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Texas has not begun a formal search for a permanent athletic director to succeed Mike Perrin and may not until late spring, but sources say the school has started to kick the tires on potential candidates, including former West Virginia AD Oliver Luck.

\"He very solemnly asked if I had any other ideas on scheduling,\" [Donald Fehr] said. \"He talked about the playoffs and how no one wants players to get hurt. I said: '[Bud Selig], I'm not going to help you do this. You have to do it yourself. Our job is to negotiate and try to get an agreement. If you want to cut it off pre-emptorily, go ahead.' \" \"I said that's not going to work,\" the agent related. \"The cap system creates greater animosity. We're trying to work together, and the cap isn't going to work.\" \"I have to keep to the party line,\" said the manager, who has been a critic of the union. \"I don't know. It's the old Catch 22. I've been through all that, as a player rep, as a player and on the other side, ownership and management. I don't really know where I am. I don't know if I'm management or player. It is humorous. It just goes along with this crazy bit of baseball we're in now.\"

''Sure, it's grueling,'' he says. ''The harder they're pushed, the better shape they'll be in. I heard that last year the Yankees were dogging it. They weren't fit. No more of that. I don't care if they grumble. Let them grumble.'' Curiously, no one grumbles. There is big Dave Winfield, veteran of another winter of wrangling with the infamous club owner, George Steinbrenner. Two weeks later, he'll be sidelined by a bad back, but today he's smiling as he works his body into shape. There is Don Mattingly, the batting star who last year publicly despaired of playing another season in an organization dominated by capriciousness. He, too, is full of enthusiasm. There is the 46-year-old pitcher, Tommy John, and Ron Guidry, 38, 10 years past his prime and beset by bone chips in his elbow. Both of them are fighting for their jobs against [Dallas Green]'s announced prejudice toward them. But they're working happily, as if this spring were ordinary and carefree. Then, once again, the winning wheels came off and, not unpredictably, Green did not take losing with equanimity. As Jerome Holtzman, who covered the Cubs for the Chicago Tribune, recalls: ''It was 'WE' when the Cubs lost, and 'I' when they won.'' By 1987, the team fell into last place, a disaster barely dignified by a 2,000,000 attendance. Green was summarily dismissed, replaced by the same man, Jim Frey, whom he himself had fired the previous year. Frey subsequently told Gary Ferman of The Miami Herald that, attendance records notwithstanding, the organization was in terrible shape. ''We don't have any guys in the system who can hit home runs,'' Frey said. ''We don't have any infielders, no second basemen, no shortstops, no third basemen for the future.'' Said Green, afterward, cryptically: ''It's all over. There's no story now.'' What happened? Was this a matter of tactful timing? Or did the new skipper speak loudly and carry a small stick? [Rickey Henderson] wasn't talking. The other ballplayers were amused, bemused, confused. ''Dallas had to save face,'' said one with discreet anonymity. ''Rickey's.''

Union head Donald Fehr and management negotiator Randy Levine signed a deal bringing labor peace to baseball Friday. The deal runs through the 2000 season, and players have the option to extend it for an additional year. As part of the agreement, the minimum salary for the 1996 season retroactively increases to $150,000 as of last July 31. A luxury tax on payrolls in 1997, 1998, 1999 will slow the difference in spending between large- and small-market teams.

The appraisal industry is trying to tighten up the standards for today's professional real estate appraisers. The 8 leading professional appraisal organizations have joined forces under the auspices of the Appraisal Foundation in an effort to lend credibility to the appraisal profession and to forestall mandatory federal licensing requirements. The Appraisal Foundation is a not-for-profit organization, committed to advancing appraisal standards and certification criteria. Those active in the appraisal field prefer professional certification to licensing of appraisers because efforts to legislate licensing requirements would contain grandfathering provisions that would allow existing appraisers to continue practicing without being licensed. The appraisal industry believes the banking industry must bear some responsibility for ensuring the proper functioning of the appraisal process.

Unseeded Emilio Alvarez upset Thomas Muster 6-1, 7-5 Friday in the quarterfinals of the Generali Open, sending the world's No. 2 player to only his third loss on clay this year. AUSTIN, Texas - Herschel Walker, playing for the NFL minimum of $275,000, is turning heads by his performance at the Dallas Cowboys' training camp. Walker, who has been in only two playoff games in his 10-year NFL career, rejoined the Cowboys during the offseason with one goal in mind - a Super Bowl ring.

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