SPORTS
University Daily Kansan, May 3. 1985
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NEWS BRIEFS
Leibrandt pitcher of month
NEW YORK — Charlie Leibrandt,
Kansas City, and Mike Davis, Oakland,
Thursday were named the American
League's pitcher and hitter of the month
for April.
Leibrandt was 3-4 in April with one shutout. He allowed 28 hits, walked 5, struck out 16 and gave up six earned runs on a 1.98 ERA for 32 innings in April.
Jim Brown case continues
Davis batted .235 in for the month as he faced the league in six batting categories with 10 hits, 23 RBI, 30 total bases, 22 runs, 15 extra base hits and a .733 slugging percentage.
LOS ANGELES — The live-in girlfriend of Pro Football Hall-of-Famer Jim Brown told a grand jury that she, not Brown, punched a woman the athlete is charged with raping after the woman threatened to kill him; grand jury transcripts showed Thursday.
Carol Moses testified that the punched the alleged victim in the eye after the woman, a substitute school teacher, tried to kill her at 'Nelson's Hollywood Hills house last February.
Her testimony before the grand jury also supported Brown's story that he broke up the fight between Moses and the alleged rape victim, but did not beat up an rape victim.
Moses, who was granted immunity from criminal prosecution, was not asked whether Brown raped the woman. The police officer and actor has insisted that no rape occurred.
The alleged rape victim has denied that she tried to seduce Moses, saying Moses helped Brown sexually assault her in the suspect's bedroom Feb. 19.
The grand jury heard testimony for two days in March as part of the investigation into the killing.
Kite takes four-stroke lead
CARLSBAD, Calif. — Tom Kite, who missed the Masters cut three weeks ago and then withdrew in frustration from a tournament last week, rebounded with an outstanding 8 under-par 64 Thursday to grab a four-stroke lead after one round of the $400,000 Tournament of Champions.
Compiled from United Press International reports.
BASEBALL ALMANAC
NATIONAL LEAGUE
East W l. W. Pct. GB
Chicago 13 684 1
New York 12 7 622 1
Montreal 12 8 640 1
Philadelphia 8 12 400 1²
St Louis 8 12 400 1²
Pittsburgh 8 12 400 1²
West W l. W. Pct. GB
San Diego 11 9 550 1⁰
Los Angeles 11 12 540 1⁰
Houston 11 10 524 1⁰
Atlanta 10 10 500 1⁰
Cincinnati 10 11 476 1⁰
Francisco 7 13 520 4
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Yesterday's Games No games scheduled
East
W L Pct. GB
Toronto 14 7 667
Baltimore 14 7 650
Detroit 11 8 379 2
Milwaukee 9 12 429 5
Boston 9 12 429 5
Cleveland 9 12 381 6
New York 9 12 368 6
California 14 8 630
Minnesota 12 12 931 (2)
Kansas City 12 9 110
Chicago 10 9 500 (3)
Seattle 10 9 345
Oklahoma 10 13 455 (4)
Changes proposed in NCAA penalties
By CECILIA MILLS
Sports Writer
Violations in recruiting or in competition could bring stricter penalties in the future if proposed enforcement changes are accepted Athletics Association member institutions.
Yesterday's Results
Oakland 5. Milwaukee 4.
California 3. Toronto 2.
San Francisco 1. Detroit 2.
A complete list of the proposed changes is scheduled to be mailed to athletic departments on Monday. The NCAA Presidents Commission submitted the eight proposals and will present them at the NCAA Convention June 20-21 in New Orleans.
Lonny Losey, assistant athletic director and interpreter of NCAA rules for the Athletic Department, said he was concerned about a recent shooting incident into two categories — major and secondary.
unintentional or one that gives a limited competitive or recruiting edge. A major infraction is any other violation or a series of repeated secondary violations.
IN THE CASE of a secondary violation by an institution, the NCAA assistant executive director of enforcement would be able to determine any necessary penalty.
Secondary is defined as one that wa
"The proposal is not very good." Rose said. "The
proposal is not very complete or thought on
them."
Rose said the lack of a neutral party in the decision worried him. The NCAA official would have the authority to impose a penalty without going through the Committee on Infractions. The university still could appeal the decision to the committee.
sistant, said the change was neither necessary nor appropriate. He said he thought proposed changes in the enforcement actions were insufficient to much pressure on the enforcement agents.
