading Phillies 2-0 wednesday  Hull voted nil s Best Toronto a Brett Hull the 86-goal scorer for the St. Louis blues was named runaway Winner of the Lester Pearson award As the no la a Best player wednes Day by the players association. Hull was named on 294 of the 432 ballots cast. Former Winner Wayne Gretzky of the los Angeles Kings and Haney coach of the year new York a Don Chancy who guided the Houston rockets to the Best record in Iran Chis history was named Aba coach of the year thursday. A a. A a Chancy received 69 of a possible 96 votes from a nationwide panel of sportswriters and broadcasters. A a a a a. A a a a a. Portland a Rick Adlman finished second with 11 votes followed by Bostons Chris Ford with seven votes Chicago a Phil Jackson with four san Antonious Larry Brown and Milwaukee a Del Harris with two each and Detroit a Chuck Daly with one. Although Houston Star Hakeem Olajuwon missed 25 games with an Eye injury the rockets finished with a 52-30 record 11 victories More than the previous season. That was the second biggest improvement in the league behind Orlando. Rookie goaltender de Belfour of the Chicago Blackhawk finished second and third. Last years Winner was Edmonton Oiler Captain Mark Messier. The Pearson trophy is named in memory of the late Lester b. Pearson a former prime minister of Canada and Strong supporter of the nil players association. It was first presented in it 1970 to Boston defens Eman Bobby  topple . In Tennis Dusseldorf Germany a Switzerland took the decisive doubles thursday to upset the United states 21 on the second Day of the Blue group at Tennis $1.3 million Peugeot world team cup. The Swiss who Defeated Germany 2-1 in its opening match plays defending Champion Yugoslavia saturday to decide the group Winner for a place in sundays final. Yugoslavia edged Germany 2-1 thursday for its second Victory of the tournament following a 2-1 win against the . Jakob Hlasek and Marc Rosset emerged As the Swiss heroes in thursdays doubles coming Back from a 4-1 deficit in the tiebreaker to defeat Rick Leach and Jim Pugh 1-6,6-3,7-6 8-6. The singles earlier had Hlasek overpowering Brad Gilbert 6-0, 6-4 after trailing 0-3 in the second set while Aaron Krickstein tied the match with a 6-3, 6-2 Victory Over Rosset. Thursdays matches left three time Champion . And Germany out of Contention with two losses each. The germans had a Good Start thursday when 12th ranked Michael Stich downed yugoslav Goran Ivanisevic 6-3,6-4. However Goran Prpic evened things up by defeating Eric Jelen 6-4,6-2. In the doubles Ivanisevic and Slobodan Zivojinovic overcame stiff resistance by Stich and Udo a Iglowski to win 6-3, 6-7 5-77-5. Stafford stuns male Eva Geneva Switzerland a american Shaun Stafford upset  Magdalena male Eva of Bulgaria 6-4, 6-3 thursday to reach the quarterfinals of the european open Tennis , Gunnarsson Advance Bologna Italy a Eduardo Masso of Argentina and Jan Gunnarsson of Sweden moved into the quarterfinals of the Bologna at tournament thursday along with Luiz Mattar of Brazil and Omar Camporese of Italy. Masso who Defeated fifth seeded Francisco Clavot of Spain in the opening round won when South africans Wayne Ferreira withdrew after becoming ill with the second set tied 3-3. Masso won the first set 7-6 75. Gunnarsson easily Defeated Francesco Lancellotti of Italy 6-2,6-0. Mattar beat Pedro Robolledo of Chile 7-5, 6-3, and Camporese ousted Joao Cunha Silba of Portugal 6-2,63.wiesner wins in Strasbourg Strasbourg France a top seeded Judith Wiesner of Austria moved into the second round of the Strasbourg open thursday with a 6-4, 6-4 Victory Over Veronika Martinck of Germany. In other second round matches Radka a Bubakova of Czechoslovakia outlasted Mariaan do Swart of South Africa 7-6 12-106-1 Naoko saw Matsu of Japan downed Sabine appelmans of Belgium 6-4, 6-3 and Claudia Kohide Kilsch of Germany eliminated Akiko Kij Imuta of Japan 6-4,6-7 5-77-6 7-5 Urcla s Erb leads golfers Columbus Ohio a Christy Erb relying on solid play with her Irons shot a 2-under 70 to take the individual Lead thursday after two rounds of the Mcaa women a Golf championships. Erbus round led Urcla to the top of the team standings through 36 holes. After sharing the Lead with Illinois Renee in Cikan with