University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, June 12, 1991
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Pole vaulter receives seventh All-American
By David Mitchell
Kansan sportswriter
In 1986 Pat Manson came to Kana-
sue with the stream of becoming an eigh-
teen.
By placing third in the pole vault at the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships two weeks ago in Eugene, Ore., Manson earned All-American honors for the seventh time in his final collegiate meet.
Manson's lone setback in his quest occurred during his sophomore season at the outdoor championships in Eugene. He heavy rains made condi-
It would never happen again.
"A lot of people didn't clear the bar," Manson said. "A lot of people didn't make finals, and I was one of them."
It would never happen again.
"I came back with a vengeance," Manson said. "I had something to prove."
The six-time Big Eight champion
had a personal best 18 feet, 8¾
inches.
Having already qualified for the Olympic trials, Manson will travel to Europe this summer to compete on the European circuit.
"If things go well we'll compete in all of Europe," Manson said. "I'll compete until September, and then put them on training and running and training until Spring."
Williams might not persuade old friend to stay in Kansas
Assistant coach Rick Attig thinks Manson can make it.
"He's a real competitor," said Attig. "It's going to be a battle, but I feel like he has a great shot at it."
Before leaving for Europe, Manson will compete at The Athletic Congress in New York.
In the spring he will prepare for the Olympic Trials. Manson estimated that by the time the trials took place next summer about 20 wavers would have qualified. Three will make the Olympic team. To qualify for the trials, a vaulter must clear $18\cdot 4/3$ a height. Manson has reached several times.
"I have every intention of making the team," he said.
Assistant coach Jerry Green contemplates leaving KU after position opens up in South Carolina last month
By David Mitchell
Kansan sportswriter
While the Kansas Jayhawks were marching toward the Final Four, assistant coach Jerry Green was pondering a change of scenery.
Green turned down the head coaching job at Virginia Tech in early April. He said that at one point he had decided to accept the job. However, a long talk with Coach Roy Williams changed his mind.
Two months has passed and Green again is rethinking his future. On May 14 South Carolina fired Coach George Felton. Although he has not formally applied for the job, he still wants to be confirmed that Green is among about 60 coaches being considered by their search committee.
In South Carolina, Green sees an appealing opportunity to go home.
"I was born and raised in the state. My parents are buried in the state, and my sister still lives there," the native of Startex. S.C. said.
Green has coaching roots in the Carolinas as well. He had 12 years of experience as a head coach in North Carolina on the collegiate level. From 1978-97 Green was 150-106 at UC-Anshelife. During that period, the Bulldogs moved from NAIA to NCAA Division I status.
"I wasn't taking it mainly because of Roy, and the talk we had," Green said of the Virginia Tech position. "We're very close. He's like the brother I never had. We go back 20 years friendship wise."
to leave.
"I've got a good job. This is a solid situation. With another good recruiting class this will be a stable job for a long time," Green said."It would take a very appealing job to take me away from Kansas."
South Carolina hopes to have the position filled by early July. The search committee has met once, and will meet again June 14.
"I have not applied." Green said. "I have verbally stated that I was interested through the media."
Williams said he had not heard from representatives of South Carolina, but added that, "South Carolina is getting the call to contact me about Jerry Green."
"I think he is very happy here," said Williams, "and I want I know
him here, but he is also my best friend. That will make me look at opportunities for him, and if they are when I think he should investigate."
While Green has not been contacted by South Carolina he has been contacted by the media. Since publicly stating that he was interested in the job Green has been besieged by the press.
"I haven't heard from South Carolina," said Green, "but I've heard from the media."
On his vacation reporters tracked
Green to its North Carolina beach
houses.
"I was trying to make recruiting calls, but I spent more time talking about South Carolina," he said.
Derek Nolen/KANSAN
Danny Manning, former Kansas basketball player, answers questions from the participants in Roy William's basketball camp. Manning is one of several college and professional basketball players who are teaching clinics at the camp. The camp has three one-week sessions, with about 400 participants each week. They are filled for all three weeks.
Familiar face
Despite shoulder injury, Jamison continues career
By David Mitchell
Kansan sportswriter
Alonzo Jamison will begin rehabilitation tomorrow, six weeks after the Kansas forward underwent anterior cartilage from his right shoulder
Jamison injured his shooting shoulder before the Big Eight basketball season began. Despite nagging pain, he continued to play.
