Sports
University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, September 30, 1986
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Layoff helps tennis player's attitude
Injury gave Berglund time to realize how much she had missed playing
By ANNE LUSCOMBE
Sports writer___
Injuries and personal decisions kept Susie Bergland away from tennis for 15 months. Now, after a year of rebuilding her game, Bergland's confidence as a player has returned.
"When I came back this year I felt better about my game," Berglund said yesterday. "Last year I was always fighting it. This year I came back with a much better attitude. I take it day-by-day now."
Kansas tennis head coach Scott Perelman said Berglund's attitude as a freshman two years ago had him worried.
"Susie had a rocky road into the first year, year and a half," he said. "She didn't start off in the same wavelength of dedication that we need for the team. But since then she has really gotten on board. Susie has done a 180-degree rise. The last six to nine months."
Berglund redshirted her freshman year after suffering stress fractures in both of her shins. Despite Perleman taking
her scholarship away from her because of her attitude problem. Bergland said the year away from tennis might have been good for her.
"I'm not burned out on tennis, like I might be if this was my third year, because I know what its like to be uninvolved in tennis and to be involved in tennis." Berglund said.
BERGLUND PROFILE
Susie Berglund
Hometown: Salina
Parents: Jim and Kay Berglund Class and major: sophomore in business
An eight-month rest was required to rehabilitate her legs. She decided then that she would return to competition. Berglund returned to the team and played in her first match last October.
By the end of her freshman year she hated tennis, she said, because of the leg pains. At that time she was uncertain whether she would
Berglund said that although she enjoyed the traveling and the busy
"When people are injured and they have something taken away from them, they get a true indication of how much it really meant to them," Perelman said. "It is a real credit to her in what she has been able to do. She's made up her mind to play."
Background: She won the state championship for Salina Central High School. This summer she won the Kansas Closed Tournament in Salina. Last season she won the Big Eight Championship at No. 6 singles.
pace of tennis, she regretted missing social activities.
"I miss out on a lot of things because school, tennis and social are all priorities but you can do them all well, so you have to choose your highest priorities," she said.
Her priorities now are school and tennis. Because she has focused on her tennis more than ever, she was able to surprise herself and her coach at the Midwestern Intercollegiate Open Tournament held Saturday and Sunday at Northwest in Evanston. III.
Berglund advanced further in the tournament than any of her
teammates, making it to the semifinals of the consolation round in the singles division and the doubles final of the championship round, where she was paired with Christina Schufchel of Northwestern.
Perealman said he was surprised at how far Berglund advanced in the tournament.
"She played with such enthusiasm and determination that she was an inspiration just to watch," he said. "She made me a believer. Susie played the way I perceived all seven of our players should have played."
Free tickets offered to students. faculty
Bv NICOLE SAUZEK
Money can't buy happiness. It also can't buy a ticket to Saturday's football game against Southern Illinois if you're a KU student or faculty/staff member.
That's because entrance to the game is free.
Complimentary entrance to Saturday's game will be granted to any student with a KUID and any faculty/staff member and his immediate family with a KUID.
Saturday's freebee game is a new KU Athletic Department promotion, said Richard Konzem, assistant athletic director.
"I guess you could call this our KU campus campaign." Konzeen said yesterday. "There's no specific promotion for Saturday's game, so we decided we'd try it."
A skydiving display, Parent's Day and Band Day were promotions for KU's first three home games. Saturday's game is the fourth of five straight home games for the Javhawks.
Saturday's game will be televised on channels 9 and 27, though, on Raycom Sports Network as the Big Ten season approaches. There is reason for the athletic department to
want the stadium filled. It's also a good reason for a freebie promotion.
"Sure, that's part of the reason we're letting people in free," Konzem said. "It's a non-conference game scheduled early. We have trouble getting people to come during those types of games, anyway.
Attendance at Kansas; first three home football games has averaged about 36,000. Konzem said. Memorial Stadium seats 52,000.
"But, it was also a good opportunity for us to really get everyone we could to a football game. If someone comes free, maybe they'll get excited about KU football and will continue to come to other games."
And so far, the numbers have been satisfying for the Kansas football staff.
Seating will be available for non-ticket holders in seating sections one, two, 49, 50, North Bowl and South Bleachers in Memorial Stadium. Game time is set for 11:30 a.m.
Follow the blocking Jayhawk
Cowboys run wild over winless Cards
United Press International
Vince Bryant carries the ball during a defensive drill. Bryant, a defensive back, was used as a running back in the drill during the Jayhawks football
ST. LOUIS — Herschel Walker, making his first NFL start, ignited a second-half spurt and Danny White threw three touchdown passes last night sending the Dallas Cowboys to a 31-7 rout of the winless St. Louis Cardinals.
