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University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, August 29, 1989
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Steriods found in NFL players
Test's accuracy, suspension announcements protested by player's union
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — About two dozen active NFL players tested positive for steroids in training camp and will be suspended for a month, the league said yesterday.
The names of the players, who will miss the final exhibition game and the first three regular-season games, were sent to their teams and will be announced today.
The National Football League was to have released the names yesterday, but the announcement was delayed when the players' union asked a federal judge to issue a temporary restraining order to stop the league from implementing the suspension plan.
However, U.S. District Judge Thomas Hogan refused to grant the request, saying all players had been given ample warning that they would
be disciplined for using the strength-enhancing substances. He also said the union failed to show how its members would face irreparable harm under the league's plan, announced March 21 by Commissioner Pete Rozelle.
But by the time Hogan ruled, the league decided it was too late in the day and postponed the announcement.
NFL spokesman Joe Browne declined to say exactly how many players under contract tested positive, but he did say fewer than two dozen were involved.
Browne said an unspecified number of other players among the 2,300 tested at training camps had tested positive, but had already been cut by their teams.
Teams were required to reduce their rosters to 60 players by today
and the regular-season limit of 47 by next Monday.
In seeking the temporary retraining order, the NFL Players Association called the accuracy of the testing procedures "highly questionable" and said identifying and suspending a player for steroid use would stigmatize him.
Hogan acknowledged that a suspension "could be fatal to a marginal player," and called his decision "a close call."
But he said the union's lawyers had failed to prove that players who might be suspended would suffer irreparable harm. He also said most legal questions relating to the NFL's steroid-testing program must be left to an arbitrator to decide.
The union said it based its argument on what it called "sloppy and unreliable" testing methods used by
the NFL and its medical adviser,
Forrest Tennant.
After falling in court, the union said it still hoped the league would reconsider the suspensions and releasing the names.
"The ball is in their court now, not Judge Hogan's," said Doug Allen, the union's assistant executive director. "We are not trying to hide steroid users, and we're not condoning steroid use. We do think the testing methods are suspect."
The union's lawyers said they were considering whether to take further legal action. They may return to federal court Sept. 7 to seek a preliminary injunction against the NFL's plan, and they also could appeal Hogan's ruling.
The players have filed a grievance, now in arbitration, challenging the steroid program.
Saints beat Bengals; noise rule applied
The Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS — Bobby Hebert threw for 142 yards and a $k; downhill in two quarters, leading the New Orleans Saints to a 27-10 victory over the Cincinnati Bengals last night in a game marred by two protracted booing incidents and the enforcement of a new rule against crowd noise.
Hebert's touchdown pass went for 30 yards to Eric Martin. He also set up a 3-yard touchdown run by Dalton Hilliard with a 42-yard pass to Brett Perriman.
Morten Andersen kicked a 38-yard field goal in the third quarter, capping a Saints' drive with John Fourcade at quarterback. He kicked a 44-yarder in the fourth quarter with Dave Wilson directing the offense.
Paul Frazier ran five yards for a Saints' touchdown with 4:01 left in the game.
Cincinnati's touchdown carne on a 1-yard pass from Boomer Eslason to tackle Anthony Munoz after a defensive holding call and four penalties against the crowd.
The holding call against secondround draft choice Robert Massey put the ball at the 2-yard line, and the first three noise penalties are up all of the Saints' timeouts.
The fourth penalty moved the ball to the 1-yard line, and Esaisson hit Munoz with the touchdown pass on the next play.
The 11-minute interruption began when Esaion stepped away from his center when the crowd noise was comparatively moderate for the
Superdome crowd of 61,150. But the fans accepted his complaint as a challenge and got even louder, forcing one of the first enforctions of the new rule against excessive crowd noise.
The rule was adopted by the NFL to try and stop the loud crowds at domed stadiums from interfering with play through noise.
Esiason completed eight of 17 passes for 94 yards.
A shanked punt put Cincinnati in position for a 48-yard field goal by James Gallery in the third quarter.
As that quarter drew to a close, the Bengals were at the 3-yard line, and quarterback Eric Wilhelm also complained about the noise.
Referee Gene Barch again warned the crowd that any further noise
could draw a penalty. But this time, line judge Ray Dodez spotted Esiason and offensive lineman Brian Blados laughing on the Bengals' bench and signaling the crowd for more noise.
Dodex talked to the Cincinnati bench and signaled for the game to continue.