The NCAA Committee on Infractions would be told of the decision but would no longer be solely responsible for dispensing a punishment.
"The language to do that is already in the rules of the Committee on Infractions. I don't think they need any special kind of rule passed."
Dave Didion, football administrative as-
"Secondly, I'm not certain they're going to save that much time, because the decision can still be appealed. The institution can intervene before the Committee on Infractions.
"IKNOW I wouldn't have wanted that kind of authority when I was an investigator."
"Athletic department staff members need to understand that the president of that university won't tolerate any intentional serious violations." Didon said.
"I THINK THE Committee on Infractions has the ability to be pretty creative with their penalties."
Didion was hired by head football coach Mike Gottried to interpret NCAA rules and regulations. Didion spent seven years as an enforcement agent for the NCAA
Athletic Director Monte Johnson said he thought that the NCAA's enforcement procedure had not been effective and that some of the proposals were already a part of the department's policy. He said that before the June meeting he would meet with Chancellor Gene A. Budig and Del Brinkman, faculty representative to the NCAA, to discuss KU's position on the proposals.
One of the proposals also mandates that an athletic program be discontinued for one or two years after serious violations. Didion said that the Committee already had that power.
Softball team enters Big 8 seeded No.2
By SUE KONNIK
Sports Writer
The women's softball team will open the Big Eight post season tournament today against Kansas State in Bartlesville, Okla.
The Jayhawks are seeded second in the tournament. Starting time for the game against the Wildcats is 10:30 a.m. K-State finished in the conference cellar with a 1-11 record. KU is 4-0 against the Wildcats this season.
Kansas finished second in the conference with a 7-5 record behind Nebraska at 11-1.
If the Jayhawks defeat KState, they will tie the winner of the Oklahoma-Oklaahoma Stakes.
Pitching coach Gary Hines said he had no preference as to the opponent he would pitch against.
“WHEN YOU GET in a tournament like this, you have to beat everyone.” he said. “We are just concerned with putting it all together and playing like a team — all 16 of them.”
The Jayhawks moved up to 10th in the nation last week with their 31-11 record. KU finished play last weekend with a 34-14 record. Nebraska is eighth in the nation.
Tracy Bunge, KU's junior pitcher, is leading the Big Eight in hitting with a 385 batting average. She also leads the confer with 34 homers and 12 doubles. Her 23 RB is second in the Big Eight.
Shortstop Cherie Wickham leads the conference in runs scored with 27.
KU has not played a game since the team faced Missouri Sunday. Tuesday's double-hit loss was a disappointing event.
"WEREALLY WISH we had gotten to play Tuesday," Hines said. "We played well in Columbia last weekend and wanted to play more momentum into Tuesday and this weekend."
Pitchers Burchs, 20-9, and Kim Tisdale, 14-4, both will be on the mound for the matches this weekend. Tisdale has been struck twice in his career to enable to complete a game in her last five starts.
"Kim has come a long way in the last week," Hines said. "Although she didn't finish a game last weekend, she did a better job in the four innings that she pitched against Missouri Sunday than she has been since they saw our as pitchers on occasion, they had going on the Big Ten tournament looking as strong as they have been all year."
Paul Lane, KU track team freshman, streaks along the mile and 400 meter intermediate hurdles events, was practicetrack at Memorial Stadium, Lane, who runs the one-half ticing at the stadium Wednesday.
Cuffs not only on those arrested
Like most newspapers, the Kansan declines to print rumors within its pages.
The Kanan strives for fairness, accuracy and clear reporting.
But, at times, that standard is the most frustrating part of being a Kansan reporter or editor. To know    and know for sure    make the title print, is by far the hardest part of our jobs.
Unofficial, off-the-record comments come our way all the time. Those statements are often used as evidence.
But we strive for a professional goal that is higher than that.
But when off-the-record comments support what an editor already knows, and still don't lead to an on-the record story, they serve only to further perpetuate the feeling that very often we are handcuffed and unable to really do anything.
In many student newspapers, rumors about the incidents at Gammons, Robinson Gymnasium or the New Place would have been buried without any official charges being filed
THE CONFLICT BETWEEN wanting to let Kansas readers know what is going on, and knowing that there is so much we can't tell, is overwhelming. We owe the readers an explanation of almost everything that happens on this campus. But we owe student athletes the same privileges we afford other students.