The Cowboys improved to 3-1 and stayed a game behind the unbeaten Washington Redskins in the NFC East. St. Louis fell to 0-4 under first-year coach and former Dallas assistant coach Gene Stallings.
practice yesterday in Anschutz Sports Pavilion. Kansas will play its fourth consecutive game home Saturday when Southern Illinois comes to town.
Walker gained 82 yards on 19 carries and caught five passes for 57 yards while filling in for Tony Dorsett, who missed the game with an injured knee.
Rookie receiver Mike Sherrard caught 39-yard touchdown throw from White in the first period, and Rafael Setpien gave Dallas a 10-0 halftime lead with a 32-yard field goal.
After the Cardinals closed within three points early in the second half, Gordon Banks returned the kickoff 56 yards. Walker then ran for 29 yards in three plays before White hit Tony Hill with an 13-yard scoring pass.
Two possessions later, Walker put away the game by slipping into the end zone and catching an 8-yard touchdown pass from White. With 2:15 to play in the game, Ron Felkins intercepted a Neil Lomax pass and raced 34 yards for the final Cowboys touchdown.
The Cardinals' only score came on a 10-yard run by Otis Anderson at the bottom of the field.
The Cardinals' offense struggled throughout the game with a key turnover at the end of the first half robbed St. Louis of a critical scoring opportunity. Loxam could complete only three of his first 11 passes in the second half, during which he was sacked twice and intercepted once.
Meanwhile, Dallas moved on with the help of Walker and the passing arm of White.
The Cardinals wasted an early opportunity when Michael Downs blocked John Lee's 42-yard field goal attempt. That led to a shift in field position, which allowed Dallas to make the first score.
An interference penalty also wiped out a sizeable Cardinal gain in the first quarter, and in the second quarter Anderson dropped a 16-yard pass that would have put St. Louis at midfield.
The biggest mistake of all,
however, came as time was running
out in the first half with the Cardinals
ready to get back in the game.
St. Louis moved to the Dallas 9-yard line, where it faced third-and-six. The Cardinals tried a shuffle pass from Lomax to Earl Ferrell, but Ferrell was immediately wrapped up by Vince Albrighton
Ferrell tried to save the play with a lateral pass to Lomax, who then threw for the end zone.
Gubicza wins 11th, Royals beat Angels
United Press International
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KANSAS CITY, Mo — Lonnie Smith hit a home run and George Brett hit in another run on a double last night giving the Kansas City Royals a 2-1 victory over the California Angels.
Mark Gobicza, who gave up a home run to Mark Ryal in the fourth inning, improved to 11-6. The right hander gave up eight hits, struck out four and walked one before leaving in the seventh with two men on. Bud Black finished the game for his eighth save.
California starter Urbano Lugo, who gave up two runs and six hits in six innings, fell to 1-1.
Smith's eighth home run of the season gave Kansas City a 1-0 lead in the third, but Ryal answered in the fourth with his second home run.
In the Kansas City sixth, Kevin Seitzer reached on a one-out single, and Brett followed with a drive to right-center. Seitzer scored without a throw as Brett ran to second.
The Angels threatened to score more than one run in the fourth. After Ryaal's home run, Jerry Narron singled. One out later, he went to second on a single by Rick Burleson, and Devon White followed with another single. But Smith threw out Narron at the plate to end the inning.
Cubs win family feud
The Phillies scored twice in the eighth
In the ninth, Cub Rafael Palmeiro singled and went to second on a wild pitch by Tom Hume. One out later, Durham walked and both scored on Davis' single.
The Cubs made it 3-0 in the fourth on Brian Dayett's RBI single, and they scored three more runs in the fifth off reliever Mike Jackson.
Jody Davis went 4-for-5 and drove in five runs, backing the 20-year-old right hander Greg. 2.4, who allowed nine hits over $7 \%$ innings Greg Maddux struck out seven and did not walk a batter, keeping the Phillies scoreless until Glenn Wilson singled in a run in the sixth.
The Cubs got two runs in the first when Ryne Sandberg doubled in a run and later scored.
Mike Maddox, 25, also a right-hander, gave up three runs on six hits in three innings as his record fell to 3-7.
The Associated Press
against each other was Sept. 13, 1982, when Joe Niekro of Houston defeated brother Phil of Atlanta, 5-4.
The last time brothers pitched
Davis hit a three-run homer in the fifth then drove in two more runs with a single in the ninth.
