University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, April 26, 1989
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Cocaine test disqualifies Vaughn
by Scott Achelpohl Kansan sportswriter
Kansas' all-time leading receiver Willie Vaughn was excluded from
days' National Football League draft because of a positive cocaine test at an ncse test combine in February. Vaughn's agent, Todd Maughan.
organ. said yesterday.
Morgan said he had heard the news from several NFL teams but would not dislike which ones.
Top receiver excluded from draft
"Everything is hearsay to date." Morgan said. "I have no facts in front
of me right now. Someone else told me everything."
morgan said he would know more about the situation in 10 days after investigating the situation more thoroughly.
Vaughn denied ever using cocaine. "I was really stunned when I heard about the news," Vaughn said. "They (other teams) can always test me. All of my drug tests at Kansas were negative."
he said the positive drug test may have been caused by Actifed, an over-the-counter cold medicine he was using at the time.
Vaughn predicted he would undergo financial loss because of not being drafted but did not know how
large his losses would be.
"How can you estimate a loss of money you never had," he said. Yauhui he would test the NFL."
Vaughn he said he would test the NFL market as a free agent. "Right now, I'm just waiting to see where I'm going to play ball."
John Hadd, Kansas receivers coach, said last week he expected Vaughn to be picked in one of the first four rounds of the draft.
Whitey Dovell, director of player personnel for the Kansas City Chiefs, said Vaughn was not selected by the Chiefs because the team was looking for receivers that could return kick-offs and punts.
orns and pants.
Vaughn played in both capacities at Kansas.
The February scouting combine consisted of more than 200 top-trained college seniors. Each player must be proficient in injuries, intelligence and drug use.
Vaughn, a 6-foot, 190 pound receiver from Kansas City, Kan. finished his career at Kansas with 133 receptions for 2,266 yards.
The test information was sent to all league teams and remained confidential. The information is not shared with the players or agents.
In 1988, he placed third on the Kansas all-time single season receiving list with 39 receptions for 812 yards.
He was selected to the All-Big Eight Conference team three years in a row during his four-year career at Kansas from 1985 to 1988.
KU baseball team ends winning streak with five
by a Kansan reporter
The Kansas baseball team's winning streak ended at five last night as Southwest Missouri State defeated the Jawhacks 6-3 in Springfield, Mo.
Darren Garrison (4-1) was the winning pitcher for the Bears, while Brad Hinkle had his seventh game in twelve decisions for Kansas. Ernie Johnson earned his first save of the season for Southwest Missouri State.
The Bears scored their first run in the second inning when Matt Brewer singled and Brent Bartlet doubled. The Brewers were able to score. Brewer from third base
They added another run in the third immin when Corby Fister reached second on a two-base error by Hinkle.
Brewer drove in Fister with a single to extend the Bears lead to 2-0.
Kansas cut the lead in half in the fourth inning on a sacrifice fly by Steve Dowling after Pat Karlin tripped.
But the Bears extended their lead to 4-1 in the bottom of the fifth innning, when Brewer followed a Fister single, with his sixth home run of the season.
Southwest Missouri State added two more runs in the sixth innning off Kansas' Steve Renko, who finished the game relieving Hinkle.
The 28-23 Jayhawks return home to play Northwest Missouri State at 7 p.m. today at Hoglund-Maupin Stadium.
Strength, quick hands and a fast step make third baseman ideal for the job
Hawks Spitaleri led OSU victory
by Laurie Whitten Kansan sportswriter
Jayhawk softball coach Kalum Haack looks for quick hands, a fast step and a strong arm when he chooses a third baseman.
at that position for Kansas this year, Camille Spitaleri has proven she's all of the above.
"Camile is a very intense ball player." Hack said of the 5-foot-7 Sunnyvale, Calif., freshman. "Everything she does, she does hard. She's got a quick first step and quick hands, which you've got to have because you don't move much from the base."
Haack said he recruited Spitaleri after watching her play third base for a California summer team called the Twin Creek Diamonds, a team that finished fifth in the nation. A Homestead High School graduate, Spitaleri earned county and national honors and was named the DeAnza Athletic League's most valuable player.
As a Jayhawk, Spitaleri had one of her best performances in the seventh inning of Sunday's Oklahoma State game, Haack said. Kansas was ahead 3-1 and Spitaleri caught a line drive for the fire out, but the No. 1 ranked Cowgirls had much MiChale. The Dawn Lange stepped up to the plate and hit a line drive that would have scored Shean, but Spitaleri lingered to her left to make the catch.
