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The University Daily Kansan
Wednesday, June 21. 2000
Coach helps players reach new heights at basketball camp
By Scott M. Lowe Jr.
writer@kansan.com
Kansas stilt writer
"To the baseline and back and don't be last! Last man goes again!" Coach Frank Frank Fuqua barks out to about 13 unlucky souls who are getting an extra workout for infractions at Coach Roy Williams' basketball camp.
The teen-age campers take off with a squeal of shoe rubber on the Allen Fieldhouse court. All around them, about 70 campers practice free-throws under the critiquing eyes of other coaches, and current and former Kansas basketball players.
Fuqua has worked with the camp for more than eight years. His voice is the one heard above all at the fieldhouse. The campers finish their run and then do pushups.
The Roy Williams Basketball Camp attracts more than 600 campers from across the nation. For most of the day, hoopsters are divided into Robinson Center, Lawrence High School, and the Horejsi Family Athletic Center. But the boys in the Pro Camp play in the fieldhouse.
Fuqua is from St. Mary's County in rural Maryland. He coached high school for 24 years and was a college assistant for two. He's retired now but sometimes coaches his grandchildren in recreation leagues.
"I've known Coach Williams ever since I worked with him and Dean Smith at North Carolina," he said. "Whenever he invites me, I'll be here."
Fuqua said the mission of the camp was to help campers improve as individual players, to learn the importance of playing as a team and to emphasize fun.
Boys aged 15 to 17 are in the Pro Camp. Many play in the
Amateur Athletic Union, with aspirations of playing college ball. During the morning, all age groups train separately, but they converge in the afternoon to listen to guest speakers and participate in other activities. That, and an abundance of basketball instruction, is what draws campers from all around.
Fuqua brings three campers toward the end of the fieldhouse.
"This is a reporter," he says to them with a laugh. "Never talk to him when you're a college player because he'll mess up your statement. But since you're in camp, it's OK."
Ben McCain, 16, has come to the camp from Kerrville, Texas.
"It's been lots of fun, and I'm getting good work," he said. "I'm hoping to improve on my all-around game and be a smarter player."
Bensen Schleip, 17, from Fairfield, Neb., is a member of Team Nebraska, an under-17 team that travels the country.
"I like learning from the best, and to be around top people," he said. "I love watching the NBA and college players play pickup games at night. It's great to see them in person, and I learn while watching them."
Noah Smith, 17, is from Gettysburg, Penn. He said his favorite part of the camp was hearing from former Kansas players such as Ryan Robertson and Danny Manning.
"I'd love to play basketball here if I got a chance," he said. Fuqua said coaching and playing at Williams' camp was a unique experience.
"This is a great organization." Fuqua said. "Coach Williams even changed the dates of the camp so he could be here instead of on the road recruiting. You just don't see that anywhere else."
- Edited by Ben Embry
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Allard Baird was officially named general manager of the Kansas City Royals on Saturday, replacing Herk Robinson, promoted to chief operating officer after a decade as GM.
Royals name new general manager
The Associated Press
David Glass, who bought the team in April, had indicated his long-range plan was to promote Baird, a 12-year veteran of the organization.
"Recently, Herk came to me and recommended that we make Allard the general manager." Glass said at a news conference. "He felt like Allard was ready and certainly has the ability and the enthusiasm to take on the general manager's role and do it very, very well. It's never good to procrastinate."
At 38, Baird will be one of baseball's youngest GMs. But becoming a general manager, he said, was not necessarily a long-term goal.
"I had passion as a coach and a teacher and thought I would probably end up in the minor leagues as a manager or roving instructor."
Baird said. "But it evolved into this over time and I'm excited about it. It's a tremendous opportunity and an honor. I'm eager to get going."
Robinson, appointed general manager 10 years ago by the team's late founder Ewing Kauffman, was the longest-tenured GM in the American League.
Baird promised to focus the organization on the basics.
