SPORTS
November 7,1984
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The University Daily KANSAN
McEnroe to sit out ban, will pursue Grand Slam
LONDON — John McEnroe, deciding his priority is a bid for the Grand Slam rather than another healthy addition to his bank balance, yesterday accepted a 21-day tennis ban rather than compete in a Grand Slam. He has won five times in the past six years.
The 25-year-old New Yorker's temperantrums during a tournament at Stockholm brought about the ban. McEnroe chose to sit out the ban instead of his title at the $250,000 Grand Prix which at Wembley Arena yesterday.
McEnroe's director, John Sr., told Wembley tournament director Llen Owen that the decision was made so his son could be free of suspension for the Australian Open. The Australian, to be staged later this month at Melbourne, could give McEnroe a third leg on a Grand Slam after victories at Wimbledon and the U.S. Open.
The world's No. 1, ranked player, McEnroe won the fined $2,100 for misbehavior during the Stockholm Open, which he won Monday by beating Sweden's Mats Wilander. The fine took him over the $7,500 limit for any 12-month period.
'Husker I-back may not return
LINCOLN, Neb.  — Second-string I-back Paul Miles, who reinjured his shoulder Monday, need may to have corrective surgery, which would rule him for the rest of the season, Nebraska football coach Tom Osborne said yesterday.
Miles originally dislocated his shoulder against Syracuse Sept. 29. He sat out his fftight game last week at weekend at Iowa, where he was his first full workout since the injury.
Wingback Shane Swanson and monsterback Brian Washington returned to practice yesterday after missing Monday with minor injury injuries.
No new injuries were reported yester day, Osborne said he was pleased with the squad's health as it prepared for Saturday's game against Kanss.
"Everyone we were counting on this week was back at practice," he said.
CBS to show Hoyas four times
NEW YORK — Defending NCAA champion Georgetown University will be featured four times by CBS-TV during the 1984-85 college basketball season.
According to the schedule released yesterday by the network, the Hoyas will be seen nationally against the University of Arkansas on Wednesday, Feb. 15, St. John's Jan. 26 and Arkansas Feb. 3.
Three KU games will be televised by CBS: the Oklahoma game at Norman Jan. 19, the Michigan game at Ann Arbor Jan. 26, the Memphis State game in Lawrence Feb. 4.
CBS will begin its coverage of college basketball with a game between Indiana and Louisville on Saturday, Nov 24, beginning at noon. It will be the first meeting between Indiana coach Boby Knight, who coached the United States team to a gold medal in the 1984 Olympics, and Denny Crum.
Hogeboom expected to start
DALLAS — Dallas Cowboy coach Tom Landry said yesterday that he expected Gary Hogeboom to start at quarterback this Sunday against the St. Louis Cardinals, mainly because Danny White's left shoulder would probably be too sore for him to practice during the week.
Hogeboom started the first eight games of the year for Dallas, but gave way to a 10-2 victory in games. Against the New York Giants, Giants scored on the third, helping a severely sprained shoulder.
"Danny will have a hard time working all week," Landry said. "He is tough and has a lot of courage and will throw if he can. But he was in a lot of pain after the game so I don't expect him to be able to work for a few days."
Landry also said Don Smerek would probably start at left defensive end in place of Ed Jones, who suffered a sprained knee against the Giants.
"It will be difficult for him," Landry said "but injuries are part of the game and you just have to get in there and work hard with the competitor and I expect him to play well."
Franco still wants to play
SEATLAST — One week after his release by the Seattle Seahawks, 34-year-old running back Franco Harris is still hoping to play playing career, his agent said yesterday.
Harris, the third-leading career rusher in National Football League history, has been unavailable for reference since he was waived Oct. 30 by the Seahawks. He will be released by the Pittsburgh Steeters earlier this season, prior to joining the Seahawks.
"He's just taking each day as it comes," said Bart Beier, Harris' agent in Pittsburgh. "He's not depressed. He would like to do. don't want to say much more than I did."
