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College Hall of Fame to get new members

SOUTH BEND, Ind., Aug. 8 (UPI) -- Thirteen players that will be enshrined into the College Football Hall of Fame on Saturday.

Among them are Reggie White, quarterback Dan Marino, safety Ronnie Lott, as well as former coaches Earle Bruce and Carmen Cozza.

White played defensive tackle at Tennessee from 1980-83. He was a unanimous All-America selection in his senior season, when he also was a Lombardi Award finalist, and was the SEC Player of the Year in 1983. He holds Tennessee records for sacks in a game (4), season (15), and career (32).

He is the NFL's all-time leader with 198 sacks, and won a Super Bowl at Green Bay in the NFL.

Marino, one of a long line of great quarterbacks from western Pennsylvania, was a four-year starter at Pittsburgh from 1979-82. He guided the Panthers to a 42-6 record, including three straight bowl game victories.

He is the NFL's all-time leader in completions (4,967), yards (61,361), and touchdowns (420).

Lott was an All-American at USC in 1978, when the Trojans won a national championship.

Also to be inducted are Kellen Winslow, Sonny Franck, Napoleon McCallum, Cosmo Iacavazzi, Reggie McKenzie, Jerry Sisemore, Randy Rhino, linebacker Gary Spani, John Jefferson, and Terry Beasley.

Another controversy surrounds Shockey

NEW YORK, Aug. 8 (UPI) -- New York Giants tight end Jeremy Shockey calls Dallas Coach Bill Parcells "a homo" in a disputed magazine interview.

Shockey is known for making outrageous and insensitive comments.

"I'll make him (Parcells) pay when we play them," Shockey is quoted as saying in New York Magazine. The issue hits newsstands on Monday.

After the Giants' 26-6 preseason loss at New England Thursday night, he denied making the homophobic comment.

"I really don't want to comment on something that's not true," Shockey told the New York Daily News. "I'm 100 percent sure I didn't say that. I think he (the writer) got it mixed up from something my friend may have called him."

The author, Chris Smith, told the Daily News that he has the interview on tape.

"He ended this monologue (on Parcells) by calling him 'the homo,'" Smith told the paper. "It's 100 percent accurate."

Shockey never played for Parcells, who coached the Giants to Super Bowl titles in 1986 and '90, but said in the interview he was upset at the coach for questioning his talent while working as a television commentator for ESPN last season.

Red Sox put Mendoza on DL

BOSTON, Aug. 8 (UPI) -- The Boston Red Sox have placed righthander Ramiro Mendoza on the 15-day disabled list and recalled lefthander Casey Fossum from Triple-A Pawtucket.

Mendoza went on the DL with right knee tendinitis, an injury that has plagued his first year in Boston. He is just 3-5 with a 7.07 ERA in 34 games, five starts, since leaving the New York Yankees in the offseason via free agency.

Fossum takes Mendoza's spot in the rotation, where he was earlier this season until being shut down with shoulder tendinitis. In three International League appearances, he was 1-0 with one save and a 3.27 ERA over 11 innings.

Fossum was scheduled to start the second game of Friday's day-night doubleheader against Baltimore. He is 5-4 with one save and a 5.56 ERA in 15 games for the Red Sox.

Boston opened the weekend 1 1/2 games ahead of Oakland in the American League wild card race and 2 1/2 behind the first-place Yankees in the AL East.

Lucidi wins again at Women's Amateur

GLADWYNE, Pa., Aug. 8 (UPI) -- Becky Lucidi kept alive her quest for a second straight U.S. Women's Amateur title Friday, advancing to the quarterfinals.

She has a 4 and 3 win over Kwan-Chi Lu of Taiwan.

Lucidi, a 22-year-old Californian who helped USC to an NCAA title this past May, won the first four holes Friday morning and never looked back. She bogeyed three of the last seven holes, but won three of them.

Last year, she beat Brandi Jackson in the championship match at Sleepy Hollow Country Club in New York, and is trying to become the first repeat winner since Kelli Kuehne in 1995-96.

Lucidi's quarterfinal opponent is fellow Californian Jane Park, who pounded Diana Ramage of Georgia, 6 and 4. Park is fresh off a victory at the Betsy Rawls McDonald's Girls' Championship at Dupont Country Club, the host course for the LPGA Championship.

Other winners were Erica Blasberg, Paula Creamer, Aree Song, and Virada Nirapathpongporn.