2B Tuesday, August 23, 1994 SPORTS UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN SPORTS in brief NASCAR driver remains unconscious; professional racing world waits, hopes ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Injuries to stock car driver Ernie Irvan's lungs continued to improve yesterday, but he remained unconscious on a ventilator two days after crashing during practice. Irvan, one of the top NASCAR drivers, hit the wall at about 176 mph during a practice session Saturday at Michigan International Speedway in Brooklyn, Mich. The right front tire on his Ford Thunderbird appeared to have been cut. He crashed into the wall in Turn 2 and sustained severe head and chest injuries. He remained in critical but stable condition Monday afternoon at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital, Dr. Errol Eriandson said in a statement No additional injuries have been discovered. pital, Dr. Errol Erlandson said in a statement. Irvan, 35, suffered severe injuries to his lungs and brain in the crash. His lung injuries remained severe but continued to improve. A CAT-Scan showed no worsening or hemorrhaging in the brain, Erlandson said. Recovery normally follows a slow and progressive course following neurological injuries, Erlandson said. Irvan, who has remained unconscious since the crash, was airlifted to the hospital minutes after the accident. Iowa State basketball adds experienced coach AMES, Iowa — In an unusual twist, Iowa State basketball coach Tim Floyd has hired a coaching veteran for the restricted-earnings coaching position on his staff. The hiring of Terry Reed, 45, completes Floyd's staff. Floyd got the Iowa State job in May, succeeding Johnny Orr. Because of the pay — a $12,000 salary plus $4,000 for working camps — the restricted-earnings coach is usually an entry-level position. But Reed has an extensive coaching background. He was an assistant under Floyd at New Orleans last season and coached high school basketball for 17 years in Louisiana, Indiana and Arkansas, compiling a 232-152 record. "We feel very fortunate to have someone with great on-the-court experience in this position," Floyd said. "He can bring a lot of maturity to the program. He also had a great knowledge of the way we ran things at UNO, which we brought here." Reed replaces Steve Krafcisin, who left to become a full-time assistant at North Dakota. Floyd's other assistant coaches are James Green and Gar Forman, who were hired in early Jane. Green came from the staff at Alabama. Forman was coaching at New Mexico State. U.S. track starties for first in Mobile Grand Prix NEW YORK — Jackie Joyner-Kersee's victory against Heike Drechsel of Germany in a battle of Olympic long jump champions at Cologne allowed her to gain a tie for first place in the Mobil Grand Prix women's overall standings. Joyner-Kersee, the 1988 gold medalist, won by less than four inches at 23-31/2 to boost her point total to 45. She shares the top spot with Olympic champion sprinter Wen Tor- Compiled from The Associated Press. rence, 100-meter hurdler Svetla Dimitrova of Bulgaria and 5,000-meter runner Sonia O'Sullivan of Ireland. Noureddine Morceli of Algeria, a triple world-record-holder, leads the men's point race with 51. Two Americans, Olympic triple jump champion Mike Conley and spinner Dennis Mitchell, are among six athletes tied for second with 45 points. Umps take it easy during strike When the baseball strike started, ampire Tom Hallion knew where to go. He escaped the angry crowds and drove straight to Woodstock. The Associated Press "My wife and I had talked about it with three other couples on New Year's Eve, about how much we'd love to go," Hallion said. "We ordered our tickets in June, even though we weren't sure I'd be able to make it." "It was great," he said. "Peter Gabriel put on a great concert. Traffic was good and so was Crosby, Stills and Nash. I'm so glad we got to do it." The mud bogs at Woodstock might be the last place anyone would expect to find a major-league umpire. But because of the players' strike, all of the umpires are showing up in unusual places this summer. For Dave Phillips, it's meant a chance to be part of his daughter's bridal shower. For Joe Brinkman, it's meant a lot of golf. "It was quite nice for a couple of days," said Brinkman, an AL umpire since 1973. "But your body is used to you going to the ballpark at 6 o'clock. It'll like it's 6 o'clock and time to go, but there are no games to go." At least, however, there is still a paycheck. The mumps' contract covers them for 75 days of a work stoppage, meaning they'll get paid through the end of what would've been the regular season. $175,000 after 25 years. But if there is no settlement for the strike that began Aug. 12 and no playoffs and World Series, the umpires will lose out, too — umps with at least five full years of service stood to get $20,000 from a postseason pool and all others were to get $10,000. In addition, umpires who work the World Series and league championship series were to get an extra $5,000. There is no agreement