University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, February 28, 1989
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Landry goodbye tearful
Cowboys coach fired, ending 29-year career
The Associated Press
IRVING, Texas — Tom Landry tearfully bid farewell to the Dallas Cowboys yesterday, saying he loved
them to give their best for new coach Jimmy Johnson.
Landrv
"It was hard to keep your emotions under control," said a redeyed Landry afterward. "I
tried to tell them that this crisis w pass, that you have to keep movi
The 64-year-old Landry choked up and couldn't finish his speech to the players assembled in a lecture hall.
"It was one of the most difficult things I've had to do." Landry said. "It was hard saying goodbye to the players."
Landry spent 29 years as the Cowboys' head coach, the only one in the team's history. His teams won two NFL championships and set a league-record of 20 consecutive winning seasons. The team went 3-13 last year, worst in the NFL, but Landry had hoped to eventually take them to another Super Bowl, the Cowboys' sixth.
Landry cleaned out his desk SUNDAY, making room for Johnson, who also said goodbye to a football team yesterday, the University of Miami Hurricanes. He coached at Miami and helped the national championship in 1897.
Johnson. a college roommate and
football teammate of new owner Jerry Jones on the unbeaten 1964 Arkansas Razorbacks, will meet the team in a scheduled a p.m. news conference.
Landry's farewell speech preceded a mini-camp for the players yesterday.
"There wasn't a dry eye in the room," linebacker Eugene Lockhart said. "Coach told us he loves us all and although he could be 'b with us in person from now on, he would be with us in spirit."
Then Lockhart paused and said, "I couldn't stand much more."
Quarterback Danny White said he never had seen Landry break down as he did.
"I felt for him," White said. "It's rare you see him in a situation that's difficult for him to handle. It's something I'll never forget. It must have lasted only five months but time stood still, believe me."
White said he would stay with the team until he saw what developed
"I'd still like to play another year," he said.
Linebacker Jeff Rohrer said, "Tom wasn't the only one in the room who broke down. It was tough, he was saying goodbye to 29 years."
Rohrer, like other players, still was furious about the way Landry was replaced.
“There was a better way to dump Tom,” he said. “You could take two people with IQs of three, put them in a room together and let them brainstorm 10 minutes, and they could have found a better way.”
yesterday that he handled Landry's dismissal poorly.
"It did mean everything to me for 'Coach Landry to hear what I had to say in the manner I had to say it as quickly as possible, and that was done." Jones said. "We made every effort in the world. Frankly, Coach Landry have known about it a second after (club president) Tex Schramm would have known about it if we could have gotten to him."
It hadn't been determined how Landry's contract, which had one year left on it, would be handled. He is owed some $800,000.
Jones and Schramm flew to Austin on Saturday, where Landry was spending the weekend, to tell him of the damage. The transaction leaked Thursday.
Landry had one year left on his contract but had been talking like he wanted to coach well into the 1990s.
Landry said Sunday that he didn't want to stay with the organization, "just hanging around looking over everyone's shoulder."
He said he didn't ever want to coach again or get into politics.
"I can't stay inactive though, so I will have to do something," Landry said.
Schramm said his role would be outlined by Jones within the next month.
"I will do what I can to help the new owners make the transition and continue the Cowboys' tradition," Schramm said.
Jones said he would be very much a hands-on owner and vote at NFL meetings instead of Schramm.
Local volleyball tournament gives team chance to be best in Midwest
by Laurie Whitten
Kansan sportswriter
"This will be a big tournament." Hatton said. "These teams should provide some tough competition."
Members of the KU Volleyball Club say they've got the potential to be as good as any U.S. Volleyball Association volleyball team in the Midwest. This weekend they'll have the chance to prove it.
The club will play in a local USVB队 tournament from 8 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. Saturday at Robinson Gymnasium, Brian Hatton, Hutchinson senior, said the tournament would consist of 20 Division A teams who belong to the national volleyball association.
Teams from Kansas City, Topeka,
Wichita, St. Louis and Lincoln, Neb.,
are participating in the 'tournament.
Division A is the second highest level of competition in volleyball. Only three teams in the country are divided into Division AA, which is the top division.
USVBA tournaments allow collegiate and club teams to compete against each other.
"In a preseason tournament similar to this, we finished third. Our team is more experienced now, so we expect us to do well," Hatton said.
He said the club, which is open to anyone interested in volleyball, was formed in 1978 to give players a chance to play for an organized university and financing for its university-sponsored men's volleyball team in 1961.
Between 30 to 40 members attend two hour practices two days a week and play on the club's Division A and Division B teams.
"We have two competitive teams within the club," Hatton said. "It's open to anyone — not just to guys who have played a lot of volleyball before. Only two of these guys ever played volleyball on the high school level."
Mills played during high school in Equador. Chan will not play this weekend because of an injured shoulder.
He said that sophomore Chee Hoon Chan played in a junior national league in Malaysia, and senior Nikos
Mills said playing volleyball for the club reminded him of his high school playing days.
"I think this team has the potential to be really good, but it may take time. It is the first time to play together for a lot of these guys."
