University Daily Kansan, February 5, 1985
SPORTS
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NEWS BRIEFS
Osborne to have heart surgery
LINCOLN, Neb. — Nebraska football coach Tom Osborne said yesterday he would undergo single heart-bypass surgery at Bryan Memorial Hospital today.
After experiencing a "fullness or a tightness" in his chest the past six to eight weeks, Osborne had an electrocardiogram performed in his office on Friday. The result was abnormal and Osborne underwent heart catheterization by Bryan yesterday.
"They found a blockage in one artery," Osborne said. "It isn't a total blockage and I have not had a heart attack. There is no damage to the heart muscle."
Obsborne said he was given three options and chose single-hypass surgery, which he said should lead to a complete recovery.
surgeon, is scheduled to perform the three-to-four-hour surgery.
Osborne said he would be hospitalized about one week.
Mever faces curfew problems
CHICAGO — DePaul coach Joey Meyer, taking a cue from Indiana's Bobby Knight, said he considered benching players who were available before Saturday's 77/32 loss in Louisville.
However, Meyer said, so many players were involved he might not have been able to.
"I had no choice," he said. "I had to play somebody. We couldn't have played the game without them. You can't deal with some and not the others. That's why I did not play them against Louisville and I did not play them against Dayton Wednesday."
An early curfew was set because the Demons were playing Louisville at 11 a.m. (the curfew was later changed).
"There was nothing blatant in their minds." Meyer said. "They were in the hotel. But obviously, it was blatant in him," Meyer said. "It was not to be in their rooms at midnight."
DePaul's fifth loss of the season could drop the school from the top 20 for the first time this year, after the Demons had been second in the first ratings of the year.
NC State standout sentenced
The plea bargain arrangement could allow the 6-foot-11 freshman to return to school.
RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina State basketball star Chris Washburn was sentenced to three days in jail and put five years probation yesterday for stealing $800 worth of stereo equipment from a friend's residence hall room.
Washburn, who faced up to 40 years in prison, pleaded guilty to three misdemeanor charges of forcible trespass, assault and entering and conversion of property.
Under the terms of the plea bargain, Superior Court Judge J. Milton Reid ordered Washburn to start serving the jail sentence on Dec. 19 – the anniversary of the hardship.
Reid suspended a six-year prison sentence and placed Washburn on five years probation. He also ordered Washburn to pay $1,000 in court costs and to undergo mental health and drug and alcohol abuse counseling.
In addition, Washburn was ordered to perform more than 300 hours of commu-
Pro-Am draws record crowd
Kansas center Greg Drewling Colorado's Alex Stivins for possession of a rebound during the Javoyhawk's 88.69 win in Allen Field House last night.
Coach Jim Valvano, who kicked Washburn off the team but said he might let him return once the case was resolved, declined immediate comment, saying,"I don't know enough about it to say anything right now."
PEBLE B BEACH, Calif. - The Bing Crosby National Pro-Am drew a record crowd of 132,250 over the weekend.
That's more than any bowl game including the Rose Ball and the Super Bowl, and at an average of $10 a ticket, the Crosby came to more than $1.3 million.
The weather was generally good and the tournament had its usual gaggle of celebrities plus Jack Nicklaus, Lee Trevino, Tom Watson and Lanny Wadkins.
O'Meara, who won the 1979 State Amateur here, took the lead by two shots on Saturday, and Sunday he held off Curtis and his Kikuo's Kikou Arai to win the $90,000 first prize.
None in that group ever made a challenge but such local favorites as Johnny Miller, George Archer and Mark O'Meara did. There also were as many as 10 others who played at Pebble Beach in recent California State Amateur Championships, so there were some built-in attractions.
Almost in anticipation of a successful tournament, committee officials decided to increase this year's purse from $400,000 to $500,000 on the eve of the event.
Kellogg, an Omaha native, sank 16 of 19 shots from the field at Sedgeon en route to a Daveney Sports Center record point total against the Cornhuskers. The 6-5 forward was 7-of-7 from the free throw line and grabbed two rebounds.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Forward Ron Kellogg of Kansas was selected the Big Eight Player of the week yesterday on the team in a triple-digit hawks' 91-80 road victory over Nebraska.
Kellogg Big 8 player of week
Compiled from Kinson staff and United Press International reports.
Kellogg also scored 17 points earlier last week against Kansas State in leading the Jayhawks to a 57-57 road triumph over the Wildcats.
Win over Buffs makes KU 10-0 at home
Big 8 record raised to 6-1 with victory
By MIKE BRENNAN Sports Writer
Larry Brown stood up and applauded his team midway through the first half.
