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The University Daily KANSAN April 5, 1984 Page 16
Jayhawks use banquet to reflect on banner season
By JEFF CRAVENS Sports Editor
Sports Editor
After a year of answering questions about how long he was going to stay at the University of Kansas, head basketball coach Larry Brown used last night's annual basketball banquet to throw in a few one-liners.
"I haven't been to one of these banquets in a while," Brown said. "I guess I haven't stayed around long enough.
"I told my wife that we've stayed
behind four seasons, winter, summer,
spring."
Although seniors Kelly Knight and Carl Henry were absent, the Jawhawk
basketball team ended its season last night with the awards banquet at the Kansas Union Ballroom.
Henry and Knight, both seniors, are in Fort Smith, Va., participating in an all-seniors competition. Sixty-four seniors from around the country were invited to compete in front of secrsors at the annual SIUE Association and the European leagues.
Brown presented each of the players on the squad with a watch commemorating the Jayhawks' trip to the NCAA tournament this season.
Henry received the Phog Allen Most Valuable Player award named after KU's legendary coach. Henry led the Jayhawks in scoring, field goal percentage and steal and set a career
field goal percentage record in his two years, the Mit Allen, son of Phog.
Knight received the Bill Bridges rebounding award and the A.C. "Dutch" Lonborg award for the most inspirational player. Knight, a fifth-year senior from Salma, led KU in rebounding with an average of 10.5 saves his career with 90 rebounds, ranking him ninth on the all-time KU list.
Former KU great Pierre Russell presented the award to Knight's brother, Mark, another former KU player. The latter presented the award upon ad俊 after him.
Henry, Knight, Brian Martin and Tim Banks, the team's seniors, were
presented metallic portraits of themselves by the Lawrence Roundball Club.
Junior guard Tad Boyle, who will captain next season's team, also received two cards. He was given the opportunity to play with the Ken Koeings academic award.
For the first time, the Ted Owens defensive player award was presented. Martin received the award named in honor of his father, Brown replaced nearly one year ago.
Bob Hill, an assistant under both Owens and Brown, presented the award for Owens, who could not attend because of a skiing trip to Aspen, Colo. Radio announcer Tom Hendrick, longtime voice of the Jawhacks
presented the captains' awards to Henry, Knight and Martin.
The crowd of more than 500 people watched a highlight film of the season
one in which the Jayhawks beat Kansas State three times, Missouri twice and Wichita State once. They also upset Oklahoma in the finals of the Big Eight Conference Post-Season Tournament to earn an automatic berth in the NCAA tournament.
KU edged Alcorn State in the first game before ending its season with a loss to Wake Forest.
Brown ended his first season at KU with a 22-10 record, the third time in three seasons as a collegiate coach that he has reached the 20-victory mark.
Jabbar 21 points away from NBA scoring-mark
By United Press International
LAS VEGAS, Nev. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who admits he was in a walt Wilt Chamberlain when the two first met two decades ago, needs 21 points tonight to eclipse Chamberlain's record. The few others many thought would never be broken
Adul-Jabbar, who has scored 20 or more points in 17 straight games, needs 21 in tonight's game between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Utah Jazz at Chambley and Mack Center to break Chamberlain's mark of 31,419 regular-season points.
"It's a great personal achievement, something I'll treasure all my life," said Abdul-Jabbar, a six-time NBA Most Valuable Player. "To be No.1 in the league, I must prove a proud of. I'm very thankful, and I hope everyone feels that I deserve it."
Chamberlain, who has remained in the background while Abdul-Jabbar has made a furious assault at his record, is expected to be at the Forum in Los Angeles tomorrow night when the Lakers hold a ceremony honoring Abdul-Jabbar. It was not known if he would attend tonight's game.
"If anyone deserves to break the record, it's definitely, definitely him."
Chamberlain, who played in the NBA for 14 seasons, told the Los Angeles Times six weeks ago. "As far as I am concerned, since the time of Neil Johnston and George Mikan, nobody, no offensive center, has ever played post predominantly, mainly and only, onto myself and Kareem.
"If someone's going to take your record, I think you gotta get feel good about who it is. He definitely deserves it; it's no fluke of a record. It's something that makes cars, a lot of time, a lot of two and three days hangs on him, and he has done it."
Abdul-Jabbar, two weeks short of his 37th birthday, scored 28 points Tuesday night at San Antonio to move within striking distance. If he fails to gain the record tonight, he's almost sure to get it later when the Lakers host Kansas City.
