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University Daily Kansan, February 19, 1985
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Tisdale Big 8 player of week
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — All-America center Wayman Tisdale of Oklahoma was named the Big Eight Player of the Week yesterday on the strength of his 56 points and 18 rebounds in victories over Iowa State and Missouri.
Tisdale had 33 points and 11 rebounds in a 104-76 win over Iowa State on Wednesday and 23 points and seven rebounds in a 88-84 win over Missouri on Saturday.
Tastata, who also blocked four shots in
seven times in his three-year career.
Oklahoma extended its Big Eight record of consecutive conference victories to 23. The victory at Missouri also tied the mark of 11 consecutive conference road wins.
Sting for sale, owner says
Chicago's 3-1 loss to St. Louis Sunday night was in being sting's third straight defeat. It came after Chicago lost
"I feel like this is my last indoor game," Stern said Sunday night. "It's tearing me apart. The Sting is now for sale."
Sunday night's game was marked by a wave of penalties against both teams and the issuance of a yellow card against Sting coach Willie Rov,
But Sunday night, the angry owner had resolved to call it quits.
"I'm going to boycott the all-star game," Stern said. "My players are not going. My coach is not going. I'm not going. I will kill in the game. The referees are a loke."
Stern also was upset at defensive tactics used by some MISL teams.
“St. Louis came here into Chicago and spent the whole game kicking the ball into the stands. “Stern said. “The fans are no worse than we come in to watch this kind of garbage.”
Yachters hope to set up trials
HAMILTON, Bermuda — America's top yachting racers hoped to set up trials today to a challenge able to wrest the America's Cup from Australia in 1987.
An international field of sailors discussed the technicalities of an elimination series with a record number of participants for the competition, which will take place in the waters off Fremantle, Australia.
For the first time, challenging syndicates are meeting before the race to establish the rules for the competition. Americans also aren't automatically calling the shots as they did for their 25 Cam defenses.
Ten clubs are determined to bring the Cup back to the United States, where it stood for 132 years before the Australians captured it in 1983.
Another 14 entries from other countries are also eager to take the Cup from the Royal Patch Yacht Club, where it resides in a red upholstered case.
the competitors agree that the rules were applied the foreign trials in the past were equal.
"We are all breaking new ground here," said Joanne Fishman, project coordinator for Dennis Conner's Sail America 1987 Challenge out of the San Diego Yacht Club. "This is the first time a series will be held in a country other than the United States."
Ferrari presents new model
MARANELLO, Italy — Enzo Ferrari, the grand old man of automobile racing, celebrated his 87th birthday yesterday with a new Ferrari model ready for the start of the new Formula One season.
"I have one prayer to make of you, one gift to ask of you for my birthday," Ferrari said at a news conference. "Whatever happens, for good or for bad, always and only say Ferrari without naming names."
The new FI 186-85, which was presented Saturday, will be ready to race when the new season opens April 7 in Brazil, Ferrari said.
"We have a clear conscience because we have done everything we could," he said. "The car is the fruit of decisions taken and thus we will see if the results back us up."
Day honored at Santa Anita
ARCADIA, Calif. — Pat Day, the nation's winning rider in the past three years, yesterday was presented with the Golden Eagle Hockey Award in a ceremony at Santa Anita.
The award, given to a jockey whose performance is a credit to racing, honors the memory of George Wolf, who died in a riding accident at Santa Anita in 1946.
As the 36th recipient of the award, Day was surrounded by an honor guard of past award winners, including Bill Shoemaker, Laffit Pincaj Jr., Chris McCramer, Sandy Hawley, and retired jockeys John Longden, Johnny Adams and Mila Valenzuela.
Track president Peter Strub gave Day a brome replica of a statue of Woolf that stands in the walking ring at the track.
C Compiled from Konson staff and United Press International reports.
Steven Purcell/Special to the Kansan
Stine Lerdahl, Oslo, Norway senior, puts the shot at Anshutz Sports Pavilion. Lerdahl came to Kansas so she could get an education while training.
Norweigan shot putter loves life in America
When shot putter Stine Lerdahl told her parents where she planned to go to college, they were a little surprised.
By DAVID O'BRIEN Sports Writer
"They didn't believe me," Lerdahl said yesterday. "They thought it was a big joke."
But Lerdahl, a senior from Oslo, Norway, was serious. She was going to the University of Kansas. Yes, mom, that's Kansas, as in the United States.
"After they realized I was serious," she said with a Norwegian accent, "my parents thought it was nice for me to get out and try something new."
