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Thursday, October 1, 1998
NBA negotiations fall apart
Continued dispute virtually assures delayed season
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — The first delay to the start of the NBA season was virtually assured yesterday when the league announced labor talks will not resume until Oct. 8.
NBA spokesman Chris Brienza confirmed the decision three days after commissioner David Stern,
deputy commissioner Russ Granik, union director Billy Hunter and union president Patrick Ewing met for one hour.
The league wanted to meet for a formal bargaining session as soon as today, but the union said nothing could be scheduled until Oct. 8 because of previous commitments, Granik said.
"I was bowled over to hear that we can't meet for nine days while Rome is burning." Granik told the Philadelphia Daily News.
The regular season is scheduled to begin Nov. 3, and at least three weeks would be needed after an
agreement 18 reached to sign players, make trades and hold abbreviated training camps.
The league already has announced an indefinite postponement of training camps and has canceled 25 exhibition games. The remainder of the preseason
could be scrapped later this week.
The league, which locked out the players July 1, is seeking a labor system that includes a definitive ceiling on team payrolls, or a hard salary cap. The union insists it will not accept such a deal.
Only one formal bargaining session was held during the summer, and the meeting ended abruptly when the owners walked up upon hearing the players' latest proposal.
League officials have indicated they think the union is stalling in hopes that a victory in the grievance will provide leverage in negotiations.
Penn State to face No.1 Ohio State
The Associated Press
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — Penn State didn't stop Ohio State last year, and Penn State coach Joe Paterno doesn't expect his seventh-ranked Nittany Lions to stop the No. 1 Buckeye this Saturday, either.
"They're going to move the football, they're going to score points." Paterno said Tuesday. "The only thing we can do is try to make sure the points they score are not easy ones, and that we don't make mistakes when we have the football."
Penn State's defense gave up 565 yards to Ohio State last year but got 307 yards and three touchdowns
from Curtis Enis and Aaron Harris in a 31-27 victory.
Trouble is, Ohio State is on the schedule again — but neither of those rushers is on Penn State's depth chart.
Enis, who ran for 211 yards and a 26-yard touchdown with four minutes left, is with the Chicago Bears. Harris, who added a crucial 51-yard touchdown with tacklers bouncing off his pads in the 1997 game, hasn't been quite the same since tearing a knee ligament a week after his great run.
Their replacement, Cordell Mitchell, is more of a speedster than a durable power back, and he hasn't
been tested against a defense as sold at the Buckeyes'.
And that's just the start of Penn State's offensive worries.
Paterno is still using two quarter-backs, though the system is showing signs of strain. Neither starter Kevin Thompson nor backup Rashard Casey played particularly well in a 20-13 win over Pittsburgh last week as the wide outs dropped ball after ball.
This week, Casey said he's having trouble in the platoon system, and he's disappointed with his playing time.
Penn State hoped to have those questions answered before meeting
a defense that includes Butkus
Award winner Andy Katzenmoyer
and senior defensive backs Damon
Moore and Antoine Winfield.
So with his team struggling to find some continuity a few days before a game against one of the country's best defenses, might Paterno gamble more offensively?
"Yeah, if it works. Got any ideas?" he joked. "We're not gonna do anything different than we've done. We're just going out, leave here Friday afternoon, get out there around 5.530, have dinner, have a snack, to bed, get up in the morning and play the football game. Find out whether we're good enough."
Nebraska back finds flaw in comparison
'Huskers rusher says he's no Barry Sanders
The Associated Press
LINCOLN, Neb. — They're both built like fireplugs. They have similar running styles. They're from the same Midwestern town.
Nebraska running back back DeAngelo Evans can't escape comparisons to Barry Sanders. But given Sanders' stature as an NFL All-Pro, it's easy to see why Evans is uncomfortable with the link.
"I'm not even in his category," Evans said Tuesday. "He's a Heisman Trophy winner playing in the NFL. I'm just a little podunk sophomore at the University of Nebraska."
At 5-foot-9 and 210 pounds, Evans is barely bigger than the 5-8, 200-pound Sanders. Both have an explosive running style and an array of moves that dazzle fans and befuddle defenders.
Both are from Wichita where Evans eclipsed many of the high school rushing records Sanders set about 10 years earlier.
