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Kevin Everhart, Salina freshman, demonstrates his outfielding ability during walk-on tryouts for the KU baseball team last week.
Walk-on is confident during tryouts
By DAVID BOYCE Assistant Sports Editor
The New York Mets last year were known for their confidence during their pennant-winning season. Kevin Everhart, wearing a Mets hat, exuded that same confidence last Monday at the KU baseball walk-on meeting.
In fact, Everhart, Salina freshman, displayed that confidence throughout trout week.
Before the meeting, Everhart said he thought he had a chance to make the team and could contribute if selected.
"I want to add a winning attitude." he said.
Sunny skies greeted Everthar and about 80 other walk-onss Tuesday, when baseball coach Dave Bingham tested running, throwing and fielding ability.
Everhart, trying out as an outfielder, cleanly fielded every fly ball hit to him that day.
"I'm not ashamed of anything I did today," he said. "But there are a lot of people out here."
Before the first practice ended, Everhart was not sure if he would
be back Wednesday to participate in a scrimmage game.
"But it was fun," Everhart said of his first day of practice at Quigley Field.
The question that lingered in his mind, however, was would he make it to Wednesday's scrimmage?
Bingham cut 20 players after the first practice. Everhart was not one of them.
But Everhard didn't play Wednesday, nor did 60 other walk-ons, because of wet fields. The scrummage game for Thursday also was
Despite the rainouts, the weather couldn't dampen Everhart's spirits.
Finally, on Friday, Everhart showed Bingham the skills he displayed during his high school days at Salina South.
In Everhart's first at bat, he hit a fly ball to medium-depth center field.
"I was a little nervous my first at bat, but I hit the ball fairly well." Everhart said.
As for fielding, Everhart cleanly
fielded a single up the middle.
"There's not much coaching going on," he said. "It's a time to show the coaches what you can do."
After two practices, Everhart was pleased with the way he was performing.
"I am still confident," he said. "I have played fairly well."
At Fridays practice, Bingham told the walk-ons he planned to bring 25 of them back for a nine-hour trip on Saturday. Did Everhart make it?
Everhard indeed was one of the players brought back Saturday morning for a final look before Bingham and the coaching staff made a decision on whom to keep.
"I did okay," Everhart said. "I hit the ball well, but I didn't get any hits."
Everhart finds out today whether he makes the team.
"I am going to the baseball office after class around 12:00," he said. "I'm not nervous, but I will be disappointed if I don't make it."
Once the week ended, Everhart said he was pleased with the
handling of tryouts.
"I thought it was handled the way it was supposed to be done," he said. "Last year, I heard they had the walk-ons throw a few times and hit a few balls; but this year, everyone got a chance to show what they could do."
Everhart said he could have done better but he was still satisfied with his performance.
"A coach from Hutchinson Community College asked me and a few players if they would be interested in playing junior college baseball," Everhart said. "But I am pretty happy here, so I doubt if I would so."
Bingham said the toughest part about choosing walk-ons was to project what they might do in two years. Most freshmen were not going to contribute significantly their first year, so he needed to look at what they may do their junior and senior years, he said.
Bingham said it was much tougher for an upperclassman to walk on because he would have to contribute his first year.
Federation may vote to permit pro players in Olympic basketball
BY DARRIN STINEMAN
Staff writer
Magic Johnson, Michael Jordan, and Larry Bird in the Olympics? If things keep going as they are in the International Amateur Basketball Federation, those names could very possibly grace the backs of red, white, and blue uniforms in 1992.
At the International Amateur Basketball Federation's world congress in Barcelona, Spain, last year, the issue of opening international basketball competition to professionals failed by only four votes.
Although many in the United States would be overjoyed at the idea of seeing such National Basketball Association greats put the Soviets and every other Olympic basketball team to shame, the idea has not been greeted with open arms in the U.S. basketball community.
"I wouldn't like to see that happen," he said. "It's an experience I would cherish. We've done it a certain way and it's been successful, and I'd like to see us stay with that."
Kansas coach Larry Brown, a member of the 1964 gold medal team, said an influx of professional players to the American team would exclude virtually all U.S. college players from the games.
Danny Manning, KU All-American forward, had mixed feelings.
"I think if we played with professionals in the Olympics, we would definitely showcase the talent we have in this country," he said. "I think it would also deprive a lot of
future professional players of playing in the Olympics."
He said that he was against the movement but that if the opportunity came up, when he was a professional he'd consider playing.
Manning, who played in the Pan American Games this summer, agreed with Brown that wearing the white and blue is a special 'feeling'
"It means a lot to go out and represent your country," he said. "You get to meet a lot of people and you have a lot of fun."