It comes down to two things in this business — evaluation and instruction," he said. "If you do those two
things well, there's a good chance you're going to be successful. That's the core of what we do." A native of Rochester, N.H., Baird joined the Royals as hitting coach for the single-A Appleton, Wis., team in the Midwest League in
1988. Two years later he was made territorial scouting supervisor for Florida.
After winning the Ewing Kauffman Award for outstanding contributions to the scouting department in 1996, he was named special assistant to the general manager. In September 1998, he was appointed vice president and assistant general manager of baseball operations.
Glass, who purchased the team for $96 million, has promised to increase the payroll, now around $27 million.
"I think it's a good time (to be made GM) but it's a continuation," Baird said. "This is a big day for Herk and myself. But it's a continuation of what's been started over time. The plan's in place. The system's in place to achieve success. We just have to keep it going in the right direction."
"Money is a big part of the game. But money doesn't play," Baird said. "Players play. When that first pitch is thrown, it still comes down to the ability to play. That will continue to be our concentration."
Missouri's Dooling skips eligibility for NBA draft
The Associated Press
In April, Dooling made public his intention
to enter the draft. Tuesday was the deadline to withdraw his name for consideration from the draft, which is June 28 in Minneapolis.
"I'm very thankful for the time I spent at Missouri," Dooling said yesterday. "I'll miss my teammates."
The 6-foot-3 guard said he had been weighing the decision since the Tigers ended their season with a first-round loss to North Carolina in the NCAA tournament.
Dooling earned second team all-Big 12 honors last season, shooting 39 percent and averaging 15.3 points and 3.6 assists. Dooling scored 13 points against North Carolina in the NCAA tournament but was 1-for-7 from 3-point range.
L.A. riots worry storekeepers
As a freshman, Dooling was an honorable
mention big-12 selection and was named to the all- Big 12 freshman team.
The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — An outbreak of violence after the Los Angeles Lakers' championship victory had city officials on the defensive Tuesday, with storekeepers questioning the ability of the police to deal with any unrest at the Democratic National Convention this summer.
Two police cars were set on fire Monday night, two TV news vans were damaged, and nearly two dozen auto and garbage fires were reported. Looters invaded a computer store, glass storefronts were shattered and at least 74 vehicles at seven car dealerships were damaged.
Police fired rubber bullets to disperse the crowd outside the Staples Center, where the Democratic convention will be held. Eleven people were arrested, and four police officers suffered minor injuries during the rock- and bottle-throwing melee.
Lakers spokesman John Black announced yesterday evening that the Lakers organization and center Shaquille O'Neal each will buy a new police car for the department.
Mayor Richard Riordan gave assurances yesterday that the streets will be safe when the Democrats come to town Aug. 14 to 17, and blamed the outburst on a few hundred hoodlums out of 30,000 people in and around the Staples Center.
"These are not fans. They are losers who only know how to trash our city." he said.
The violence erupted among an estimated 10,000 people who had watched the Lakers defeat the Indiana Pacers 116-11 on a jumbo screen outside Staples Center.
City officials have been preparing for more than a year for the convention, which is expected to draw about 30,000 demonstrators.
"Last night was essentially a spontaneous event. The DNC will be a very disciplined, well-planned, business-type event," the mayor said.
"The controlled areas around the Staples Center will be much larger than last night, and anybody that wants to get into the controlled areas will have to have credentials."
Riordan asked for a full report on police tactics used during the disturbance, but praised the department for its restraint.
At the peak of the melee, Police Chief Bernard Parks said, 600 police officers were on hand. He called it a measured response.
"I think from looking at the size of the crowd and looking at the emotion of the crowd, we certainly feel as though the end result was the best that we could do in those circumstances," the chief said.
The disturbance, coming after the Lakers' first NBA championship in 12 years, had many people shaking their heads. TV images of looting and burning in the nation's second-largest city were shown worldwide, the camera view again sullying the reputation of Los Angeles eight years after the Rodney King riots.
City Council member Rudy Svorinich sternly told Parks he was concerned about what the nation and world had seen.
Staples Center president Tim Leiweke dismissed the suggestion that showing the game to the crowd on the giant outdoor TV was a bad idea, and he said the troublemakers were not simply intoxicated.
"These kids came down here for a reason," he said. "They were going to cause havoc."
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