Council to propose changes to NCAA
United Press International
KANSAS CITY, Mo — A committee of the American Council on Education is scheduled to appear this week before the NCAA Presidents Commission to propose big changes in college football.
The Presidents Commission is meeting to discuss financial issues and academic requirements, but the Council's Ad Hoc Advisory Group is likely to steal the show.
The committee, whose chairman is UCLA Chancellor Charles E. Young, will ask the presidents to endorse the National College Athletic Association legislation that would cut Division 1-A football scholarships from 96 to 80, ban spring football and eliminate two assistant head coaching positions from each school's football program. Even if the presidents agree to put the measures before the full NCAA convention next January in San
The head coaches, speaking yesterday on a conference telephone hookup, were uniformly against cuts in staff or scholarships and generally want to keep spring football.
Diego, the motions will certainly not have the blessings of Big Eight Conference football head coaches.
"I think it's ludicrous," Iowa State head coach Jim Criner said of the proposals. "It would set football back 50 years. We've come a long way. We've made the game very, very exciting for the fans."
Criner said cutting football programs, which at many schools was the main revenue producer for the athletic department, would have repercussions throughout college athletics.
The head coaches were split on spring workouts, but most were in favor of keeping them. Stan Parrish recalled how important spring practice was to him when he took over last
year at Kansas State.
"For a new head coaching staff it would be disastrous," he said, "having to start in the second week of August and try to get a team ready. That would be a very negative thing, particularly for the staffs that change over."
Nebraska head coach Tom Osborne said some teams would have a hard time fielding a good football team if scholarships were cut to 80.
Parrish said, "Cutting" the two assistant head coaches' positions would hurt in a most vital area and that's in recruiting."
He said that reducing scholarships would lead to an unbalanced conference in which schools with money would have an unfair advantage
"The rich will simply get richer because, I think, they have players stockped in their programs."
Barry Switzer, head coach of Oklahoma, said, "They are such
drastic measures that I'd like to know the mentality involved — the logic involved — in these cutbacks."
Osborne said the college presidents would not like someone telling them they had to cut their staff and then renewed his argument for an increase in scholarships to 105 or 110.
"I don't understand where they are coming from," he said. "I don't think these proposals are going to cure whatever problems there are in college athletics. The problem is more with integrity and drug education and things that affect our society as a whole, so you can't pass a few rules like this and expect to cure the whole problem."
Bob Valesente, head coach at Kansas, said, "I don't believe cutting these programs to these standards would serve any purpose to enhance our athletic programs in any way. I think drastic moves such as this need to be thought out even more."
Mary Lou trades leotards for textbooks
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Mary Lou Retton, who vaulted to fame and fortune in the 1984 Olympic Games, said yesterday that school will supplant gymnastics in her life now
"My decision to retire was based on my feeling that I have achieved the goals as a gymnast that I set out for myself several years ago." Retton said at a news conference. "My goals now are toward college.
In announcing her retirement from gymnastics, the 18-year Redton said she is close to signing a contract with NBC television to be a commentator on the sport.
"I've spent my whole life in the gym — 11 years of hard work. Now I have the rest of my life to do what I want."
Her agent, John Traetta, said he
signing with NBC would happen soon.
Marv Lou Retton
In the Olympic games in Los Angeles, Redton won the gold medal for individual all-around competition, bronze medals in the floor exercise and uneven parallel bars, and
"Gymnastics is such a discipline that I haven't been in a formal class at school." ReTTon said "I had to take correspondence classes to graduate."
silvers in the vault and team competition. She was named the Associated Press' Female Athlete of the Year and Sports Illustrated's Sportsman of the Year along with hurdler Edwin Moses in 1984.
She has competed only once since the 1984 Games, in the America Cup in Indianapolis in March 1985 where she won her third straight title. She did not compete with the United States team at the World Championships in November 1985 in Montreal.
"I took the summer off from gymnastics," she said. "I was physically drained and mentally drained."
As a freshman at the University of Texas, Retton is majoring in communications.
Traetta said Retton has earned more than any other Olympian, with the possible exception of basketball star Michael Jordan, although she retains her amateur status.
Retton has long-term deals with nine corporations, including Eveready batteries, McDonalds, Sasson, Hasbrough Toys, Pony, Dolby and General Mills, where she is the first woman athlete to promote Wheaties cereal.
"A lot of feeling went into my decision to retire." Redton said. "Ever since I was 8 years old I wanted to compete."
She said she hasn't completely given up gymnastics and has been training and working out on the Texas campus. But she said the school did not have a gymnastics team.
"Everything is football down there," she said.