SPORTS
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday, February 10, 1995
3B
Sports Watch
Live, same-day and delayed national TV sports coverage for today.
All Times CST
noon
ESPN — PGA Golf, Buck Invitational of California, second round, at La Jolla, Cali
2 p.m.
ESPN—Senior PGA Golf, The Intellinet Challenge, first round, at Naples, Fla.
6 p.m.
PRIME—NCAA Hockey, Boston University at U. Mass., Lowell
7:30 p.m.
ESPN2—NCAA Basketball,
Rhode Island at Temple
8 p.m.
ESPN — Figure skating, U.S.
Figure Skating Championships
patrs and ladies techniques, at
Providence, R.I. (same-day
tape)
9:30 p.m.
ESPN2 — Boxing, champion Johnny Tapia (28-0-1) vs. Jose Sosa (14-6-5), for WBO Jr. bantamweight championship, at Albuquerque, N.M.
PRIME — Women's NCAA Basketball, Washington St. at Southern Cal
10 p.m.
11.p.m.
ESPN—Women's NCAA Basketball, W. Kentucky at Louisiana Tech
2:30 a.m.
■ ESPN — Boxing, champion Johnny Tapia (B2-0-1) vs. Jose Sosa (14-6-5), for WBO jr. bantamweight championship, at Albuquerque, N.M. (delayed tape)
Houston guard will appeal punishment
Maxwell accuses NBA of missing racial elements
The Associated Press
HOUSTON — While admitting he was wrong to attack a fan, Houston guard Vernon Maxwell said yesterday he would appeal his 10-game suspension and $20,000 fine because the NBA did not fully investigate the incident.
In a statement read by his attorney, Dick DeGuerin, Maxwell said that the NBA did not know how abusive the fan became and that the league should improve its security at games.
"I hope my case and my appeal will draw enough public attention to this problem so something is done about it," Maxwell said. "Some reasonable guideline for appropriate fan conduct needs to be adopted.
"It shouldn't be open season on the players."
Maxwell was ejected from Monday night's game at Portland after he stalked into the stands to confront Steve George, the fan Maxwell said had been shouting racial slurs and insulting his family.
"During the game, one of the fans began heckling me," Maxwell said. "That's usually not a problem and a reasonable amount of heckling is part of the game. But he began using racial and obscene comments."
Maxwell said he restrained himself until the heckler started making references to his daughter Amber, who died in October 1989. Maxwell prints his daughter's name on the back of his basketball shoes.
"When he'daughter, Amber, in his obscene, abusive and racial remarks, I decided I had enough, and I rushed into the stands," Maxwell said.
"When he began involving my
"My mistake was going into the stands, and I'm embarrassed
an obligation to the players to protect them from unruly fans."
George said shortly after the incident that he did not make any racial or profane remarks to Maxwell. Peo-
"It shouldn't be
open season on the
players."
and sorry for my actions and the trouble it has caused my teammates.
"I believe the league, the team owners and the security at the arenas owe
Vernon Maxwell Houston Rockets guard
ple sitting in the row in front of George said they also heard no such remarks.
"It was clean heckling. Ive done worse myself," said one fan, who wanted to remain anonymous.
freelance cameraman who was sitting on the floor a few feet from the Houston bench, said he heard no racist or profane comments although
Carl Wikman, a
"It's such a loud crowd, I don't know how you could pick anything out," he said.
his microphone did pick up consider- able profanity from Maxwell.
"It would have shocked me."
The Rockets beat Sacramento 97-86 on Wednesday night in their first game without Maxwell.
"There are some voices that just cut through a crowd. But even in a calm moment, I didn't hear anything like that. In my six years of doing Blazer games I have never heard a racial slur from the crowd.
Mario Elie started for Maxwell and scored nine of his 13 points in the fourth quarter.
Rams talk about job offer to Oregon coach
The Rockets played the Los Angeles Clippers last night and will resume workouts on Monday.
St. Louis suggests Brooks for top spot
PORTLAND, Ore. — Oregon coach Rich Brooks says it's up to the Rams to make the next move if they want him to be their next head football coach.
"Iguess they'll get back to me if they choose to," Brooks said. "The ball's in their court."
Brooks, who in 1994 guided Oregon to its first Rose Bowl appearance in 37 years, confirmed Wednesday that he's been interviewed twice by Rams officials.
Brooks said taking the job if it was offered would depend upon the
"No offers have been made, and I don't know the parameters of the job if it was offered," he said in a telephone interview from his office in Eugene, Ore. "it's intriguing, obviously. There are good and bad things about every situation."
terms.
The Los Angeles Times reported Wednesday that Brooks had been recommended to replace Chuck Knox as the Rams coach by the team's search committee. Knox was fired last month.
Steve Ortmayer, Rams vice president of football operations, and Jay Zygmunt, senior vice president, made the recommendation to team president John Shaw on Tuesday, the Times reported.
Although Brooks is the only candidate to be interviewed more than once, the Times quoted Shaw as saying that he was not prepared to offer the job to Brooks yet.
Brooks, 53, returned Wednesday from Southern California to the Oregon campus.
Brooks said the Rams had called Dan Williams, the university's vice president for administration, about two weeks ago to ask permission to talk to him.
"I was very impressed with the people I met with," he said.
"It is flattering," Brooks said. "I'd be
Meanwhile, Brooks and Williams said negotiations continued with the university for an extension of his contract with the Ducks, which has three years remaining.
lying if i didn't say it's nice for someone to think highly enough of you to throw you into that category."
Oregon is 91-109-4 under Brooks. His record is 67-60 over the last 11 seasons, and he has guided the Ducks to four bowl games since 1989. Brooks won three national coach of the year awards this season after Oregon lost two of its first three games, then went on to finish 9-4 and win its first outright conference title ever.
Brooks worked as the Rams' special teams and fundamentals coach in 1971 and 1972 under Tommy Prohro after coaching the linebackers at UCLA in 1970.
Oregon lost to Penn State 38-20 in the Rose Bowl and finished 11th in the final Associated Press poll.
After a year at his alma mater, Oregon State, he worked with defensive backs and special teams with the San Francisco 49ers in 1975.
St. Louis Rams get early victory,pass sales estimates
The Associated Press
ST LOUIS—The old song that St. Louis isn't a football town may have to be rewritten after fans applied for more than 72,000 personal seat licenses for Rams games.
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The sales easily topped the goal of 40,000 and surpassed even the most optimistic estimates.
"Isn't that great?" said Stan Kroenke, the Columbia, Mo., businessman who is slated to become 30 percent minority owner of the Rams if NFL owners approve the move. "I think St. Louis answered the question that was asked by some members of the national media and the owners that it is a great football town."
Former Sen. Thomas Eagleton, who heads the civic group FANS Inc. that lured the Rams, sent a letter to NFL commissioner Paul Tagliaube to notify him of the initial sales figures.
FANS Inc. put the PSLs, one-time fees ranging in price from $250 to $4,500, on sale Jan. 17—the day the Rams committed to the move. The group is using the proceeds from its PSL sales, an anticipated $60 million to $70 million, to finance the Rams' move. The Rams could void the deal if St. Louis doesn't sell 40,000 PSLs by March 10.
Twenty-three of 30 owners must approve the Rams' move. A vote could come at a meeting on Thursday in Dallas or at one in mid-March in Phoenix.
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