Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: FRIDAY, May 21, 1993 TAG: 9305210311
SECTION: SPORTS PAGE: B-8 EDITION: METRO
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DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
"I want to win this thing," he insists. "I'm ready to go."
Wallace had hinted he might skip The Winston on Saturday night to give his ailing body a break. But he changed his mind after his wrist gave him little trouble in last Sunday's road course race at Sears Point.
Davey Allison and Kyle Petty got a first-hand look at the physical changes to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway since the historic NASCAR stock car test there last August. The tradition of one race a year at the Speedway will end in August of 1994 when the Winston Cup cars take to the 2 1/2-mile oval for the Brickyard 400.
In Dusseldorf, Germany, the United States pasted Russia 3-0 in the World Team Cup, getting singles victories from Pete Sampras and Michael Chang and a victory in the doubles by Richey Reneberg and Patrick McEnroe.
Tampa Bay Buccaneers strength coach Dennis Green was legally drunk at the time of a fatal automobile accident, medical tests showed. Green had a blood-alcohol level of .18 when his car crossed a grass median into the path of on another car on Interstate 75 in Pasco County, Fla., on May 8. A blood-alcohol level of .10 is considered drunk in Florida. Green, 23, and Dale E. DeCarmine, 29, driver of the other car, died at the scene.
The husband and coach of Russian hurdler Lyudmila Narozhilenko says he put banned steroids into his wife's prescribed medication because she planned to leave him. In a letter to the Russian track and field federation, Nikolai Narozhilenko said his wife had fallen in love with her Swedish manager and planned to divorce him and move from Moscow to Stockholm with their 11-year-old daughter. Out of spite, Narozhilenko said, he replaced harmless protein pills with 35 anabolics.
Lyudmila Narozhilenko, 28, was suspended for four years after testing positive for drugs.
by CNB