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Tuesday, October 11, 1994
SPORTS
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Baylor puts its program on probation
The Associated Press
WACO, Texas — Baylor officials on Friday placed the men's basketball program on probation for two years and banned it from post-season play for the next two seasons for violating Southwest Conference and NCAA rules.
Baylor President Herbert Reynolds imposed the sanctions for what he called major violations of SWC and NCAA bylaws and procedures.
Reynolds said the violations occurred in 1993 and early 1994. Results of the school's investigation are being forwarded to the NCAA Committee on Infractions, which is looking into allegations of misconduct within the program.
An SWC investigation this summer found 28 unspecified violations of NCAA rules.
Former players have accused two of Coach Darrel Johnson's assistants of helping them cheat on correspondence courses. Both coaches have resigned.
In addition, player Jason Ervin has said that he was provided a rent-free apartment in Waco in the summer of 1993 and that Johnson knew about it.
This summer in Waco, a federal grand jury heard testimony about possible wire and mail fraud charges related to the correspondence courses.
Johnson has denied any direct involvement in NCAA infractions.
In addition to the two-year probation and ban on post-season play for the 1994-95 and 1995-96 seasons, Reynolds also cut recruiting visits for this season from 12 to nine.
He also reduced the scholarships for the next year from 13 to 10.
Reynolds said Baylor, which was 16-11 last season, will forfeit the men's basketball television distribution revenues that the school would have been entitled to to the SWC.
New network taking a chance on cable
Gaming Entertainment Television (GETv) is proposing a new cable network that would enable viewers to place bets from their homes on horse, dog and auto races, as well as on legal games of chance.
> How it would work
1. GETV would use satellite technology to bring live racing events from around the world to subscribers'
2. Initially, viewers would be able to place bets via an 800 telephone number.
3. Eventually, as technology improves, bets could be placed through interactive TV.
Roadblocks
Gaming laws vary from state to state. For example, New York allows telephone betting for those with accounts with the New York Off-Track Betting Corp. But telephone betting is illegal in Illinois.
Betting in the U.S.
GETv would try to appeal to Americans who legally bet an estimated $394 billion last year. Bets placed in the U.S. in 1993 in billions of dollars:
Casinos
Lotteries
Lotteries
$30.9
Indian gaming
Indian gaming $29
Horse racing
£12.7
Card rooms $8.5
Charitable games
Charitable bingo
Sources: GETv, International Gaming & Wagering Business
Betting in Illinois
Dog racing
An estimated $8.84 billion was legally bet in Illinois last year.
Legal bookmaking
| $2.3
Jai alal
| $0.3
Legal bookmaking
State lottery $1.58 billion
Martin Fischer and Scott Holingue / Knight-Ridder Tribune
Warriors' new owner contemplates move
The Associated Press
OAKLAND, Calif. "The unexpected sale of the Golden State Warriors to partner Christopher Cohan has spurred speculation that the team may be headed back to San Francisco after 22 years in Oakland.
Cohen, a cable television executive, will become sole owner of the team in January as a result of the sale announced Saturday.
The sale apparently settles a legal battle between Cohan and Warriors co-owners Dan Finnane and Jim Fitzgerald over the ownership of the team. Lawyers for both sides were scheduled to be in San Francisco Superior Court today to address a lawsuit filed last November by Cohan.
Cohan claimed that he purchased a 25 percent share for $21 million in
1991 with the understanding he could purchase the remainder of the team in three years.
Finnane and Cohan were expected to discuss the details at a news conference in Oakland today.
The maneuver left many unanswered questions about the future of the Warriors' franchise.
In a statement released Saturday, Cohan maintained he had no plans to move the team out of the area, but he did not specify that the Warriors would remain at the Oakland Coliseum. In the past, the Warriors have explored the possibility of building a larger arena in Oakland, or perhaps moving the franchise across the bay to San Francisco.
working with (coach) Don Nelson, the players and staff to ensure that the Warriors' franchise continues to be, in every way, a first-class organization," he said.
"I want to assure our many fans that I am committed to keeping this team in the bay area and look forward to
But Cohan told the San Francisco Examiner he is intrigued by the idea of joining the San Francisco Giants in a proposed sports complex near downtown San Francisco.
In the wake of the announcement, Warriors forward Chris Mullin complimented the leadership both Fitzgerald and Finnane provided. He downplayed any possible changes the sale might bring to the team.
ANALYSIS
Nelson has served as a head coach on a Fitzgerald-owned team for 17 years, starting in 1976 with the Milwaukee Bucks. He did not seem concerned Saturday about the ownership transfer.
Luck o' the Irish scarce after Notre Dame loss
Football fans, foes let down by early defeats
By Jim Litke The Associated Press
Some of the air was let out of college football over the weekend.
It's not what you think: Lou Holtz didn't take a vow of silence. In fact, something very much the opposite occurred.
Minutes after the Fighting Irish were knocked out of the national championship by Boston College for the second straight season, this time by a decisive 30-11, Holtz started thinking out loud. And like one of those late-night spieles for the Psychic Hotline, he sounded less and less persuasive the longer he rambled on.
"I knew this would be a long, hard year," he said. "I knew that...
"This was maybe the most physical we've been manhandled in a long, long time ...
In case anybody still didn't get his drift, Holtz paused and then began drumming his fingertips on the table.
"It was painful. But you know what? I'm glad it was painful. It was painful for me, and I hope it was painful for the players."
"This is going to be disappointing for the alums, but many times when you get a little bit older and things aren't going well, you get on the sidelines and say, 'What am I doing in coaching?' At the end of that ballgame, I made a commitment to myself, my players and to Notre Dame; we are going to get this goddawgh turned around."
Let others be cynical. Let others say Lou sounded like a man buying himself some time. We wish the little leprechaun only good luck, even while curring our own. Luck, that is. Six games into the season is too early to have the Fighting irish fall to 4-2 and flat on their collective face. There is
too little passion in sports as it is.
NFL teams, even in throwback uniforms not unlike Notre Dame's, are too much alike to follow through fall and half of winter. Basketball, at least the games that will count, are still weeks away. There is no baseball, no hockey and no reason to lavish attention on either anytime now. Now we have half a college season still to go and no Irish team worth halting — or for those so inclined — hating.
In the same way there is no being neutral about Notre Dame. There is no denying the buzz it brings to the game. Before Saturday, the last time the Irish had played in Boston proper was 1944. But in the week leading up to Saturday's game, Eagles coach Dan Hennenga had trouble wringing loyalty oaths from his own office staff and joked nervously that the sympathies of even some Boston College graduates were not beyond suspicion.
And when the Irish depart from center stage at this juncture of the year, it's like the leading character in a movie has just upped and left the stage. Nebraska, with its setbacks and Tom Osborne, its long-suffering coach, is not a bad story. And Florida, just now emerging from the shadow of state rivals Miami and Florida State, is worth watching — for a while.
But no one else brings its own drama, not to mention its own network, the way Notre Dame does.
No one else gets their ticket folded, spindled and mutilated by a trick play called "Leprechaun," which is what some wickedly clever BC assistant — already thinking about posterity — thought to name the fake field goal that led to the Eagles' first touchdown. No one else inspires such dread, even down by 20 points, because no one else boasts so many miracle comebacks that they are filed by the names that become attached to them — Montana, Lujack, Haratty.
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