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

DATE: TUESDAY, September 14, 1993                   TAG: 9309140197
SECTION: SPORTS                    PAGE: B3   EDITION: METRO 
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TARKANIAN SUES UNLV OFFICIALS FOR CONSPIRACY TO RUIN HIS CAREER

Former Nevada-Las Vegas basketball coach Jerry Tarkanian has filed suit against university officials, alleging they conspired with NCAA investigators to ruin his college career.

The suit, filed last Friday in state District Court, named UNLV president Bob Maxson, legal counsel Brad Booke and former athletic director Dennis Finfrock as defendants. Also named were UNLV, the university system and nine members of the Board of Regents. The NCAA, mentioned prominently in the suit, isn't a defendant.

An unspecified amount of compensatory and punitive damages is being sought.

Tarkanian, 63, filed suit against the NCAA in December 1992, several months after he announced his resignation amid allegations that Rebels players had been associating with known sports fixer Richard Perry.

The UNLV suit alleges university officials breached Tarkanian's contract and 1991 resignation agreement, harmed lucrative contracts he held outside the university, hurt his overall economic well-being and libeled him in the media and the community.

by CNB