According to Kansan standards, we could not print the names and specifics we knew about the football players involved in the cases in the past few weeks.
The sports section of a student newspaper is usually seen as a cheerleader for the
Football players are real people, all of our student athletes are. But they represent the University. Most of them realize that and uphold their responsibility; some do not.
programs it serves to report on. It is hard to knock one of KU's athletic teams. But all too often, the athletes don't have a plan.
SPORTS SECTIONS ARE usually concerned with athletes' performances only while they're on the field or the court — they shouldn't be.
football players' actions should be his concern
The Athletic Department is bent on the belief that the Kansan is out to get it. That is simply not true. If it were, a lot of stories, editorials and editorial cartoons that the staff produces would be seen in the paper, and they aren't.
But his players should not be slapped on the wrist and told not to do it again, as they often are.
Head coach Mike Gottfried thinks that
TWO MONTHS AGO, a young man was hospitalized overnight after allegedly being beaten in a parking lot by a group of men the police reported to be football players. Two other men were also beaten at a point of unconsciousness by a group that police again described as football players.
Gottfried knows who the football players are — so does the Kansas.
— no matter how important the players were to KU football.
But when district attorneys Jim Flory chose to charge only two football players, any more would have been better.
Under Kansan policy, the names of people involved in crimes are not printed unless they are arrested or charged.
That is the way it should be.
That is the way it should be.
And nobody knows that better than we do.
But knowing and not printing is harder by far than never knowing at all.
Derby favorite draws post position near rail
By United Press International
LOUISVILLE. Ky. — The draw for Kentucky Derby post positions Thursday left early favorite Chief's Crown in the No. 2 spot and second-pick Proud Truth in No. 11 — a near ideal spot for his stretch running style.
Battaglia's third choice, at 5-1, was speed-mencher Eternal Prince, who will be ridden out of the fifth hole by Richard Baxter. He is part of a two horse enthrough with Rhamon Rule.
The owners of 13.3-year-olds — all coils — paid the $10,000 entry fees required to take part in the draw — leaving the 11th Run for the first time in the Genuine Risk defeated 12 challenges in 1980 Churchill Downs rules limit the field to the top 20 money winners.
Churchill Downs oddsmaker Mike Batlaga immediately posted chief Chief's jockey Jack Dmochet at 9:5 on the field. Dmochet said, to be ridden by Jorge Velasquez/ANP, 01.9.2.
The other speed horse of the field, Garden State winner Spend A Buck, drew the 10th position and was posted as fourth pick on the morning line at 6.1.
"TM SATISFIED" SAID Chief's Crown's trainer Roger Laurin, who had said earlier in the week that his 1984 juvenile champion had the ability to run well from any slot.
Though he generally felt safer when his horses were in the middle of the gate, Laurin said Thursday he wasn't ever concerned about her tail, because there was a horse inside of him.
rroad Truth's trainer, John Veitch, was delighted with his good fortune — and with the final size of the field.
"The draw is fine," he said. "This horse likes to come from behind and this will give Jorge Velasquez an opportunity to place himself and have all of his options open. If he were down on the inside, it might compromise him a little bit.
Irish Fighter, Pat Day, 30-1; Chief's Crown, MacBeth. 9-5; Rhoman Jane, Jacinto Vasquez, 5-1; Tank's Prospect, Gary Stevens, 8-1; Eternal Prince, Miglore, 5-1; Stephan the Odyssey, Laffit Pincay Jr., 8-1; Enclosure Richard Arnold. 30-1.
"It (the field) was very realistic, the way a Derby should be. There's a couple of speed horses and some legitimate come-from-bind horses."
"I don't think it (the 10th post) will make any difference." said Cam Gambolati, trainer of Spend a Buck. "I've said all along that with the long run to the first turn that we'd have enough time so that we can get position wherever we are."
I Am The Game, Darrrell MHargue, 30-1; Floating Reserve, Sandy Hawley, 20-1; Spend A Buck, Angel Cordero, 6-1; Proud Truth, Lasquesa, 9-2; Skywalker, Eddie Delahoussay, 12-1, and Fast Account, Chris McCarron, 20-1.
