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The University Daily KANSAN
November 16, 1983 Page 16
'Hawks open cage schedule against Dutch
Brown is unsure whether his team is ready for game
By JEFF CRAVENS Associate Sports Editor
The Kansas Jayhawk basketball team will open its season tonight when it faces a touring team from the University of North Carolina Field House. Tip-off is set for 7:30.
Between 8,000 and 9,000 fans are expected for the game, which is
The game will be the first outside competition for the Jayhawks, led by first-year coach Larry Brown. How did the team respond as a regular season contest for KU?
The Netherlands, also called the Dutch National team, will be playing its fourth game in an eight-game tour of the United States. The team is 2-1, having Beaver Air Force and Southern Air Force and having lost 73-74 to West Virginia.
"A lot of people don't realize that they are a pretty good team." Brown said. "I took a pro team over with the Gatorade team, and we打了 Williams on it and they were tough.
"Personally, I don't think we're ready, but I think the kids deserve a
The Jayhawks have five returning starters from last year's team which finished in a tie for last place in the Big Eight conference. Carl Henry, Kelly Knight, Calvin Thompson, Kerry Hendrick and Tad Boyle will lead the KU attack.
Sophomore center Greg Dreiling will be making his first appearance for the Jayhawks after sitting out last season because he transferred from Wichita State.
Ten players on the Netherlands
14-man roster are 6-foot-7 or taller.
One of their players, Handy Wiel,
wears a jersey with a blue collar.
The average age of the team is 26
The team that will face KU tonight is not the Olympic team from the Netherlands, but several players from this squad will play in the 1984 games.
Brown said yesterday that he has not decided on a starting lineup for tonight.
"We're still searching for players who can play and combinations that play well together," Brown said. "A lot of them are trying so hard that they are struggling."
"I still don't know who will be playing a lot or what kind of style we will be able to play. I don't think it will mean much." In contrast, I just want to see who can play."
Brown is also expected to announce today the signing of as many as three more players in the early signing period for high school seniors. Danny Manning has already announced that he will play in the last day of the early signing period.
Brown said he found out yesterday that All-American guard Troy Lewis from Anderson III, has decided to continue his career and earned an average of 29.9 points a game.
"I thought we had him," Brown said of Anderson. "Distance was the key, he.
NEW YORK - The National Basketball Association owners yesterday named David J. Stern as the new NBA commissioner, replacing Larry O'Brien.
Stern to replace O'Brien as NBA's top executive
By United Press International
NEW YORK - National Basketball Association owners reached into the league organization yesterday and appointed executive vice president David J. Stern to succeed Larry O'Brien as NBA commissioner.
Stern, who was head of the league's legal department, assumes his new duties on Feb. 1. O'Brien relinquishing the position will be on call as a consultant and adviser.
In other developments at the NBA Board of Governors meeting, no progress was reported in negotiations with referees, who have been locked out; a drug program resolution was adopted that also would penalize league personnel for use, possession or distribution of illegal substances; and the
Stern, who joined the NBA in 1978 as its general counsel, becomes the league's fourth commissioner, following Maurice Podoloff, Walter Kennedy and O'Brien. He became the NBA's executive vice president for business relations, and was also O'Brien's chief assistant in shaping and carrying out league policies.
league formally approved the sate or
smaller SuperSonics to Barry
Ackley.
"Our meeting was so short that I waived my own rule of not discussing a new commissioner and brought up the subject," said O'Brien, who worked on John F. Kennedy's 1960 presidential campaign. He probably will re-enter the political arena with same capacity for some other candidate running for president in 1984.
"I recommended to the owners they
should not look outward for my successor and they agreed to search within the organization," said O Brien. "I told them of David's qualities and how I urged him to extend his work beyond the legal department. And of being a vice president for operations post so he could be the No. 2 man in the NBA.
"I'm extremely pleased that he was available to move up to be No. 1. The
Stern, a lawyer who also had the responsibility of overseeing the development of NBA marketing and promotional areas, had little to say except to thank O'Brien for his confidence.
"Larry was inspirational," said Stern. "I learned the important thing to do is identify the problem and then work to solve it. I'm also indebted to the
Board of Governors for their confidence I find the league in remarkably good shape and I don't plan to do it. I'm carrying on Larry O'Brien's good work."
With an ever-increasing drug problem in sports, the NBA decided to wage an all-out war against all league personnel involved with drugs.
Of the referees, Stern said he appreciated their contribution to the game, but he had been instructed by the owners not to go beyond the 37 percent cut. But she reported that the two sides were still far apart and that talks would continue.
"We agreed that this would be applied across the board," said Russ Granick, the league's chief labor negotiator. "This means players, owners, general managers, coaches, trainers and even the league office staff."
Mackovic prepares to battle White, Cowboys, will set old friendships aside until after game
By United Press International
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — John Mackovic spent two years of his coaching life trying to make the Dallas Cowboys the best team in the National Football League. But on Sunday Mackovic will be out to prove they aren't.
