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University Daily Kansan / Thursday, September 25, 1986
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NCAA calls new drug plan foolproof
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--would be stripped of any honors, he said.
WASHINGTON — The NCAA unveiled yesterday a "fail-safe and foolproof" program for testing student-athletes for a wide range of illegal drugs and performance-enhancing substances during championship competition.
National Collegiate Athletic Association Executive Director Walter Byers said athletes would be tested by urinalysis before and after championships in 21 men's and women's sports as well as football bowl games, starting this fall. The NCAA will not test during the regular season, leaving that up to each school.
An athlete who tested positive or refused to submit to a test before an event would be stripped of his eligibility to compete. Byers said. An athlete who refused to take a test or tested positive after competition
if any player tested positive after a football bowl game, his team automatically would be declared the loser. Byers said.
The NCAA would not publicly identify an athlete who tests positively, Byers said, but would give the name to the school.
"(The program) is directed to the health and welfare of the student athlete, and it is directed to ensuring equitable and fair competition for national honors." Byers told a news conference.
"It is designed to, in part, give the necessary support for the student athlete to resist peer pressures to try drugs and to resist competitive pressures to use drugs," he said.
The testing program, part of an anti-drug plan that includes a nationwide drug education program, was approved by NCAA member colleges
this year, but was detailed for the first time Wednesday. The NCAA oversees and regulates the bulk of the nation's intercollegiate athletics.
The NCAA will spend $950,000 this academic year on the testing and has set aside an additional $2 million for helping laboratories process the tests.
Two laboratories approved by the International Olympic Committee, one at the UCLA Medical Center and the other at the National Institute for Scientific Research at the University of Quebec in Montreal, will handle the processing of the urine samples.
Drugs that will be tested for include amphetamines, cocaine, heroin, marijuana, anabolic steroids, growth hormones and nervous system stimulants, including high levels of caffeine. In addition, there will be tests for blood-doping, the intravenous injection of whole blood, and local anesthetics.
Robert Dugal, director of the testing division at the University of Quebec, ruled out the possibility of the tests being tampered with to produce false positive readings for drugs.
"The systems we use are fail-safe and foolproof," Dugal said. "The procedures are quite stringent. There is no chance of two urine samples being mixed up."
Byers refused to specify how athletes would be chosen for testing. A statement from the NCAA said all were subjects to testing during the championships, but some may be more likely than others to be selected because of his-or-her importance to the team.
Brushing aside long-standing objections by civil libertarians that drug testing violates an individual's constitutional rights, Byers described the NCAA program as "legally defensible."
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Brian McGreevy, Wichita junior, practices on the driving range at Alvamar Country Club. McGreevy won his second straight tournament earlier this week at the All-College Golf Classic in Oklahoma City.
Hard work gives golfer confidence
By BRIAN SNYDER
Sports writer
Trying to find a parking space at Alvamar Country Club is not only ing but also an education in golf terminology.
tertiary.
Personalized license plates shout out golf sayings like "OL3PUTT" and "4."
Farther down the row of cars is a plate that says "ZIPUTT."
place that dogs live.
A good guess at the owner of this car would be Wichita junior Brian McGreevey.
A member of the Kansas men's golf team, McGreevy is the hottest KU golfer and is coming off his second straight tournament victory at the All-College Golf Classic in Oklahoma City. His individual round scores of 73, 70 and 69 were good enough to beat his closest competitor, who was from North Texas State, by two strokes.
McGreevy is not only on a hot streak, he is a changed person on the golf course, the Kansas men's golf head coach said yesterday.
"He's more determined on the course." Coach Ross Randall said. "So much of golf is concentration and confidence. I'm happy with the way he's playing. He's had the talent all along."
After a successful freshman year, McGreevy had a disappointing sophomore season. McGreevy said family concerns had been an incentive to perform well this year on the golf course.
"I've played here for two years," he said yesterday. "There wasn't a breakthrough with my playing until this year. My father was very sick and in the hospital. He's gotten bet
Buckling down has given McGreewy the confidence to win in golf. He approaches the ball knowing he will hit a perfect shot every time, although each shot doesn't turn out that way. He said he now was standing over the ball with confidence.
er, though. I backed down for him. I spent the summer in Lawrence working with Coach Randall."
"I just want to stay in the hunt," McGreeyy said. "I try to play with confidence on every stroke."