“Ocado told me it was my decision,” Jamison said. “I wanted to keep playing, and I thought he wanted me to keep playing. If I had surgery I would have been out for six weeks and had to be done after the season.”
The injury remained a secret outside the locker room during the season.
"I didn't want it to get out that I was shooting badly because of my shoulder," he said. "I didn't want any excuses for that."
However, the secretive approach may have been unnecessary. For the season Jamison hit 59.5 percent from
the field, second on the team behind senior forward Mark Randall. In the NCAA tournament he led the team at 57.4 percent and earned Most Valuable Player honors in the Southeast Regional.
Jamison said that although he was unsure of the origin of the injury, the shoulder was aggravated by full extension of the arm.
He said the pain grew gradually worse over the course of the season.
"It hurt to swing my arm," he said. "Batting a ball away, blocking a shot — there was a deadening pain."
Nevertheless, Jamison tied junior center David Johannov for the team lead in blocked shots with 15. He led the team in steals with 80. He also led the team in rebounds, averaging 6.4 a game.
Even after the season ended Jamison continued to play and tried out for the Pan American games team. However, he failed to make the team.
"I went down and played awful," Jamison said. "It was two weeks after the season. I thought I played
well during the tournament, but I couldn't get the intensity back during trovots."
Kansas basketball trainer Mark Cairns said it might have been for the best.
"As far as his shoulder is considered, his not making the team gave us the time to get him ready," said Cairns.
Cairns said recovery should take 12-16 weeks from the time of surgery. That means it will be at least another week before the damselfish steps back onto the court.
"We'll attempt very gradually to let him progress," Cairns said. "The biggest thing with him is getting back the range of motion without any pain.
Cairns said it would be three to four weeks before he attempted to strengthen Jamison's limbs. While his arm has been immobilized, Jamison has used devices such as stationary bicycles to keep his legs in shape.
"They try to get you back on the court as soon as they can," Jamison said.
The Associated Press
KC Royals shut out Orioles, score 6 runs in third inning
BALTIMORE — Kansas City had 16 hits, including a three-run double by Carmelo Martinez as the Royals scored six runs in their biggest inning of the season and beat the Baltimore Orioles 11-0 last night.
Mike Macfarlane had four of Katrina and Bill Peccota at three-hole runners.
Terry Shumpert had his second homer and ignited the third inning — the Royals' biggest since scoring seven runs against New York on July 15. The Giants were game losing streak. All the runs were charged to Jose Mesura (4-7), whose
ERA swelled to 7.53 over his last five starts.
Mark Gubiza (2-3) allowed four hits, walked two and struck out three in six innings before being replaced by Steve Crawford after a 1 hour, 17-minute rain delay. Crawford allowed three hits and struck out six during the final three innings to earn his first save.
Up 1-0, the Royals got seven hits in the third, including a homer and three doubles. One out after Shumpert's homer, Kirk Gibson and George Brett hit consecutive doubles to make it 3-0.
Brett took third on a single by Jim
Eisenreich and scored on an infall hit by Macfarlane. Mike Flanagan relieved Mesa and walked Kevin Seitler to load the bases for Mar-
sor. The backup was subsequently was caught in a run-down between second and third.
After Eisenreich singled home a run in the ninth, Macfarlane singled and Pecota hit his third homer.
The Royals got an unearned run in the second. Macfarlane singled, moved to third on a single by Seitzer and scored when right-fielder Joe Orsulk threw wildly to home after catching a short fly ball by Martinez
Magic ponders retirement in wake of loss to Chicago
The Associated Press
INGLEWOOD, Calif. — The disappointment of a 3-1 deficit in the NBA finals has Magic Johnson thinking he might consider retirement.
"I have three weeks off after this is over, and I'll sit down and decide what to do," Johnson said after the Los Angeles Lakers' practice yesterday. "I might decide to leave after this season, or it might be one or two more years. I always wanted to be a businessman, although I'm set up financially so I don't have to work another day in my life."
Johnson, 31, said he never expected what he called the ultimate series to succeed.
