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Thursday, October 16, 1997
UCLA basketball team copes with loss of starters
The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — Toby Bailey and J.R. Henderson are getting good at picking up the pieces.
The UCLA senior basketball
players lost coach Jim Harrick when he was fired weeks before last season began and still came within a game of reaching the Final Four.
Now, in a season that once held the promise
of a Final Four trip, the Bruins are missing swingman Kris Johnson and center Jelani McCoy.
In addition, recruit Schea Cotton won't be around at all. The NCAA invalidated his SAT score, making him ineligible to enroll at UCLA.
Johnson, a senior, and McCoy, a junior, were indefinitely suspended Sept. 29 for violating athletic department policies and team rules.
"I was upset and disappointed," said Bailey, a close friend of Johnson's. "Without two of your starters that you were depending on, especially a big man like Jelani, it's definitely going to be harder this year."
Johnson and McCoy are not allowed to participate in any team activities, but if unspecified conditions are met, they may be reinstated at some point.
Or their college playing days could be over.
That decision is up to coach Steve Lavin and athletic director Peter Dalis.
"What I was encouraged by was their
"We're not going to be as good a basketball team if they never play at UCLA again," said Lavin, who is in regular contact with both players. "What I we
actions and in the conversations with them. They realize they made a mistake. At one point Kris said, 'I let my family down, the school down, my teammates down.' That's the first sign there's a resolve in them- that they want to be part of this," he said.
Johnson and McCoy haven't become total outcasts. They play pickup games with Bailey and Henderson and work out on their own.
"I don't make them feel guilty," Bailey said. "They know how special this team can be if they have a chance to come back. I think they just want to redeem themselves. That's the major thing they're thinking about right now."
A sign that Johnson and McCoy may return is the fact that both still are in school. They could have transferred or gone to Europe to
begin professional careers.
With Johnson and McCoy joining Bailey and Henderson in the starting lineup, along with freshman point guard Baron Davis, the Bruins were projected as a top-five team in several preseason publications.
"Hopefully, we can get some wins early in the season and show everybody that we're still a tough team." Ballev said.
Without them, UCLA's chances of winning a fourth consecutive Pacific-10 Conference title and making a run at the national championship are dim.
The Bruins begin practice Saturday. Their first game is Nov. 27 against North Carolina in the Great Alaska Shootout.
Johnson is an explosive scorer and solid rebounder, while the 6-foot-10 McCoy is one of the top field-goal shooters in the conference and a dominant shot-blocker.
"Forty-five points and 24 rebounds we lost in the last couple weeks," Lavin said. "We've got our hands full in terms of coming up with that."
Henderson is a gift player who can fill all five positions. But at 6-8 1/2, he lacks McCoy's presence in the middle and could find himself getting pummeled. The rest of the Bruins are 6-8 or smaller.
“That's why I'm working hard now to try to prepare for that situation,” said Henderson, who bulked up during the summer. “Our rebounding is the main thing that's going to give us problems.”
Owners approve one-team realignment plan for next year
The Associated Press
BALTIMORE — Baseball owners approved a one-team realignment plan yesterday that in effect gives Kansas City the first choice to join the National League next season.
commissioner Bud Selig said the decision would be made after the World Series.
The resolution, which was approved during a telephone conference call, did not specify which American League team will move, but acting
Detroit will move from the AL East to the AL Central, and the expansion Tampa Bay Devil Rays will take the Tigers' place in the East under the plan.
Milwaukee and Minnesota are the other teams that could move, baseball owners and officials said, speaking on the condition they not be identified. The Brewers had agreed to switch if Kansas City declines, they said.
The vote on the plan was nearly unanimous. All teams voted in favor, except the San Francisco Giants, who abstained.
With the switches, the NL will have 16 teams next season and the AL 14. That enables owners to bunch interleague games into specific periods of the season.
Under the 15-15 format owners approved in January, an interleague game would have been needed nearly every day to keep teams from having off-days on
weekends.