On Saturday, Evans and the No. 2 Cornhuskers (4-0) take aim at Oklahoma State (2-1), where Sanders won the 1988 Heisman after rushing for 2,628 yards and establishing 34 NCAA records.
For years, Evans has been asked about Sanders. He usually notes that between them, one has accomplished a lot more.
"In high school, I broke a lot of his records, but I've still got a lot of work to do in his category," he said.
It's not fair to project Evans' career based on one game but he sh o w e d Sanders-like ability in last week's 55-7 victory over Washington. Evans had touchdown runs of 60,14 and 19 yards during a 146-ard effort.
"You saw excellent quickness and acceleration. You saw his speed on that long run," Nebraska coach Frank Solich said.
first game in 21 months.
"I didn't really realize how good he was, and he really put on a show," Oklahoma State coach Bob Simmons said.
Evans has been injury-prone in Lincoln, missing the 1997 season with a recurring pelvic muscle injury that required surgery. While rushing for 93 yards in the spring game last April, he sprained an ankle.
Then in fall camp, he tore cartilage in his left knee and missed Nebraska's first three games after arthroscopic surgery. Even now, he has a nagging foot injury that kept him out of practice yesterday.
Solich said Evans probably would miss practice again today so he would be ready for Saturday's game.
Former pitcher Quisenberry dies of tumor at 45
The Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Dan Quisenberry, a premier reliever with the Kansas City Royals known for his quick wit and submarine pitching delivery, died of a brain tumor at age 45.
Quisenberry, a three-time AllStar who helped the Royals win two American League pennants and the 1985 World Series, underwent surgery in January and June, but doctors were unable to remove all of the malignant tumor.
The Royals confirmed yesterday that Quisenberry had died but would not release details on when or where.
Pale and skinny, "Quiz" never was physically imposing. His awkward-looking pitching release rarely sent balls across the plate at more than 85 mph — nothing compared with the frightening fastballs Rich Gossage unleashed.
An inveterate jokester, his humor frequently was directed at himself. Once, when he came out of a prolonged slump, he said, he had found a delivery in his flaw.
Another time, when he was asked about his contract, he quipped: "It has guarantees until the year 2020 — or until the last Rocky movie is made."
It was easy to see why every major league team ignored the Laverne College graduate in the draft, why he had to drive to the home of a Royals' scout and plead for a chance. In the end, the only one thing kept Quisenberry from being the total bust scouts had predicted: hardly anybody could hit him.
From the day the Royals brought him up near the end of the 1979 season and through the Royals' World Series championship, the sidearming sinkerballer had more saves than any other reliever.
News of his illness jolted Kansas City, and one of the largest crowds of the year turned out May 30 to see him inducted into the team's Hall of Fame. Although terribly weak, Quisenberry stood on the infield with wife Janie and two teen-age
children, and thanked the fans in one of the most emotional moments in the town's history.
"I'm so blessed," he said. "I loved playing those years with those guys in this stadium. I loved playing in front of you folks, great fans. Great city. Great team."
He paused as the crowd gave him a standing ovation.
"This is more than I deserve," Quisenberry said. "This is great. God bless you all. Thanks for the pravers. Thank you very much."
Starting in 1980, when the Royals won their first pennant, ending with the World Series in 1985, Quisenberry led the AL in saves five times. His 45 saves in 1983 was the major league record at the time.
"I lull them into a false sense of security by letting them watch me pitch." he once said
"If overconfidence can cause the Roman Empire to fall, I ought to be able to get a ground ball."
During a career that ended in San Francisco in 1990 after his 24th save
—13th all time — Quisenberry was frequently in the national spotlight. He got the save in the famous "Pine Tar Game" against the New York Yankees after Billy Martin protested that George Brett had pine tar too high up on the bat he'd used to hit a home run.
He was the winning pitcher in the 2-1 victory against St. Louis in the sixth game of the 1985 World Series.
The following year, his reliable sinkerball suddenly began to desert him. Left-handed hitters were especially tough.
He was released in 1988, spent a year with St. Louis and then retired after a brief stay with the San Francisco Giants.
He had remained active in a project he founded that collects food for the hungry and homeless in Kansas City. He also began to write poetry and gave readings at libraries.
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