a 71 in the first round Erb led san Jose states Tracy Hanson and Tulsa a Kelly Robbins by three shots at Ohio states Scarlet course. Hanson followed a 73 with a 71 for second place at even Par 144 with Robbins who shot her second straight 72 on the 6,180-Yard layout. A clan a four top scores averaged 72 to vault the Bruins to first with 589 strokes. Urcla began the Day in third place three shots behind South Florida and one behind top ranked san Jose state. San Jose state was second with 591 strokes followed by South Florida with 596, Arizona and Georgia with 607 apiece Duke with 615, Tulsa and Kentucky with 616 each and Stanford with 617. Pistons Hope to rebound at Home by Clifton Brown the new York times Chicago a even the self confident Detroit pistons say they Are in a serious bind. The Chicago bulls have made that abundantly  we Haven to been in this position in a Long time a said pistons coach Chuck Daly a after Chicago a 105-97 Victory at Chicago stadium gave the bulls a 2-0 Lead in the four of seven game Eastern conference championship series. A can we recover i guess Well find out soon  the bulls have already Learned a lot about themselves by winning the first two games of the series. They have won without magical performances by Michael Jordan. They have kept their poise and stood up to perhaps the leagues most ill physical team. And they have outed fended the pistons a team that prides ?l self on having the Best defense in the a la of tonal basketball association. Meanwhile the Western conference. Championship series is deadlocked 1-1, Quot after the Portland Trail blazers Defeated t f the los Angeles lairs 109-98 in port m we. Aba playoffs on an Central european time television Portland at los Angeles game 3, 4 . Saturday. Chicago at Detroit game 3, 9 . Saturday. Portland at los Angeles game 4, 9 30 . Sunday. Chicago at Detroit game 4, 9 30 . Monday. Radio Portland at los Angeles game 3, 4 . Saturday. Chicago at Detroit game 4, 9 30 . Monday. Land on tuesday. It was the first Road playoff loss for the lakers who have the Home court in the next two games Friday night and sunday afternoon at the great Western forum. In the East the pistons appear to have Only two things in their favor at this Point. First they have three Days to re group. Second the next two games of the series Are at the Palace in Auburn Hills saturday and monday afternoons. The pistons Hope a change in scenery will mean a change in momentum. But unless they raise their level of play significant by their reign As champions will end soon. A we Arentt playing Well and this is the worst time of the year to do that a said Detroit Forward Dennis Rodman who could not contain Scottie Pippen 21 Points 10 rebounds in game 2. A i just can to figure this team out. There is something missing but i just done to know what it  a lot has been missing for the pistons. Inside offence has been missing. Offensive rebounding has been missing. Consistent offence from Isiah Thomas Bill Laimbeer and James Edwards has been missing. Laimbeer is averaging 3 Points per game in the series while Edwards is averaging 4.5 Points. Daly benched Edwards in the second half tuesday. Both Laimbeer who turned 34 on sunday and Edwards 35, seem to be feeling the effects of the Pis tons grueling regular season and playoffs. Detroit comes off two physical series against Atlanta and Boston while the bulls had a much easier time defeating the kicks and the Philadelphia 76ers. A we came into the series with no rest and instead of having a genuine game plan we re just reacting to what they Are throwing at us a said Thomas who scored just 10 Points tuesday and who still seems bothered by a sprained right foot. A right now they re beating us at every phase of the  the bulls game plan has worked to perfection. Though Jordan scored 35 Points on tuesday he did not have to Cany the offence. And Chicago a tenacious defense is shutting off the pistons Low Post offence. After tuesdays game the pistons complained that the bulls shot 45 free throws compared with 25 free throws for Detroit. But part of that disparity is being caused by the pistons Lack of inside offence. Teams that rely on jump shooting to not draw As Many fouls As teams that take the Ball to the Basket aggressively