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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday, December 3, 1992
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Schott vows to fight allegations
Two Reds' partners ask for resignation of outspoken owner
The Associated Press
CINCINNATI As three more people came forward with allegations against Marge Schott and a former player threatened to sue, two of her Cincinnati Reds' coowners asked yesterday for her resignation.
Sen. Howard Metzenbaum said he would bring up Schott's alleged racial remarks at a Senate hearing next week and a house of the Illinois legislature approved a resolution yesterday asking that Schott be kicked out of baseball.
Two of the Red's seven limited partners, Cincinnati businessman George Strike and Chicago bookstore-chain owner Carl Kroch, issued a statement demanding that Schott resign as the team's general partner and chief executive officer if she had made racial slurs attributed to her.
The two sued Schott in 1989 in a financial dispute. Schott controls 6 1/2 of the Reds' 15 partnership shares.
"We feel that there's no place in baseball for bigotry or racial slurs," Strike said. "Too many reports of Mrs. Schott's racial slurs have occurred for us to remain silent."
Asked if he would like to become the Reds' controlling partner, Strike said, "My interest is to keep the Reds here and have the Reds get this behind them and move ahead in a positive manner."
Metzenbaum, an Ohio Democrat who once owned part of the Cleveland Indians,
was appalled at Schott's comment. "Hitte was good in the beginning, but he went too far," he said. The comment was reported in *The New York Times* on Sunday.
Metzenbaum will head a Senate Judiciary antitrust subcommittee meeting on baseball Dec. 10, and said he would discuss Schott. Executive council chairperson Bud Selig is among the scheduled witnesses.
"For this woman to have a swastika in her home, come on, this is America," said Metzenbaum, who is Jewish.
Former Reds' employees and others have accused Schott of referring to people as "million-dollar niggers." "Jew bastards," and "Japs." She admitted keeping a swastika arm band at home, but said it was a gift from a former employee and she did not understand why it was controversial. Schott did not return telephone calls to her office yesterday. The ruling executive
council on Tuesday appointed a four-man committee to investigate her alleged remarks
Schott told The Cincinnati Post that baseball's investigation is a good idea.
"I have nothing to hide," she told the paper. "This is a very hard time for me. There's no denying that. Quitting would be very easy right now, but quitting's not my style."
One of the accusations against Schott that she referred to former Reds' outfielder Dave Parker as a "million-dollar nigger." Parker played for the team from 1984 to 1987.
"Evidently, there was a lot of hidden hatred on her behalf for people like myself," Parker said yesterday. "Things that I didn't know about are coming out from all over. There's no in-between. Marge cannot be connected to baseball. She is a blatant racist."
Yankees withdraw offer to Bonds, sides break talks
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — The New York Yankees pulled their offer to free agent Barry Bonds off the table yesterday as the sides got stuck on whether the deal would be for five years or six.
Yankees general manager Gene Michael traveled to Tampa, Fla., to consult with other team officials while Bonds' agent, Dennis Gilbert, remained in Los Angeles.
Michael said he did not know when he might speak again to Gilbert.
"We don't have any plans right now. We've tried to get it done and we can't do it," Michael said. "We made a hell of an offer. Now we're going to concentrate on stealing for pitching."
The Yankees were said to have made an offer to Bonds of about $35 million for five years, but that Gilbert was pushing for a six-year deal worth about $42 million.
we got tung up on the sixth year," Michael said. The sides had talked until almost 2 a.m. yesterday before breaking off.