Beier declined to discuss any contacts he may have had with interested teams in the past week. He did say, however, that he is not initiating any contacts himself.
"Franco and I have discussed the matter," Heer said. "I'm not at liberty to speak."
Beer added that he and Harris had not gone beyond the current NFL season in their discussions. "We're just looking at the present time now," he said.
Compiled from United Press International reports.
Early signing period for b-ball to begin soon
By GREG DAMMAN Sports Editor
Sports Editor
The early signing period for high school basketball recruits does not begin until November 14, but two players the University of Kansas was attempting to sign early have already committed themselves to other schools.
Quin Snyder, a 6-foot guard from Mercer Island High School in Mercer Island, Wash., has indicated that he will sign with Duke University. Mark Brown, a 5-11 guard from Hastings High School in Hastings, Mich., he will sign with Michigan State University.
The early signing period ends on November 21.
The departure of highly-touted freshman guard Tyrone Jones, who transferred to the University of Nevada Las Vegas earlier this fall, gives KU head coach Larry Brown the
The NCAA ALLOWS teams to have 15 players on scholarship. The Jayhawks currently have 14 scholarship players, and Tad Bovie is the only senior on the team.
opportunity to award two scholarships for next season.
One player who is reportedly still considering signing with the Jayhawks is 6-11 Dan Ferry of De Matta High School in Hyattsville, Md. Ferry is the son of former coach John Goffin and player Bob Ferry, current general manager of the NBA's Washington Bullets.
Ferry is considered to be one of the top five high school players in the nation. As a junior, he averaged 16.5 points, 14 rebounds and 4.6 points a game. His team finished with a 29-2 record.
Ferry is from the same high school that produced such players as Adrian Dantley, James Brown, Derrick Whittenburg and Sidney Lowe.
LAST SEASON, KU signed four players during the early signing period. Danny Manning, Milton Newton, Alfonio Campbell and Jones all signed with KU last November. Rodney Hull signed with KU last spring, and Mark Pellock signed with the Jayawicks right before the fall semester started. Pellock chose to pass up his senior year at Parsons High School and begin his collegiate career one year early.
Kansas assistant basketball coach John Calipari said that he preferred signing a player during the early signing period rather than in the spring.
"When you sign them early they are finished with your recruiting," Calpari said. "The kids aren't bothered during their senior year."
Calipari said that it was necessary for coaches to know exactly which players they wanted to recruit before their senior year.
"YOU'RE NOT DOING YOUR job right if you don't," he said. "We evaluate all summer. That's why we go to camps. You have a great campground, but sometimes you might get a sleeper late."
With the loss of Carl Henry, Kelly Knight and Brian Martin, the team's top three rebounders, the Kansas coaches are hoping to recruit a player who will help in that area. Calipari said that coaches are looking for certain characteristics in the players they recruit.
"Right now we're looking at kids who have good hands and are great athletes." Calipari said.
Calipari said that it was rare for a great calipari to overlooked during the early spring perigee.
Nebraska town to honor a native son on Saturday
"The only way you don't know about a kid is if he totally doesn't go to camp and his parents are home."
By GREG DAMMAN
Sports Editor
Traditionally, when Nebraska plays at Kansas in football, thousands of Big Red fans, many of whom can't get tickets to see their team in Lincoln, make the trip to
However, this year part of the crowd dressed in red will be in Memorial Stadium to watch.
About 700 residents of Beatrice, Neb., population 10,000 and the hometown of Kansas tackle Quintin Schoenweite, will be on tour in May to help raise awareness of Braska game for "Quintin Schonewice Day."
Schonewise's day is being sponsored by his high school's athletic department and the Beatrice Sertoma Club. A block of tickets in the stadium and sold to the townpeople.
The mayor of Beatrice issued a proclamation officially making Saturday "Quintin Schonewise Day". The townpeople will bring banners to the game and meet Schonewise at the locker room door after the game.
