European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 26, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Tuesday july 26, 1994 sports the stars and stripes Page 31bettman gets Tough in new York apr in a settlement that will Cost him More than half a million dollars Mike Keenan will become coach and general manager of the St. Louis blues. A 10-Day-old dispute Between Keenan the new York rangers and Haj blues was settled sunday after eight hours of talks at the office of nil commissioner Gary Resolution included a $100,000 Fine and 60-Day suspension without pay for Keenan plus a Trade that sent Petr Nedved to the rangers for Esa Tikkanen and Doug Lidster. Keenan also must return four fifths of his $500,000 signing Bonus to the rangers whom he coached last season to their first Stanley cup title in 54 years. The suspension begins immediately meaning Keenan will be behind the Bench for St. Louis by the time the season opens oct. 1. The blues were fined $250,000, the maximum allowed in the league. Smaller fines were handed out to the Detroit red wings who tried to hire Keenan before he agreed to terms with the blues and the rang ers who took the fight to court. While recognizing the rangers were the aggrieved party in the matter Bettman nonetheless had Stern words for All sides a such conduct cannot and will not be tolerated a he said. Keenan who had four years left on a five year contract with new York declared himself a free agent july 15 when new York was one Day late with a Bonus payment. Keenan signed with the blues on july 17, and the rangers calling him a a faithless employee a then sued to have him Honor his contract. In a two Page statement Bettman said of the null and their employees May not end the member clubs Gage in a kind of Frontier Justice where every question of a contract s Validity becomes an invitation to self help in the form of unilateral declarations of free Agency and the immediate entering into inconsistent contractual a hearing on the matter had been scheduled for monday but Bettman summoned the parties to his office sunday when the rangers and blues proposed settling the matter with a Trade. The red wings were fined $25,000 for negotiating with Keenan and new York was fined the same amount for filing a lawsuit against Keenan. New York agreed to pay Keenan his $608,000 playoff Bonus and drop its lawsuit rangers general manager Neil Smith whose ongoing feud with Keenan helped Lead to. The coaches exit planned to comment monday team spokesman Barry Watkins said. Nedved one of the top centers in the league played for the Vancouver canucks for three years before signing with St. Louis Midway through the 1993-94 season. He has 69 goals and 75 assists in his career but had Only six goals and 14 assists last season in 19 games. Tikkanen played nine seasons with the Edmonton oilers and won four Stanley. Cups there before being traded to the rangers in 1993. Tikkanen won his fifth Stanley cup with new York last season finishing with 22 goals and 54 Points. Lidster was with Vancouver for 10 years before new York acquired him As part of a Trade for goalie John signs $17.18 million contract from wire reports Indianapolis a Marshall Faulk has reported to the Indianapolis Colts training Camp after signing a contract reported to be Worth $17.18 million for seven years. The contract which includes a $5.1 million signing Bonus is believed to be the richest Rookie contract in nil history the Indianapolis Star reported in mondays editions. Performance tied incentives could boost the packages net Worth to about $20 million the newspaper said. Faulk the second player taken in the nil draft led the Mcaa in Rushing twice while at san Diego state. The Star quoted a league source As saying Faulks base salary will be $986,000 in 1994 and escalate to $2,465,000 in the year 2000, the seventh year of the Deal. Incentives could add another $800,000 each year. After the fourth year of the contract if Faulk finished in the top five in league Rushing his salary would increase to an average of the top five running backs in the league the Star said. If he finished in the top 10 in league Rushing his salary would grow to an average of the top 10 running backs in the league the Star said. The Colts did not release any terms of the beats Doohan Donington England american Kevin Schwantz overcoming a pc tac Faulk world notes ular crash during qualifying 24 hours ear tier won us fourth British 500cc motorcycle grand prix on sunday. Championship Points Leader Michael Doohan finished second on a Honda. Schwantz a Suzuki finished 2.36 seconds ahead of the australian but the texan could Only reduce Doohan a Lead by five Points. Schwantz moves to 160 Points still 71 behind Doohan with four events left to go in the season. In saturdays qualifying Schwantz survived a spectacular 140-Mph crash in which he was catapulted from his Bike. There were fears he May have re injured his broken left wrist and would pull out of sunday s race. Instead he drove with the wrist encased in wins again Belton to. A Jim Colbert collected his second senior tour win in three weeks sunday firing a final round 5-under-Paf 65 to hold off Isao Aoki and Larry Gilbert for a two stroke Victory in the $700,000 southwestern Bell classic. Colbert who won the Kroger seniors two weeks ago finished with a 14-under-Par 196 to become the first repeat Winner in the eight year history of the tournament. The win Colbert a ninth since joining the senior tour in 1991, was Worth $105,000. Aoki and Gilbert each collected $56,000.busy Perry triumphs Sutton mass. A All that extra work finally paid off for Kenny Perry. He was in his 11th Golf tournament in 12 weeks. He played six extra holes sunday finishing the rain delayed third round. And he still had Energy to hold off David be Herty slate charge and win the new England classic. Perry shot 6-under-Par 65 in his second bogey free round of the tournament and became the fourth straight new England classic Winner to shoot 16-under 268. Be Herty was at 269 after shooting 67. De Fiori shot 70 and was third at 272. Perry a a $ 108,000 payday gave him $153,136 for the year enough to earn a spot on the 1995 pea skins pm Ste Julie Quebec a Fred couples birdied the 18th Hole sunday a putt that gave him an extra $165,000 forms Bank account. The Birdie ended an eight Hole stalemate at the Canadian skins game and increased couples earnings at the weekend tournament to $240,000. Until the $165,000 putt none of the golfers in the Field a couples Nick Price Lee Trevino or Tom Watson a had won a Hole outright sunday on the Back nine. That meant the Cash up for grabs at each Hole was carried Over to the next. On the front nine played saturday couples won $75,000, Trevino $20,000 and Price $10,000, Watson was shut takes path Mark Mahwah . A Steffi grass powerful forehand and patience wore Down Lisa Raymond for a 4-6,-6-4, 6-1 Victory in sundays path Mark classic final. Raymond a two time Mcaa Champion gave the women Stop ranked player All she could handle and led 4-3 to the second set before Graf took control and won nine of the final 10 Berg prevails Washington a Stefan Edberg troubled by his serve Early on won the $650,000 Legg Mason Tennis classic on sunday with a 6-4, 6-2 Triumph Over australians Jason Stoltenberg. With court Side temperatures reaching 110 degrees Edberg downed Stoltenberg in 71 minutes the fourth time he has beaten him this season. The swedes third Victory of the year was Worth $87,500. Stoltenberg the no. 14 seed earned $46,000, the largest payday in his nine year career. Berasategui wins Stuttgart Germany a Alberto Berasategui a Clay court specialist who in one year has soared from obscurity to an elite ranking overcame court Side temperatures of 120 degrees sunday to beat Andrea Gaudenzi of Italy 7-5, 6-3,7-6 75 and win the $1.04 million Mercedes cup. Berasategui earned $152,000 for his title and Gaudenzi won $80,500.boxer Dies Las vegas a Wangila Nap Nyi a 1988 olympic boxing Gold medallist from Kenya died sunday from a head injury sustained during a fight two Days earlier. He was 26.jockey killed Cypress Calif. A jockey Juan Limon died of head injuries sustained when his mount fell on top of him during a race at los Alamitos a track spokesman said sunday. 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