Kansas jumped out to a 31-10 lead with 8:48 left in the first half, and the Jayhawks coasted to an 88-69 victory over the Colorado Buffaloes last night before a crowd of 11.610.
"The important thing was to jump on them early," Brown said. "After the first three minutes, we played the next eight to 10 great. I think we played the string out after that."
It was the third victory in a row for Kansas and the team's fifth consecutive Big Eight victory. The Jayhawks are now 6-1 in conference play. Colorado fell to 1-6.
Calvin Thompson hit the first two baskets for KU and scored 12 of the Jahyaws first 16 points, boosting Kansas to a 16-8 lead with 14 minutes left in the half.
But Thompson left the game with 8:34 remaining in the first half with a shin bruise and had to sit out the rest of the game. After the game, he said he would be back.
wanted to play." Thompson said. "We were looking to go inside, throwing the ball in Danny and Greg. When the shot's not there, they've been doing a good job of kicking it back out, and it worked well tonight."
"We were afraid if we played him, it would be a problem Wednesday and Saturday. Brown."
Brown said it was a shame that Thompson had to sit out the rest of the game.
KU shot 74.1 percent during the first half and led 49-26 at half time. It was the third straight half that the Jayhawks had shot 58.3 percent from the team finished with a 61.7 shooting percentage.
But the team's 17 assists excited Brown most.
"In the first half, we moved th ball great." Brown said. "We played very unselfishly."
Kansas was able to get the ball inside to Greg Drrelling and Danny Manning, who combined for 21 points. Brown said he was in the play of Manning, who had seven assists.
Colorado scored the first four times down the floor and tied the game at eight. But that was no big deal, as it ended in a 7-6 victory.
Manning said that it didn't matter whether he scored more points or got more assists.
Dreiling, who scored 11 points, said he thought the KU defense caused problems for him.
"You've got to get the ball to the open man." Manning said. "If the coaches want me to shoot, I'll shoot. If the coaches want me to pass, I’ll pass."
"The thing we have been stressing the most is defense," Dreiling said. "We got them down at the half really well."
Brown said he thought the defense got
more active after the Buffaloes' first three baskets.
"Our defense created scoring opportunities." Brown said.
Colorado head coach Tom Apke agreed.
"Their trapping defense really hurt us in the middle of the first half," Apke said. "We just didn't play with any patience and took too many bad shots."
Late in the first half, Brown made wholesale substitutions and continued it in the second half.
Milton Newton was the first man off the bench and scored 12 points, tying Thompson for high-scoring awards. Newton said he was just trying to get the system down.
"I'm feeling more comfortable now." Now played together and played hard tonight.
COLORADO (69)
Manning 3-4 4-10, Kellogge 3-2 8-2,
Dreiling 5-1 1-11, Hunter 4-1 2-9,
Thompson 6-0 12-1, Turgunge 3-2 8-3,
Newton 6-0 12, Pelleck 1-4 5-1, Piper
1-0 0-2, Boyle 4-0 8-8, Hull 0-0-0,
Campbell 1-0 0-2. Totals 37 14-17 8.
Colorado 26 43—69
39 39 39
Stivirns 6 0-2 12, Yowell 0 0-0 0,
Downs 6 4-1 4 1, Reid 0 0-0 4, Prutt 7 3-1 7 1, Lee 2 0-0 4, Williams 3 2-2 8,
Wilke 5 2-4 12, Dunlap 0 0-0 0, Davis 0 1-0 1. Totals 29 11-16 69.
KANSAS (88).
Fouled out — none. Total fouls — Colorado 18, Kansas 18. Technical fouls — Hull (Kansas). Ejected — Stivirns.
A:11,610
'Sky' Newton hits 12 points to spark KU
By DAVID O'BRIEN
Sports Writer
Sports Writer
It was only a matter of time before the freshman known as "Sky" showed the Big Eight how he earned his nickname.
Milton Newton came off the bench and two first-half dunks that sent the Allen Field house crowd into a frenzy last night during KU's 88-69 victory over Colorado.
"That's my favorite shot," Newton said after the game. "I love to dunk."
But Newton did more than dunk last night. scoring a season-high 12 points to tie Calvin Thompson for team honors.
"Milcame in and played great." forward Danny Manning said. "He got a couple of dunks that got the crowd into the game."
The first of the two dunks came with 10:47 remaining in the first half when Newton dunked on a fast break to put Kansas ahead 25-8. He followed that with another fast-break jam on a Ron Kellogg pass that put KU on top 32-12 with 6:25 remaining in the half.
