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Friday, September 29, 1989 / University Daily Kansan
Golf team mentally prepared Coach expresses optimism about women's abilities, attitudes
By Gene King
Karen snortwife
Kansan sportswriter
> Success in sports depends a lot on having the right attitude.
The women's golf team has that right attitude this year, Coach Brad Demo said.
"When they hit a bad shot they know to keep their heads up," he said. "It's not the end of the world, and it's not the end of the hole. They know that now."
That attitude will be tested Sunday
the Shocker in the State tournament.
The State tournament is on Sept. 7.
"The golf game is probably 90-95 percent mental," Demo said. "And I think that they are really realizing that."
Team members are playing better than they did last fall and Coach Demo has noticed the results.
Players are not repeating mistakes
and are overcoming the mistakes they do make this year, Demo said.
"Right now, the girls are playing with confidence and patience." Demo said. "Their mental game is getting better," he said, noting that if they are mentally strong, they're going to be OK when they are out there."
Kansas captured the tournament championship last year, and Demo expects the Jayhawks to place high again this year.
"When the trophies are handed out for individual awards, I know someone from Kansas will be up there," Demo said.
Wichita State's course is a semistaff and long course, he has. There are many opportunities to get involved.
The longer course may be suited to Jayhawk golfer Donna Lowen.
Loven, who is trying out a new driver. is looking forward to this
tournament. She tested out the new club last week in the All-College Kickoff at Oklahoma State but scrapped it after a bad score on the front nine.
"It is not as tough a course as what we plays the last two tournaments," she said.
Lowen shot rounds of 77-77-79 at the Shocker Fall Classic and expects to do as well this year.
With her new driver, she is trying for more distance as opposed to a 3-wood that does not hit as long.
"You really need an all-around game, though," she said. "You have to be able to win."
Assistant Coach Lisa Louigs is also confident that the Jayhawks will perform well on the course.
"Their biggest competition this weekend will be themselves," Louis said. "It will be more self-motivated. They'll just try and shoot as low as
they can."
As for the competition from other teams, Kansas State, Wichita State, Creighton, Southwest Missouri State and Missouri-Kansas City will be among the teams in the tournament.
After this tournament, the Jayhawks will take a much needed break and concentrate on practice, Demo said.
"They all the tee the ball up the same," Demo said. "Golf is a game that you should never give up with. You know what is going to happen."
The next tournament is Nov. 5-6 in Texas.
"We need the time off," Demo said. "We need that four weeks to work on some shots."
But, as for this weekends' trip,
Demo wants the team to have fun.
The number 2 team will also make
the trip, which Demo says is a plus.
Boxers try for comeback in 1990
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — George Foreman vs. Gerry Cooney: It's being billed as "The Preacher vs. The Puncher," and the winner talks dreamily of a shot at Mike Tyson.
Would either have a prayer?
"I want to win the world championship by the time I'm 42," said Foreman, 40, who is 19-0 since leaving the pulpit for his improbable comeback. "Then I'll retire and come back again at 52."
Foreman and Cooney meet in a scheduled 10-rounder Jan. 15 at the Atlantic City Convention Center as part of a Top Rank Inc. and Caesars Atlantic City promotion. Each is
Cooney, 33, who has not fought since 1987 and only eight times in the 1980s, said, "I think there are a couple of fights out there for me — Evander Holfyield, Mike Tyson. All I know is I like being where I am right now."
expected to earn at least $1.2 million.
"This is the fight that everybody is talking about," Top Rank president Bob Arum said.
It's a fight that probably should have been made a decade earlier, though. The talk would have been a little more brisk. Foreman had been a little older two years then, and Coney was 22-0 with 18 knockouts, a real comer.
Now, it's just a curiosity.
"I'm not fighting Gerry Cooney," Foreman said at a news conference Thursday, looking a little rotund but planning to fight at around 250. "I'm going to be the oldest heavyweight champion of the world."
"If Gerry Cooney knocks me down,
"I'm going to grab him by the trunks
and pull him down because I want to
sweep my weight champion of the
world."
Foreman won the world heavyweight championship Jan. 22, 1973.
by stopping Joe Frazier in the second round in Kingston, Jamaica. He held it until Oct. 30, 1974, when he was knocked out in eight rounds by Muhammad Ali in Kushasa, Zaire. His record is 64-2 with 60 knockouts.
Cooney's last fight was a fifth-round knockout loss to Michael Spinks on June 15, 1967, in Atlantic City. He fought for the World Boxing Council title on June 11, 1982, and was stopped in 13 rounds by Larry Holmes. Between the Holmes and Spinks fights, he boxed just three times and was inactive in 1983 and 1985.
In the meantime, fight people were beginning to question his desire, and he suffered from drug and alcohol problems.
"I'm at peace with some of the things that happened in my turbulent life," Cooney said. "There was always a lot of confusion in what was happening to me. I couldn't get any fights. It seemed like I trained 10
years for three fights. I had a short bout with drugs and alcohol. That's over.
"I can't change the past. But on Jan. 15, you're going to see a whole different Gerry Cooney. You'll have different questions to ask me then."
Cooney, a little more mature looking in the face now and with just a hint of gray in his hair, has an overall record of 28-2 with 24 knockouts.
A middleweight bout between former WBC champion Iran Barkley and Doug DeWitt will be co-featured.