"Ienjoy playing volleyball at KU," Mills said. "It's good to be playing it again. Volleyball is a big sport in my country.
Hatton said the club started practicing in August for the December to May season. Coach Ed Lectusie, who played for the club several years ago, supervises and critiques the practices.
"We've got to be in good shape to reach our goal, and that is to send teams to the June USVBNational Championship." said Ed. "We're a big help to us."
Alvarado's barrages of jokes go against his quiet reputation
by Mike Considine Kansan sportswriter
Somehow, Kansas basketball player Sean Alvarado has acquired a reputation as a quiet guy.
His teammate, Milt Newton,
wants the world to know that the
6-foot-10 senior center is not really
that way.
Steve Traynor/KANSAN
"He is not qu et," Newton said. "He's one of the funniest guys on the team and ce-tainly one of the loudest."
Newton said he could understand why people got the wrong impression about Alvarado.
"He doesn't say anything ... public," Newton said, "but when you get to know him, he has an insatiable joke of jokes that are not funny."
After a brief pause, Newton admitted that some of Alvarado's jokes were funny. Newton said his teammate and fellow Washington, Mike Garrison, knew knack for remembering Eddie Murphy and Richard Prorv lines.
Alvarado, who averages 4.6 points and 3.1 rebounds a game, also has a serious side. He said that people sometimes see only that side of his personality and think he is quiet and shy.
"I'm an art major," Alvarado said. "I just have a different way of expressing myself."
Alvarado said he would like to work as a painter after he completed work on his college degree.
"I've always been interested in painting from when I was real young," he said.
On the basketball court, Alvarado has been slowed by an injury this year. After being redshirted during Kansas' national championship season last year, Alvarado has been hampered by a stress fracture to the right tibia since the Kansas State game Jan. 14.
"He has worked hard and given us everything he had," Williams said. "We talked in the early fall about playing within his limitations, and he has continued to do that."
Kansas coach Roy Williams said Alvarado had done a good job under the circumstances. Williams said the injury limited Alvarado's ability to run and jump.
"It has been all right," Alvarado said. "I'm just trying to do whatever I can do. It's on a day-to-day basis."
Williams said that Alvarado had
Senior center Sean Alvarado is pictured here at the Iowa State game. He will play tomorrow night against Nebraska in his final appearance at Allen Field House.
the potential to play professional basketball in the Continental Basketball Association or in Europe.
Alvarado said, "If the opportunity is there, I'll do it. I just want to finish my degree or get close to it."
He said he had no special aspirations for his final game in Allen Field House, tomorrow night against Nebraska.
"I just want to go out and try to do the right things," Alvarado said.
Therapist says doctor was jealous of Johnson
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Ben Johnson was a "pharmaceutical testing ground" pumped with steroids without his direct knowledge before the Seoul Olympics by a doctor who called drug tests a joke, sports therapist Jack Scott said.
Scott's rule in Johnson's training for the Olympics, where the spinner failed a drug test and lost his 100-meter dash gold medal, is detailed in the April issue of Runner's World magazine.
A copy was made available to
The Associated Press yesterday;
Scott then confirmed the informa-
tion that he had been from his
office in Berkeley, Calif.
Scott said he decided to speak out now, four months after the Olympics, because he was appalled by the disloyalty shown by Jamie Astaphan. Johnson's personal physician for five years
"Astaphan was irate that Charlse Francis was getting the credit (for Johnson's success) as coach and Johnson was getting credit, but he wasn't." Scott said. "Now, when he wants to have anything to do with it, he wants to dump it all in Johnson's.
"Dr. Astaphan recently came forward and said he never gave Johnson berroids and Johnson Ben Joonchoon azonolz on his own." Scott said.
Scott, who worked extensively with Johnson during the Canadian's training for the Seoul Olympics, said Astaphan turned against the sprint because of jealousy.
"He (Astaphan) denied for months that he ever used stanozol, and then the drug company
came out and said it had been sending it to him for a long time.
"In Johnson's case, he is one of the most decent people I've met in sports. It's a tragedy what this has cost him because of the trust he put in his coach and his doctor. I think he has to accept responsibility for that, but not the primary responsibility."
His association with Johnson began last June, when Astaphan and Larry Heidebrecht, Johnson's agent, asked if he would work with the world record-holder on the Caribbean island of St. Kitts.
Scott quoted Astaphan as saying, "Johnson has a childlike, complete trust in me. Whatever I tell him, he'll do."
The magazine said, "Astaphan started Johnson on steroids without the sprinter's direct knowledge of the track." Johnson continued to consent too.
Scott said that when he asked Astaphan about the possible repercussions from drug testing, the tests and the tests! The tests are a joke. *
Scott has been an adamant anti-drug crusader who was an adviser for Bill Walton in the mid-1970s. Scott testified before a Senate subcommittee hearing into drugs in sports in 1973.
At times, Scott said, Johnson ingested as many as 20 or 30 pills at a time.
Johnson and Lewis met in a celebrated 100-meter race in August at Zurich, Switzerland, and the American won. But the following month, Johnson reversed the finish at Seoul.
At the time, Scott also was working with Johnson's chief rival, Carl Lewis.