Lerdahl wanted to come to the United States so that she could train and get an education at the same time. In Norway, she had competed for a track club.
Coaches at Arizona State University told her they did not have any more scholarships, but referred her to KU coach Carla Coffey, who no longer regrets since deciding to come to Kansas.
"I can't complain about anything," she said. "I've had a great time."
"She's doing really well," assistant coach Scott Calder said. "She's throwing six inches to two feet farther in every meet than she did last year at this time."
KU coaches certainly aren't complaining about Lerdahl's decision to come to Lawrences.
Lerdahl shouldn't be intimidated by the NCAA National Championship meet March 8-9 in Syracuse, N.Y. She has competed in many international meets already and has been the top thrower in Norway for the past three years.
"I'm going to win the Big Eight, indoors and outdoors," Lerdahl said confidently. Coach Calder has told me that if I throw the ball over the net, I'll be an All-American indoors and outdoors."
Lerdahl, the Big Eight indoor champion in the shot put, will defend that title this weekend at the conference championships in Lincoln, Neb.
"She's had a lot of international experience," Calder said. "She's thrown against the wall."
Lerdahl passed up an opportunity to represent Norway this weekend in a meet in Helsinki, Finland, and next weekend in the European Championships in Athens, Greece.
"They were going to fly me over there for three weeks," she said. "But the flight takes about 17 hours and with the jet lag and everything, I might not be able to do much better than some of the girls from home.
"Plus, the Big Eight championships are this weekend." she added.
In Norway, track athletes, such as distance runner Grete Waitz, are national figures. Lerdahl herself is regarded as somewhat of a celebrity.
"I hear from some of the Norwegian students here that they knew who I am," she said. "But it's nothing like Grete. Everybody knows who she is."
When Lerdahl goes home to Oslo each summer and Christmas, family and friends will come to see her.
"You're always told about this country. So if you get to come here, you tell all the people at home who can't come about it."
"I take slides home with me," she said,
"and a bunch of people come over to see them. I guess I would do the same.
Lerdahl will graduate this semester with a degree in broadcasting, but she plans to stay another year and get a second degree in communications.
"I'll miss it here," she said. "That's why I'm
pleasing you." As long as you're a rea-
dent, you can listen.
Lerdahl said she would eventually like to return to Norway and help to improve the job market.
Running back asks 'why me?'
"In the U.S., you have TV 24 hours a day," she said. "And there are zillions of stations. In Norway, we have one station, and it is hard to believe where we are right."
But she isn't as eager as she once was to leave America.
"I really looked forward to going home the summer after my first year here," she said. "But now this is like a second home. I'm not really homesick anymore.
"I love Norway. But I love it here too. It's a hard choice."
By United Press International
Whv?
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Thetis Brown is asking the same question of himself that he asked six years ago about his former National Football League teammate J.V. Calhoun.
And Brown still doesn't have an answer.
At 27 years of age and in the prime of his professional career as a starting running back for the Kansas City Chiefs, Brown suffered a heart attack earlier this month. Prompt intervention by doctors at St. Joseph may allow him to play football again one day.
When Brown was a rookie running back with the St. Louis Cardinals in 1979, star tight end Cain suffered a fatal heart attack on the field at training camp. He was 28 years old.
But Brown isn't thankful for a possible second chance to play football. He's thankful
"I REMEMBER STANDING on the field with (fellow rookie running back) O.J. Anderson," Brown said yesterday at his first press conference since his heart attack. "J.V. was talking to us and said, 'You guys are young and your future is ahead of you.' If
you run behind me, we can do some damage in the NFL. Then he went out and ran his last pass route.
"It brought back memories. When I was sitting in the hospital, I was angry, although not at anyone in particular. I was young and I like to think I keep myself in pretty good shape. Why me? Why Theotheis Brown? How come? Can it occur again? We don't know. We may never know the answers. It's mind-boggling."
His doctors are also at a loss for answers. MICHAEL SWEENEY, A cardiologist at St. Joseph, said there was no real history of heart attacks in Brown's family, although Brown had an uncle who suffered one when he was in his 60s. He said Brown had no trace of high blood pressure or diabetes. There was a sign of high cholesterol even though the athlete had been on a low cholesterol diet for the last five years.
"It's tough to tell a guy like Theotis what he can do to change this," Sweeney said.
on Feb 5. Brown had played two games of racket and ridden the stationary bicycle at Arrowhead Stadium. He also planned to play basketball, but he didn't because he found himself excessively tired.