"This is a dream fight," Foreman said. "When people close their eyes, they dream about fights like All-Frazier, Liston-Clay. But those fights can't happen. This fight can, and this is the kind of fight people dream of."
And just exactly what kind of a fight will it be?
"Hey, we're not going to be in the ring with some skillful boxers here," Foreman said. "There's going to be some punching."
Report links gold-medalist to drug use
The Associated Press
HAMBURG, West Germany — A secret East German report on the 1988 Seoul Olympics said there was evidence that triple gold-medalist Florence Griffith-Joyner used performance-enhancing drugs, the West German magazine Stern reported in yesterday's issue.
The Hamburg-published magazine said the East German report contended that Griffith-Joyner's thigh muscles expanded by two inches in one year.
"Such growth is possible only with a helping substance," Stern quoted the report as saying.
One week ago, Stern published comments by spinner Drarrell Robinson that he had bought growth hormones for Griffith-Joyner. In yesterdays interview, the same patient received anonymous death threats after his interview.
Griffith-Joyner, who retired from competition in February, denied Robinson's allegations and called him a "compulsive liar." Robinson also said he saw six-time Olympic
champion Carl Lewis taking a ginger ale-like substance intravenously.
Lewis said Robinson was in need of psychiatric care.
Griffith-Joyner's business manager, Gordon Baskin, said he was considering legal action against him after a 1986 U.S. 400-meter champion.
"I would be happy about such legal action. The truth would come out before a regular court," Stern quoted Robinson as saying.
In Seoul, Griffith-Joyer won gold medals in the 100-meter and 200-
meter dashes and the 400-meter relay. She earned a silver in the 1,600-meter relay. She also set world records in the 100 and 200.
Stern quoted hurdler Edwin Moses as saying all the recent drug allegations must be investigated.
"The investigation of Darrell Robinson's allegations must be conducted by an independent committee with judicial authority." Moses was quoted as saying, "All witnesses called to testify must give sworn statements."
By Andres Caveller
Kansan sportswriter
Lacrosse, a game native to the United States, may not be popular in the Midwest, but at the University of Kansas, a club was organized three years ago.
"Every year, the team gets better," said club president Mike Beaty.
Tomorrow, the Kansas lacrosse club plays its first home game of the season against a club sponsored by Michelob of St. Louis. The game will be played at 1:30 p.m. at Shenk Complex, 23rd and Iowa streets. At 11 a.m. Sunday, Kansas is scheduled to play Washington on Saturday that Washington had not been watching um for their games' club season.
Kansas won the first game 16-2 against Wichita State on Sept. 16 in Wichita.
"It was a good chance to get all the new players playing." Beaty said. "It is a confusing sport just to jump in and play."
He said that Kansas was one of seven clubs in the Gateway Lacrosse Association, which includes Missouri, Wichita, Texas, Michigan, Louis, Michelon, Creighton and the Kansas City Lacrosse Club.
He said that the Kansas City Club was probably the best of Kansas' opponents, but that the rankings changed often.
The club has three student coaches, Beaty said. One coaches attack, one coaches midfield and one coaches defense. He said that they were the most experienced players on the team and that there were about eight to 10 experienced players who knew different strata-
gies.
Beaty said that during a game, which consists of four 20-minute quarters, any number of players could play.
"It's like hockey," he said, "you wait in lines and as many as 25 people may play in a game.
Before the games, he said, the teams decide whether they will allow the clock to run between plays.
Dave Gabel, Wheat Ridge, Colo., freshman, said that most of the players were from Colorado and Chicago.
"Colorado is a big lacrosse state." be said.
Beaty said that people from these places tended to learn the game quickly.
"Lacrosse is slow in the Midwest, but huge in the East," he said. "In Kansas, nobody has heard about it."
Beaty said that the club had been practicing afternoons three times a week from 3:30 until 6 p.m. and that they mostly scrimmaged and practiced drills, including line and shooting drills and other specific plays.
"Lacrosse is a very technical sport." he said.
Members of the club pay $20 in annual dues, he said, and spend about $250 for equipment, including the helmet, stick, jerseys, shoulder pads, elbow pads and gloves. Travel is also financed by the players.
The Kansas and Kansas City clubs will host the 3rd Annual Fall Lacrosse Tournament on Oct. 21 and 22 in Lawrence. Lawrance Lacrosse Association teams will attend the tournament.
Larry King to anchor 1990 Goodwill Games
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Larry King was named anchorman of Turner Broadcasting's Goodwill Games coverage yesterday and immediately said he'd rather watch a baseball game.
TBS, the Atlanta-based superstation, will show 68 hours of the 50-nation competition from July 20 to Aug. 5. King, the host of Mutual Radio's "The Larry King Show" and "The King Live," said that he wouldn't tune in to the Goodwill Games if he weren't the host.
"I would watch baseball," he said.
"I'm a baseball fan. I'm a baseball nut. I'll watch Baltimore-Toronto over "Larry King Live."
Blue Jays begin a three-game series Friday night that will decide the American League East title.
The Goodwill Games, a competition begun by Ted Turner in 1986, will face competition for viewers from ESPN's baseball telecasts and local baseball broadcasts.
Hannah Storm and Nick Charles, sports anchors for CNN, will co-host the Goodwill Games with King. They will anchor weekend afternoon coverage, will do live reports from event sites and will play taped feature coverage.
Tony Verna, the executive producer of 'BTS' Goodwill coverage, said network reporters were already in the Soviet Union, preparing features.
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