"IT SOUND WEIRD, but it think they got the idea because they do that type of thing a lot at Nebraska." Sonehwise said "Basicly what it amounts to is an excuse for people to just run around Nebraska game. It's easier for a lot of people to get tickets to the game at Kansas."
Schonewise has four brothers who attended Nebraska and a sister who is a member of the Cornhusker volleyball team. His parents have had season tickets for Nebraska games for the past 20 years, but rather than follow family tradition, he decided to come to KU.
"The story with me was that I was approached after my senior year in high school and asked to walk-on at Nebraska," he said. "I told them I wasn't interested in that. Basically, I was either going to KU or MU. KU just had more things that I wanted."
Kansas has not beaten Nebraska since 1968, and the Jayhawks lost to the Cornhuskers 67.13 last year. Schonew said that this
year's team had a different attitude going into the game, and their recent victories over Colorado and Oklahoma.
"I THINK THE TEAM is feel good about the Nebraska game," he said. "Things have gone our way the last couple of games. Since I've been here, the closest we ever played them was my freshman year in Lincoln, but the last two years have been bad."
Schonweise is majoring in journalism with an emphasis on public relations. He was named academic All-Big Eight this year for the third year in a row.
this season, Schonewise has been playing backup to Bob Pieper at right tackle, but has been plenty of action. Schonewise was one of just two freshman to make the traveling squirt team. As one of five seniors on this team, Schonewise has assumed a leadership role
"Somebody was saying the other day this is going to be a tough game for us," Schonewise said of the NU game. "But they're all tough for us."
Schohiseven said that he didn't know what was planned for Saturday evening after the
"I don't know what they have planned," he said. "But I'm sure there will be an impromptu party somewhere."
JAYHAWK NOTES — Tailback Lynn Williams, who rushed for 120 yards last week against Colorado, did not practice yesterday because of a shoulder injury. Williams is questionable for Saturday's game against Nebraska.
Coach Mike Gottfried said that the amount of playing time tailback Robert Mimbs and wide receiver Richard Estell get would be decided by their position coaches. Both players saw their most extensive action of the game in the back being suspended before the K-Stats game.
Gottfried said that the play of Williams would make it difficult for Mimbs to return to the starting lineup, and that it was doubtful that Williams would be switched to fullback
"He's a tailback, not a fullback," he said,
when you switch him to backlash you take away
him.
Tackle Quintin Schonewise takes a break at practice. Schonewise will be honored by his hometown of Beatrice, Neb., at Saturday's game against Nebraska in Memorial Stadium.
Joe Wilkins III/KANSAN
Tiger relief ace Hernandez is American League MVP
By United Press International
NEW YORK — Willie Hernandez, left-handed relief ace of the World Series champion Detroit Tigers, was named the League's Most Valuable Player yesterday.
Kent Hrbek, the Minnesota Twins hard-hitting first baseman, finished a surprising second.
A 28-year old native of Aguada, Puerto Rico, Hernandez is the fourth American Leaguer and the seventh pitcher overall to win the league's MVP Award and Cy Young Award as the circuit No. 1 pitcher in the same season.
"I wasn't very sure of winning this one," Hernandez said. "I had been pretty sure of winning the Gy Young, but for the league's Miami Flyers, I thought there was better competition.
Willie Hernandez
"BUT IT TURNED out to be the other way around and I got more votes for this one than I did for Cy Young. For the Cy Young award, there had been only one other strong candidate. Dan Qunenberry of the Kansas City Royals, but for MVP in the league, there
Hrebek was the only player named on all 28 ballots. One voter passed over both Hernandez and Quisenberry because of his belief that an everyday player, rather than a designated hitter, the MVP Award given annually by the Baseball Writers Association of America.
FOLLOWING THE TOP three in the voting were Murray with 197 points. Dot Mattingly of the New York Yankees with 113 and Kirk Gibson of the Tigers with 96.
He was acquired by the Tigers in March along with first baseman Dave Bergman from the Phillies for catcher John Wockenfuss and outfielder Glenn Wilson. He played a major role in the Tigers' 35-5 start, which left him out of the playoffs for behind only six weeks into the season.