After a delay of nine minutes, Wilhelm threw an incomplete pass and sent Ickey Woods into the line three times for two yards.
The lost timeouts cost the Saints a chance at another field goal in the second quarter when Fourcade completed a pass to the Cincinnati 21-yard line with 13 seconds left, but time ran out before New Orleans could get off another play.
Golf teams set for fall season
By Andres Cavelier Kansan sportswriter
The 1988-89 golf season was the best season that Kansas has had, said Ross Randall, men's golf coach.
"We did very well because we worked very hard last spring," Randall said.
Because of the good performance last spring, the men's team has been invited to three of the most competitive national tournaments scheduled this fall.
"This is the best schedule we have ever had," Randall said. "We have a very competitive team this year."
Last spring, the men tied for sixth at the NCAA regional and competed for the first time in the NCAA tournament, finishing 22nd. Randall said they could have placed better, but missed the final cut for the top 15 teams by two strokes.
"We were very happy to get there because it opened some doors for us." Randall said.
Along with the team's success, Randall was able to redshirt the majority of incoming freshmen last season to promote future success. He said the freshmen should obtain a solid start in golf and in their studies through the redshirt program.
This season the Jayhawks will have a lot of depth, Randall said. John Ogden, Lawrence senior, leads the list of returning Jayhawks to the low amateur score with one other at the Kansas Open this summer.
"They can practice with the team for a year without worrying about tournaments and without using their eligibility," Randall said.
Second on the list is Sean
Thayer, Garden CITY senior. He is followed by Jon Bruning, Palatine, Ill., senior, who was redshirted last year.
Randall said he expected the men to do well because of their combined physical and mental talents.
"They have learned to be mentally concentrated."be said.
The men will compete in the tournaments this fall, beginning season Oct 1 at the Butler Women's Intercollege in Oak Brook, IL.
On the women's team, Coach Brad Demo said he looked forward to the new year despite last year's bad season.
However, he said that the women did improve their scores last spring and that he was optimistic this trend would continue.
The squad's attitude is to keep winning, Demo said.
Leading the squad are two experienced sophomores, Shelly Tripple and Laura Myers. Demo said that the squad would benefit from two incoming freshmen: Carol Pfaff of Heston and Cathy Reinbeck of Sealy, Texas.
Returning as seniors are Sherrie Atchison, Kim Herrelson, Trisa Leibig and Donna Lowen.
The squad did not play the strongest tournaments last spring, but this fall they will play such challenging teams as Oklahoma and Florida State.
"It is going to help us playing top teams," Demo said.
Demo said he would like to see the women break the 300 mark or the 800 mark for a three-day tournament. He also hopes to have an individual tournament winner.
The first women's tournament will be the Diet Coke Roadrunner Invitational in Las Cruces, N.M., Oct. 15-17.
Defensive problems open 1989 KU injuries may foul linebacking in game
By Gene King Kansan sportswriter
Last spring, leading tackler Curtis Moore went down with a knee injury that sidelined him for the 1989 season.
Injuries are part of the game, but injuries are playing a leading role in the linebacking crew of the Kansas football team.
Last week, the leading candidate to replace Moore, Paul Zaffaroni, suffered a knee injury that will put him out for the season. He underwent surgery Saturday to repair a torn ligament in his left knee, Coach Glenn Mason said.
Zaffaroni was forced to miss action last season as well, when he suffered a knee injury after only six games.
No one owns a position on this team.'
Glenn Mason football coach
In addition, freshman Larry Kress, who was expected to see time at linebacker, probably is out for the season after suffering a broken arm in last week's scrimmage.
'88 champs set pace in U.S. Open round
Mongo Allen, expected to be a starter at the defensive back position, was granted a request to move to the offensive side of the ball last week, but Mason said yesterday after practice that Allen has gone back to linebacker. Allen was on top of the depth chart before the move, but now has to work his way back into the starting role.
Mason said that Kress will unite gov surgery this week. During the operation, surgeons will put pins in his arm to aid the healing process, Mason said.
"We anticipate him to be out for the rest of the season." he said.
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Defending champions Steffi Graf and Mats Wilander had no trouble winning their first-round matches at the U.S. Open yesterday.
Roger Robben, a converted fullback from last year and Brad Peebler, a walk-on last season, are now the top two players to fill in at inside linebacker.
Graf, the tournament's top women's seed, needed only 58 minutes to defeat Etsuko Inoue of Japan 6-3, 6-1, hitting 21 winners to only four for her opponent.
