UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, September 11,1996
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KC law firm hired by Michigan State
Half of athletic fund is spent
The Associated Press
DETROIT — Michigan State's athletic department has paid more than $650,000 for an internal investigation of alleged violations of NCAA rules, according to a published report.
That sum represents cash payments to Bond Schoeneck, a Kansas City, Mo., law firm hired by the university to conduct the internal probe. The Detroit News reported yesterday.
The billings cover the 16 months between December 1994, when ex-Spartans player Roosevelt Wagner's allegations of wrongdoing became public, and March of this year. Michigan State officials said they
did not know why they had not received bills from Bond Schoe-neck since then.
The payments were made from the athletic department's emergency fund, athletic director Merritt Norvell said. He told the News on Monday that he didn't know how much money was in the emergency fund but that it was not dangerously depleted.
The payments represent nearly half of the athletic department's 1995 profit of $1.4 million, Norvell said.
"If I had it, I could better support my athletes, coaches and facilities and get a lot further toward the goals we're trying to accomplish," he said.
Several attorneys from Bond Schoenek joined Michigan State officials at a June 1 hearing before the NCAA's Committee on Infractions. The committee is expected to
announce soon whether penalties already imposed by university president M. Peter McPherson were sufficient or if Michigan State should be punished further.
McPhrerson led the school's defense at that hearing.
He hoped to head off tougher NCAA sanctions in April by voluntarily forfeiting all five of the Spartans' 1994 football victories because of rules violations.
The NCAA, in a letter of inquiry, cited claims that an academic adviser pressured faculty to change players' grades and urged a student to feign mental illness to get an extension for course work and that a Florida man gave gifts to recruits.
McPheron has denied other allegations, including a claim that the university demonstrated a lack of institutional control and monitoring between the 1989-90 and 1994-95 school years.
Sports around the nation
Olympic medalists saluted in New York
The Associated Press
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. — A decade after playing for a professional men's team, Basketball Hall of Famer Nancy Lieberman-Cline is interested in playing for the Springfield entry in the women's American Basketball League.
League
Lieberman-Cline told the Union-News in Springfield that any deal would depend on her also being able to play in the Women's NBA after the ABL season next spring, an option the ABL has opposed.
"That's the major point," Lieberman-Cline told the newspaper. "At this stage, I'd like to determine when I play and when I don't play."
Lieberman-Cline, 38, has been working out in the Dallas area against former men's professionals, and she said she was ready to play for the women's team.
The former Olympic star was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield this spring. In 1986, she became the first woman to play on a men's professional basketball team when she joined the Springfield Fame of the United States Basketball League.
NEW YORK — Gymnast Kerri Strug, who provided one of the most memorable performances at the
Atlanta Olympics,
wants to extend
the euphoria of
that moment in
the spotlight.
"I want to try to be a role model for the young, kids because I know a lot of little girls and boys
Kerri Strug
girls watched the Olympics," she said Monday night at a salute to stars of the U.S. Olympic team at Madison Square Garden. "I want to show them that if you keep working hard and are persistent and don't give up, anything's possible."
Seven Winston Cup races remain this year.
included Kendall Cross (wrestling),
Mia Hamm (soccer), Dominique
Dawes (gymnastics), Lisa Fernandez
(softball), Lisa Jacob (wimming)
and Suzannah Blanco and Jill Savery
(synchronized swimming). Past gold
medalists included swimmer John
Naber, marathoner Frank Shorter
and hurdler Willie Davenport.
Other gold medalists in attendance
spoke to the team. Moore also said the team's next driver could replace Dallenbach before the end of the season.
LEXINGTON, Ky. — No matter what the circumstances, Kentucky football coach Bill Curry will not be fired during the season, said athletic director C.M. Newton.
Moore has run Winston Cup cars since 1961 and has won 63 races in 35 seasons.
"The answer is absolutely not," Newton said Monday in an address to the Nicholasville Rotary Club.
In answer to speculation that Kentucky's bad start, with lopsided losses to Louisville and Cincinnati, might prompt him to fire Curry, Newton said, "We are not an NFL franchise. I am not a general manager of a pro football team. I am an athletic director for a university football program."
In yesterday's Lexington Herald-Leader, columnist Billy Reed called for Curry to be fired.
"If C.M. Newton's personal loyalty to Bill Curry is more important to him than his obligation to University of Kentucky football, then Newton should resign today and turn the athletic director's job over to somebody who can make the tough call," Reed said. "The Curry era is over, whether Newton is willing to admit it or not."
