David Basketball Player Butler

University of Nevada Las Vegas center David Butler, the team's leading scorer last season, has been ruled ineligible to play basketball for the first semester of the 1989-90 season.

University of Nevada Las Vegas center David Butler, the team's leading scorer last season, has been ruled ineligible to play basketball for the first semester of the 1989-90 season.

Nevada Las Vegas basketball players Moses Scurry and David Butler reportedly received cash last October during a lunch at Caesars Palace with a man who twice has been convicted of sports bribery, according to a story in Time magazine's April 3 edition, which was on newsstands Monday. But Butler said by telephone from the UNLV basketball office Tuesday that he did not receive any money at the Oct. 18 lunch with a man he knew only as Sam Perry, who coached Scurry as a youngster in New York City.

Nevada Las Vegas basketball players Moses Scurry and David Butler reportedly received cash last October during a lunch at Caesars Palace with a man who twice has been convicted of sports bribery, according to a story in Time magazine's April 3 edition, which was on newsstands Monday. But Butler said by telephone from the UNLV basketball office Tuesday that he did not receive any money at the Oct. 18 lunch with a man he knew only as Sam Perry, who coached Scurry as a youngster in New York City.