"Defensively, she did a great job," Haack said. "She made a few key plays on line drives that if she were to win, she might not have won the game."
Although her defensive play had improved all season, Haack said Spitaleri recently had been concerned with her hitting.
"She's been kind of down on herself lately because she's not hitting her," she added. "She's a perennial 300 hitter, but now she's about 290."
Haack said Spitaleri and the rest of the Jayhawks had played better than ever in recent games and hoped they would continue to do so in today's doubleheader against Creighton. Game time will be 3 p.m at Jayhawk Field, south of Anschutz Sports Pavilion.
Kansas, 31-24, upset 10th-ranked Creighton 2-1 and 3-2 on April 11 in Omaha.
Creighton is a very,very good
Camille Spitaleri, Sunnyside, Calif., freshman, connects with a pitch during batting practice.
team." Haack said. "They've got a strong pitcher who is backed up by a quick defense, and they hit the ball well and make very few miss
takes.
"We swept them at Omaha when they were ranked ninth in the nation, and we really had to play
takes.
good ball to do it. We had two good pitching performances by Roamna (brazier) and Shelly (Sack), and we were able to outit him."
Royals beat Yankees in fourth straight win
The Associated Press
KANSAS CITY. Mo. — Bo Jackson hit his home four run in six games last night as Kansas City beat New York in the Royals' fourth straight victory.
John Candelaria, 2.2, retired the first to batters until Kevin Seitner hit his first home run since last July 6. Jackson's league-leading seven home run, an opposite-field shot to LeBron James, helped tie it 2.2 leading off the fifth.
With two outs in the fifth, Kurt Stillwell and Willie Wilson singled and Seitzer singled to score stillwell with the Royals' third run. They made it 4-2 in the sixth when Pat Tabler singled, went to third on Bob Boone's single and scored on Frank White's double.
New York moved within 4-3 in the eighth when Steve Sax doubled and, on right fielder Danny Tartabull's fielding error, came all the way home. Just before Sax's double, Rickey Henderson was picked off
first base by Bret Saberhagen.
Saberhagen, 2-2, recovered from a rocky start, striking out five and walking none.
But the Royals got a run in the eighth as Tartaball doubled and pitch runner Gary Thurman came in on Boone's single.
The Yankees, who had won seven of 10, would have had at least a 3-0 lead in the fourth if Mel Hall hadn't pulled up lame round third base. New York was leading 1-0 on Don Mattingly's RBI double in the first when Ken Phelps and Hall hit one-out singles.
Don Stauglas sent a line drive into the left-field corner. Phelps scored easily, but Hall pulled up about three strides past third base and fell to the ground. He got up and tried to hobble one-legged toward the plate, but slumped in and broke his leg lay catcher Boone gently tagged him out. He was helped from the field with what the Yankees described as a pulled hamstring.
Tyson becomes a doctor through honorary degree
The Associated Press
WILBERFORCE, Ohio — Mike Tyson, high school dropout, became Dr. Tyson yesterday.
The 22-year-old heavyweight
champion received an honorary doctor of humane letters degree from Central State University for his accomplishments and for being an inspiration to young people.
Tyson
But at a news conference earlier yesterday, Tyson said he tried not to present himself as a role model because it put pressure on youths.
"I don't think you should have idols," he said. "You should put your energy where you can be the best at what you can do."
Tyson, raised by foster parents and sentenced to a detention center at the age of 12, said he considered the degree "the high point of all my years."
Jack Kemp, secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, said Tyson was an ex-convict who would accom- ded through dedication.
And Central State president Arthur Thomas referred to the champion as someone who had been hit by poverty, prejudice and "some of the hardest punches life can throw."
At the news conference, Tyson chided businesses for failing to give poor youngsters a chance because their dressed properly for job interviews.
"There are kids out there that want to do well," he said. "They sell drugs to go to school. The real reason is because were not giving them a chance to succeed." He knew in a three-piece silk suit, believed me they would."
He said delivering anti-drug messages to poor youths was unhelpful because they couldn't identify with someone who was wealthy.
"When you really think about it, this is a society that breeds racism," he said. "It's born and bred in the United States of America. It's very difficult for these kids to think about what do I want to do with my life when society wasn't designed for them to get anywhere in life."
