Auto Racing;NEWLN:Jeff Krosnoff of Flintridge, Calif., Sunday gained his fourth Coors Racetruck Challenge victory of the season at the Fall Festival of Races at Sebring (Fla.) International Raceway. Krosnoff, driving a Genuine Nissan Parts Nissan, took the lead for good on lap 17 en route to a 3.791-second victory over teammate Ray Kong. Basketball Indiana Pacers center Steve Stipanovich is scheduled to undergo athoroscopic surgery Monday on his left knee. Stipanovich has been in pain for more than three weeks and a series of tests has not revealed the nature of the problem. Team officials, physicians and therapists agreed the surgery would be necessary to pinpoint the problem. 'We'll be in a much better position to know exactly what is wrong with it,' Pacers General Manager Donnie Walsh said. 'We feel it's the proper procedure to take because by looking at it (via the scope) we'll have an exact idea of what it is.' Bowling Jeanne Maiden of Solon, Ohio, built a 22-pin lead over Wendy Macpherson of San Diego after one round of the $40,000 Ladies Pro Bowlers Tour Columbia 300 Classic at Desoto, Texas. College Basketball Duke was tabbed an overwhelming choice to win the Atlantic Coast Conference at the league's annual Operation Basketball. The Blue Devils received 72 first-place votes of the 84 cast by writers and broadcasters. North Carolina received the remaining 12. 'I told you the truth when we were bad, and I'm going to tell you when we're good,' Duke Coach Mike Krzyzewski said.
'I don't know how good we'll be, or if we're the best in the league. Hopefully, by the end of February or the first of March, the decisions we've made will turn out to be good ones.'
Georgia Tech was voted third, followed by N.C. State, Clemson, Wake Forest, Virginia and Maryland. College Hockey Minnesota, 6-0, was chosen the nation's top team in the College Hockey USA Coaches Poll conducted by KBJR-TV, Duluth, Minn. Michigan State was chosen second and Maine third. Football The Atlanta Falcons placed veteran wide receiver Stacey Bailey on injured reserve and activated rookie receiver James Milling. Bailey injured his shoulder in last week's loss to the New York Giants. Milling, the Falcons' 11th-round draft choice, hurt his ankle in the preseason. Horse Racing Balbonella, a French-bred filly, came from far off the pace to capture the $112,600 Midwick Handicap on the grass course at Santa Anita in Arcadia, Calif. Tennis West German Steffi Graf, ranked No. 1 in the world, crushed Bulgarian Manuela Maleeva 6-2, 6-0 in the final of a $275,000 tournament at Brighton, England. Graf, who won the Grand Slam and an Olympic gold medal this year, needed just 54 minutes to defeat the world's No. 6 player. ...
Top-seeded Nicholas Pereira of Venezuela defeated Tomas Zdrazila of Czechoslovakia 7-6, 6-3 to win the men's final in the Japan Air Lines Super Junior tennis championships at Tokyo. Pereira also swept the junior titles at the French, British and U.S. Opens.
