Moe Suffers Knee Injury on Same Course Where He Won Olympic Gold

On the course near Kvitfjell, Norway, where he won a gold medal at the Winter Olympics a year ago, U.S. skier Tommy Moe crashed and tore an anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee and suffered additional ligament damage in his left.

He could be sidelined as long as six months.

“The season is over for me,” Moe said before he was taken to a hospital in Lillehammer.

Moe, 25, from Palmer, Alaska, was winless on the World Cup circuit this season.

Miscellany

John Fallon, a New York pathologist who was consulted in the autopsy of Reggie Lewis, confirmed that he told the Massachusetts medical examiner’s office that cocaine could have caused the death of the Boston Celtics’ captain.

Fallon said he had discussed several possible causes of heart scarring--among them cocaine use--with Stanton Kessler, acting state medical examiner at the time.

He stressed, however, that the findings were “totally non-specific” and did not pinpoint cocaine or anything else as the exact cause.

Yankee relief pitcher Steve Howe’s libel suit against the New York Post was dismissed by a judge who said a story about Howe refusing a toke of marijuana actually showed him in a favorable light.

Howe sued over an Aug. 16, 1993, item that said Howe went “ballistic” and accused a man of trying to entrap him at a Greenwich Village play.

After a long day of tough negotiations, baseball players and owners struck a deal--on the site of next week’s talks. Management wanted Chicago or Dallas. The union wanted New York. They settled on Orlando, Fla.

Lee DeRamus, a wide receiver who gave up his final year of eligibility at Wisconsin to make himself eligible for the NFL draft, tested positive for marijuana at a national scouting combine, said his agent, Robert DePersia.

Sailing on the final day in the fourth round-robin of the America’s Cup defender series was postponed because of heavy winds.

Tennis

Conchita Martinez, after trailing 4-6 in the second-set tiebreaker, pulled out a 6-4, 7-6 (9-7) victory over unseeded Kristie Boogert at the Delray Beach Winter Championships in Florida. Steffi Graf advanced to the semifinals by default when Barbara Rittner withdrew.