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The University Daily Kansan
Thursday, September 17, 1998
K-State defense psyched up to face Texas star Williams
The Associated Press
MANHATTAN—As a kid, Kansas State middle linebacker Jeff Kelly spent endless hours working on the family ranch.
On Saturday, when the Texas Longhorns come to Manhattan, he'll have his toughest chore yet. That's when Kelly, who anchors No. 5 Kansas State's vaunted trio of linebackers, will try to stop Longhorns running back Ricky Williams.
Williams, a powerful 225-pound back, was projected high as a top-five pick in the NLF draft before deciding to return to the Longhorns for his senior season. He's the leading returning vote-getter from the 1997 Heisman Trophy race, and he'll give Kelly a much more difficult test than the running backs of Kansas State's first two opponents, Indiana State and Northern Illinois. Both teams lost by a 66-point margin.
it'll be a battle of heavyweights when Williams takes the ball up the middle and tries to reach Kansas State's secondary.
He n't put his pads down and run over the top of you if you're not careful, "Kansas State coach Billy Snyder said. The Wildcats plan to try to force Williams to run the ball outside instead of baiting him into powering it up the middle. However, when he takes the inside route, Kelly said he would be ready to step up.
"Supposedly, we're the best linebackers in the nation," Kelly said. "It's a matchup everybody wants to see."
Although Williams is a threat to Kelly, he's also an opportunity for him. Like Williams, Kelly has NFL aspirations. One-on-one stops by Kelly could prove that those dreams are legitimate. After all, if he can stop a running back expected to quickly step into stardom at the next level, what would he do against the rest of the league?
"Jeff's definitely a Sunday player," Kansas State running back Eric Hickson said. Hickson, in his sixth year with the Wildcats, has played against many linebackers now in the NFL and said Kelly stacks up favorably—not only against linebackers, but against Williams, too.
"Jeff's capable of bringing anyone down. I don't think Jeff's going to back down from anything." Hickson said, "If he goes up in there, and it's just him and Ricky Williams, I've got my money on jeff."
Kelly doesn't see an isolation against Williams in the same light as Hickson, though.
"I'll just try to make a tackle. I don't care how bad I lose," he said. "I'm trying to make a tackle. I'm trying to prevent a score."
Kelly enters Saturday's game as the team leader in tackles. He also was a preseason candidate for the Butkus Award, given annually to the top collegiate linebacker in the nation. Kansas State's defense has yielded a nation-leading 128.5 yards per game.
Jordan's absence from flopped film pulls NBA star into court dispute
CHICAGO — How much difference Michael Jordan would have meant to a film that flipped is a question jurors must answer in a lawsuit against the Chicago Bulls star.
The Associated Press
And they'll have to remember this is the pre-championship, pre-MVP, pre-Space Jam Jordan being talked about in court.
Producers of Heaven is a Playground contend their film would have soared like one of Jordan's high-flying dunks had he appeared in a supporting role.
"We would have today a movie that is a classic," said Dean Dickie, a lawyer whose client is suing Jordan.
Jordan sat at the defense table Tuesday, using a back entrance to the courtroom to avoid reporters and onlookers. He is to testify next week in the
Michael Jordan is being sued for as much as $20 million
case, which is expected to last about a month.
The movie was to be made in 1989. It was shot without Jordan in 1990 and released in 1991. With Loyola-Marymount-standout Bo Kimble taking Jordan's part, it made $168,000 at the box office, Dickie said.
Lawyers for both sides presented opening statements Tuesday in Cook County Circuit Court.
Heaven Corp., maker of Heaven is a Playground, is seeking $16 million to $20 million in damages, which it says represents the profit it would have made if Jordan had appeared in the film.
Jordan's lawyer, Frederick Sperling, scoffed that Jordan would have made that big a difference, pointing out that the Bulls star was to appear in about 12 minutes of a 104-minute film that was widely panned by critics.
Dickie seemed reluctant to attack the man he described as "the greatest basketball player ever." Instead, he went after Jordan's agent, David Falk.
Dickie portrayed Falk as manipulating Jordan, whose fame was growing during the time Fried and Bank were trying to make the movie. He said the agent talked Jordan out of appearing in the film to take more lucrative offers.
Dickie said Falk threatened Fried and Bank, saying he would destroy their careers, have them thrown in jail and make sure they never worked again, except in "Outer Mongolia."
Falk originally was named as a defendant in the lawsuit but was removed by Judge Richard Neville. Both sides told jurors they would prove a promise had been broken.
"When you make a promise and you commit to do something,you must honor that promise,"Dickie said.
Sperling, agreed that the case was about promises — but he offered a different twist. "Promises made, promises kept," Sperling told jurors.
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