GREENVILLE, S.C. — Bud Moore Engineering, the Spartanburg-based Winston Cup team, has begun searching for a driver to replace Wally Dallenbach.
Dallenbach said he would leave to drive in 1997 for a new team being formed by Rick Hendrick and some of his business associates, Bud Moore manager Greg Moore told The Greenville News yesterday.
There has been no official announcement of Dallenbach's association with Hendrick, who runs teams driven by Jeff Gordon, Terry Labonte and Ken Schrader.
The Moore team has had four drivers in the past four seasons.
EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. — Edwardsville High School golf coach Dick Gerber has broken the national high school record for career victories with 628.
Gerber, 50, is in his 28th season as coach. His record broke the mark of 626 held by the late Don Bates of Berlin, Conn.
"When I first started out, I wasn't in it for the wins," Gerber said. "I was in it for the kids and to get to state tournaments, to win conference championships."
The record-breaking victory came Monday when the Tigers won three matches.
Under Gerber, the Tigers have won 10 regional tournaments, six sectional championships and eight conference titles. They have been to the state tournament 16 times, finishing second twice. From 1982-86, Edwardsville was undefeated.
But Greg Moore said Dallenbach
Gerber plans to coach at least six more years before retiring. "I haven't had a state championship," he said. "I'd like to have that opportunity again."
The streak ended in 1987, when the Tigers went 23-1, but they bounced back with a 25-0 record in 1988.
"This is an agreeable situation that we worked out very peacefully," said Dallinore, who has had an acrimonious relationship with the university's administration in recent years. "I just think it's a natural time for me to split."
LAS VEGAS — University of Nevada at Las Vegas baseball coach Fred Dallimore is quitting after 23 years in one of the university's most successful programs.
Dallimore, 51, guided the Rebels to a 43-17 record and a berth in the NCAA tournament this season.
Home run records flying out of parks Four players in line for 50-homer season
Maybe it was a sign in March when the first hit of 1996 was a home run.
The Associated Press
Because from the time Frank Thomas touched Randy Johnson for the earliest home run ever, up until Gary Sheffield connected Sunday against Pedro Martinez, the ball has not stopped flying.
The Year of the Home Run became official when Sheffield hit the 4,459th homer of the major league season, breaking the mark set in 1987.
Why so many? Some claim it's a juiced ball, some pick on poor pitching and others point to smaller parks.
Meanwhile, the names and numbers are piling up.
Eddie Murray, at age 40, hit the 500th homer of his career. Andruw Jones, at 19, became the youngest National Leaguer to connect in more than 30 seasons.
Ryne Sandberg and Eric Davis came out of retirement and hit more than 20 each. Jermaine Dye homered in his first at-bat in the major leagues. Light-hitting Kevin Elster hit 23, seven more than he'd managed in the entire 1990s.
I'm saying to the guys, 'It ain't that hard,' " the career minor leaguer said.
Apparently it isn't.
With three weeks left, Todd Hundley of the New York Mets and Henry Rodriguez of Montreal already have set team records for home runs in a season.
Hundley's 40th home run Sunday also tied Roy Campanella's record for most home runs by a catcher.
Hundley became the ninth player to reach the 40-homer plateau this season, setting another record. There already had been a record number of 50 home run players.
On deck, McGrwire with 48; Albert Belle, 44; Juan Gonzalez, 44; and Ken Griffey Jr., 43, could top the mark of two 50-homer players in a year. Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle did it in 1961, Ralph Kiner and Johnny Mize did it in 1947, and Hank Greenberg and Jimnie Foxx set the standard in 1938.
The Baltimore Orioles have hit 232 home runs and are closing in on the record of 240 by the 1961 Yankees team that featured Maris and Mantle. Leading the way for Baltimore is unlikely leadoff hitter Brady Anderson, whose 44 home runs are more than double his previous career high of 21.
Rafael Palmeiro is one of six players to hit 20 homers for Baltimore this year. Murray and Todd Zeile, acquired in recent deals, also have 20, and newcomer Pete Incaviglia, with 19, is close.
"Sometimes you're not going to hit home runs and you have to create things," Palmeiro said. "But we haven't done that this year."
rts season's 4,459 homers came in 1,999 games. In 1987, the 4,458 homers came in 2,105 games.
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