University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, October 4, 1989
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Mid Night Court to break tradition
By Paula Parrish
Kansas sportwriter
The annual late-night opening practice of the Kansas men's basketball team will begin a new tradition this year.
Students will have to pay to see it.
Created five years ago by former coach Larry Brown as "Late Night with Larry Brown," the team will begin practicing for this season with a scrimmage midnight Oct. 14 at Allenton Field House.
With Coach Roy Williams new at the helm last year, the scrimmage was changed to "Later with Roy Williams." This year's practice is billed as "Mid Night Court."
Unlike previous years, two live bands, the Nace Brothers and Shooting Star, will perform before the players are introduced and the scrummate begins.
Students will have to pay $3 in advance and $5 at the door to see the scrimmage.
For $12, students can purchase a "Mid Night Court" T-shirt and a ticket at the Student Union Activities office. Tickets are also available at Allen Field House and Market outlets in Kansas City.
This will also be the first year that the practice will be Saturday instead of Thursday. The doors will open 8 p.m.
Doug Vance, director of sports information, said a change in the practice was needed.
"We felt we had to add something," Vance said. "Last year, we felt the atmosphere in Allen wasn't the same as in the
past. This year; we just wanted to change it around a little bit."
Vance said there had been talk for several years about adding another type of entertainment to the practice. He said they wanted to keep the price reasonable for the students.
Vance said that a Kansas City-based promotional agency helped narrow the choice of bands, and SUA endorsed the agency's choices as groups that would appeal to students.
Vance said that Williams wanted something that would attract a good crowd.
"We're hopeful that the students will continue to support it," Vance said.
Patrick Dierks, Leawood sophomore, said he thought that charging money, for the scrimmage was reasonable considering the bands' presence, but the price was too much.
"It seems a little high," he said.
"If they lowered the cost, it would still cover the cost of the band, and I should just go up. And $8 is definitely too high."
Scott Bingaman, St. Louis junior, said he didn't think a band was needed at all.
"Danny Manning sang better than any band." he said.
Mary Wedel, a Miamiapolis, Kan., senior who has been to the late-night practice for the last three years, said there should not be a charge, but she would go this year.
"I if I don't go, it's not because I'd have to pay," she said. "After all, it is KU basketball."
GYDYD GARVEY: Cyndy Garvey, the ex-wife of former major leaguer Steve Garvey, was sent to jail in Los Angeles for violating a child visitation order and faces an additional 123-day jail sentence for failing to let her daughters visit their father.
Sports briefs
Alkman, who suffered a broken index finger on his left hand in the
first period of the winless Dallas Cowboys' 30-13 loss to the New York Giants Sunday, will wear the cast for three weeks.
REPARING AIKMAN: Doctors in Irving, Texas, operated on $11 million rookie quarterback Troy Alkman's non-passing hand, inserting four screws into a broken finger and putting on a cast that will sideline him at least a month.
FOYT CRASHES: Four-time Indianapolis 500 winner A.J. Foyt was injured yesterday in Concord, N.C., when he crashed at Charlotte Motor Speedway during a practice session for the All-Pro Auto Parts 500.
"He hit the wall in turn three, slid about 300 yards and came to a stop at the entrance of pit road," speedy spokesman Eddie Gossage said. "The track emergency staff worked about 10 minutes to get him out of the car."
'Hawks open Big 8 volleyball
By a Kansan reporter
The Kansas volleyball team opens Big Eight Conference play at 7:30 tonight in Allen Field House against Missouri
lowing a second-place finish in the Westwinds Tournament on Sept. 22-23, Missouri, 4-10, lost its first Big Eight match of the season to Iowa State. 3-1, on Saturday.
Kansas, 7-6, enters the game fol-
Missouri went 14-18 last season, including two victories against Kansas.
Newton signs Laker contract
By a Kansan reporter
Former Kansas forward Milk Newton signed a contract with the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association this week.
Mark Turgeon, assistant basketball coach, said that Newton's contract is similar to the one Barry signed. He said that Newton had to sign a contract in order to attend the teams' veterans camp.
week.
Newton, who left Monday for the tryouts in Honolulu, Hawaii, could not be reached for comment.
Newton is the second member of the 1988-89 basketball team to sign a professional contract. Scooter Barry signed with the Boston Celtics last
Racism remains part of sports Raiders' coach becomes just second Black to lead NFL team
The Associated Press
When the National Football League hired its first Black coach, the country was led by Calvin Coolidge.
In the interim, there have been 18 Black coaches in the National Basketball Association and four Black managers in major league baseball. The only major pro sports league in North America without Black representation among coaches is the National Hockey League.
Grantland Rice was a year away from composing his "Four Horsemen" lead, the most famous lead in the history of sports writing.
In 1823, the Hammond, Ind., Pro made Frederick Douglass Pollard, better known as Fritz, its player coach, and the embryonic NFL became the first major professional sports league to hire a Black to run its team on the field.
And Paul Robeson was still playing professional football, 18 years before he would sing "Old Man River" in the movie "Showbat."
When Art Shell was hired as coach by the Los Angeles Raiders yesterday, he became the second Black to hold that job in the NFL.
Pollard, the first Black All-American at Brown in 1916, played professional football with Robeson and was honored by Rice in his dream backfield, which also included Jim Grange and Bronko Nagurski.
In three years as Hammond's player-coach, Pollard had a 4-10-2 record. He played briefly in 1926 with the Providence Steamrollers before going into college and semi-pro coaching.
said last year, "But we recognize that our job is unfinished. We are prepared to do something about that."
"We feel progress has been made in the minority employment area," NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle
It took 63 years, and progress was anything but steady. In fact, beginning in the mid-1930s, there were no Black players in the NFL until Kenny Washington and Woody Strode broke in with the Los Angeles Rams in 1946.