"We're working 100 percent on getting ready for Montana," Mason said.
Wilander eliminated Horst Skoff of Austria 6-1, 8-3, 1-10 on 35 mclr.
The Jayhawks are gearing up for their season opener against Montana State on Saturday.
"No one owns a position on this team," Mason said.
Kress should be able to play in five six weeks but that may be already to reach
"I was happy to play the first match," Graf said. "You don't have to wait and sit around for too long before you play. It's the best situation you can have."
Wilander, who has not won a tournament this year and has dropped to fifth in the world rankings, was glad to be back at Flushing Meadow.
"I think it's easier to win if you've done it once," Wilander said of his chance of repeating here. "The first time is the hard time."
Graf has reached 10 straight Grand Slam finals and is expected to continue that streak. Her only two losses
Stefan Edberg
this year were to Gabriela Sabatini at Amelia Island, Fla., and ArantaX Sanchez at the French Open, both in the finals.
Graf said she felt less pressure at the U.S. Open because she was not going for a Grand Slam.
"This is much easier than last year," she said. "I had an easy time before the tournament. It was easier to prepare."
While Graf is favored to win the women's title, Chris Evert is considered a long shot in what she said would be her last major tournament.
After winning 157 singles championships, more than any player in history, she is going to retire from tennis and start a family with her husband, Andy Mill.
"This is it," Evert wrote in a recent issue of Sports Illustrated. "No more 'maybes,' No more 'probables.' Even though I hate dealing with my mind is made up." Evert is earning her tennis career where it all began.
She made her first big splash at the Open in 1971 as a 16-year-old semifinalist. Since then, she has won six times and reached the semifinals
Steffi Graf
every year except 1987
Edberg has lost his last two Grand Slam finals, to Michael Chang at the French Open and Boris Becker at Wimbledon. This time he is seeded third, behind Ivan Lendl and Becker and just ahead of McEnroe.
John McEroer hasn't won a Grand Slam event since capturing his fourth U.S. Open title in 1984. But the 30-year-old New York native is playing ten tennis in years and feels capable of winning another major title.
Ewert would love to win it one more time, but she knows her chances are simm with a field that includes Graf, four-time winner Martina Navratlova and last year's runner-up, Sabatiini.
"It's not likely that I'll win the tournament for the seventh time, but I'm going to try my best," Evert said.
McEbrree has won three titles and 34 of 39 matches this year. His best Grand Slam showing was at Winbledon, where he toasted to Stefan Edborg in the semifinals.
Lendl's bid for a fourth consecutive U.S. Open title was stopped by Wilander in last year's final. If Lendl reaches the championship match again, he would tie the tournament record of eight consecutive finals by Bill Tilden from 1918-25.
my best." he said
"I can still beat anybody if I play
Sport briefs
Sixers general manager John Nash said the club, which also traded guard David Wingate and center Christian Welp, was looking to the future at point guard.
Cheeks, 32, is the all-time NBA leader in steals with 1,942 and is 11th in assists with 6,212. In 11 seasons with the 76ers, the four- time All-Star averaged 12.2 points per game, including 11.6 with 7.8 assists, last season. He was selected in the second round out of West Texas State.
SIXERS TRADE CHEKES TO SPURS: The Philadelphia 76ers traded guard Maurice Cheeks, the last remnant of their 1983 NBA championship team, and two others to the San Antonio Spurs yesterday for guard Johnny Dawkins and forward Jay Vincent.
Dawkins, 25, averaged 17.7 points through the first 23 games last season before developing a nerve problem in his left leg and foot.
Cheeks, the Sixers top draft choice in 1978, was not informed of the deal before it was announced.
BELOW THE FALCONS
Deion Sanders and the Atlanta Falcons' No. 1 draft choice said he was fed up with the team's contract dispute and may sign a long-term contract to play baseball for the New York Yankees.
SANDERS WAY SPURN FALCONS
Sanders' attorney, Eugene Farker, Fort Wayne, Ind., said Sanders could
sign such a contract this week
Sanders wants a six-year, $10.75 million contract. The Falcons reportedly have offered a five-year deal valued at between $3.75 million and $4.1 million.
Sanders, a cornerback from Florida State University, has been playing center field this summer for the Columbus Clippers, the Yankees' AAA farm team. Officials expect he will be promoted to the parent club Friday, when major league baseball rosters are expanded to 40 players.
