University Daily Karsan / Wednesday, October 19, 1988
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McGwire's homer wins Game Three for A's
Blast in ninth puts Oakland back in Series
The Associated Press
OAKLAND, Calif. — One big basil and the Oakland Athletics are back in the World Series.
Mark McGwire hit a home run with one out in the ninth innings as the Rangers tied the Nets in a spell last night with a 2-1 victory that cut the Los Angeles Dodgers' leads to 4.
"We're all right, just because we haven't gotten too many hits, every one is all worried." McGwain said. "It was just a matter of time."
He picked the perfect time to break his own 0-9 for-9 World Series drought. McGwire's big hit came against
Dodger relief ace Jay Howell, making his first appearance since being suspended for using pin tar on his wrist of the National League playoffs.
The Athletics' Bash bunch managed just five hits as McGwire, Jose Canseco and Carney Lonsdorf again slumped. They were a combined 1-2 in 20 consecutive tries, before McGwire hit the tame-winned shot.
"When you're in the playoffs or World Series, everything gets blown out of proportion," McGwair said. "I was getting some good cuts and I just found a pitch I could hit. I打 the ball of times, but right at somebody."
popup before McGwire connected.
McGwire fouled off three 2-3
pitches from Howell before sending
a line drive over the left-center field.
Howell, who had not given up a
hit, was able to score with 112
al-bats, entered in the ninth
inning and retired Causeco on a
Oakland's pitchers, however, were tough all night. They hailed the Athletics out of a bases-loaded, no-nam jet in the sixth inning as five times the Dodgers left runners in scoring position.
"That's one game. We still need three more," Athletics manager Tony La Russa said.
Game Four tonight will see Oakland's Dave Stewart against Los Angeles 'Tim Belcher, a rematch of the Series' opening game starters.
The home team has now won 13 straight games in the World Series.
The Dodgers blew a chance to break the game open in the sixth innning when they loaded the bases with no outs but failed to score.
Danny Heeph's deep, John Sheilb's single and a walk to Mike Davis finished Bob Welch, who had never hit the 30. in innings in four postseason starts.
The Oakland bullpen, the most
We're all right. Just because we haven't gotten too many hits, everyone is all worried. It was just a matter of time.'
W.
Mark McGwire
Oakland Athletics' outfielder
effective in the major this year, did its job.左手·lehander G cadret stopped lefty Mike Scioscia on a foul popup and right·gene Nelson got Jeff Hamilton on a force at him.右手·griffon Griffin on a ground to first.
Kirk Gibson, the Dodgers' pinch hitter deluxe in Game One, was not used this time, even though Los Angeles at the bottom of its batting order.
Tudor and right fielder Mike Marshall were forced from the game. Tudor, helped by hip and elbow injuries, son, left in the second inning with more arm trouble, and Marshall's back stiffened up in the third inning.
The Dodgers' injury problems worsened as starting pitcher John
Welch and Tudor, big winners who had done poorly in postseason, each started out well on nine days' rest. Tudor got all four batters he faced before Tim Leary took over in the second inning.
Wich won 115 games in 10 seasons with Los Angeles and became the second pitcher in history to start a season without winning. He played for the previous year. Bob Opaeda was the other, pitching in 1868 against Mets against the Boston Red Sox.
Welch gave up a leadoff single to Steve Sax and struck out the next four batters. He fanned eight in four
innings and took a 1-0 lead into the fifth before Los Angeles scored.
Hamilton singled for his first hit in 10 Series at hambles, advanced on Griffin's saffron and came home on Franklin Stubbs' two-out double.
The Athletics ended a streak of 18 scoreless innings with a run in the third.
Glenn Hubbard opened with a single off the left-field wall. Hubbard, who stole only one base all year, called for a quick hit. Dodgers failed to cover the bag and continued to third when Scientis had bounced into center field for an error.
Hassay, a left starting against the left-handed Tudor because of his rapport with Welch, signed to left field to score Hubbard. Hassay was Oakland's hottest hitter in the play-offs, going for 4-8.
Many schools suffer 'football drought'
Bv Jeff Euston
NCAA Division I-A schools are allowed to have a maximum of 85 football players on scholarship. But it is hard to maintain that number.
Lyden Luston
Kansan sportswriter
There is a football drought at Kansas, Kansas State and Iowa State, and the three schools need to bring Iowa State coach Jim Walden.
The three schools, which have finished in the lower half of the Big Eight Conference the last three years, are suffering from a shortage of teachers. The state has supported with national powers, such as Nebraska or Oklahoma, difficult
Wilder's Iowa State team has 72 players on scholarship this season — up from last year's total of 55. Kansas State coach Stan Parrish has been a strong contender for the season. And bring up the real this season is Coach Glen Mason, whose
"If you don't have any ammunition and a war breaks out, you're going to be hurt." The other way is the simplest thing, but getting it through the heads of the people in charge is hard.