"There becomes a point when you say, I I'm tired of traveling. I'm tired of giving things up," Johnson said. "You always wonder longer than longer you want to go, even if you're not really thinking of quitting."
Bulls would become one-sided. The Bulls have a chance to win the first championship in the franchise's first season and another victory at the Forum tonight.
"Ultimately, I'll do what's best for me, not what's best for the Lakers or the NBA. If I thought in my heart that I could win, I'd be more inclined to win, I'd be more inclined to quit."
Coach Mike Dumleay, who said he was not counting on injured starters James Worthy and Bryon Scott, scrimmaged with the team because he wanted Johnson to rest. Then left nine players on the floor.
The Lakers, who have won five
"I made a few baskets, but our bench has guys who are better than me," Dunleave said.
He retired as an active player in 1985 but filled in as an emergency reserve for Milwaukee as recently as last season.
In the 1980 finals against Philadelphia, Johnson moved to center in the sixth game and scored 42 points and 15 rebounds as the Lakers beat the 76ers and won the championship with an injury to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
championships since Johnson's arrival in 1975, and began playing news in the front vests.
"We have to prepare like James and Byron are not going to play."
"This is a similar situation, but I don't know what's going to happen and how I might play in the game." Johnson said. "I can't go into a game saying, 'I'm just going to shoot tonight.' You can't plan things that way. I have to see how the game goes."
Johnson said
Johnson said that he did not think he would play 48 minutes but that it
Worthy, who sprained his left ankle two weeks ago in the series against Portland, and Scott, who has a bruised right shoulder, could be replaced by A.C. Green at forward and Terry Tealle at guard
would be close to that
Trainer Gary Vitti said, "No decision will be made on either of them until game time. We're treating them and the clock. I haven't given up."
Worthy said, "The real test will be getting on the floor, doing some cutting and some spontaneous movement."
Scott said, "I'm not ruling anything out. I'm keeping hope alive that
I'll play. It wouldn't help the team if I went out there hurted. I was told by the doctor that it could take a week or two to recover, but we're trying to speed up the process."
The Lakers also need a quick fix on their alir offensive. They are averaging 89.3 points on 43.3 percent shooting, while the Bulls have scored an average of 99.8 points on 52.5 percent shooting.
Johnson said, "The toughest part of their defense is that they have interchangeable players in different situations. They help each other very well and their team speed is outstanding."
SANTA MONICA, Calif. — Baseball owners began arriving for their quarterly meetings yesterday and all expressed confidence that Denver and Miami would be approved in the National League's two expansion teams.
Baseball owners suggest two possible NL expansion teams
The Associated Press
Pittsburgh Pirates chairperson Douglas Danfort, head of the NL expansion committee, emerged from a meeting of baseball's executive
council and explained that St. Petersburg, Fla., and Washington were bypassed because of problems with their ownership groups. He said Buffalo, N.Y., and Orlando, Fla., were bypassed because of problems involving population and demographics.
Meanwhile, Texas Rangers general partner George W. Bush expressed anger on behalf of the American League over commissioner Fay Vincent's decision to award AL teams only $42 million of the $190 million in expansion fees.
While Denver and Miami were rejoicing, the losers were trying to find out why they were overlooked. At St. Petersburg, the Times ran a column in The Atlantic "Say I Ain't So!" The Washington Times said "Jilted Again!"
The finger-pointing was most pronounced in St. Petersburg, which
built the $138 million Florida Suncoast Dome without the promise of a team.
Former mayor Robert Ulrich claimed that the ownership group of managing general partner Stephen Porter had commitments for only $21 million of the $85 million expansion project, president of the St. Petersburg chamber of commerce, said Allen and Sidney Kohl had reduced their investment from $50 million to $5 million.
"I think they kept changing their target," Danforth said. "It wasn't quite sure who would be the owner of that car." The partner. The people kept changing.
Danforth said Washington's problem was too many owners.
"I believe Tampa could field a major team," he said.
"We were concerned that it was multiple ownership," he said. "We have no problem with eight, 10 ownings but it was getting larger than that."
Robert Rich Jr., head of Buffalo's bid, claimed the NL backed off from its four stated criteria: strong local ownership, open-air stadiums, government backing and fan support.