THE FIELD, FROM the rail out, with jockeys and morning-line odds, is:
"We wanted to be in that area (a few horses out from the rail)" said J.J. "Butch" Lenzini, trainer of the Gotham and Wood Memorial winning Eternal Prince.
EXCEPT FOR VEITCH, none of the
cases in which it was completely
satisfied with their post-treatment
Woody Stephens, trainer of the late 1984 Derby winner Swale and Stephens's Odyssey, was relieved that his stretch-running colt wasn't posted on the rail.
Tulane asked to leave Metro after scandal
By United Press International
NEW ORLEANS — Tulane University was asked to leave the Metro Conference Thursday because its basketball program was dropped last month in the wake of point shaving and recruiting scandals.
Tulane, hoping to link its independent football program to the Metro Conference in the future, had asked last week to be the league as an associate member.
The league's Joint Committee, comprising representatives from seven member schools, voted unanimously to uphold that requires members to play basketball.
The Green Wave, however, will honor the request and pull out of the league July 1 "with great regret," said Tulane President Eamon Kelly.
Kelly criticized the decision as typical of the "commercialization" of college sports.
"INMY JUDGMENT, the concern of the Metro Conference in the current environment should be to demonstrate that its commitment to intercollegiate athletics is not based on the income potential of a particular sport," he said in an earlier letter to presidents of Metro Conference schools.
Kelly insisted the basketball program be dropped after three players and five others were indicted last month on charges they shaved points in at least two Metro Conference games. One player and one student have already pleaded guilty
Mantle signs contract with Yankees cable TV
Mantle will join SportsChannel broadcasters Mel Allen, Phil Rizzuto and Bill White, starting with the Yankees' May 25 game in Oakland. He'll work as an expert commentator for the final 25 games the regional pay-cable sports service broadcasts this season.
By United Press International
NEW YORK — Hall of Famer Mickey Mantle rejoined his old team Thursday when the New York Yankees' cable affiliate introduced him as the newest member of its broadcast crew.
Financial terms of the contract were not announced.
"I've been listening to Mel, Phil and Bill White and I think they need a new voice on SportsChannel," Mantle said in his usual joking message. "I hope I enjoy it I tried in 1969 in my first year out of baseball with (Tony) Kubek and (Curt) on (NBC's Game of the Week) and only lasted one year. I think he sharpened up since then."
Mantle said at a Yankee Stadium press conference that he had only signed for the remainder of this season, but there was a Washington team remain with Sports Channel in the future.
MANTLE, 53, CONSIDERED by many the greatest switch hitter in baseball history, spent his entire 18-year career with the Yankees. He won the American League Most Valuable Player Award three times and captured the Triple Crown in 1956. Mantle, who displayed devastating power from both sides of the plate, hit 53 homers.
Manville hit a record 18 home runs in 12 World Series. His Hit No. 7 uniform was rededited. He made his 405th birthday celebration.
more games then any other player. Mantle was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1974
Mantle said he would have no reservations about criticizing Yankees manager Billy Martin on the air. Martin, Mantle's good friend and former teammate, last Sunday was named manager of the club for a fourth time.
"If I thought he made a mistake I'd probably say it. Mantle said, 'I don't think he would take it badly; he knows I'm not very smart anyway.'
THE ANNOUNCEMENT CAME a little more than six weeks after Commissioner Peter Ubeerbrath lifted a ban on Mantle and Willie Mays. The ban, shapped on Mantle and Mays by former Commissioner Bowie Kubn for their association with Atlantic City casinos, prevented the Hall of Famers from taking jobs connected with baseball.
However, Mantle insisted he could have taken his new job anyway because his salary will be paid by SportsChannel and not the Yankees.
Mantle, who received a thunderous standing ovation at Yankee Stadium when he threw out the first pitch on Opening Day, will be introduced to the SportsChannel audience on Saturday during the Yankee Kansas City game. Mantle is known for knowing the Yankees, but that he needed to bone up on the rest of the AL, something he promised to do before May 25.
"THIS IS SOMETHING Ive always wanted to do and I'm grateful to Sports Channel and the Yankees for giving me the opportunity." Mantle said. "I have followed the game, and especially the Yankees, over the years, and this will allow me to stay even closer to it."