Kansas team now has just 60 players on scholarship, compared to a total of 80 at one point last season.
"Jim Walden made a heckuva comment about the whole thing," said Mason, whose Jayhawks are 04 this season. "He said, 'What satisfaction would you get in beating a guy in crunchy potatoes?' He was on crunchies. All he was trying to say is, 'Where's the contest? Where's the balance of talent?'"
Nebraska and Oklahoma have programs that often number as many as 500 students per year in varsity and redshirt players. C coaches at those schools predictably spend a large portion of their time
Parrish said it would be a while before K-State would reach the 95
Schools are allowed to give a maximum of 25 new scholarship each season. The limit is designed to keep the school's previous year’s scholarship players.
But if additional players are injured or choose to quit during the year, something not uncommon in a lesing program, the team cannot enroll in scholarship until the following year, when it has another Zschorship limit.
scholarship level.
"We're up from last year, but we're still a long way from 95," he said of the Wildcats. "It's going to get there with no attrition."
"That's one thing I've been harping on since I've been here, care-giving for my children," a disadvantage like that. When you're behind the eight ball all the time it's hard to know where they are.
"We've talked ourselves蓝面 the "we," he said. "You get very little sympathy. We just keep talking because, because you get very little support."
Mason said the NCAA's failure to address the problem was aggravating.
Walden has a possible solution, he said.
"There should be a formula that would allow the teams down in numbers to get back to 59 during the next season," he said. "Cyclones are 3-3 this fall. They should subract the number of players in their fourth or final year from the number of players on scholarship programs." "Idd the 25 scholarship a team is
allowed to give.
"If that number is less than 95, the coach should have the right to appeal the (NCAA) rules committee and the (UNI) rules committee, scholarships for the next two years."
Walden said that under the plan, a coach would be able to appeal only one year period, only schools with two-year period, only schools with new coaches would be able to appeal.
Mason scouted at the notion put forth by opponents of such a plan that coaches would be fired simply to react to reach the 85-scholarship level.
"The coaches are getting fired anyway," he said.
All three coaches agreed the problem was bad for the game.
"Athletes is often the lifeblood and pride of a state." Walden said. "I think the Kansas basketball team needs to get more aggressive. But we not competing every day."
"No one seems to want to listen to us. If we don't get any changes, the senators and governors of each state go to the NCAA and see what they think."
No referees admitted bad call, official says
MIAMI — the supervisor of a group of officials who worked the team that won the game has denied a published report that a member of his group admitted making a bad call that caused a touchdown in a 31-30 loss.
The Associated Press
The Miami News, in Monday's editions, quoted an official as saying there was 'great confusion and fear' when he gave the ball to Notre Dame, depriving Miami of a first door or line with seven minutes left.
The official, from the Collegiate Independent Football Officiating Association, was not identified in the story.
Art Hyland, supervisor of the officiating association, said in a statement yesterday:
"I have spoken to all four officials who worked the game, including the official who was solely responsible for the call
(field judge Bucky Luces of Pittsburgh). In accordance with our longstanding policy, none of my officials have made such a comeback. I was reporter, reporter, coach or any other person about the call or the game.
"Furthermore, the official who made the call has reviewed the play and still is confident he made the correct call. Any other official who had seen the dead prior to the verdict must have overrule Lucas. No official did so, nor was there even a discussion of it at the time."
The critical ruling occurred on a fourth-and-seven play from the New York Giants in 31-24. Miami running back Cleveland Gary caught a pass at the 3, fell at the 1 and lost control of the ball and tried to push it over the goal line.
"In my mind, I believe we probably made a mistake in giving him the ball," the football," the official in question said, according to the story.
Former Kansas basketball coach Ted Owens and All-American guard Darnell Valentine led the Jayhaws to the Big Eight Championship in 1978 and the Big Eight Tournament championship in 1981. Owens compiled a 384-182 record at Kansas and took his 191 and 1974 teams to the Final Four.
JAYHAWK BACKACKERS
HURTING: Several key Kansas
out of the Jayhawks' practice yesterday
for injuries in hurries.
JAYHAWK LINEBACKERS
First-team inside linebacker Tony Barker tried to work out but was unable to reach the right ankle and spent the last part of practice riding the stationary horse.
Sports Briefs
Barker's back-up, redshirt freshman Mongo Allen, was taken out of this weekends game against
Colorado with a right knee sprain and was expected to be out for the season, said Couch Glen Mason. Colorado's orthopedic surgeon topero arthroscopic surgery
Freshman Cavan Howard, a 51, 122-foot walk-on from Tulsa, Okla, will be the likely replacement at inside linebacker.
Tailback Arnold Snell is recovering from a foot sprain and did not practice yesterday.
ISU LINEBACKER HONORED:
Linebacker Mike Shane of Iowa
Shane, a two-time winner of the award, recovered three fumbles, including two inside the yard and one State victory over Missouri.
State was the unanimous choice as Big Eight Conference defensive player of the week.