Jayhawk guard Milt Newton, who played for the U.S. Virgin Islands in the Pan Am Games, was also skeptical about the idea.
"I don't think it would give the amateur players a chance because the pro players obviously have more experience."
William Simmons, Topeka junior,
said he was against the U.S. using
National Basketball Association
players in international competition.
"It defeats the purpose of the Olympics," he said. "I don't think (the other teams) would have a chance if we put NBA players in."
But John Shaffer, Overland Park sophomore, disagrees.
The IABF is scheduled to vote on the proposition again during the 1990 men's basketball world championships in Argentina.
"I think that would be great," he said. "That would be the way to do it. Everyone else does it that way, don't they?"
Football ticket sales down from last year
By a Kansan reporter
The sale of Kansas' season football tickets is down a little from last year, said Kent Weiser, director of marketing for the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation.
As of Friday, only 18,653 football season tickets had been sold. Included in this total were 11,103 tickets sold to members of the faculty and the general public, 7,500 student all-sports tickets and 50 other student football season tickets.
Weiser said the overall decline in ticket sales could be traced in part to last year's 3-8 season and an unattractive home schedule this year that included non-conference opponents Southern Illinois, Kent State and Louisiana Tech.
Weiser is also in charge of the Hawks Club, which has chapters in Lawrence and Kansas City. The Lawrence group has 75 members this year, and the Kansas City group has more than 100 members, he said. The final results of the organization's season ticket sales drive will not be known until next week, but the club already has sold tickets to more than 1,000 new buyers, he said.
The Club worked to get out among the community and spread the word directly instead of just mailing information to potential buyers.
Manning plays basketball to relax from Pan Am Games
"We want to make ticket sales into a community effort," he said. "Some people don't realize the impact large businesses make on the local business district.
Manning just can't get away from basketball, but he doesn't want to either.
By a Kansan reporter
Basketball is a year-round passion for Danny Manning. When he is not playing for an organized team, Manning plays pickup games.
After returning from the Pan American Games in Indianapolis, Manning was ready to relax before the rigors of a 35-plus game schedule.
And how does he relax? Playing basketball, of course.
"I just want to play and have a few days to myself," Manning said before a pickup game Friday at Allen Field House. "Coming down here and playing with the fellas — that's a lot of fun."
Manning said playing with center David Robinson at the Pan Am Games was a lot of fun as well.
After being swallowed up by zone defenses most of last season, Manning was allowed some breathing room with Robinson, last year's colt.
With someone else there to attract the defense. Manning was set free.
"You get tired of it at times," he said. "It's something I like to do, and I do it as much as I can. When I get tired of it I'll stop."
Even though Manning sees basketball as a year-round activity, he says he sometimes worries about getting burned out.
Tennessee kicks way to victory
The Associated Press
Reich also connected from 45 and 25 yards earlier in the fourth quarter to bring the Vols back from a 19-14 deficit after they blew a 14-3 second-period lead in the fifth annual Kickoff Classic.
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Phil Reich, Tennessee's new placekicker since six years of the Revez brothers, kicked his third field goal, a 20-yarder with three seconds left Sunday as the 17th-ranked Volunteers opened the college football season by defeating No. 16 Iowa 23-22.
What proved decisive, however, was Iowa's failure on a two-point conversion pass after taking a 19-14 lead on Kevin Harmon's 20-yard touchdown run late in the third period.
Tennessee's redshirt freshman Reggie Cobb was the game's most valuable player and leading rusher with 138 vards on 25 carries.
Tennessee scored both its touchdowns in the second period on a 1-yard run by William Howard and a 96-yard run by linebacker Darrin Miller after he intercepted a pitchout from Chuck Hartlieb, one of Iowa's three quarterbacks.
Harmon scored Iowa's first touchdown on a 23-yard run after taking a shovel pass from Hartleib in the second period. The Hawkeyes' other points came on field goals of 42, 27 and 42 yards by Rob Houghtlin.
Tennessee's winning drive began with 4:37 left after Terence Cleveland returned a punt four yards to his 29. The march included a 15-yard pass interference penalty against Iowa's James Pipkins and a 16-yard pass from Jeff Francis to tight end Nate Middlebrooks at the Iowa 36.
A crowd of 54,681 watched the game in 77-degree weather in 76,000-seat Giants Stadium. Some 58,174 tickets were sold.
The Vols looked like they might break it open when Miller's 96-yard run with 5:46 left in the second period made it 14-3 and capped a magnificent goal-line stand that prevented Iowa from taking the lead.
However, on Hartlieb's second series, he took the Hawkeyes 70 yards in 10 plays, including a 22-yard shovel pass to Harmon. That made it 14-10, and Houghtlin's second field brought Iowa within a point early in the third period.
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