SPORTS UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday. September 29,1994
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NHL talks stall as players refuse deal
James Smallwood and Roy Gallop / KRT
Commissioner,union dislike new tax plan
The Associated Press
TORONTO — National Hockey League commissioner Gary Bettman seems resigned to the fact that the start of the season will be postponed. Players are not giving him any reason to think otherwise.
Bettman gave the players' union a new proposal during eight hours of negotiations Tuesday, but union boss Bob Goodenow described it as "unacceptable."
"We still have a lot of work to do, and I am getting concerned that time is getting short," said Bettman before he headed back to New York to await a call from Goodenow to see if and when talks will resume.
Bettman has said he will decide tomorrow whether to postpone the start of the season, which is scheduled for Saturday.
The NHL's new proposal deals with a tax plan to help finance small-market teams. Goodenow called it a variation on an old theme.
Los Angeles Kings defenseman Marty McBorley warned that the players are ready stay out the whole season if owners do not budge on the issue of taxing salaries.
"We're prepared to shut it down," he said, in reference to the season.
Goodenow said it's becoming clearer to players that Bettman's ultimate goal is to cap salaries.
"The real focal point now is a system that really acts as a cap on salaries, especially for the top payroll teams in the league," Goodenow said. "The problems with that are significant ... unacceptable."
Players have proposed a 5 percent tax on salaries and revenues, with the proceeds being pooled to help small-market teams.
"We do not think that their proposal makes sense or works to accomplish the objectives we have," Bettman said. "They continue to believe that it does and that is one of the problems we have."
Hockey salaries
"We have never been proposing a salary cap," he said.
Bettman objected to players portraying his proposal as a salary cap.
Roy Gallop / Knight-RidJer Tribum
'Huskers face quarterback crisis without Frazier
The Associated Press
LINCOLN, Neb. — Nebraska's star quarterback Tomie Frazier was released from a Lincoln hospital yesterday after treatment dissolved a blood clot behind his right knee.
Frazier declined interviews but issued a statement of thanks to the fans, doctors and his teammates through the Nebraska University sports information office.
"I feel good, and I am anxious to see my teammates," Frazier said.
Frazier also has been given permission to exercise, although physical contact is forbidden due to the blood-thinners he has been receiving.
Since Frazier is definitely out for Saturday's game against Wyoming, coach Tom Osborne is forced to go to Plan B. B as in Berringer, Brook Berringer.
"I've really felt everybody was behind me at practice when we found out," Berringer said. "But I hate to have taken the job this way. I feel sorry for Tonnie and hope he gets back soon."
Tommie Frazier has been such a presence as quarterback at Nebraska that the Cornhuskers have had trouble recruiting players to his position.
Tony Veland, who was listed No. 1 ahead
Some have left school and others have made a switch to other spots on the Cornhusker squad.
of Frazier in the spring of 1992, was one of those who switched.
Injuries played into Veland's decision to move from quarterback to safety, and now that he has found a home as the No. 1 safety for Nebraska, he isn't overjoyed with the possibilities of moving back.
That's what Osborne has to consider now that Frazier is sidelined indefinitely with a blood clot in his leg and the Huskers are down to one scholarship quarterback — Berringer.
Behind Berringer are walk-on sophomore Matt Turman and freshmen Adam Kucera and Ryan Held.
ed fall camp as a student manager. Held was a wide receiver until about two weeks ago.
That brought Osborne back to Veland, who has been taking some snaps in practice just in case more injuries further deplete the quarterback position. The thought doesn't thrill Veland.
Kueca played quarterback in high school at Lake Havasu City. Ariz., but start-
Veland told The Lincoln Star that he can't help but feel as though he's being bounced around like a pinball.
"I'm not going to say I'm necessarily happy with it, but I'm just trying to do what's best for the team," Veland said. "Hopefully Tommie will be all right in a couple of weeks."
NCAA schools now can choose test requirements
The Associated Press
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. — The NCAA Presidents Commission, hoping to avoid a second showdown with the Black Coaches Association, voted yesterday to let schools in a few special cases choose between their own freshmen SAT requirements and the NCAA's.
Given full authority to set their own test score standards, schools could do away with those requirements for a few athletes who don't qualify to compete as freshmen. They still couldn't compete, but they could get scholarship aid and practice.
However, the commission also amended its earlier plan to let athletes who don't meet freshmen eligibility requirements earn a fourth year of eligibility through academic achievement.
"Those who don't meet the standards are very small in number," Judith Albino, head of the commission, said at a news conference. "We also recognize the differences among our schools and the need for institutional autonomy when it comes to working with students who are at risk academically."
A year ago, the BCA lost a bitter convention fight with the commission over basketball scholarship limits and threatened a boycott of basketball games. That dispute is now on hold, but many black coaches and educators have long opposed standardized tests, saying they're racially discriminatory.
As announced yesterday, the commission would require high school graduates to complete 13 core courses — math, English, sciences, etc. — instead of the present 11. It also would retain test score requirements under a sliding scale that allows higher grade point averages to compensate for lower test scores.
For example, a 2.0 GPA in the core courses would be acceptable with a 900 SAT for the athlete to be eligible as a freshman.
No one making less than a 700 SAT or 17 ACT would qualify.
Under the commission's new proposal, a partial qualifier would be defined an incoming student who has a 2.5 GPA in the 13 core courses but doesn't have a 700 SAT score or 17 ACT.
Those students could be admitted, receive scholarship help and practice as freshmen if they meet the SAT or ACT standards of the school that enrolls them. That would vary widely according to school, conference and region, and could be lower than the school's standards for non-athletes.
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