I'm trying to enjoy it," Abdul Jabbar said of the run at the mark. "When I do (break it), at least I won't have to answer all the questions anymore. There isn't a day that's gone by without somebody telling me exactly how many points I have and how many more I need.
"I'm trying to concentrate on our season. Early in the season, everybody thought I couldn't do it.
United Press International
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas City's Onix Concepcion slides into third base following a wild pitch by New York's Phil Nickroo. Concepción was safe on this play, but the Yankees and Niekro picked up their first victories of the season with a 4-3 triumph over the Royals last night.
By United Press International
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Butch Wynegar knocked in two runs with a double and single last night to give Phil Niekro a successful American League debut and the New York Yankees a 4-3 victory over the Kansas City Royals.
The veteran knuckleballer, who ended a 19-year stint in the National League when he signed with the Yankees as a free agent last winter, gave up nine hits, struck out four, walked three and allowed all three Royal runs over 6/2 3/18 innings en route to his 269th career victory.
Dave Winfield and Toby Harrah slapped back-to-back doubles off Kansas City starter Paul Splitoroff, 0-1, to open the fourth inning and 2-2 tie. The Yankees then chased the veteran left-hander two batters later when Wynegar tied a one-out RBI single to center for a 4-2 lead.
News briefs from staff and wire reports
Caffeine, testosterone use to be banned at Olympics
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"We will have to be strict in our anti-doping tests in Los Angeles, and we will check all participating athletes," Saranach said during a visit to San Juan. "We've got pretty sophisticated equipment now, and we will include caffeine and testosterone as banned drugs."
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — The International Olympic Committee plans to warn athletes at the Los Angeles Summer Games that caffeine and testosterone will be considered prohibited drugs, IOC President Juan Antonio Samaranch said yesterday.
Samaranch said the IOC was "looking to protect the health of athletes and that's why we have medical laboratories in every corner of the globe."
Last summer's Pan-American Games in Caracas, Venezuela, marked something of a milestone in international sports, Samaranch said, because so many athletes were found to have been using steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs.
Samaranch, a Spaniard, met with the president of the Los Angeles Games Organizing Committee, Peter Ueberroth, in San Juan for more than six hours and predicted the Games would be "an enormous success."
Bankruptcv suit filed against Colts
Steven Fruin, a lawyer representing film maker Robert McMahon, said the bankruptcy petition filed Tuesday took legal precedence over the city of Baltimore's injunction to block the team's move and other suits faced against the Colts.
However, Fruin said the city's attorneys could go to federal bankruptcy Judge James Schneider and ask for permission to resume their case, which is attempting to use the law of eminent domain to claim the Colts as public property.
BALTIMORE — A film maker has filed a bankruptcy petition against the Colts seeking $8,000. He says that the NFL franchise — which moved from Baltimore to Indianapolis last week — owes him for 1983 game films, attorneys said yesterday.
Oops. . . That's V-A-L-E-S-E-N-T-E
Have you ever got that feeling in the pit of your stomach when you know you've made a mistake and cannot do anything about it?
Well, yesterday I got that feeling. I was proudly looking over the paper when I realized that I had made a big mistake on the story about new assistant football coach Bob Valesente. It was a basic mistake that beginning journalists are taught not to make. His name was misspeelled.
There it was, almost jumping off the page. VElesente. At least his first name, Bob, was spelled right. I suddenly the urge to find the dark bedroom.
I have made my share of mistakes since deciding to become a journalist — a fact that was not exactly right, a wrong starting time, an error in judgment. But none measure up to the level of incompetence demonstrated by misspelling the name of the subject of a feature story.
There are plenty of excuses that could be used, i.e. someone should have caught it after it left my hands, or I didn't know what to do and also thinking about my upcoming test.
But there is only one basic truth in the matter.
Immediately, I called Valesente and groveled out an apology. He was very understanding, so much that the mistake lost a little of its magnitude in
I had committed one of the cardinal sins of journalism.
Throughout the entire afternoon, one thing kept echoing through my pounding skull. That feeling in my stomach was beginning to spread.
my mind. This didn't help much. When I got done talking to him, I would have
Memories of the previous day, when head coach Mike Gottfried introduced me to Valentese. Gottfried gave me a challenge: to play with Valentese of my supposed talent.
By the time this registered for the
deadly surgery, toenails were
beginning to feel the ache.
But one thing I learned a long time ago is that you can't change what is in print. However, journalists should be able to admit their mistakes.
