Cowboys’ Accuser Charged With Filing a False Report

Nina Shahravan, 23, of Mesquite, Texas, was charged Tuesday with filing a false police report in accusing Dallas Cowboys’ guard Erik Williams with raping her while teammate Michael Irvin held a gun to her head.

Shahravan faces a possible six months in jail and a $2,000 fine if convicted.

She told police that Williams and a third man who was never identified had raped her in Williams’ home on Dec. 29. She said Irvin had videotaped portions and held a gun on her. She recanted the accusations last week.

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Oksana Baiul, the Ukrainian who figure-skated to Olympic gold in 1994, surrendered to police in Bloomfield, Conn., on charges that she drove drunk and recklessly when her Mercedes went off the road in an early Sunday morning crash.

Baiul had a blood-alcohol level of 0.168, according to a hospital report. The legal limit is 0.10.

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In their summation in a court in Mannheim, Germany, prosecutors said they are seeking a jail term of six years and nine months for Peter Graf, the father of Steffi Graf, who is charged with evading taxes on more than $26.5 million of her tennis earnings.

Final defense arguments were due to start Friday. The verdict is expected Jan. 24.

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Premier League goalkeepers Bruce Grobbelaar and Hans Segers were handed huge sums of cash by a Far Eastern betting syndicate to make sure their teams lost games, a jury in Winchester, England, was told in a trial of four people accused of conspiring to fix games between 1991-94.

Tennis

Ignacio Truyol, 23, of Spain became the first tennis player to be suspended from ATP tournaments for drug use after testing positive for an anabolic steroid and a stimulant.

The suspension, under a rule in place since 1990, is for one year.

Truyol, ranked No. 127, denied misusing or abusing the banned substances, which he said were prescribed by a Spanish physician to treat a back injury.

Football

After threatening a lawsuit, Jamie Ponsoldt, a senior at Cedar Shoals High in Athens, Ga., has been approved to play by the NCAA clearinghouse, which, after reviewing his transcript and Scholastic Assessment Test scores, had turned him down, even though he had a 3.5 grade-point average and an SAT score of more than 1,200.

Miscellany

Sugar Ray Leonard, whose charisma and style endeared him to boxing fans, and flamboyant promoter Don King, often regarded as a ring rogue, will be enshrined in the International Boxing Hall of Fame in Canastota, N.Y., on June 15. Also selected from the modern era in the class of 13 were former light-heavyweight champion Jose Torres, former welterweight champion Luis Rodriguez and former featherweight champion Chalky Wright.

The head of soccer’s governing body, Joao Havelange, said he wants to stage an exhibition between the Israeli and Palestinian national teams in New York in September.

Winter Sports

Norwegian Kjetil Andre Aamodt won his first World Cup ski race of the season, edging Michael von Gruenigen of Switzerland by 0.17 of a second in a giant slalom in Adelboden, Switzerland.

Michael Gruber, a 16-year-old Austrian, used jumps of 93 and 90.5 meters to win the ski jumping portion of a Nordic combined World Cup event in Predazzo, Italy.

Baseball

The Chicago White Sox, looking to shore up their starting rotation, signed 1990 Cy Young Award-winning pitcher Doug Drabek to a one-year contract.

Former St. Louis Cardinal shortstop Ozzie Smith will host “This Week In Baseball,” a weekly TV show of baseball highlights formerly conducted by the late Mel Allen.