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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 1, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday november 1,1992 sports the stars and stripes fall leaves Piggott Hurt horse dead from wire reports Hallandale Fla. A Lester Piggott the great English jockey suffered multiple injuries and the Brit ish bred horse or. Brooks was fatally injured in the breeders cup sprint on saturday at Gulf Stream Park. Piggott was taken to Hollywood memorial Hospital and was Semi conscious according to a statement re leased by Gulf Stream Park. The statement said he was suffering from face and head wounds lacerations above the right Eye a bruised shoulder and bruised left upper Abdomen. Quot he a fairly stable right now. We wont know any thing for a couple of hours a said Maria pantages a Hospital spokeswoman. Emergency room physicians had ordered a brain scan she added. Or. Brooks racing in the United states and on dirt for the first time was humanely destroyed after he smashing the Canon Bone in his right front leg and went Down at the Quarter pole. Piggott flew Over or. Brooks head and crashed to the track. The stricken horse then fell on the Veteran of 11 British Riding titles and the Winner of 30 classic races in England. The 6-Furlong race was won by Longshot thirty slews in a time of 1 081-5. Piggott who will be 57 on thursday was to have Ridden English based Rodrigo de Triano who was considered a top contender in the featured $3 million breeders cup classic later in the  approve Sale of astros Houston a major league owners on Friday unanimously approved the Sale of the Houston astros from John Mcmullen to Drayton Mclane jr., pending approval of the deals final documents. Mcmullen purchased the astros in 1979 for about $18 million. He announced the agreement with Mclane on july 24, about a year after he first said he wanted to sell the  sox give easier Job Boston a Mike easier is coming Back to the Boston red sox to serve As the teams hitting coach. Easier will succeed Rick Burleson who will coach third base. Easier 41, was hitting coach for the Milwaukee Brewers during the past major league season. In 1991 he was minor Teague hitting instructor for the Toronto Blue  slice up series pie Toronto a the Toronto Blue jays financial Reward for winning Thuc world series totalled $120,000 for a full share. The Toronto Globe and mail reported Friday that full share was Given to every full time member of the club As Well As Ranee mul Miks Dave Stieb and Ken Daliey who were injured most or All of the season. Sports on the air Cut fral european to no an seb television pro football a inside the nil 10 30 . Sunday Houston at Pittsburgh 7 . San Francisco at Phoenix 10 . New York giants at Washington 2 . Monday Minnesota at Chicago 3 . Tuesday. An seb radio pro football a Houston at Pittsburgh 7 . Philadelphia at Dallas 10 . New York giants at Washington 2 . Monday Minnesota at Chicago 3 . Tuesday seb Only. Manager Cito Gaston most of the coaches trainers and clubhouse manager also received a full share. Strength coach Rick Knox was voted a 25 percent share. Pitcher David Cone acquired aug. 28 from the mets received a 40 percent share or about $48,000. Jeff Kent second basemen sent to the mets along with minor league outfielder Ryan Thompson received 60 percent or about $72,000. Mark Eichhorn acquired from California for outfielder Rob Ducey Ana Catcher Greg Myers received a 37 percent share $44,400. Ducey and Myers each got 62 percent share $74,400. A Rockies add Zimmer to staff Denver a Colorado Rockies manager Don Baylor added former Boston red sox and Chicago cubs manager Don Zimmer to his coaching staff on Friday As a Bench  signs 3 free agents Denver a the Colorado Rockies on Friday signed three free agents a Pitcher Balvino Galvez Catcher Gilberto Reyes and inn elder Trent Hubbard a bringing their total of free agent Siupings to 12. Galvez 28, a right hander was signed by the los Angeles dodgers in 1984. He spent most of nine seasons in the minor leagues making his Only major league appearance in 1986 when he was 0-1 with a 3.92 Era in 10 games. Reyes 28, played for the Montreal expos in 1991, hitting .217 in 8j games. Hubbard 28, a second baseman was Houston a 12th Choice in the 1986 june draft. He spent 1992 at triple Tucson hitting .310 in 115  nabs pole at 128.141 Phoenix a Rusty Wallace came up with his first pole position in More than a year Friday setting a track Brooks notre Dame splash middies 38-7 East Rutherford . A Navy rolled the Dice Early against no. 10 notre Dame and the middies paid when the numbers came up wrong. Reggie Brooks ran for a touchdown and caught one of Rick Mirer a two scoring passes in a 24-Point second Quarter As notre Dame Defeated wingless Navy 38-7 saturday for their 29th consecutive victories Over the midshipmen. The fighting Irish 6-1-1 scored on five of their first six possessions converted 10 of 12 third Down plays and piled up 315 Yards in offence in building s 310 halftime Lead. Navy 0-7 did no to get on the scoreboard