yet on how much money umpires would get for working the first round of the expanded playoffs; also, the NL still must find a way to get enough umpires for that opening round because not enough are eligible under the existing rotation system. Umpires' salaries range from $60,000 to The umpires' contract expires after this season. The last time the umpires negotiated for a new pact, there was a two-day walkout at the start of the 1991 season. "How the players' strike is settled probably will have some effect on what happens with our contract," said Bob Opalka, an associate of Richie Phillips, head of the umpires' union. "But it's tough to tell what it will be." "The first couple of days, I was keeping in touch with other umpires," Brinkman said. "But since then, I've just been watching TV, reading the newspapers to see what's going on. "I've stuck around so far, but if it gets past Wednesday and doesn't look like anything is going to happen, I might go away somewhere and play golf," he said. Because of the strike, Phillips, an AL staff member since 1970, saw his daughter's wedding shower in suburban St. Louis last weekend. He's spending this week at golf school. Hallion, though, took immediate advantage of the odd summer break. He had gone to Denver on Aug. 12, where he was supposed to call balls and strikes in a game between Colorado and Cincinnati. When the strike became official, he hopped a flight back home to Louisville, Ky. That night, Hallion, 37, his wife Elizabeth and three other couples drove to Saugerties, N.Y., his birthplace and the home of the Woodstock festival. For two days, they were part of the 350,000 mud people. "My wife was going, no matter what," he said. "But I've been on the NL staff for nine years, and I probably wouldn't have been able to do this in the past." Since returning home to Kentucky, Hallion has gone to two of his son's Little League games — as the plate umpire. No, he didn't eject anyone, either. "Yeah, everyone is giving me the business about umpiring during the strike," he said. "But I kid them right back. I tell that the National League sent out a directive telling all of its umpires to go work games, wherever they can find them." Israel, Jordan athletes play ball for peace "I'm enjoying the break right now," he said. "But I will muss baseball in about a week." The Associated Press WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. — As European Little League director, Brian Pompili was in charge of making sure everything went well when Israel and Jordan met on on a baseball diamond for the first time. He couldn't control the pitches, though, and that made for a long 33 outs. After years of hostility between their countries, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Jordan's King Hussein met July 25 in Washington and signed a peace treaty. The contest in the Little League's European regional tournament came just after Hussein lifted a ban prohibiting Jordanians from playing sports with Jews. But to Little League president Creighton Hale it meant an end to an era of bigotry. "The one of Jordan's players was somebody's nephew or something from the royal family." Pompili said. "The last thing we wanted was for him to hit by a pitch." Israel joined Little League in 1989. Jordan joined in 1990. Through 1992, the teams drew lots and landed in opposite brackets, but there was still trouble. Hussein didn't want Jordanians riding the same bus as Israelis. Israel won 5-2, but the game in the last round of pool play meant nothing for the tournament standings. "Dr. Hale told them they had to ride the bus or walk," Pompili said. "They rode the bus and everybody had a great time." Last year, the teams drew spots to meet in the tournament's first round. Hussein ordered his team to forfeit rather than take the field. "As much as we tried, they had to do what was asked of them by their government," Pompili said. "Thanks to the peace talks, they decided to make a gesture this year and play." And as chance would have it, King Hussein was flying over Israeli air space for the first time during the game, Pompili said. After the game, the players exchanged ball caps and team pins. "You couldn't even imagine that there was a conflict between their countries," Pompili said. For Hale, the episode reminded him of the United States in the 1950s, when Little League rules allowed African Americans to play. "South Carolina's governor removed all Little League teams from our program to keep them from playing Blacks," Hale said. "All regional tournaments had to be played at military installations or with a police presence — and this is the United States I'm talking about." China has hosted teams from Hong Kong and Taiwan on Little League's behalf in 1991, but Hale doesn't know where baseball diplomacy will take him next. Pompili, of Szczecin, Poland, has a few ideas. "Croatia has potential. Africa has a lot of possibilities. Even Russia," Pompili said. "And it would be nice to take all the major leaguers back to their roots." 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