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University Daily Kansan
Sports
Friday, Oct. 11, 1985
Tanner accepts Atlanta's offer
United Press International
ATLANTA — Chuck Tanner,
fired as manager of the Pittsburgh
Pirates earlier this week, Thursday
was named manager of the Atlanta Braves after just one
game with team owner Ted Turner.
Tanner, who led the Pirates to a 1979 championship during his nine-year reign, signed a five-year contract with the Braves. Financial terms were not disclosed.
"This was the place I really wanted to go," said Tanner, who was dismissed by the Pirates' new owners earlier this week after the club finished with the worst record in baseball.
"First of all, they wanted me—it's nice to be wanted. It didn't take long; it was a quick agreement," Tanner said. "We shook hands and that was our contract."
"I'm happy here. You know I broke into the majors with the Milwaukee Braves and now I'm coming back as manager of the Atlanta Braves. I've come full cycle."
Tanner was scheduled to talk to Turner Friday. But the owner flew home a day early from a business trip on the West Coast and moved up the meeting amid reports that Turner had been asked to make a plan for Tanner. The meeting between Turner and Tanner lasted an hour.
Tanner, 56, of New Castle, Pa.,
said he had spoken to several other clubs before deciding on Atlanta.
Turner said Braves general manager John Mullen would remain in his job for now. The Braves owner, however, said Tanner would have considerable freedom to change the team.
"I'll have a lot of input," said Tanner, adding he had no current plans for a major shakeup of the team that finished fifth in the National League West with a 66-96 record.
"I feel we can improve the team by just working with and making each player 10 percent better," he said. "I'm very pleased with what I've seen in the past. We have a lot of work ahead, but it's going to be positive. Our main goal is to win the World Series."
Tanner also has managed the Oakland A's and Chicago White Sox. He becomes the 13th manager of the Braves since they came to Atlanta 20 years ago. He replaces interim manager Bobby Wine, who took over for Eddie Haas at mid-season.
"I think he's probably one of the better managers in the league," Wine said. "He's the boss and the players know that. He's an aggressive manager and I think that he's plus for this organization."
Wine has blamed the collapse of the pitching staff for his inability to turn around the Braves.
Job prospect open for inexperienced
The Associated Press
The Continental Basketball Association is seeking a person who has no previous experience as a sports broadcaster and has never been paid in any level of broadcasting.
For the second year in a row, the
CA has held a contest to fill the
position.
If you fit those qualifications, the CBA may have the job for you analyst for its cablecasts on the Entertainment Television network
"The bottom line is that this tells you what we are about," says Jim Drucker, commissioner of the CBA, the only minor league basketball organization with a working agreement with the National Basketball Association. "We're giving a chance to be a star. We do it for our players, who get a chance to go to the NBA in the summer." The players and coaches, why not for our fans and the millions of closet sportscasters?
"When I was a kid, I would turn the sound down and do a quarter or an inning of play-by-play. We want to fulfill a fantasy of the average fan.
"Besides, the best amateur announcer has got to be as good or better than an average color commentator."
This is the second contest the league has conducted. Last year's
winner was Bill Lange, a high school teacher from Haddon Heights, N.J. who beat seven other finalists from a field range in age 14 to 63.
"But we limited that to the Northeast," explains Drucker. "This year, it's a national contest, with 19 regional auditions in cities from coast to coast. We'll hold them in our 14 league cities, plus New York, Los Angeles, Boston, Denver and Chicago."
Those auditions will involve performing analysis of a CBA game taped from last season. Each contestant will be given an 11-page press packet and a CBA guide. They will do five minutes of color.
"We're asking that people who want to enter send postcards only, or they can call our 24-hour hotline," says Drucker. "The deadline for entries is Oct. 31.
"We'll send them an application and then schedule them for an audition in the locio they request. We'll start the regionals on Nov. 2."
The address to call
CBA TV Tryouts
Lafavette Hill. Pa., 19444.
Box 9
CBA TV Tryouts
The hotline telephone number is 215 828-8666.
The regional winners will gather in New York on Dec. 15, where the field will be cut to six finalists. Each finalist will do the final seven minutes of the game.
Royals counting on Saberhagen
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Bret Saberhagen, an expectant father for the first time, is now the man the Royals hope will deliver them from their postseason lethargy and back into the American League playoffs.
The Associated Press
The Royals lost the first two games of the best of seven series to the Toronto Blue Jays.
"We've shown the ability to play a bad series or a bad week and then bounce back," Royals Manager Dick Howser said yesterday. "That's what I'm counting on now."
Toronto won the first two games at home, and the series resumes tonight at Royals Stadium.
The Royals have lost their last 10 postseason appearances, dating back to the fourth game of the 1980 World Series, and Howser has lost 11 straight.
The 21-year-old right-hander said he realized the pressure the Royals were under. He said he would try not worry about it.
"If we're going to get this thing started in the right direction, now's the time," Howser said. "He's been Our No. 1 pitcher on our staff."
Saberhagen, 20-6 during the season, started Saturday night's game when the Royals clinched the AL West crown, which delayed his debut in the playoffs.
"You don't want to think about what happens if you're down 0-3," he said, "but it's in the back of your pocket." People people people have come back from that."
One thought on his mind is the imminent arrival of his and his wife Janeane's first child.
"I think it's been helping me this
month," he says. "It gives me
something else to look at."
when I get home. It gives us something else to talk about besides baseball."
Saberhagen has faced Toronto only once this season, in mid-April when the Blue Jays knocked him out in the final game. He gave up four runs on six hits.
That was one of the last games of the invasion in which Saberhagen was in troop.
"It seemed like right after that game I turned things around," he said. "I wasn't spotting my fastball that was having some problems."
Toronto Manager Bobby Cox remembered the April game against Saberhagen, saying, "We got a couple of runs off him, but not too many people have scored off him since then."
Cox will send 35-year-old Doyle
Alexander _ against _ Saberhagen tonight.
Alexander went 17-10 this season — including a five-hitter Saturday to clinch the AL East title. He has continued his resurgence that has produced a 41-16 record during the last 2½ seasons.
"I'm a better pitcher now than I ever have been," Alexander said. "I think I've learned some things."
Alexander may face a revamped Kansas City lineup. Howser said he had thought about making some changes, but said he did not want to announce anything definite until tonight.
Alexander has pitched twice in previous postseason games, taking losses with Baltimore in the 1973 playoffs against Oakland and with the Yankees against Cincinnati in the 1976 World Series.
Akers says Oklahoma should be No.1
The Associated Press
DALLAS — Texas Coach Fred Akers says No. 2-ranked Oklahoma should be No. 1 because the Sooners have the best defensive unit of any Sooner team he has seen.
"I think they are the No. 1 team in
the country and that should say enough of what I think of them," says Akers. "They have the usual amount of speed that they have and just a great defense."
The 17th-ranked Longhorns are rated a touchdown underdog to Oklahoma going into Saturday's annual Red River rivalry. This is the 80th meeting and Texas leads the series 47-29-4.
However, since 1946 Texas holds a narrow 20-17-2 edge. The Longhorns have won five of the last eight games.
Oklahoma is 2-0 with victories over Minnesota and Kansas State while
Texas has defeated Missouri, Stanford and Rice.
Welcome Philip Glass to KU Informal Talk and Record Signing 1:00 p.m. Wednesday, October 23, 1985 Spencer Museum of Art Free and Open to the Public
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October 17, 18 & 19, 1985 8:00 p.m.
October 20, 1985 2:30 p.m.
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