Newton also hit a layup and three jump
kicks in the game to finish six-for-six from
the field.
Those jump shots surprised many Jaya-hawk fans, accustomed to seeing most of the Newton's scoring coming off spectacular dunks.
"I've always had the jump shot," said the Washington, D.C., native. "I've been working on it more lately, and tonight it just felt everything just came together tonight."
Newton's previous season-high of 10 points came in Kansas' loss at Michigan last week. Newton also scored 28 in a KU junior varsity game last week.
Newton said of his recent improvement,
"I'm just working hard. I'm feeling more
comfortable now. I'm just trying to get the
system down."
Larry Brown said, "Mill's getting better day. I'm really pleased with his progress."
"He wants to be so good. It's tough for him when he sells Kellogg and Thompson going to Korea."
Newton had seen limited play time this season until recently and was averaging just 1.8 points per game. He played 15 minutes in last night's cottage.
"It wasn't playing to my potential," Newton said. "I had to come around now, playing to start my game."
The adjustment from high school stardom has not been an easy one for Newton.
"I'm scared sometimes, to make mistakes," Newton said, "because you sit on it."
"Calvin and Ron told me to just go and play my game, to not worry about it."
The advice looks like it may be starting to pay off.
Senate begins NFL debates in committee
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — Commissioners of the major football leagues spoke to a Senate committee yesterday about issues dear to both leagues: control of their franchises and television contracts.
At a Senate Commerce Committee hearing, National Football League Commissioner Pete Rozelle strongly pushed for proposed legislation to control franchise moves. The legislation would allow professionals to league teams to stop a team from bringing young players to school and show it suffered from a number of problems such as poor fan support.
The bill being discussed is sponsored by Republican Sen. John Danforth and Democrat Thomas Eagleton — both from Missouri, where the St. Louis Cardinals football team and the Kansas City Kings basketball club have considered moves.
But Harry Usher, head of the United States Football League, argued that while franchise relocation was a concern, the bill ignored the overall problem in pro football, which he said was an NFL monopoly on fall television coverage.
Junior Johnny Holloway, KU wide receiver, bench presses 355 pounds in the Shaffer-Holland Strength Center.
The struggling USFL currently plays a spring season and is televised by the American Broadcasting Co. It plans to move to a fall season in 1986, but does not yet have a major network contract for that year. All three networks televise NFL games.
"What needs to happen is the free market has to exist again." Usher told the committee.
He argued if USFL teams were given exposure equal to that of the older league, there would be fewer cities trying to lure away NFL teams.
He also labeled as "baseless" a currency $3 billion antitrust suit the USFL has pursued.
Rozelle, however, said the league's inability to stop franchise relocations has caused instability in the league and has kept the NFL heading to cities that currently do not have teams.
"We've never hesitated to expand, except in periods where we had great instability," she said.
Off-season training helped by center
By SUE KONNIK
Sports Writer
It may be a little early to be thinking about football games, but one member of the KU football team doesn't think so.
Mark Parks, defensive lineman, said the players spend the off-season working hard to prepare for regular season play. Part of that team is taking training at the Shaffer-Holland Strength Center.
"Coach Gottfried told us what we have to do to be good enough to go to a bowl game," Parks said. "The work that everyone does is hard, but it happens in whether we are good enough to go or not."
Located on the north side of Anschutz
Sports Pavilion, the center's 6,000 square
feet of space is available.
a heated, air-conditioned and carpeted room 170 feet long by 50 feet wide.
CONSTRUCTION OF THE HC center began last February, and the weight room is now 80 feet long.
Donny Wilson, assistant football coach,
said the center contained some of the best
players in the league.
Although the center is being used mainly for the football players, some track athletes
Before the center's opening, the football team and more than 500 other athletes used the Parrott Strength Center in Parrot Athletic Center. The Parrott Strength Center
KU strength coaches say that working out in the off-season builds muscle mass and increases endurance, speed and flexibility. This prevents injuries during the regular training.
is less than one-third the size of Shaffer Holland Strength Center.
Wayne Ziegler, free safety, said the coaches were an additional reason why the weight lifting program had been successful this year.
ASSISTANT STRENGTH COACH AJ Jakubowski, national weight lifter and fifth place finisher in the U.S. Olympic trials in match event, is a new addition to the staff.
"Al is a valuable asset to the strength program because of his great knowledge and experience with power lifting." Ziegler said, so important to do the lifts the correct wav.
Ed Biakil, speed, strength and conditioning coordinator, is in charge of the strength center facilities. He has set up a program specifically geared toward the football team.