SPORTS
The University Daily
KANSAN
November 2, 1983 Page 16
Brown leaves football team, Gottfried says
By Staff and Wire Reports
Jeff Brown, a starting cornerback for the Kansas Jayhawks, has left the team because of personal issues. Mike Gottfred said yesterday.
Brown, a 5-11, 170-pound junior, had been a starter at cornerback for the last three games. He replaced senior Rod Demerrite, who suffered a broken ankle against Iowa State on Oct. 8.
This season Brown had made 25 tackles. He is the fifth player to leave in team, following Garrardift and Johnston, Rodney Madden and Ken Maior.
Brown's defection leaves the Jayhawks thin in the defensive secondary. Besides Demerrite, cornerback Dino Bell broke his wrist in the Wichita State game. Either Bobby Peterson or more Bill Vechiarella will probably take Brown's place in the secondary.
At yesterday's practice, senior wide receiver Darren Green participated for the first time since spraining an ankle against Kansas State two weeks ago. KU's other starting receiver, Bob Johnson, did not practice because of a shoulder injury he sustained in the Oklahoma State Confirmed team. Johnson's condition was on a day-to-day basis.
Starting backfill E.J. Jones also sat out yesterday's workout because of ankle injury he suffered against Oklahoma.
Two Jayhawk teams to sport Brooks
By the Kansan Staff
Converse basketball shoes for all of its regular season games.
For more than 10 years, the KU men's basketball team has worn
But when Larry Brown was hired last spring, the Jayhawks got more than a new head basketball coach. The team
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INDIANAPOLIS — Houston's Ralph Sampson, left, battles Indiana's Steve Stepanovich in a matchup of the top two draft choices in last spring's NBA draft. Sampson scored 21 points last night, but the Pacers beat the Rockets, 116-108.
Former pitcher paralyzed in diving accident
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. — Pete Redfern, former pitcher for the Minnesota Twins, remained paralyzed from the neck down yesterday after he dived into the ocean and landed on rocks Saturday night.
By United Press International
Redfern, 29, is in the intensive care unit of Hoag Memorial Hospital. Hospital officials, acting at the request of Redfern, would not release any further details.
not Jay Jaffe, Redfern's friend, lawyer and teammate at the University of Southern California at the University possibly never walking again as a result of the accident.
"The doctor who originally treated him moments after he was brought to the hospital told me the spinal cord was severed between the third and fourth vertabra." Jaffe said yesterday. "He apparently hit his head on the bottom and fractured his neck and spinal column.
"The doctor told me that he felt there would be a very slim chance of any recovery, any motor function, returning."
Redfern, who has a wife and young son, was with friends Saturday night on Balboa Island when the accident occurred, Jaffe said. He apparently dived into water only one or two feet deep.
Redfern starred on USC's baseball
team and was Minnesota's No. 1 pick in the secondary phase of the 1975 draft. He pitched in parts of seven seasons for the Twins with a best year of 7-3 in 1979. After the 1982 season he underwent elbow surgery and the Twins cut him last spring.
The Los Angeles Dodgers signed him as a free agent at midseason and sent him to their Triple A club in Abu Dhabi to do well and the Dodgers also cut him.
He was released by the Dodgers Saturday, the day of the accident.
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"When Larry first took the job, about everybody, including Converse. Nike and Brooks, approached us about signing with them," assistant basketball coach said.
got a new brand of shoe to wear.
"A lot of people tried to get us, but Brooks was really great. Larry felt really comfortable with the company."
Because Brown agreed to switch to Brooks shoes, Hill said that for the first time to his knowledge, the Jayhawk or other shoe he wearing a shoe other than Converse.
John Leavens, legislative assistant at the NCAA headquarters in Shawnee Mission, Kan., said that national sporting goods manufacturers, such as Brooks, could donate gear to athletic departments of universities legally.
Leavens said the only stipulation was that athletic departments check out the gear to the team athletes on a lend and return policy.