until Jason Van Matre hit Tom Pritchard on a 22-Yard to pass with 4 55 to play. The score which allowed the middies to avoid their fourth shutout of the season came one play after defensive lineman Dave Shaw intercepted Kevin Mcdougal s screen pass. The middies who came into the game As 38-Point underdogs tried to make something happen on the opening series of the game. With fourth and inches at its own 49, coach George Chaump elected to go for the first Down. Fullback Cleavon Smith got the Call on a blast up the Middle out of the Wishbone but lost inches As tackle Bryant Young plugged the Hole. Notre Dame took Over and eight plays later went ahead As Jeff Burris a safety who plays tailback in goal line formations scored from 5 Yards out for his third touchdown of the year. Mirer kept the drive alive with an 18-Yard pass to Lake Dawson on third and 10 from the Navy 49, after being held on their next series Mirer and company closed out the half with four scores the last three coming on touchdowns. Craig Hentrich made it 10-0 with a 32-Yard Field goal on the opening play of the second Quarter and then Brooks and Mirer took Over. First they combined on a 24-Yard scoring pass to Cap an 11-Cap, 69-Yard drive. Brooks whose reception was his first of the year and second of his career then Reggie Brooks scored on a 4-Yard run before Mirer closed out the scoring with a 3-Yard touchdown toss to a wide open tight end Irv Smith on a play action pass. Mirer who was taken out of the game after the opening series of the second half completed a season High 15 of 24 for 221 and ran three times for 31 Yards. Brooks carried 20 tires for 95 Yards. Lee Pecton closed out the scoring with a 9-Yard run with 1 44 to go. Notre Paine fullback Jerome Bettis did no to play  a Groin pull. Record of 128.141 Mph to take the top qualifying spot for sunday s Pyril 500 Lascar Stock car race. Wallace easily broke the year old record of 127.569 Mph set last october by Geoff boding on the one mile Phoenix International raceway Oval earning his first pole since sept. 7,1991 at Richmond a. It was the 12th pole of Wallace a career and made him the 13th different Driver to win a Winston cup pole this  distance Star killed Newport Ore. A former Oregon running Star William e. Mcchisney the Pacific-10 conference record Holder for 5,000 and 10,000 meters has died in a car. Accident on the Oregon coast authorities said Friday. He was 33. Mcchisney set the Pac-10 record for 5,000 meters in 1982 at 13 14.80, the same year he earned the conference record for the 10,000 with a time of 27 50.82. Me Chesney of Eugenie qualified for the 1980 . Olympic team in the 5,000.eagles activate Green Philadelphia a the Philadelphia eagles have activated Veteran wide receiver Roy Green from the practice squad. The team said Friday that Floyd Dixon was released to make room for . 1 Chance eludes Sampras Stockholm Sweden a american Pete Sampras lost a Chance to take Over As the worlds top ranked Tennis player when he was beaten saturday by hard serving Frenchman Guy forget in the semifinals of the Stockholm open. Forget seeded no. 8 in the $1.3 million tournament and the first French finalist since Henri Leconte won in 1982, takes on Goran Ivanisevic of Croatia in sundays final. Forget beat Sampras 7-6 13-117-6 7-4. Ivanisevic had 13 aces against swede Stefan Edburg and blitzed the no. 2 seed 6-4, 7-6 10-8 in the other semifinal. Sampras needed to win the tournament to claim the top spot in the at rankings for the first time in his  school ties loss Mark Houston a Jefferson Davis High school lost its 72nd straight football game Friday night tying a National record. Davis an inner City school that dropped its football classification from 5a to 4a this season Hasni to won since 1985. The team could break its tic with Iberia mo., which was 0-72 from 1965-1974, in its season finale thursday against Worthing High. Davis has scored Only 34 Points in the 72  squeeze Pitt Syracuse . A returns by Qadry Ismail and Shelby Hill set up two Early scores and the Syracuse defense held the nations second most productive offence in Check As the Lith ranked orangemen rolled Over Pittsburgh 41-10 on saturday Syracuse 7-1 continued its dominance of big East opponents winning its fourth straight league game this season and ninth since the conference was established last year. Pitt fell to 3-6 Overall and 1-3 in the big East by losing for the fourth time in five games. The game was billed As a showdown Between two of the nations top quarterbacks but Syracuse quarterback Marvin Graves won the face off with the panthers Alex Van Pelt by default when Pitts quarterback was forced out of the game with an injury. With i minutes left in the second Quarter Van Pelt left after being sacked by linebackers Glen Young Ana Garland Hawkins. Van Pelt seventh nationally in passing efficient and the total offence Leader at 312 Yards a game completed just four of nine passes for 49 Yards. The panthers were averaging 28 Points and 482 Yards a game. Apha  
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