Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: TUESDAY, March 15, 1994 TAG: 9403150117
SECTION: SPORTS PAGE: B5 EDITION: METRO
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DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
The quarterback is the first football player to win the Sullivan since Army teammates Doc Blanchard in 1945 and Arnold Tucker in 1946.
The other nine finalists were: wrestler Bruce Baumgartner (a finalist a third time); Shannon Miller, gymnastics; Brian Boitano, figure skating; Gail Devers, track and field; Bobby Hurley, basketball; Dan Jansen, speedskating; Dan O'Brien, decathlon; Sheryl Swoopes, basketball; and Jenny Thompson, swimming.
The Sullivan winner is chosen each year in a vote by more than 2,000 people, including members of the AAU, the U.S. Olympic Committee, past Sullivan winners and selected news media.
The wife of Washington Redskins owner Jack Kent Cooke was arrested by immigration authorities after she lost an appeal of her deportation order.
Marlena Ramallo Chalmers Cooke, who was convicted in the 1980s of drug trafficking and served time in a federal penitentiary, was taken into custody at her apartment in Alexandria, Va., said Duke Austin, a spokesman for the Immigration and Naturalization Service.
Sean McDonough and Jim Kaat, late of CBS, are going back to work for ESPN on the all-sports cable network's baseball programs this season.
Two groups vying to build the state's first pari-mutuel horse racing track in Loudoun and Prince William counties presented their cases to the Virginia Racing Commission.
After listening to representatives from the Old Dominion Jockey Club, which hopes to open a track near Washington-Dulles International Airport, the commission met later in the day with the Virginia Jockey Club about its efforts to build a track in Haymarket.
The commission, which is reviewing six applications for tracks in northern Virginia, Tidewater and Southside Virginia, expects to announce its decision by early September.
Billy Mantle, the son of Hall of Famer Mickey Mantle, died after collapsing at a rehabilitation facility near Dallas. He was 36.
Mantle was pronounced dead Saturday at Midway Park Medical Center in Lancaster, said Charles Gaylor, an agent with the Dallas County Medical Examiner's Office. The cause of death is not known and additional tests are pending, but "it appears natural," Gaylor said.
"At the time of his cardiac arrest, he was apparently at the Intervention Judicial Treatment Center," Gaylor said. He described the center as a drug-and-alcohol rehabilitation facility in Wilmer, Texas.
Mantle had a history of heart disease and had been treated at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston for Hodgkin's disease.
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