
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SATURDAY, March 14, 1992                   TAG: 9203140316
SECTION: SPORTS                    PAGE: B5   EDITION: METRO 
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JUDGE: CONGRESS SHOULD OVERSEE NCAA

A federal judge in Las Vegas suggested that it should be up to Congress, and not various states, to pass laws governing the way the NCAA investigates and penalizes its member colleges and universities.

U.S. District Judge Howard McKibben, hearing a landmark case that could shape the future of NCAA investigations, indicated that regulations governing the organization should be a national matter.

The judge's comments came during a 2 1/2-hour hearing on an NCAA suit seeking to strike down a due process law passed last year by the Nevada Legislature. The law would force the NCAA to use court-like procedures in gathering evidence and producing witnesses, and would scrap closed-door hearings.

\ Television sports anchor Len Dawson, a Hall of Fame quarterback who led the Kansas City Chiefs to a 1970 Super Bowl victory, has prostate cancer, KMBC-TV news director Brian Bracco said in Kansas City, Mo. Dawson, 56, underwent surgery Thursday and will leave the show for a few weeks.

\ In Camden, N.J., Chet Forte, the producer and director who helped launch "ABC's Monday Night Football," was sentenced to five years probation for fraud charges linked to gambling. Forte, 56, pleaded guilty in September 1990 to mail and wire fraud and income-tax charges, and admitted defrauding $100,000 from a New Jersey businessman to support his compulsive gambling habit.

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