Don King, Tyson's manager, told the students at the conference to prepare themselves for discrimination.
"That degree will not make you free." King said. "Until we gain economic independence, we're still nominally slaves."
Tyson, who charmed, joked and flirted with the students, said he planned to donate $25,000 to the university.
Cornell head coach leaves football team
The Associated Press
ITHACA, N.Y. - Maxie Baughan,
eating personal tensions in Cornell's
football program, resigned yesterday
as head coach of the Ivy League
coach champions, the college
announced.
In a statement released by the university last night, Baughan, Cornell's head coach since 1983, said the unspecified tensions and disruptions had engulfed them and were still on him and others associated with the team.
A rift between Baughan and his assistant head coach, Peter Noyes, surfaced two weeks ago that the rift stemmed from a romantic relationship between Baughan and Noyes wife, Cathy.
"Despite my best efforts and those of others, it has become clear to me that the tensions that have characterized the program recently have likely to resolve soon," she said in a letter to Cornell athletic director Laing Kennedy.
The newspaper said several unidentified sources had confirmed that Baughan and Cathy Noyes were married a longtime romantic relationship.
Neither Baughan nor Kennedy were available for comment last night, when Cornell's players were to be notified of Baughan's resignation, said Dave Wolhuter, sports information director.
in six years at Cornell. Baughan's teams went 28-29-2, with an Ivy League record of 23-14-1 that includes last season's share of the conference championship with Penn. It was the Big Red's first Ivy title in 17 years.
Baughan, 50, was an All-American linebacker at Georgia Tech who went on to play 14 years in the National Football League with the Philadelphia Eagles and Los Angeles Rams, being selected All-Pro four times.
Starting expansion team requires lots of patience, persistence, faith
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Some advice for the Miami Heat, who finished 15-67 in their first season. Don't panic. Stay the course. Have faith in your people.
As New York Islanders general manager Bill Torrey explained, all expansion teams start at the same point: "no pencils, no desks, no players, nothing." The team played into playoff contenders within a few years, while the Mariners, who began in 1977, still struggle for respectability?
This from men of experience, like Tom Fears, the original head coach of the New Orleans Santis, and Lou Gorman, the first general manager of the Kansas City Royals and Seattle Mariners.
The problem can begin at the top. Fears, fired after compiling a record of 13:24 over 3% seasons, bitterly opposed to a match with owner John Mecjm J.
"Well, he wasn't very receptive to anything," Fears said. "He wouldn't listen to any of my suggestions, he would just talk to his cronies and none of them knew football. He was dipping in the wrong basket.
"We went to San Diego once and he rented homes and had boats and because he was enamored with the players, he would invite them out after curfew. He was working against the program."
again, with such horror stories could be heard from Torrey. The Islanders finished 12-6-0 in their first year, 1972-73, but reached the playoffs two years later and eventually won four straight Stanley Cups.
"Unfortunately," Torrey said, "when you start an expansion team, your fellow competitors are not going to give you anything they've got that we've got a problem somewhere along the line or they wouldn't have given up on them
in the first place."
So Torrey patiently built the islands with draft picks like Bryan Trottier, Clark Gillies and Mike Bossy.
Norm Sonn, the Dallas Mavericks' general manager, also has put a contender together. Dallas joined the NBA in 1980, winning just 15 games and losing 67, but finished 43-39 years later and made the playoffs.
"We knew what we were attempting to do, that it was going to be a long pull, but for those of us who were in the hockey end of it, we had a good chance. We were going to be like. They were loaded, stacked with talent."
"We chose to build with young players if at all possible." Sonju explained. "Whenever there was a choice between the old veterans who may have a problem, we went with the younger.
Whether we win 10, 15 or 20 games that first year, we didn't think it mattered. It's better to bite the bullet and win a few less games than you're supposed to win than to have all those veteran players retire.
Gorman has been on both sides. The Royals, who started in 1969, compiled a respectable 69-93 record their first year, avoiding the disastrous beginnings of most expansion teams. By 1976, Kansas City was good enough to win the American League West.
"I think it's because we got good people, put them in the right jobs and kept some continuity." German said. "I don't know if it was made or made some brilliant trades."
But when Gorman took on the general manager position with the Mariners, something went wrong. Seattle has never finished with a winning record and is still going through the process of rebuilding