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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, November 2, 1994
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Spurs suspend volatile forward
The Associated Press
SAN ANTONIO — The San Antonio Spurs, saying they will not tolerate Dennis Rodman's outbursts, suspended the star forward without pay yesterday, one day after he was ejected from his team's final exhibition game.
"We're just trying to get his attention as best we can," coach Bob Hill said. "We've pretty much planted our feet on the kind of team we want to have... He needs to become a part of that."
Spurs general manager Gregg Popovich said team officials would decide soon on the length of the suspension. However, Rodman will be suspended at least through Friday's season opener against Golden State.
"Making it indefinite will not fly." Popovich said. "That's just something that we can't do legally. So we've got to decide how long the suspension should be."
Rodman, 33, who led the league in rebounding last season with an average of 17.3 a game, earns a reported $2.4 million per year. Popovich didn't say how much money Rodman would lose.
"He's suspended without pay," Popovich said. "I'm not an accountant, but it seems pretty simplistic to me. No pay."
Rodman did not attend the annual "Spurs Tip-off Luncheon" with the rest of the players yesterday, and his segment was missing from a video that introduced the players.
On Monday night, Rodman was ejected from a game in San Antonio against the Charlotte Hornets, picking up his second technical with 2:22 left in the third quarter.
Hill removed Rodman after the first technical. It appeared he received the second one as he continued to argue the call. Hill said Rodman threw a bag of ice toward him and one of the officials.
"I thought it was directed at me, the official thought it was directed at him, and they threw him out," Hill said.
"It's not that it was going to hurt anybody. It was a bag of ice," he said. "But those are the kind of things we've just got to try and stay away from — those kind of outbursts."
The suspension follows a series of incidents during preseason that angered team executives.
Rodman, who led the league in technical fouls last year with 34, missed a team bus and a team training Oct. 6, the opening day of training camp.
He was fined $15,000 for not showing up on time for an exhibition game against Milwaukee on Oct. 20.
Rodman had not been expected to play in that game because of back trouble.
Rodman said he considered the fine excessive and told a national television reporter. "If they want to trade me they can. That's just business."
Hill was hired this summer to replace John Lucas, who left to coach at Philadelphia. Popovich also joined the Spurs as general manager over the summer.
"I think Dennis's future is in Dennis's hands," Popovich said. "I'm sincerely hoping that he'll make some decisions that will bring him back to the fold. If it doesn't happen, it doesn't happen."
Forward Sean Elliott said that the Spurs would press on without Rodman but that the team hoped he returned.
"I think all the guys on the team care about Dennis," he said.
"We're really going to miss him being around us. But I think we're more concerned about Dennis personally than him as a basketball player."
AP selects all-star team
The Associated Press
Greg Maddux was picked for the third straight year and Cal Ripken Jr. made it for the sixth time overall on the major league all-star team chosen Tuesday by The Associated Press.
Jeff Bagwell and Frank Thomas, who won MVP honors last week, each made AP's 12-member team. The Cleveland Indians, with Albert Belle and Carlos Baerga, and the Baltimore Orioles, with Ripken and Lee Smith, both placed two players.
The team, which includes three pitchers and a designated hitter, was selected by a nationwide poll of 58 sports writers and broadcasters. The AP has chosen a combined all-star team since 1982.
Several ballots, however, reflected frustration about the strike-shortened season. One voter wrote "Mr. Greedy" for each position while another listed various team owners, union officials and negotiators for each spot, saying those were the only names he remembered from this year.
The AP team included Bagwell at first base, Baerga at second base, Ripken at shortstop, Matt Williams at third base and Mike Piazza at catcher.
Ken Griffey Jr., Tony Gwynn and Belle were in the outfield and Thomas was the designated hitter. Maddux was the right-handed starting pitcher, Jimmy Key was the left-handed starter and Smith was the reliever.
Felipe Alou of Montreal was chosen Monday as AP's manager of the year. The AP's player of the year will be announced Wednesday.
Eight-man football alive and well
Eight Man Continued from Page 1.
David, a 194-pound junior lineman, is the only Jets' player who runs the 40-yard dash in under five seconds. Joe is a 120-pound freshman who also plays on the line and figures to get some playing time.
The Jets started the season with 22 players but now are down to 16, three of whom are injured, including the starting quarterback and talibback.
Altoona-Midway is a consolidated high school with 122 students in four grades, about two-thirds of them from farms or rural homes.
The high school is located on U.S. Highway 75 in a rural area about 10 miles north of Altoa, population 564, and five miles south of Buffalo, population 386.
It's a place where, as football coach Eric Larsen says, "I don't have to wear a bullet-proof vest."
And it's a place where people turn out to support their team, even in a down year.
Tonight, as the Jets take on the 2-5 Oswego Indians, some 200 people are in the home stands, and more watch from cars and pickups ringing the field.
Mason Sewell, 75, who lives in a small house just past the north end zone, comes on his front porch in his pajamas to watch the game for a while.
"I know most of the boys," he said. "They practice out here quite a bit. They've got a nice field, and the boys keep it up in good
shape."
Altoona-Midway has had some pretty good teams in recent years, as plaques in the school lobby attest.
They won the league title twice in those three years but had a losing season last year, like this year.
The Jets were district champions in 1990 and 1991, and made it to the Eight-Man Division I state semifinals in 1992.
Larsen, a biology teacher who came to Altoona-Midway six years ago from Iowa, has been coach through those good and bad years
— but tonight was indicative of one of those bad years.
The game was all but over for the Altoona-Midwayplayers, who were losing 38-20. Still, the stands don't empty until the horn on the scoreboard sounds, signaling time has run out on the Jets.
The players line up to shake hands, and both teams file onto their buses for the trip back to their schools.
The Altoona band packs up its equipment in the back of a Ford van; the announcer and statisticians climb down from the "crows nest" overlooking the field and haul away the aluminum ladder they used to get there; and principal Frank Kennedy collects the sideline yard markers.
Within 15 minutes, the field is largely deserted as Kennedy completes his post-game chores.
The eight banks of lights around the field go out, leaving the scoreboard lit and still showing the final score under a full October moon.
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