College Football Players Injured in Incidents

Army fullback Akili King was recovering from stab wounds after he and four other men, three of them West Point cadets, took part in a street fight outside a bar in Newburg, N.Y., authorities said.

King, a sophomore, was stabbed early Sunday in the chest just below his heart and in his thighs. James Ray, a former Army player, was stabbed in the thighs and the buttocks.

King and Ray, both hospitalized, were in stable condition, a West Point spokesman said. Three other men were beaten but not hospitalized.

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Abdul Muhammad, a Nebraska running back from Compton, was pushed through a first-floor window during a fight at a motel in Lincoln. Later, another Nebraska football player, redshirt freshman Ramone Worthy, was stabbed during a party at the same motel.

Police were also investigating an unnamed Nebraska defensive back for a shooting incident that occurred after the other incidents and left two bullets in the rear panel of a car.

Police did not say if the shooting was related to the earlier incidents. But Coach Tom Osborne, in a news conference, indicated players in the car were aware of the earlier incidents.

Muhammad, who last season appeared in a television report about gangs in Compton, has a bullet in his back from a drive-by shooting during a visit home last summer.

Hockey

The Mighty Ducks recalled right wing Robin Bawa from San Diego of the International League as a precaution because of minor injuries to forwards Anatoli Semenov and Steven King.

Semenov recently returned from a seven-week layoff because of a dislocated left elbow that is still sore, and King has a shoulder bruise. Bawa was with the Ducks all season and had appeared in 12 games before being sent to San Diego last week.

The Ducks also assigned defenseman Myles O’Connor to San Diego. O’Connor, 26, was on extended personal leave earlier in the season and has appeared in only five games with the Ducks.

Pro Football

Fritz Shurmur, defensive coordinator of Phoenix Cardinals the last three seasons who earlier coached with the Rams, has been named defensive coordinator of the Green Bay Backers. Shurmur replaces Ray Rhodes, who resigned last week for personal reasons.

Shurmur, 61, was let go by the Cardinals when Coach Joe Bugel was fired.

Running back Emmitt Smith, quarterback Troy Aikman and cornerback Thomas Everett of the Dallas Cowboys will not play in Sunday’s Pro Bowl, the NFL announced. Defensive end Bruce Smith and wide receiver Andre Reed of the Buffalo Bills will also miss the game.

Rodney Hampton of the New York Giants, Bobby Hebert of Atlanta, Leroy Butler of Green Bay and Haywood Jeffires and Sean Jones of Houston were named as replacements.

Skiing

Men’s downhill and slalom competition at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, will go on as scheduled this weekend, despite the death of downhill racer Ulrike Maier, who broke her neck in last Saturday’s downhill at the same site.

But Maier’s Austrian teammates will not participate in weekend World Cup competition in Spain.

Names in the News

Reserve guard Brion Smith has been temporarily suspended from the University of Oregon basketball team for disciplinary reasons. . . . Veteran America’s Cup skipper Dennis Conner will miss the fourth leg of the Whitbread Round The World race from Auckland to Punta del Este in Uruguay. . . . Third baseman Robin Ventura and the Chicago White Sox have avoided an arbitration hearing by agreeing to terms on a new four-year contract worth $20,725,000.