Auburn defensive tackle Tracy Rocker, a Lombardi Award finalist last year, is one of 12 players nominated for this year's award. The list, which includes all seniors, will be trimmed to four by a national selection committee, and the four will be present when the winner is announced at an awards dinner Dec. 8 at Houston. Ohio State's Chris Spielman, now with the Detroit Lions, was the 1987 winner. ... Live television coverage of the Wyoming-Utah football game Saturday will be blacked out in Wyoming to prevent the loss of $20,000 to $30,000 in revenues, Head Coach Paul Roach said. Wyoming athletic officials asked Utah television station KUTV for a blackout in an attempt to increase attendance, fan support and revenues. Cycling Holland's Fred Rompelberg will attempt to break the world land speed record for bicycles again after crashing at the Bonneville Salt Flats west of Salt Lake City Oct. 15. Rompelberg, 42, broke a bone in his left hand when his specially designed bike was bumped out of control at 135 miles per hour last weekend. The world land record for bicycles is 152.284 mph set on July 20, 1985. Football Green Bay Packer Tommories 'Mossy' Cade was paroled from the Fox Lake Correctional Institution after serving about 15 months of a two-year prison sentence for second-degree sexual assault. Cade, 26, was convicted of assaulting an aunt at his home in De Pere in 1985. ... Sid Luckman, a former All-Pro quarterback and vice president of the Chicago Bears, was chosen as a 1988 'Distinguished American' award winner by the Walter Camp Football Foundation.
Golf Craig Parry leads the $160,000 Panasonic New South Wales Open at Concord, Australia by one shot over Greg Norman, who complained about the lack of drinking water and slow play for his second-round score of 69. Horse Racing Kassa Branca, the richest 2-year-old pacing colt in North America this season, headlines the first of two divsions of the $102,630 New Jersey Futurity Saturday at Freehold (N.J.) Raceway. Kassa Branca, ridden by John Campbell, will start from the rail in the third race and will face the toughest competition from rival Nukes Image, one of the only colts to beat Kassa Branca this year. Skating Speedskater Tomas Gustafsson's career may be in jeopardy after the double gold medalist at the 1988 Calgary Olympics tore a ligament while jogging during a preseason training camp at Inzell, West Germany. Tennis Patty Fendick will replace Mary Jo Fernandez, who withdrew due to a back injury, on the U.S. Wightman Cup team that will face Great Britain at London, Nov. 3-5. ... Lori McNeil from Houston and West Germany's Claudia Kohde-Kilsch are the lastest qualifiers for the $1 Million Virginia Slims Championships to be held at New York, Nov. 14-20. Other qualifiers include Steffi Graf, Martina Navratilova, and Chris Evert. Weightlifting Bulgaria's weightlifting team, which withdrew fom the Seoul Olympics amid a doping scandal, confirmed its entry in next week's Silver Dragon World Cup competition at Cardiff, Wales. Soccer The Wilson Sporting Goods Co. reached a three-year agreement with the Major Indoor Soccer League to become the official ball of the MISL. Wilson developed a new ball called 'The Keeper' as part of the deal.