Swimmers rely on grades to stay afloat
Coach monitor of academic progress
by Brett Brenner Kansan sportswriter
Kansan sportswriter
In fact, when the swimmers and divers of the Kansas swimming team finish their workout and climb out of the pool, their day is far from over. It's then that they must devote themselves to their studies.
They have the second-highest grade point average in the Kansas Athletic Department, at 2.8, said a new athletic director for academic support.
The nationally ranked Jayhawks have made a splash in the classroom as well as in the pool.
There are 22 Jayhawk Scholars on the team, 10 men and 12 women. To be a scholar, an athlete must have at
"I have always been as proud of their academic accomplishments as I have of their" swimming," said Rachel. "We're a women's and women's游泳 coach."
Kempf said he evaluated swimmers five years after graduation.
"If they are using what they were trained for at the University, then we have been successful," he said. "I believe that who applies themselves can do well academically."
least a 3.0 GPA.
To produce this kind of success. Kempf monitors the students' academic progress.
"I keep track of what major they are working toward, their grades and
“As a team, at the beginning of the season, we shoot for around a 3.0 grade point average,” he said. “That would be pretty impressive for 70
"They are here to swim fast for four years. But there is life after athletics. We talk a great deal about life beyond athletics."
Kempf said he tells the swimmers that it won't matter that they swam in college if their GPA is low, when it comes time to get a job. But if they have a 2.9 or a 3.0 GPA, then you see the swimming as an advantage.
how long they are going to take to graduate," he said. "I want to push them in that direction.
There is a study hall for freshmen and upperclassmen with less than a 2.5 GPA. Kemp said this is to add
structure to the athletes' lives and make their workload easier.
Students who have problems with academics usually stay with the program and eventually find some success. Kempt said.
"The mental discipline and dedication that it takes to be a good athlete also helps (make) a good student," he said.
I've driven some kids away from the program because they didn't like me working with them about academics." Kemp said.
Kelly Seavail, Littleton, Co. sophomore, said the swim team's program had helped her learn how to study.
"When you are a freshman and you have to go to study hall, it's kind of a pain," she said. "But you learn to study. It comes naturally now."
Sports Briefs
Braddy, a junior, recently broke Lynette Woodard's all-time Jayhawks assist record and became the second Kansas history to score 1,000 points.
BADDY RECEIVES HONOR: Kan sas guard Lisa Bradby was a second team All-Big Eight selection yester day in balloting by conference coaches.
Colorado guard Bridget Turner and coach Ceal Barry were named Big Eight women's player and coach of the year.
Barry received all seven votes for coach of the year. Coaches were not allowed to vote for themselves.
KU GOLF IN NINTH: The Kansas golf
Turner, a senior guard, led Colorado with 15 points, 7.1 rebounds and five assists per game.
Voted newcomer of the year was Kansas State guard Mary Jo Miller, who helped the Lady Cats improve a place finish to third place this year.
team shot a 36 over-par 322 yesterday and in is ninth place heading into today's final round of the Seminole Golf Classic, in Panama City, Fla
Today's final round will consist of 7 holes of play.
John Ogden led the Jayhawks with a 76 on the par-24 course. Len Johnson followed with a 79.
CASTANEDA A ROYAL HIT: Nick Castaneda, leading hitter in the Mexican League last year, had an 19-6 win over Anas Azaria City Royals workout Monday.
Castaneda belted a 430-foot shot over the centerfield fence off left-hander Charlie Leibrand and right-hander Jack Lepage over the outfield in batting practice.
centerfield wall. Maybe he's just a late bloomer."
"It looks like he's got some pop." Royals Manager John Wathan said. "He hit one off the centerfield backdrop and short hopped one to the left.
The Royals invited him to camp and will have to purchase his contract from Yucatan if they decide to keep him.
Castaneda, 26, stands 6.5, weighs 235 and is a left-handed hitting first baseman. In the past three seasons in the Mexican League, he had a .390 batting average with 91 home runs and 271 RBI.
MU NAMES ASSISTANT? Al Eberhard was named a part-time assistant basketball coach today at West Point, where he is No. 1 in career scoring.
Daly, an assistant at Missouri for
Athletic Director Dick Tamburo said the appointment gives Rich Daly, the Tigers' interim coach, some help on Missouri's depleted bench. He said Eberhard would help Daly in the day-to-day operations of the basketball program, including practice and game preparations.
six seasons, become interim coach
feb. 9 after Norm Stewart, the coach
at Missouri for 22 years, collapsed on
a team flight. He had cancer surgery
and is expected to miss the remainder
of the season.
Bob Sundold, the other full-time assistant, was suspended a day earlier pending an investigation into his involvement in a legal NCAA violations.
"Rich and I have discussed the staff situation on a daily basis ever since Norm became ill in Oklahoma." Tamburo said. "With the Missouri high school tournament now underway, Rich felt it was important that our program be represented. I visited with Norm this morning to talk about our coaching staff, and he was very supportive of this action."
Eberhard scored 1,347 points at Missouri from 1971-74 for a 16.8 career scoring average and was the highest Big Eight Team in 1973 and 1974.