On Tuesday, the last day of the Oklahoma tournament, McGreevy found himself under pressure with the individual championship up for grabs. The last two holes decided the championship.
"I sank a 15-foot putt on the seventeenth and birdied the final hole," he said. "I won by two strokes. Playing under pressure seems to build my confidence. I play better under pressure."
McGreevy said going further in golf was always in the back of his mind. But for now, he and his teammates are trying to place third in the Big Eight Conference and quality for the National Collegiate Athletic Association championships at the end of May.
"The Big Eight is one of the best golfing conferences in the country," he said. "Oklahoma State is unbeatable and is always ranked. Oklahoma is usually ranked in the top ten in the country too. Missouri will be our competition for third."
Jayhawks beat MU in volleyball match
By HEATHER FRITZ
Associate sports editor
The Kansas volleyball team beat conference rival Missouri last night in Columbia in three games, improving its record to 9-1.
The Jayhawks won 15-10, 15-5,
15-4 and are now 1-1 in the Big
Eight Conference. Their loss was
to Nebraska last week in
Lawrence.
"It wasn't as easy as the score shows," KU head coach Frankie Albitz said after last night's game. "It looked a smoother out there tonight. I'm more pleased with that than with winning in three."
Suarez had a 50 percent hitting percentage, which Albitz called amazing. Kansas had a team total of 14 aces and 40 kills, compared with only 25 kills for Missouri.
"That's nice," Albitz said. "Catalina has a lot to do with that."
The Jayhawks split two regular season matches with Missouri last
year, but the Tigers beat Kansas in the first round of the Big Eight Tournament. This year Missouri was playing with a new coach, first-year head coach Craig Sherman.
"The first year is always difficult for a coach." Albizt said. "They're running a different defense. It takes time to adjust."
Albitz, whose first year at Kansas was last season, said part of the reason for the Jahaywhs' success this year was that the players were better adjusted to her than last year. Last year the Jahaywhs finished the season 17-15 overall and 2-8 in the conference.
"We're doing pretty well." Albitz said of the team's 9-1 record. "They know me more. They don't worry about me anymore. We're able to fine-tune it now."
Albitz said the other Kansas standouts were seter Monica Spencer and hitter Shannon Ridgeway.
"Shannon did the best job of hitting that I've seen in two years," Albitz said. "She had some really good shots tonight."
NCAA should declare all freshmen ineligible
Walter Byers, the executive director of the NCAA, has had an influence on collegiate sports for 35 years, but before he retires in the summer of 1988 he could leave one last imprint.
Byers and the National Collegiate Athletic Association should return to
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Sports editor
meer pre-1970 practice of declaring freshmen ineligible from varsity competition.
competent. Playing a year on freshman teams would benefit the players and the schools' athletic programs. By the time their sophomore year came, players would know exactly what a coach expected from them and what his system was like.
Not only should the NCAA declare freshmen ineligible, it should allow them four years of eligibility afterwards. Before the 1970s, freshmen were ineligible but they got only three years of eligibility.
If the NCAA truly was concerned about the athletes and not the almighty dollar, this would be a sensible move. The NCAA took steps this
year to put the student back into student athlete; now it needs to continue in that direction.
Proposition 48, which took effect this year, was a positive move. It set basic high school requirements for incoming freshmen athletes — requirements that most students should fulfill before seeking a higher education.
But Proposition 48 took its toll on programs across the country. Freshman recruits left and right fell victim to the guidelines
College athletes had been declared academically ineligible long before the new legislation came along and they will continue to be declared academically ineligible long after Byers leaves office.
Making freshman ineligible would not eliminate the problem entirely, but it would help.
Too often, 18-year-olds are put in a situation where they are closely scrutinized by a university, the public and the press. These are kids who six months earlier had only to worry about whom to take to the senior prom.
They have to adjust not only to the pressures of college athletics, but also to the academic lifestyle change
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Company won't press charges against 34 Hurricane athletes
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MIAMI The University of Miami and MCI reached an agreement yesterday that will keep the long-distance carrier from pressing charges against Hurricane football players who made long-distance calls using someone else's access card number.
Miami Athletic Director Sam Jankovich met with officials of MCI Telecommunications Inc. and said the matter had been resolved. The company had threatened to press legal action.
An investigation by the Miami athletic department and MCI found that up to 34 players were involved, along with an undetermined number of other students. The Miami Herald said the bill for the calls could have been as high as $28,000.