Picking Kentucky to win the NCAA championship is one thing, but missspelling a name is a blunder that should be avoided. Bok Valeske, my sincerest apology
Or was that Bill?
Baseball team splits 2 games with Emporia
By PHIL ELLENBECKER Sports Writer
Jon Steiner, who has been the top reliever for the Kansas Jayhawk baseball team so far this season, started his first game of the year yesterday and came away with a 6-3 victory against Emporia State in the first game of a double-header at Quidley Field.
Two home runs by Emporia State right fielder Brad Hill off KU starter John Heeney gave the Hornets, 14-11 in a story in extra innings in the second game.
Steiner, 3.1, went the seven-inning distance in the first game and allowed five hits and three runs, two of which were earned.
Steiner, who has appeared in 12 games in relief and has saved three, said he asked KU head coach Marty Pattin for the start Tuesday when he learned that Pattin hadn't yet decided starting pitchers for yesterday's game.
KU, 14-13, will face Baker in a double-header starting at 1 p.m. today at Quigley Field. The Jayhawks waltzed by the Wildcats Friday, 18-2.
"When you are starting, you can throw your ball game," he said, explaining the adjustment from relieving. "You can work on hitting the corners and setting up the hitters. In relief, you just come in and try to throw strikes and stick basically with fastballs and sliders."
ESU didn't score a run off Steiner until the fifth innning, when it scored two runs, including a solo home run by center field Bob Hines, which made the score 5-2. Hines drove in another run in the eighth on a sacrifice fly, but it brought enough against the hyrahaws, who scored in every innings but the seventh.
KU opened up a lead in the first when Hugh Stantfield led off with a walk, stole second, went to third on a wild pitch and scored on Yelon's ground out.
The Jayhawks added single runs in the fourth and fifth. Christie led off the fourth with a single, stole second and came home on Nick Zych's single. Width two out in the fifth. Yellow doubled and came in on Rob Thomson's single.
In the nightcap, Heeeyen, 1.5, had a no-hitter after four innings, and a shutout after five but a three-run game against the sixth gave the Hornets a 2-2 lead.
KU had a 2-0 lead entering the sixth on the strength of homers by Joe Heeney, his second of the year, and Christie, his third in three games.
The Jayhaws tied the game in half of the sixth. Heeney, who went two-for three, led off with a double and came on in Mike Ingram's double KU left runners stranded on second and third. In the seventh, the bases loaded in the left.
With two out in the eighth, Hill hit his second homer of the game, making it 4-3. John Hart led off KU's half of the inning with a walk, but Ingram struck out. Phil Doherty grounded into a double play to end the game.
NCAA committee approves use of coaching box
SEATTLE — The NCAA Men's Basketball Rules Committee yesterday approved a 28-foot coaching box to prevent coaches from straying up and down the court sidelines, but it left open the possibility of adopting a 45-second shot clock.
By United Press International
"The committee felt that the adoption of the coaching box would be a significant step in improving bench decorum and the image of an already-great game," said Edward S. Steitz, the committee's secretary-rules editor and
"We've had coaches straying off beyond areas of their benches. We've had coaches going down in front of the other team's bench." Steitz said.
Coaches have been meeting at half-court during games, he said.
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Coaching boxes were used experimentally in six Division I conferences this past season. Coaches, players and bench personnel were required to remain in a designated bench area except to request specific information from coaches during a time-out, address a correctable error or report into the game.
"We want (the coaches) back in the area to coach the ballgame," he added. The boxes would extend from the baselines, to the court hash marks, normally 18 feet on either side of center court.
The adoption of a 45-second shot clock, considered by many coaches to be inevitable for the development of the league, lies in place as a conference option.
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Some members of the 13-member rules committee are still opposed to the shot clock. Steetz said, even though 54 percent of the committee's rule change voted in favor of it.
Steitz said some coaches were still saying, "Look, if I'm ahead and I am about to pull of the biggest upset in the league, my institution, I may want to freeze the ball."
However, the committee decided the clock may be used alone the entire game or in conjunction with a three-point shot option from beyond a line 19 feet. 9 inches from the center of the basket.
noting that* two assistant coaches converged in an on-court fist fight at one game this year. Part of the sideline wandered was for purposes of intimacy.
Yesterday was the 16th anniversary of his death.
He was born Jan. 15, 1929 in the South—a minority person. Never elected to public office he led one of the most significant movements in American history
athletic director at Springfield College.
a law breaker and died a martyr. All America mourned his death.
He was born Jan. 15, 1929
What made him great?
His Christian faith had to be lived!
He spent time in jail
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