Colorado State’s Lubick Won’t Switch to Miami

Colorado State Coach Sonny Lubick withdrew Tuesday as a candidate for the vacancy at the University of Miami. Lubick, a former Miami assistant, hadn’t been offered the job, but he had been regarded as the front-runner to succeed Dennis Erickson.

Others have spurned Miami, including Duke’s Fred Goldsmith, who became at least the second coach to turn down an invitation to interview for the job.

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Virginia will play Michigan in the 1995 preseason Pigskin Classic in Ann Arbor, Mich.

College Basketball

Kirk Goehring, a Pepperdine starter until he left school two weeks ago, said he is transferring to Union, an NAIA Division I school in his hometown of Jackson, Tenn.

Connecticut (13-0) replaced season-long leader Tennessee (16-1) at the top of the Associated Press women’s poll.

Olympics

Calling their inquiry “purely routine,” German Olympic officials want an assessment from the Bonn government on whether the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan, could be threatened by an earthquake. Nagano is northwest of Tokyo, nearly 240 miles north of the center of Tuesday’s quake.

Miscellany

Steven Cotton, 27, an America’s Cup crewman racing for New Zealand’s Tag Heuer Challenge syndicate, severed two fingers when they were caught between a rope and winch during racing.

Tag Heuer Challenge lost to Team New Zealand by 4 minutes 42 seconds.

Alan Rothenberg, Major League Soccer’s chairman, outlined rules changes involving giving teams the option of a kick-in or throw-in after the ball goes out of bounds along the sideline and awarding a yellow card for encroachment on free kicks to be used in its inaugural season, 1996.

Baseball

Dave Kingman was awarded $829,850 and Rod Carew $782,036 by arbitrator Thomas Roberts as the biggest winners in the second round of collusion damages, which totaled $9,708,756.

Roberts’ latest decisions were for damages and lost jobs in 1986 and 1987.

The Philadelphia Phillies will cut their ticket prices for their first 20 home games, even if the baseball strike is settled.

Southland Report

The Amateur Athletic Foundation of Los Angeles awarded $1,023,055 in grants to 23 Southern California youth organizations, including $599,754 to Kids In Sports Inc., which operates 11 sports clubs in Los Angeles’ inner city.

The Salsa, which has competed in Southern California for the last two seasons in the American Professional Soccer League, has decided not to play in 1995.

Hockey

The Mighty Ducks called up forward David Sacco from minor league San Diego. . . . New York Islander defenseman Bob Beers will be sidelined for at least two months after being hit in the face by a puck during practice. . . . Chris Simon, the Quebec Nordiques’ winger who was suspended indefinitely in September for a stick-swinging incident, was cleared by the league to open the season.

Names in the News

Wilfredo Gomez was elected in his first year of eligibility and Arthur Mercante became the first modern-day referee elected to the International Boxing Hall of Fame. . . . Former Houston Oiler coach Jack Pardee said he is working out details to coach the new Canadian Football League team in Birmingham, Ala.