Wednesday, October 6, 1999
The University Daily Kansan
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Missouri violations still unclear
The Associate Press
The NCAA has notified the Missouri athletics department of its ruling regarding alleged recruiting violations for the basketball team, but university officials weren't saying what that ruler was last night.
According to the college sports governing organization, Missouri has been notified of its decision. But under law, only the school can release the information to the public.
Athletics Director Mike Alden didn't immediately return calls last night, and a spokesman for the school's sports information department said he wasn't sure when an announcement would be made.
Meanwhile, a senior NCAA official who had said Missouri had nothing to worry about, wasn't talking about the Tigers anymore.
NCAA membership services, told The Kansas City Star that possible recruiting violations would not stop new men's basketball coach Quin Snyder's first two recruits from play.
Steve Mallonee, the director of
ing at Missouri.
ing at Missouri.
But in a brief conversation with The Associated Press yesterday afternoon, Mallonee said he had no time to
answer any questions and had said all he was going to say, referring the matter instead to NCAA spokeswoman Jane Jankowski.
Mallonee told The Star that while the eligibility of Detroit basketball prospects Rickey Paulding and Arthur Johnson was not really in his jurisdiction, he had been at the NCAA long enough to know that Missouri could continue to recruit these
individuals.
"It won't be a matter that the university will have to cease recruitment of the individual(s)," Mallonee told The Star. He said the violation was not severe enough to warrant their permanent ineligibility from attending and playing at Missouri.
"It's as simple as that," Mallonee said.
Alden notified the NCAA last Friday that the university may have violated recruiting rules by allowing the mothers of the Detroit basketball prospects to join their sons on a chartered plane to Columbia, Mo.
If Missouri did violate NCAA rules while recruiting the pair, the school will have to declare them ineligible to play for the Tigers. Missouri can then apply to the NCAA, seeking their reinstatement.
While Missouri and the NCAA can not comment, it appears
from the report the school sent to the NCAA Friday that both recruits already have been declared ineligible, and that Missouri is seeking their reinstatement.
If Missouri did break recruiting rules, it would be considered a secondary violation. Such an infaction, Mallonee told The Star, most likely wouldn't result in the recruits' temporary ineligibility status becoming permanent — meaning Missouri still could sign Paulding and Johnson.
"In theory, until that gets taken care of or cleared up, the prospects are not eligible to play there." Mallonee told The Star. "In most cases, again, it's as simple as the institution acknowledges the violation, they seek reinstatement. The reinstatement will occur with some conditions, or whatever the conditions imposed by the committee, and then the institution will continue to recruit the kid."
Watson leads Challenge team to win
Event features PGA, LPGA, Senior golfers
The Associated Press
TUCKER'S TOWN, Bermuda — Tom Watson won a closest-to-the-pin playoff with a tee shot that stopped 6 feet, 2 inches from the hole, leading his team of Dottie Pepper and Graham Marsh to victory yesterday in the Gillette Tour Challenge.
Watson, Pepper and Marsh each won $165,000 in the third annual event that featured eight teams made up of players from the PGA, LPGA and Senior tours.
In a best-ball format at Mid Ocean Golf Club, Watson made an eagle on the 15th as his team went 7-under during the final eight holes to finish at 12-under 59 and get into the playoff against Jeff Sluman, Nancy Lopez and Dana Quigley.
"We were only 4-under after 10, and then we put on the afterburners," Watson said. "We had a powwow on 14 and decided that we could shoot some birdies and win this tournament, and that's what we did."
The playoff was a closest-to-the-pin on the 208-yard 17th hole. Sluman hit his tee shot 12 feet from the hole. He, Lopez and Quigley each won $105,000 from
the $1.95 million purse.
"We went to sleep in the middle of the round, but Tom got everyone together and told us we could win this thing," Marsh said. "That's what great players do."
John Daly picked up his biggest check of the year — $60,000. He played with Karrie Webb and Hugh Baiocchi and tied for fifth.
ABC Sports will telewise the tournament Nov. 28. Gillette will present a $1 million donation to the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, the official charity of the LPGA Tour.
"We had a pow-wow on 14 and decided that we could shoot some birdies and win this tournament, and that's what we did."
Tom Watson
PGA golfer
10-foot putt during the telecast that will be worth $2 million if it goes in — $1 million to the winner, and an additional $1 million to the Komen Foundation.
Coming Presidents Cup can't compare to Ryder
Love, American team climb out of sand pit ready for South Africa
The Associate Press
"I can't get enough of it," he gushed.
Not a day passed at the Buick Challenge that Love didn't have an occasion to talk about the Ryder Cup, whether he was on the range or inside the ropes.
On his flight home from the Ryder Cup, Davis Love III read every word in every story in the Boston newspapers about the great American comeback. He flew to Florida the next morning and read them all again.
But all it takes is one question for that boyish glee to be replaced with a furrowed brow. A guy who could spin yarns about the thrill of winning the Ryder Cup suddenly hit a snag as he contemplated what lies ahead. What does this do to the President's Cup?
Love stared at the ground, puffed his cheeks and let the air out slowly.
"Whew," he finally said. "I have
to be careful here."
Love walks a fine line because he is a member of the PGA Tour policy board, and the Presidents Cup is a PGA Tour creation.
Still, there was no denying what took place at The Country Club. The excitement, the passion and the pressure — even the boorish behavior by the Boston gallery — exposed the Ryder Cup as the greatest spectacle in golf, one of the greatest events in all sports.
And it may have exposed the Presidents Cup as an exhibition.
"It's a great event," Love said. "But it's not as exciting as the Ryder Cup. You can see that in the players, and you can see that in the fans."
Some might argue you can see it in the results, too. Just 10 months ago, an uninspired American team trudged down to Australia and got beaten like never before.
"Being in December, there were some guys on the team — and I'm on that list, too — that maybe weren't there 100 percent," said Justin Leonard, who was 0-3-1 at Royal Melbourne and didn't make any 45-foot putts.
"We wanted to play well and we wanted to win," he said. "But
there wasn't the excitement as a team that we had for the Ryder Cup this year."
So, did the Ryder Cup hurt the Presidents Cup?
"In a way, yes," Leonard replied.
To what degree remains to be seen.
"The Presidents Cup is a happier contest," said Peter Thomson, who returns as the International captain next year. "That's undeniable. There are no threats, no ugliness."
Indeed, the gallery was exemplary at Royal Melbourne. They were knowledgeable and respectful. They cheered long and loud for the home team, but also applauded the few great shots produced by the Americans.
There are compelling issues involving the 2000 Presidents Cup at the Robert Trent Jones Club in Virginia. Can the Americans remain undefended on home soil? Can they win back the one professional cup they no longer have?
"Part of it was they were beating us so badly." Leonard said. "There was probably some pity in their applause."
"I have a view that the International team could be the equal of the U.S. team — and much, much better than the European team," Thomson said. "I know everyone in the International lineup is very keen to make a point that we've been overlooked as a third force in the world of golf. This team may lay claim to being top dog."
Nick Price, Ernie Els & Co. from worldwide bragging rights?
What happens after next year is the real dilemma.
Can they keep Greg Norman,
That's when the Presidents Cup moves to South Africa, another long trip after another long season. And for what? As Lanny Wadkins noted about the previous Presidents Cup, the Americans flew halfway around the world to play a bunch of guys from Orlando.
Tiger Woods and David Duval will be playing on their sixth team. It could be the 11th straight team for Love.
"There are guys on our team who don't want to go to South Africa in 2002," Love said. "Before they announce another captain, we need to say, 'Look. We need to expand this to get another team involved.'"
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