Hernandez, who started the season with a 34-32 lifetime record, had a 9-3 mark, a 1.92 earned run average and accumulated 32 points in situations where he could receive credit for one
Hernandez, who received 16 first-place votes and was named on 27 of the 28 ballots, won the award with 306 points. He was awarded with 247 and relief pitcher Quisenberry with 235.
were a lot, like Eddie Murray of the Baltimore Orioles and a lot of others."
Fourteen points were given for a first-place vote, nine for a second, eight for a third and seven for a fourth.
"I wasn't very prepared for this award."
I thundered said. "I didn't have too much confidence."
FROM 1977 THROUGH 1983. Hernandez had acquired a total of only 27 wins. His best previous season was in 1983 with the Chicago Cubs, but he lost to the Pittsburgh Pirates in a 9-4 mark with a 3.28 ERA and eight saves.
Tiger manager Sparky Anderson, nicknamed "Captain Hook" by starting pitchers because of his quick reliance on relievers from the seven inning innings, open carry strategies, and taking the World Series. The voting, however, took place before the Series was played.
"I attribute my success to the Detroit fans that were always behind me, to my manager Spark Anderson, to all the ballplayers and the pitching staff," said Hernandez.
New strength center gives muscle to weight program
When the doors to the Shaffer-Holland Strength Center opened on Oct. 27, a whole new world of strength and speed for KU's football, basketball and track athletes was also opened up.
The center, 6,000 square feet of weights and machines, is on the north side of the building.
Sports Writer
Eid Bilck, associate director of athletic fitness, said KU's new weight room was the second largest in the Big Eight Conference.
By CHRIS LAZZARINO
BIELIK'S PREGRAM IS centered on free weights, and so is the design of the weight room. There are Nautilus machines and stationary bicycles in the room, but they are supplementary to the free weights. Bielik said.
The room is 170 feet long by 50 feet wide and is heated, air conditioned and carpeted. It is surrounded by mirrors and equipment. The equipment cost $105,000.
The dominant features of the room are eight "power racks." The racks, custom-made for KU, are approximately five feet square and extend to the height of the ceiling. They consist of four posts, which are used to hold the bars used for various lifts, such as the squat and the bench press.
In the center of four of the racks are benches that can be extended flat or inclined. Beilik said that an athlete could do his entire free weight program within one rack, instead of moving around the room to different stations.
"THESE ARE the best power racks in the nation." Bielik said. "They are superior in quality and size. The athlete must have the racks, and then spread out from there."
The great advantage the new center will provide is the overall development potential for athletes, Biikil said. That will also help in recruiting.
"It will help like you wouldn't believe." Beliak said. "An athlete will come in here and know he will have the chance to develop himself to the very most he can be. He is now not being limited in any way by the physical development center."
Bielik said the center would not be getting as much use this year as it normally would because the football team had begun to move into its "taper down" phase, when the players do less work of the field and stay fresh for the last part of the season.
Steve Nave, a junior defensive guard who was declared academically ineligible at the beginning of the season, is using the ball to keep in shape while he is not playing.
Kings lose to undefeated Rockets
HOUSTON — Akeem Olijauw scored 23 points and Robert Reid added 22, including 16 in the fourth quarter, last night as the Kansas City Kings won 108-94 victory over the Kansas City Kings.
By United Press International
Reif went eight-for-eight in the fourth quarter to spark the Rockets to their fifth win — the best start in the franchise's 18-year history.
Kansas City, led by Eddie Johnson's 17 points, remained winless at 0-5.
With four minutes, 43 seconds left in the third period and the score tied at 66, Houston outscored Kansas City 13-6 to take a 79-72 lead going into the fourth.
Reid opened the final period by burying a jumper and Olaijawon followed with a slam dunk. Billy Knight connected for Kansas City, but Reid countered with six straight points to give Houston an 89-74 lead with 8:46 left in the game. The Rockets then put the game away.
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