Byline: From wire services
The NCAA was told Tuesday it can continue for now to use standardized test scores to determine freshman eligibility, a development that could buy the association up to eight months in its ongoing fight over the academic standards known as Proposition 16.
A three-judge appeals panel in Philadelphia granted the NCAA a stay of the March 8 ruling that threw out Prop 16. The original ruling, by District Court Judge Ronald Buckwalter, claimed the standardized-test component has an ``unjustified disparate impact on African-Americans.''
The NCAA had first asked Buckwalter for a stay until it could develop new rules, citing the confusion and chaos that would result with no standards in place for incoming freshmen. When Buckwalter declined to issue a stay, the NCAA then went to U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit, which ruled Tuesday.
OLYMPICS
The Olympics' top official declined a Senate invitation to testify how the IOC is dealing with its corruption scandal, a move one congressional leader said did little to lift the ``dark cloud'' over the games.
As elite sponsors met with Olympic marketers to hear about reforms and ask for ``concessions for damage'' from the scandal, IOC president Juan Antonio Samaranch told the Senate Commerce Committee that he was unable to attend hearings April 14 on the Salt Lake City bribery case.
Samaranch gave no reason for declining the invitation and said he hoped Anita DeFrantz, an IOC vice president from Los Angeles, would be allowed to take his place.
BOXING
A judge agreed to release former heavyweight champion Oliver McCall from the Martinsville, Va., city jail May 1 -- almost six months early -- if McCall remains in a drug rehabilitation program.
McCall was arrested Oct. 14 on charges of resisting arrest and assault and battery of a law enforcement officer. He was convicted Dec. 18 and sentenced to one year in jail and 10 years probation, and given credit for the time served while awaiting trial. McCall's past also includes a series of run-ins with the law he has blamed on addiction to crack cocaine.
ELSEWHERE
A tentative deal has been reached to sell the Denver Nuggets, the Colorado Avalanche and the Pepsi Center to a group headed by a man whose wife is heir to the Wal-Mart Corp. fortune, a newspaper reported.
The teams and the $170 million arena, which is under construction, are owned by a subsidiary of Ascent Entertainment Group and worth at least $400 million, the Denver Post said, quoting unidentified NBA sources.
The group seeking the teams is headed by Bill Laurie, a former basketball player for Memphis State. He and his wife, Nancy Walton, own Crown Center Farms in Columbia, Mo., which raises quarter horses and Appaloosas.
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