The No. 2 Hurricanes play topranked Oklahoma on Saturday at the Orange Bowl.
Many of the calls allegedly were made from New Orleans where the Hurricanes played in the Sugar Bowl on New Year's Day. Most of the players have paid MCI for their calls.
"We had a telephone conversation and visited with (MCI officials) and another meeting has been set for Friday to go over people who still have a balance." Jankovich said. "MCI has informed me they will not press any charges against the student athletes involved. We have 12 players who still owe. We will sit down with those 12 and develop a payment schedule on Friday."
David Berst, director of enforcement for the NCAA in Mission, said he was unsure whether the NCAA would investigate the matter.
In a related matter, the NCAA announced Tuesday that Mississippi State has been placed on probation for one year for violations involving the use of telephones by athletes. The violations involved use of telephone and athletic department WATS lines by athletes in programs for men's and women's basketball, and women's golf, tennis and softball, the NCAA said.
An unidentified Hurricane player was quoted by the Herald as saying players got the long-distance access number in a building on the Miami campus where the number had been posted on a bulletin board. He said several numbers had been posted around the campus in the past two years.
Lewis to quit football after injury
"For it to be an NCAA matter there would have to be some connection between use of the telephones and athletic department officials," Berst said.
Jankovic said the investigation began shortly after the Sugar Bowl, which Miami lost to Tennessee. 35-7.
GREEN BAY, Wis. — Green Bay Packers cornerback Tim Lewis will quit football because of a neck injury received in Monday night's Packers-Chicago Bears game.
Chicago Bears 20, who had been among the team's leaders in interceptions and tackles, announced yesterday he was retiring because another neck injury could leave him paralyzed for life.
Television fans across the nation watched Monday night when Lewis collided head on with Chicago Bears receiver Willie Gault. Lewis lay motionless for several minutes before he was carried off on a stretcher.
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"We were like battering rams," Lewis said. "I ducked. I tried to get lower than he was, but we hit head on and, crunch."
After hospital examinations in Green Bay and Milwaukee, doctors
Lewis said he was feeling only tingling aftereffects from the collision, but the medical examinations revealed that he had been born with a smaller than normal spinal canal.
"When they put it on you like that, there's not much decision you have to make." Lewis said. "You roll with the punches and get on with your life."
advised Lewis not to play football again because another hit could leave him paralyzed. He was released from the hospital Tuesday.
Lewis, in his fourth year with the Packers, said he was uncertain about his future but told Coach Forrest Gregg he would like to enter coaching.
In 1984, Lewis missed two preseason games when he suffered a neck injury in an intra-squad scrimmage.
"Of course this is a sad day for us,
as it is a sad day for Tim." Gregg said.
He said Lewis would be placed on injured reserve status for the remainder of the year, but that his career was over.
"You can't replace people of Tim Lewis' caliber by drafting another player or signing another player." Gregg said. "He will be missed by this entire team."
Lewis was a No. 1 draft pick from the University of Pittsburgh in 1983. He did not start until the 10th game that year but made five interceptions in the last seven games to share team honors with linebacker John Anderson.
He made team history the next season when he picked off a pass at the 1-yard line against the Los Angeles Rams and ran it back for a touchdown. The return broke a club record dating back to 1950.
White homers as KC beats Twins
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MINNEAPOLIS — Frank White hit a home run in the ninth inning and led the Kansas City Royals to a 2-1 victory last night over the Minnesota Twins.
White's homer, his 20th of the year,
was the 46th home run allowed by
Bert Blyleen this season, tying the
major-league record set by Robin Roberts of the Philadelphia Phillies in 1956.
Blyleen, 15-14, struck out 14 and did not walk a batter as he pitched his 15th complete game this year, tying him with Tom Candiotti of Cleveland for the American League lead in complete games. Blyleen's eighth-inning strikeout of Mike Kingery was
Dan Quisenberry, 3-7, was the winning pitcher. He allowed no runs and only one hit during the 2 2-3 innings he pitched. Mark Gubicea pitched the first 6 1-3 innings for Kansas City, allowing one run on four hits.
his 200th of the season, marking the eighth time in 17 years the right-hander has reached that plateau.
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Taking it on the chin
August Tetzlaff, left, Lawrence resident, delivers a blow to Dwane Lewis night. Lawrence resident, in a full contact karate demonstration. The demonstration was put on by the Vanguard Karate Team of KU last night in Robinson Center.