"We have taken care of the two most immediate concerns, moving Tampa Bay into a more agreeable geographic division and creating a 16-14 league alignment," Selig said in a statement.
When the 1998 expansion teams were assigned to leagues in January, owners put the Arizona Diamondbacks in the NL West and assigned Tampa
Bay to the AL without giving them a specific division. Because no AL Central team wanted to move, a preliminary schedule was drawn up with the Devil Rays in the AL West.
Selig had pushed for radical geographic realignment, in which 15 teams would have switched leagues. When that plan failed to gain enough support, he backed a seven-team proposal in which the four AL West teams would have gone to the NL in exchange for Florida, Montreal and another team, possibly Houston.
San Francisco threatened to block that, claiming a move of Oakland to the NL would have violated its exclusive NL rights to the Bay area. In addition, the players' association, not wanting the AL to lose its nationwide exposure, also opposed the plan, threatening to stop interleague play after the 1998 season.
Selig said that today's vote was only the first step and that he envisioned additional switches for 1999 or beyond.
Kansas City has always been an AL city, with the Athletics moving there from Philadelphia before the 1955 season and staying until their move to Oakland following the 1967 season.
Milwaukee was an NL town from
1953, the first season after the Braves moved there from Boston, until 1965, the last year before the franchise moved on to Atlanta.
The Brewers moved to Milwaukee before the 1970 season, having started their existence the previous year as the Seattle Pilots. Selig led a group that purchased the Pilots in bankruptcy court. He is still the Brewers' president.
"We said all along that we'll do what's in the best interests of baseball," Selig said of the Brewers Tuesday night.
Under the plan, the AL will maintain a balanced schedule next season, with teams playing each opponent in their division 12 times. Teams will meet clubs in other divisions of their league 11 times.
In the NL, teams will play 12 games against divisional opponents and nine games against teams in the other divisions.
The remaining games will be against interleague opponents, with the interleague schedule remaining the same as this year: AL East vs. NL East, AL Central vs. NL Central and AL West vs. NL West.
Former football player sues college
Paralized athlete blames school for game-related injury
AUSTIN, Texas — In a case that could trigger an avalanche of lawsuits by athletes, a former football player paralyzed in a game nearly 23 years ago is suing
If the wins, former running back Kent Waldrep could be entitled to workers' compensation plus reimbursement for medical expenses. Jury selection began yesterday.
sity employee. The trial could lead to a revolutionary change in college sports, redefining athletes as a work force.
The Associated Press
A Waldrep victory also could prompt legal action by athletes who were hurt while playing college sports. Athletes now are covered by catastrophic-injury insurance provided by the NCAA, the governing body of college athletics. At the time Waldrep was paralyzed, the NCAA had such coverage.
"It's about schools providing the same workman's compensation and health insurance to players that they provide the secretary in the football office," Waldrep told the "San Antonio Express-News" this summer.
Texas Christian University because of his injury. The crux of the case is whether an athlete is a univer-
"These are kids who are bringing jillions of dollars to the school they play for. The failure to take care of them is totally absurd."
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TCU's insurance carrier, the Texas Employers Insurance Association in Receivership, refused to pay, appealing the decision. Under state law, that meant sending the case to district court.
Waldrep filed a claim based on the same premise with the Texas Workers Compensation Commission. In March 1993 the panel ruled in his favor and said he should be paid $70 a week for life plus medical bills dating to the accident, then estimated at more that $50,000.
Waldre hasn't walked since snapping his neck in a game against Alabama in Legion Field on Oct. 27,1974.
He remained in an Alabama hospital for a month and nearly died of pneumonia. He was told at a Houston rehabilitation clinic that he was paralyzed from the neck down and that he should get used to life in a wheelchair.
Since then, Waldrep has founded the National Paralysis Foundation and has raised $30 million for spinal cord research. He helped create the Americans With Disabilities Act and also wrote a book, "Fourth and Long," that was published last year.
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Waldrep has been married and has two children. Through physical therapy, he has regained use of his arms and feeling in his toes.
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