Sports
University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, September 12, 1990
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Injury sidelines javelin thrower
Vince Laboskv. the number-one-ranked U.S. javelin thrower, stretches before track practice.
By Juli Watkins
Kansan sportswriter
For Vince Labosky, Kansas record-holder in the javelin win and two-time Big Eight champion, the dream was shattered last summer.
Track
Labosky, a senior on the Kansas track and field team, is ranked number one in the United States in the javelin throw, but he will not be able to defend his titles this season.
During competition in the Goodwill Games in Seattle, Labosky blow out his right elbow and will be able to continue in his final season of eligibility.
Labesky said that he had been warned by Arther Ting, one of the nation's top orthopedic surgeons. He is survived by his wife, Labskey chose to compete anyway.
That day Lakabey suffered some discomfort in his elbow, and about three weeks later it was almost completely inoperable. He said he was misdiagnosed in Lawrence and returned to Ting who diagnosed the cause of the injury as a technical problem.
"A lazy technique forced my elbow to an incorrect position." Labosky said. "Any power generators on the floor cause elbow, which caused it to blow."
Ting performed elbow medial and posterior ligament reconstructive surgery and rerecord the ulna nerve for Labsoby on Aug. 18 in San Francisco. Labsoby returned to Lawrence last week and said he is still in a little pain, experiencing some tenderness and stiffness.
He said Ting worked for the San Francisco 49ers.
"I chose Dr. Ting because all of the athletes on he has his performed have come back at a higher level of competition," Labosky said.
Labosky to compete next June in the Athletic Congress Nationals, which is where he set his goal. The record last year at 261, four feet, 3 inches.
Labskey is optimistic about his recovery, although he does not expect to have use of his arm for at least 10 months.
"It's one of my ultimate goals," he said.
Labosky said that it would be August or September of next year before he could compete at the level he was before the injury
This year, Labosky is helping coach the Kansas track and field team as a student assistant. He is playing with throwing events and lifting.
Labesky was also a member of last year's Kansas national champion weightlifting team, the Ironhawks.
Because Labosky cannot compete in his final season of track eligibility, he chose to stay involved with the team as a student
"I went from athlete to coach in a month because I had to," he said.
Assistant coach Gary England.
who works with throwing events, said Labosky would be an asset to the team as a coach. He said the team's loss of Labosky as an athlete would definitely hurt Kansas this year at the Big Eight conference competition. England said it had three games at conferences meet last year which comprised one third of the men's team points.
England said that a comeback for Labosky was not an unrealistic goal, and that he has confidence that Labosky will return to and even surpass his previous performances.
"I think it is very realistic," he said. "He's the number one javelin thrower in the United States right now. He's a very driven person."
England said that he intended to coach Labosky all the way through the 1992 Olympic Games.
"Everything is pointing to that one meet in 1992," he said.
Labesky is listed on the all-time All-American list. He said that last season he placed second only to world-record holder Pat Boden of the University of Texas and to NCAA record holder Tom Pukstys of the University of Florida
Witnesses say Martin's friend drove in crash
The Associated Press
PORT CRANE, N.Y. A Detroit bar owner charged with drunken driving in the wreck that killed Billy Martin was behind the wheel when the former New York manager's car struck, witnesses said yesterday.
However, William Reedy's defense lawyer said he would prove that his client only told investigators he was the driver to cover for Martin.
Reedy, 53, owner of Reedy's Bar near Tigers Stadium, was charged with driving while intoxicated in the
accident that killed Martin on Christ mas Day last year.
Reedy and Martin had a longtime friendship and "as a result of that friendship, there was nothing he wouldn't do for Billy Martin," defense lawyer Jon Blechman told a six-member jurus as Reedy's trial got under way in the town of Fenton Court.
"When the accident happened, Bill Reedy thought, 'Billy's got himself in trouble again. I've got to help my sister.' I told him that the reason that Reedy didn't learn until several years."
hours later that Martin had been killed when the pickup truck slammed into a concrete culvert at the entrance to Martin's driveway
Among the first witnesses called yesterday by Broome County Assistant District Attorney Kevin Among Guyette were the first sherif's deputy on the scene and members of the family that found Martin's pickup truck on its side in the ditch in front of his farm.
If convicted, Reedy faces a fine of between $350 and $500, revocation of his driver's license for at least six
months and a possible jail sentence of up to a year.
According to authorities, Reedy and his wife had been celebrating Christmas at Martin's 150 acre farm eight miles north of Binghamton. Reedy and Martin were returning home after running some errands and stopping for drinks when the accident happened.
Martin, 61, died from head and neck injuries caused when the truck skidded about 200 feet out a winding road. The accident occurred on international 100 feet down a shallow gully
Blue Jay's homers overpower KC,8-4
The Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Tony Fernandez hit his second career grand slam last night, powering Toronto past the Kansas City Royals 8 and moving the Blue Jays within three games in a dominant position in the American League East.
Fred McGriff and Pat Borders hit solo home runs as the Blue Jays, the defending AL Eight champions, won their sixth straight and handed the Royals their season-high ninth loss in a row, two short of the club record.
Fernandez homered on a 3-2 pitch from Mel Stottslemy Jr. (0-1), brother of Toronto pitcher Todd Stottslemy, in the second inning, giving the Blue Jays a 4-1 lead. Toronto will Frank Wills (6-3)走五 innings, but he did not hold off Duane Ward pitching four innings for his 11th save. He gave up three hits.