One year later, Jackie Robinson crossed baseball's color line at first base with the Brooklyn Dodgers, and they began to play in the NBA in 1950.
The NBA was next to hire a Black coach when Bill Russell became player-coach of the Boston Celtics in 1966. Now, there are five Black NBA coaches — Wes Unseld of Washington, Paul Heyward of Bernie Bickerstaff of Seattle, Don Chaney of Houston and Jack Jackson of New York — while Black players
compose about 75 percent of the league.
It wasn't until 1974, when Frank Robinson was named to manage the Cleveland Indians, that baseball got into the act. Robinson managed the Indians until 1977 and also was manager at San Francisco from 1981-84. Larry Doyle managed the Chicago White Sox in 1978, and Maury Wills had the manager's job in Seattle in 1982. Doyle is now managing to manage the Baltimore Orioles and Cito Gaston became manager of the Toronto Blue Jays early this season.
Occasionally, statements are made that create controversy about the racial state-of-mind of U.S. sports institutions.
Kansas dominates doubleheader
With a radar gun, Jason Thompson, Cherryvale freshman, clocks the speed of pitchers during the game against Hutchinson. He and Lance Niles, Arkansas City freshman, were watching yesterday's game.
By Dan Perkins Kansan sportswriter
Kansas combined good hitting and good pitching last night to sweep a doubleheader from Hutchinson Community College at Hoglund-Maupin Stadium.
Kansas pounded out 15 hits while Mike Massey pitched five hitless innings to beat Hutchinson, 17-1, in the second game of the doubleheader.
Kansas opened an early lead over Hutchinson in the first game before holding on for a 9-7 victory.
Massey recorded eight strikeouts in the second game before being relieved by Andy Lehman in the sixth inning. Lehman gave up Uchinson's only two hits and its only run in the seventh inning.
Meanwhile, the Kansas offense was scoring more than enough runs for its pitchers.
Garry Schmidt went 4-4 in the second game, including a two-run homer over the leftfield fence in the second inning that gave Kansas an 8-0 lead.
Schmidt scored three runs and drove in four for the game.
Kansas added three more runs in the fourth to make it 11-0 before blowing the game out in the fifth
inning.
Mike Bard followed Pat Karlin's double with a single to make it 12-0. Kansas then loaded the bases with a single by Denand Stewart and a walk to Jeff Spencer before a wild pitch allowed Bard to score.
A Hutchinson error and a pair of run-scoring singles by Schmidt and Kent Mahon gave Kansas its final runs.
Although Kansas scored 11 runs in the final innings, Hutchinson was never in the game.
Kansas opened its scoring in the first innning without the benefit of a hit. After walks to Pat Karlin and a drive drove in Karlin with a sacrifice fife.
Kansas then broke the game open in the second inning with five runs on five hits.
Kansas loaded the bases with nobody on singles by Schmidt and Gerry Camara and a walk to Mahon. Kevin Marozas drew a walk and scored the first run of the inning. Lehman followed with a two-run double before Karlin flied out to center field.
Bard then beat out an infield ingle as Maroas scored and made it 6-0.
Kansas continues its fall season at 4 p.m. Tuesday against Johnson County Community College at Hoglund-Maupin Stadium.
OAKLAND, Calif. — Ricky Henderson, hit on the wrist by a pitch, didn't get angry. He got even.
Henderson ignites A's with slide in 7-3 game
Henderson stormed into second base with a clean but vicious feet-first step to break up a double play in the sixth inning, knocking second
baseman Nelson Liriano of balance and causing an errant throw that led to two runs.
Mets fire Johnson after successful stint
The play put Oakland ahead and sparked the Athletics' 7-3 victory last night in the first game of the American League playoffs.
The Associated Press
NEW YORK - The New York Mets have decided to fire Davey Johnson, the manager who led them to two division titles and four second-place finishes in six seasons, sources said yesterday.
General manager Frank Cashen confirmed that Johnson's fate had been decided but said that he would not reveal it until he had spoken with the manager. Apparently, that was the holdup.
Johnson, 575-395 since becoming the manager after the 1983 season, was fishing in Florida, and Cashen said he couldn't reach him.
"I don't want to equivocate, but the decision has been made," Cashen said.
Joe McIlvaine, the Mets vice president for baseball assault, contradicted Cashen later, saying, "the desire has not been made. I under-stand."
Nevertheless, one source, who asked not to be identified, said unequivocably that Johnson was out. Another said Dallas Green, fired as New York Yankees manager in August, and Bur贺Holmes, the third base coach under Johnson, were the top contenders for the job.
While Johnson's fate was not formally announced, the Mets did say
goodbye to co-captains Gary Carte and Keith Hernandez, who turned the team from losers into World Series champions in the 1980s. Cashen met with them seperately yesterday and told them to find new clubs for next season.
Cashen called it "a very sad and emotional day for me and the franchise. It's always sad to say goodbye to the good guys, the great ones."
Carter and Hernandez, both 35, are eligible to become free agents once the World Series ends.
"When Keith came here, he became the soul of this team and put the body and soul together," Cashen said. "A lot of people will tell you
Gary put us over the top and I will not dispute that."
Carter, a career .265 hitter, has 304 home runs, 59th on the all-time list. But he hit .183 this season in 50 games, missing much of the year following knee surgery.
Hernandez, a lifetime .298 hitter,
batted .233 this season in 75 games.
He cracked a kneecap and then
pulled a hamstring.
Cashen said that he thought the two could not remain with the Mets as part-time players.
Hernandez agreed with the decision and said it was a move in the right direction for the Mets.
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