Hilleary tops coaches' Big 8 squad
Coaches' All-Big Eight teams
First team
Offense
WR Michael Westbrook
VIctor Bailey
TE Dwayne Chandler
TK Kirk Hatcher
Zach Weigert
G Mike Bedosky
John Jones
Will Shields
C Jim Scott
QB Chip Hillear
RB Derek Brown
Calvin Jones
KR/P James McMillion
PR Dan Elloch
Colorado
Missouri
Kansas
Kansas
Nebraska
Kansas
Nebraska
Nebraska
Kansas
Nebraska
Nebraska
Kansas
Defense
OLB Chad Brown
Ron Woolfork
Trev Alberts
DL **Dana Stubblefield**
John Parrell
Leonard Renfro
ILB Golek Grebert
Keith Burns
DB Chris Hudson
Ronnie Bradford
Dean Figures
**Katherine Lester**
Mark Doubrava
Jaime Mendez
Darnell Walker
P Sean Snyder
Colorado
Colorado
Nebraska
Kansas
Nebraska
Colorado
Colorado
Oklahoma State
Colorado
Colorado
Colorado
Kansas
Colorado
Kansas State
Kansas State
Oklahoma
Kansas State
Kansas players on the second team
Offense
RB Maurice Douglas Kansas
Defense
DL Gilbert Brown Kansas Chris Maunalanga Kansas
Source: The Associated Press
Justin Knupp / KANSAN
Kansas quarterback Chip Hillery was selected the top quarterback in the Big Eight Conference yesterday by conference coaches. Hillery was also the top quarterback in the media poll.
Basketball's top four will battle for No.1
By David Dorsey
Kansas sportwriter
Kansan sportswriter
Powerhouse matchups are on tap for college basketball fans this weekend, as the top four teams in the nation prepare to battle one another.
No. 3 Kansas faces No. 2 Indiana at the Hoosier Dome in Indianapolis, and No. 1 Michigan will face No. 4 Duke at Cameron Indoor Stadium in Durham, N.C., in a rematch of fast season's NCAA Championship game.
the implications of each game are high. Kansas defeated Indiana in their last meeting, during the 1991 NCAA Tournament. The Jayhawks went on to the championship game, where they lost to Duke.
Although Duke won its second consecutive championship last season, Michigan is favored as the top-ranked team early this season because of a younger, more athletic lineup.
Kansas coach Roy Williams said that playing a high-quality team early in the season could be beneficial to his program.
"I'll give us a more true test," Williams said. "We'll have a truer sense of where we are by playing Indiana as opposed to St. Mary's Sisters of the Blind or something like that. I do think that this kind of game, the attention that's going to get, will hopefully help our concentration. But at the same time, why was our concentration so bad last night?"
Williams referred to Tuesday night's 76-65 victory against the Georgia Bulls.
dogs, in which the Jayhawks played poorly in the second half. The Bulldogs are No. 35 in the Associated Press poll.
Dick Vitale, ESPN's color commentator who called the Kansas-Georgia game, said that the Jayhawks' first two games would help them in the long run.
"Playing people like Georgia and Indiana getting ready for the tough Big Eight is positive," he said. "You learn a lot more about your team than you do by playing a bunch of cupcakes."
Kansas guard Adonis Jordan said that he enjoyed playing against tougher competition.
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"I love it," he said. "No cupcakes. We're going to be on the road at the Hoosier Dome, and we're going to have really pull together."
Ben Davis, the sophomore who quit the Kansas team last month, will transfer to the University of Florida next semester, Florida announced yesterday. Davis, a 6-foot-8 forward who averaged 6.6 points and 4.5 rebounds a game last season, will finish this semester at Kansas before transferring.
Davis said he wanted to transfer to a school closer to his hometown, Fort Pierce, Fla.
He will play for Coach Lon Kruger, who coached at Kansas State from 1987 to 1990. Because of NCAA rules, Kruger cannot comment on Davis until he enrolls at Florida.
The Associated Press
Missouri extends Stull's contract
COLUMBIA, Mo. — Missouri football coach Bob Stull, who silenced his critics at least temporarily by winning his final two games, was given a two-year contract extension yesterday, athletic director Dan Devine said.
The extension was worked out in a meeting with Devine and Missouri chancellor Charles Kiesler.
Devine and Kiesler also discussed basketball coach Norm Stewart, and Devine said the university and Stewart were close to reaching agreement on a five-year contract.
"The chancellor agreed with my recommendations regarding Bob Stull," Devine said. "Now the university attorneys will draw it up in legal form. In Norm's case, I think an agreement is imminent."
Stull is 12-31-1 in four years at Missoul. He had one year left on his original five-year contract, but now is signed through 1995.
The Tigers were 3-8 this season, finishing it off by beating Kansas State and Kansas in the final two games. The NCAA rated Stull's schedule one of the most difficult in the country.
Devine credited Stull with improving the academic performance, retention and graduation rates.
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