Mackovic, the quarterback coach of the Cowboys in 1982-83, will take his Kansas City Chiefs to Dallas Sunday to face his former boss, Tom Landry, and his former star pupil, Danny White. No team has a better record than the 9-2 mark of the Cowboys this season, and no quarterback in NFL history has a higher career efficiency rating than the 84.7 of White.
Mackovic left the Dallas staff last February to replace Mav Levy, who was fired as head coach of the Chiefs, and has directed Kansas City to a 5-4 record through 11 weeks of his rookie season. A victory over the Cowbies Sunday would put the Chiefs at .500 for the third time this season.
"I'm the only person connected with our team with any personal link to the Cowboys," Mackovic said. "So it would be unfair for me to make the game out of more than just another game between us at Pasos City Chiefs and Dallas Cowboys."
"John really came at the right time for me," White said. "I had just started my career as a starting quarterback, and what I needed more than anything else was support. John has a tremendous knack for seeing things like that. He knows the negatives and talks positives. It was very important to me at the time."
Mackovic played an important role in the development of White into the game's top-rated passer.
White has completed 61 percent of his passes this season for 2,799 yards and a league-high 24 touchdowns. But Mockovic doesn't think his close relationship over the previous two years with White — or with the Cowboys collectively —
will give him any advantage Sundav.
"I can't spend my whole week thinking up ways to disrupt Danny White," Mackovic said. "That would be foolish on my part. I have to prepare the Kansas City Chiefs to play as well as we can play.
"I know so many of the players but I have to divorce myself from my personal opinions, both pro and con. I'll let my coaches coach the game the way they see it. I can't coach every one of them, but we fight against every one of theirs. If I tried, I'd be doing a great disservoir to the Kansas City Chiefs.
"When the game is over, then it will be special to me. When I walk off the field and can see them as friends — Danny White, Randy White, Tony Dorsett, Bob Breung. It was difficult saying goodbye to all those guys after a Po Boil. But I can't allow that to my involvement in Sunday's game."
Dupree wasn't OU's best soph
Sooner fans still have Tisdale
By United Press International
NORMAN, Okla. — Marcus Dupree may have bolted the University of Oklahoma, but the Sooners can absorb his loss. After all, he was only the second-best player in the school's sophomore class.
The best player — not only in the sophomore class but in the whole school and probably the entire Big Eight — are Tisdale of the basketball Sippers.
He is the Wayman Tisdale who set a Big Eight single-season scoring record, who led the Sooners to a 24-9 record and into the NCAA Tournament, who earned second-team All-America honors and who starred for the gold-medal winning United States Pan American team this summer in Venezuela.
And that was as a mere freshman.
And that was as a more freshman.
Tisdale scored 810 points to break the record of 752 in scoring on scoring record of 800 points by Wilt Chamberlain of Kansas in 1965-67. He also scored a school-record 51 points in only his fourth game at Oklahoma,
Wayman Tisdale
coming within one point of breaking
an enemy landing Chamberlain
record of bombing.
Tisdale finished eighth in the nation in scoring with an average of 24.6 points
a game and 18th in rebounding with an average of 10.3 a game. He thus became the first player who Don Cheadle has lead the Big Eight in both departments.
Tisdale then polished his game last summer at the Pan American Games, starting as power forward on an All-America laden squad and finishing second on the team in scoring behind Michael Jordan of North Carolina and second in rebounding behind Sam Perkins, also of North Carolina.
"Wayman is a much better player this year than last," said Oklahoma Coach Billy Tubs. "He now has one valuable commodity — a year's experience. The Pan Am camp also had to improve him. He played against the Indians, and guys like that every day in practice. That had to be better for him than sitting around all summer doing absolutely nothing.
"People naturally are going to say that Wayman scored 810 points last year so he ought to score 1,200 this year. If you think he may not but score as many points."
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"I don't know how fast I run the 40 (yard dash) now, but I bet you I could beat Pete Johnson or Franco Harris," he said.
pounds, eight pounds more than his playing weight, and that he plans to train to get in shape.
Even if Brown wanted to return to pro football, he'd have to deal with the team he left 18 years ago to pursue a movie career. Cleveland still holds the rights to No. 32, said a Browns' spokesman.
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He said the additional games per year have diminished the hallmark of a great runner — a 1,000-yard season.
NFL great Brown might come back if record is broken
A spokesman for the Pittsburgh Steelers said Harris would not comment on Brown's remarks. Harris so far has 11,725 yards.
Asked whether the Raiders would give Brown a tryout, club executive Assistant Al LoCaasa said, "Jim Brown is a great player and we're glad to see he thinks so highly of the Raiders." He declined further comment.
The former fullback repeatedly mentioned that his record was set in nine seasons when teams played 12 games and never more than the current 16-game season.
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I'll talk to Al Davis."
"I think it is better to die with your boots on like an old solider." he said
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