WELCH, BELCHER VOTED PLAYERS OF WEEK: Right-hander Bob Welch of the Oakland Athletics was named American League Player of the Week for Aug. 21-27, while Los Angeles pitcher Tim Belcher won the honor in the National League.
He defeated Nolan Ryan and the Texas Rangers on the night when Ryan collected his 5,000th career strikeout, and he beat the Kansas City Royals and rookie sensation from Gordon on Sunday.
Welch pitched 16 innings and did not allow a run in posting a 2-0 record. He gave up just 11 hits while walking two and striking out 12.
Belcher, who pitched his major league-leading fifth shutout last week, had a 2-0 record, allowing 12 hits and one earned run while striking out 15 and walking six in 17 innings. His ERA for the week was 0.53.
Cardinals defeat Reds stay close behind Cubs
The Associated Press
ST. LOUIS — Pedro Guerrero's two-out, two-run single capped a three-run eighth iring, giving St. Louis a 9-2 victory last night against the Cincinnati Reds, the Cardinals' 11th win in their last 15 games.
Guerrero drove in his 89th and 90th runs with a hit off Rob Dibble, 7-4, after Cincinnati rookie Scott Scudder carried a four-hitter and a 2-0 lead into the inning.
Scudder left after Todd Zelle grounded out, and Denny Walling doubled pinch-hitting for John Costello, 3-2. Todd Worrell pitched the final inning for his 20th save.
Willie McGee's single greeted Dibble, sending Walling to third. Ozzie Smith grounded a single to right to score Walling. Milt Thompson struck out before Guerrero drove a 1-2 pitch over shortstop.
Two early baserunning blunders hurt St. Louis, but the late rally enabled the Cardinals to remain 2½ games behind the Chicago Cubs in the National League East.
Jose Quendo doubled with one out in the fifth but was thrown out at third when Zelle grounded to shortstop Jeff Richardson. In the sixth, Will McGee led off with a single bus.
was doubled up retreating to first on Ozzie Smith's fly to Eric Davis in center.
The first of two doubles by Cincinnati's Dave Collins scored Richardson, a 164 hitter who drew a leadoff walk from Rick Horton in the third. Luis Quinones doubled home Collins.
Other baseball scores
National League:
Atlanta 5, Pittsburgh 2
Chicago 6, Houston 1
American League:
Boston 6, Detroit 3
Oakland 7, New York 3
Milwaukee 8, Toronto 2
Minnesota 5, Seattle 4
Oakland got 16 hits and moved 1½ games ahead of idle California in the American League West. The Yankees lost their fifth straight game and fell to 2-10 under Manager Bucky Dent, who held a pregame meeting to discuss the demise.
NEW YORK — Dave Stewart became baseball's first 18-game winner, Dave Parker and Walt Weiss homered during a barrage of eight straight hits and the Oakland Athletics beat the New York Yankees 7-3 Monday night.
By a Kansan reporter
Team looks for walk-on help to win
The Kansas baseball team is looking for another overlooked star this season during walk-on tryouts.
Coach Dave Bingham has scheduled the third year of walk-on trousers to begin at 3 p.m., Sept. 11, at Hoglund-Maupin Stadium.
"What we're looking for are players who think they have the ability to play, but for some reason were overlooked during the recruiting procedure." Bingham said.
One of those, Curtis Shaw, made the All-Big Eight Conference team as a relief pitcher last season with a record of 6-3.
He said that in 1987, bw-alls on-
tried out and two made the team.
Of the 52 who tried out last year, three made the team after the tryouts, but Bingham said only one stayed with the team through the season.
"We don't have any quota for how many walk-ons will make the team, but we usually keep a couple each year," Bingham said. "What we'll do is measure the players' skills in game situations, and we may even have them play a game against our recruited players."
"We're not looking for any specific positions, just good athletes."
KJHK - Kansan
season Football Poll
1. Notre Dame (10) 192
2. Michigan (4) 165
3. Miami, Fl. (2) 151
4. Nebraska (2) 135
5. USC (2) 120
6. Florida St. (1) 107
7. UCLA
7. UCLA 69
8. LSU 56
9. Auburn 40
10. Arkansas 25
Teams also receiving votes:
Penn State, Oklahoma, Glennon,
Wyoming, Alabama, St. Louis,
W. Virginia, Oklahoma, Iowa,
Alabama
shift members from KHK and the Kansan voted on the selections