Not only will the men's basketball team be wearing Brooks shoes, free of charge, but both the KU men's and women's basketball teams have outplayed perfectly outlined by Brooks next season.
Scott Perealman, KU tennis coach, said he agreed last week with a national representative from Brooks for the company to supply the tennis teams with practice and meet warm-up suits, wristbands shorts and a shoe allotment.
"Brooks will be outfitting us basically from head to toe." Pereiman said. "It will be a tremendous savings to our budget."
"It's a prestigious thing for us because right now we're the only school in the country to be sponsored by Brooks."
Johnson leads late surge for 116-114 win
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Mark Obering scored on a drive with 19 seconds left, and guards Billy Knight and Larry Drew combined for three free throws, to give the Kansas City Kings a 16-14 ILLINOIS night last over the Golden State Warriors.
Eddie Johnson scored 39 points and
Edith Zion 28 to help Kansas县 win its first
football game.
Short scored 9 points in the opening seven minutes of the fourth quarter to help make the Warriors at a 109-94 lead. But Johnson scored 8 straight points to cut the deficit to 111-107 with 68 seconds remaining.
SPORTS BRIEFS From Staff and Wire Reports
KC owners belong to group backing Sacramento sports
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A private group proposed yesterday to raise up to $100 million for construction of a stadium and arena to lure professional sports to California's capital.
The offer was discussed at a news conference by the Sacramento Sports Association, which includes various developers and the owners of the team.
"The guarantee is unique," said Omer Rains, a former state senator acting as spokesman for the private group. "I don't know that it's been done anywhere in the United States. We want to demonstrate our sincerity."
He referred to a long dispute over the proposed stadium that has become a key issue in the Nov. 8 mayoral election in Sacramento.
Volleyball team splits two matches
The KU volleyball team won one match and lost another in volleyball action Monday night in Atchison.
KU continued its winning ways in only the first game of the second match, but lost the last two games to Missouri Western in its final game 15-7, 7-15 and 10-15.
The Jayhawks faced Benedictine College in their opening match and won in two games, 15-1 and 15-13.
"Missouri Western is a good team," coach Bob Lockwood said about the third-ranked NAIA squad from SL. Joseph, Mo. "We dominated the first game with our power offense."
Talks between NBA. referees stalled
NEW YORK — NBA Commissioner Larry O'Brien, members of the Labor Relations Committee and the league's negotiating team met for $3 \frac{1}{2}$ hours yesterday with Richie Phillips, general counsel of the National Association of Basketball Referees, and his associates, but no meaningful progress was made in the ongoing labor dispute between the NBA and the referees' union.
The National Basketball Association said it increased its playoff salary proposal by 50 percent, but said that there was little or no movement on the part of the union. In addition, according to the league, the NBA's 2018-19 season proposal wasoaded to the NBA's wage proposal that was made nearly two weeks ago.
Prior to this meeting, O'Brien chaired a joint meeting of the Labor Relations Committee, which is comprised of team owners and general managers, and the league's negotiating team to review all elements of the labor dispute with the referees.
ANHEIM, Calif. — Rod Carew, a seven-time American League batting champion and 16-time All-Star, has until Friday to reach a contract agreement with the California Angels or the team says he will be wearing a different uniform next season.
Carew sets deadline for free agency
A spokeswoman for the Angels said yesterday that negotiations between Carew's attorney, Jerry Simon, and Angel officials Buzzie Bavasi and Mike Port, were continuing but that she did not know if the parties were scheduled to meet yesterday.
The 38-year-old Carew, who fitted with a 400 average through the first half of the past season before being nugged by injuries and settling for a 360 average — behind only Boston's Wade Boggs — has filed for free agency.
All negotiations with players who have title for free agency must end Friday and cannot resume until after the file agent re-entry draft Monday. The Angels have said, however, they will not retain negotiating rights to any player going through the draft.