Kansas City second baseman Frank White doubled home two runs in the fourth inning with his 2,000 career hit, making him the 12th active player to reach that plateau. Single by Pat Deddow, Monroe Loo
and Junior Felix loaded the base with no one out in the Toronto second Mookie Wilson, who had three glies, forced Borders at the plate, but Fernandez followed with his fourth home run.
Jeff Schulz, who had three hits, doubled leading off the Royals' second and eventually scored on Kurt Stillwell's infield out. McGriff led on the Toronto third with his 34th home run.
Wills hit Gerald Were with a pitch to start the Kansas City fourth, and singles by Schulz and Mike MacFarlane loaded the bases. Stillhit it was one of the best shots on milestone double off the center field wall, bringing Kansas City within 5-4.
Lee led off the sixth with a double for Toronto, went to third on a balk by Storm Davis and scored on Felix's groundout. After Wilson singled, Davis threw a wild pitch, and Kely Browder scored in the fourth four games. Borders hit his home run on the first pitch from Davis in the seventh.
17 years later, Royals' White sees his 2,000th hit The Associated Press
KANAS S CITY, Mo. — Frank became the 12th active player with 2,000 last night when he stroked a two-run double in the centerfield wall in the fourth round of Kansas City's game against Toronto.
White, a native of Kansas City, has been the Royals' regular second baseman since 1975. He broke in with the Royals, the only professional club
he ever played for, in 1973 after graduating from the Royals' now detunef Baseball Academy. His misleasure hit came off Frank Wills.
Known primarily for defense, White and Bill Mazeruski are the only second baseman to win eight gold gloves.
The crowd of about 10,000 gave White, 40, a standing ovation that did not dissipate until he stepped off the second base bag and delfed his cap.
Shot putter's drug test is positive, report says
The Associated Press
Barnes told the Charleston Daily Mail he had not been notified of a positive test and had not heard of the contacted by the newspaper Monday.
U. S. and international track officials said Monday they were unable to confirm the report.
CHARLESTON, W. Va. — Randy Barnes, the world record holder in the shot put, called a report that he had been "exposed" to drugs at a meet in Florida "fishy."
L'Equipe, a nationally circulated sports daily, said Barnes tested positive at the Aug. 7 meet at Malmo, Sweden.
If the second test is positive, Barnes likely would be suspended from competition for two years. That would make him ineligible for the 1991 World Indoor and Outdoor Track and Field Championships and jeopardize his chances for the 1992 Olympics.
"This doesn't sound right to me at all," Barnes told the Daily Mail. "What about due process? Aren't it
Loupe said the first test was analyzed at a laboratory in Stockholm, Sweden. It then was submitted to the University of which will be known within 15 days.
Sports briefs
A spokesperson for the International Amateur Athletic Federation, the world governing body in London, issued no comment.
International rules call for the athlete and his federation to be notified if the first test is positive and for the athlete or a representative to be present when the second sample is tested.
Arne Ljungvist of Sweden, a vice president of the IAAF and member of his medical committee, said Monday he had heard rumors of the positive test during the Mobile Grand Prix event this week but had no official information.
A spokesperson from The Athletic Congress, the governing body in the United States, said the organization would test a positive test concerning Barnes.
"I'm not surprised to hear this," he said. "I've heard rumors like this before, but it has never led to anything. But it can do damage."
supposed to be present when the B (second) sample is tested?''
Standout player Gaze hospitalized
Barnes, of South Charleston, W.Va., said rumors have increased about him since he set the world record May 20.
PLAYER HOSPITALIZED:
MELBOURNE, Australia — Australian basketball player Andrew Gaze, who was a standout at Seton Hall, was hospitalized yesterday with a blood clot in his right shoulder that likely will keep him from a tryout with the Portland Trail Blazers.
Gaze had complained of excessive tiredness for a couple of weeks but attributed this to the strain of playing for Australia at the Goodwill Games in Seattle and the World Championship in Argentina.
Gaze's club, the Melbourne Tigers,
said the illness would keep him up
for the rest of the Australian season,
which runs through October.
Gaze, 25, has led the Australian National League in scoring the past five years and was to have tried out for Portland this fall.
GAA, who helped Seton Hall to the NCAA championship game in 1989, thus averaged 27 to 5 points per game in the Australian league this season.
On Monday, his right arm swelled to twice its normal size. Doctors diagnosed his condition as a stress thrombosis and found a blood clot over three inches long.
The Philadelphia 76ers and Minnesota Timberwolves also were said to be interested in him.
Conference to end in Missouri case MISSOURI BASKETBALL:
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A series of pre-bearing conferences will wind up this week in the case accusing the University of Missouri basketball program of violating NCAA regulations.
The case is scheduled to be heard when the NCAA Committee on Infactions meets Sept. 28-30 in Overland Park. Steve Owens, attorney for Coach Norm Stewart, said Monday that a case summary with a final list of allegations to be considered by the committee should be issued next week.
Some of the original 17 charges might be dropped or adjusted after the pre-hearing meetings with the NCAA enforcement department,
Owens said that while there still could be changes in the allegations after the case summary is prepared, "it is more customary for the changes to occur before it goes out."
"I anticipate it coming out next week," Owens said. "It won't come out this week because the pre-hearing conferences are still going on."
Stewart's pre-hearing conference will be today in Kansas City, but the coach said Monday he didn't plan to attend.
"Steve's been handling all that for me," Stewart said, adding that he had started recruiting yesterday.
Hard hitting
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KU Karate Club member Kathy Grimes, a white belt, breaks a meeting. The two were practicing for a demonstration to attract board held by member Tony Younger, a brown belt, during a club interest in the club.