CHIEFS WAIVE MORIARY:
Fullback Larry Moriarty, who stained three of the Kansas City Chiefs was placed on waivers yesterday.
Kansas close to coach's heart despite the miles
By Arvin Donley
Korean sportwriter
Kansan sportswriter
Although it has been five years since Ted Owens coached basketball at the University of Kansas, he still considers himself a loyal Jayhawk.
"The first thing I do when I pick up the paper is see how Kansas 'athletic teams have done," Owens said from his office in Fresno, Cali. "I watched Baylor (football) game on TV and they played a real well. They almost had them."
Owens, who coaches the Fresno Flames of the World Basketball League, said he enjoyed living in a city with some aspects of life in Lawrence.
"We like it out here," Owens said. "It's hot in the summer, but it's not too bad because there is no humidity. We never had a snow and we miss going to miss going to the Campanile and shiding into those hills with our grandchildren."
In 19 years as the Jayhawks coach, Owens compiled a 348-182 record, led Kansas to two Final Four appearances and six big Eight Conference championships. But on October 27, 2016, an athletic director Monte Johnson
"I lived there 24 years and have a lot of friends there that I miss greatly. It was such an important part of our lives."
Larry Brown was Owens' replace ment.
Although Kansas had suffered back-to-back games with Florida at 13-16 in 1895, Owens said he had a good recruiting class coming and in a talented sophomore class.
"We had a great team coming on," the 59-year-old Owens said.
Owens said, "We had a chance. To be deprived of a chance to develop that talent when I still had time remaining on my contract really hurt. I was upset. It had been a major part of my life that I loved deeply. I felt it was the severity of Kansas because it is such a great institution."
Owens said he had mixed emotions
while watching Kansas, with players he had recruited, compete in the 1986 Final Four game against Duke.
The former Kansas coach said he was elated when the Jayhawks won the national title last season in Kansas City.
"There was some disappointment that I hadn't had the opportunity to develop that team," Owens said. "I took pride in the fact the three (Kelpou, Thompson and Dreiling) played a successful role and felt confident for the coaching job Larry Brown did in getting them job
"I felt great joy for the University," he said. "And also, it was such a great thing for the Big Eight Conference. For years we struggled with final recognition. For years Ki and KU have strong teams to get any recognition at all."
"I feel like we laid a bit of the groundwork. People like (former KKK leader) Bill Cosby took tremendous pride in the Big Eight. To see two Big Eight teams playing for the national championship, I think it was just a tremendous feeling."
Hartman said he had fond memories of Owens and the rivalry between the two Kansas schools.
"I always thought Ted did an amazing job," he said. Hartman, who retired in 1986, "We always had a very intense rivalry. But it was a healthy rivalry. We had a fierce rivalry."
"He is a good human being. He has worked hard," he said. The team really well prepared. They always had to have your team prepared when going up the stairs.
Hartman said he was upset when he learned of Owens' firing.
In April 1985, Owens was hired as basketball coach and athletic director at Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Okla.
"I was very disappointed for Ted," Hartman said. "I thought it was a little uncalled for."
After leaving Kansas, Owens worked for a brokerage firm in the Kansas City area for two years. He also worked as a color commentator for televised basketball games in the Missouri Valley and the Pacific 10.
After compiling two-year record of 21.53, Owens was removed as athletic director on March 14, 1987. Then, in a move that moved Sullivan
Owens resigned three months later on June 12.
darkly disturbed him, Oral Roberts re-hired former head basketball coach Ken Trickey as an assistant without Owens' approval.
"The thing that upset me most about that situation was that they wanted me to fire an assistant coach that I had hired a year before," he said. "He just hustled his family out and moved to Columbia and I just couldn't do that."
"We were in a real conflict over that issue, so I thought it would be best for the kids in the program that I resign."
Within a month, Owens accepted the 'Flames' coaching position. Presto is one of six teams in the league to play for players for 6-feet and shorter
Owens said he had been working to promote the new league and hoped it would be an international league in two years.
"Our goal is ultimately to go尔威 dexide," he said. "what we would do in the future, he said, teams get their champions and teams they have playoffs to determine
Former Kansas guard Carl Henry was reunited with Owens last season and was one of the top three players on the Flames, Owens said. Henry shot over 50 percent from three-point range, but he left the Flames toward the season to play for a European team that would pay him more money.
Since the WBL's season runs from May to September, Owens said he was doing of season chores, such as promoting the WBL and the Flames and looking for corporate sponsorship both for the league and his team.
Other projects on Owens' off-season agenda include scouting basketball teams, recruiting the National Basketball League and the National Basketball Association. He also will work on college basketball with the Raycyn Network this season.
He said there was an outside chance he would do Big Eight games for Raycom, which could mean a big win. He says the still savors 19 years of memories.
"Golly, lookly back, we had so many spectacular winnings. I had great young people playing for me. I took them to Kansas with a great deal of pride."
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