"I thought I was oming down with something." Brown said. "My wife had a
chest cold three weeks earlier and I thought I might have caught that."
TWO HOURS AFTER he left Arrowhead Station, Brown began suffering chest pains and became nauseous. He was going to call Dave Kendall, the trainer of the Chiefs, the next morning, but his wife decided he should go to hospital that night to have the pains checked out.
I aunt't know what the symptoms of a heart attack were." Brown said. "If I had done what I initially wanted to do — lay in bed, I probably have been laying there for good."
Doctors discovered a blood clot that had fragmented and swept downstream to block three major branches of the coronary artery along the front surface of Brown's heart. They infused an enzyme through a catheter within 15 minutes cleared the heart of the clot.
Brown spent the next several days in an intensive care unit under observation.
"SITTING IN THE ICE ICU, looking at nothing but four walls with no windows," Brown said, "I felt like Jack Nicholson in 'One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest.'"
His doctors think the former UCLA star could possibly return to professional football - although not in 1985.
Officials rule star sprinters tied in photo
By United Press International
NEW YORK — The record book shows that Valerie Brisco-Hooks won, but the winner of three Olympic gold medals could lose about $2,000 because of a decision handed down by track officials yesterday.
Brisco-Hooks originally was declared the winner of the 400-meter race at the U.S. Olympic Invitational Feb. 9 in East Rutherford, N.J., but a rereading of the photo finish shows a dead heat between her and Diane Dixon.
The reversal cost Brisco-Hooks two points in the U.S. Track. Suck and Field Grand Prix standings and dropped her from a second tie to a second place tie with 70 points.
"The picture is invalid." Brisco-Hooks said yesterday at the weekly New York track writers' luncheon. "If it's a dead heat we should have had the same time. We didn't have the same time.
Squad cheers, tumbles to keep fans involved
By CECILIA MILLS
Sports Writer
Pyramids, tumbling and dance routines are all part of the lives of the eight men and eight women who make up the KU Spirit Squad.
These 16 students practice for about three hours every day in the gymnasium room of Robinson Gymnasium to perfect routines and to prepare for every man's basketball and football game.
"There's not a lot of glory," said Jeff Davis, Lawrence junior, who has been a varsity yell leader for two years. "But in a strange way it seems people look up to us."
Members said last week that, although it was hard work, the benefits of being a member were immense.
"The Athletic Department funds their travel," Brady said. "Actually all of them are splitting one scholarship. It is my hope to increase that."
Elaine Brady, adviser for the squad, coordinates activities and helps raise money for the squad.
Each cheerleader and yell student receives a $125 scholarship each semester, half of the proceeds go to students.
Since a recent accident at Fort Hays State, a cheerleader fell and became paralyzed from the waist down, some people led them to the hospital. Leading leads — the normid, in particular
Steve Beaumont, Roeland Park junior, is captain, stunt designer and choreographer
'It's put a lot of pressure on someone like
Squad members work together a great deal to cut down on risks. Beaumont said.
"You have to know first who to trust to spot you," he said. "It's not till the end that you start working out as a team."
KU's squad is one of the few that travels to away games.
Even after getting home at 2:30 a.m. from the Kansas-Missouri game at Columbia, Mo. Alexis Faulkner. Prairie Village sophomore did cheering at away games was enjoyable.
"Basically KU's got a really big budget." Daisy said, with allumina that care and want it.
"We get to travel to all the games and we get the best seats in the house," she said. "Whether there are two or 10,000 fans there, on road trips we are the motivation."
“It’s so hard when they’re losing. Our football stadium’s not that big. Sometimes it’s just so frustrating. We can’t even fill half of the student section.”
During the Houston and the Memphis State basketball games, Faulkner said the crowd's spirit was incredible.
"You actually see the alumni on their feet," Faukner said. "It's times like that we win. The fans just rock this place."
Davis said he had seen the mood and the performances of the squand change in the past.
"Couch Brown is so student-oriented." Davis said. "He makes you feel like he wants
*KU's big on tradition. The only thing they tell us is they want the crowd to stay quiet.*
Baumann said the members of the squad possessed special characteristics that en-
abled them to perform well.
"We're basically hams," he said. "No one is going to get out there in front of a crowd and do these crazy things if they're normal."
Rick Inglima, Overland Park sophomore, and Alexis Faulkner, Prairie Village sophomore, are members of the KU Spirit Squad. The squad performs at every men's basketball and football game.