SPORTS UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Wednesday, July 5, 1995 3B Professional athletics in need of new attitude By Jim Litke The Associated Press Someone too young to know better asked why more stories about the good things in pro sports don't make it into the newspaper. These days, that sounds like a trick question. Even when posed by a 9-year-old. The simple answer is that almost nobody playing those games knows how to behave any more. The past weekend offered few exceptions. And if it's true that the tone is set at the top, things only figure to get worse. When rare commodities like experience, trust and loyalty go unrewarded, they become rarer still. These are the kinds of things we have to look forward to instead. — From England comes the story of an tennis player Jeff Tarango, who didn't like the way he was being treated by chair umpire Bruno Rebeuh. So Tarango up and walked off the court in mid-match Saturday. At Wimbledon no less. Just before his wife, Benedict, took a slap at the official. The happy couple's reasoning? Rebeuh was part of some as-yet-unspecified, as-yet-unsubstantiated conspiracy to get Jeff. — The news in pro basketball, meanwhile, was being monopolized by the lockout and how Michael Jordan and Patrick Ewing have become the front men for a few self-serving agents whose attempt to break the players' union has more to do with control than fairness. Very uplifting stuff. And what about major league baseball? It found and then squandered a rare chance to celebrate accomplishment. It came as Eddie Murray scaled the 3,000-hit plate; it ended almost as soon as he got there. That's because it's hard to keep a party going unless the guest of honor stays involved. And Murray, who checked out on the media and fans a dozen years ago, still wants to be left alone. Bad. All of it. But worse news waited farther down the page, down in the small stories about football and hockey franchises moving or threatening to move. And here's the worst news of all: Bad as individual players might behave, the owners are about to prove that players' behavior pales in comparison to how badly a franchise can behave. But they're just ahead of the curve. "Relocation" is about to become one of the driest words in sports. The New Jersey Devils have taken heat recently for talking about relocating to Nashville, in part because they just won the Stanley Cup and because they've moved twice already since becoming a hockey franchise in 1974. The past few weeks also have seen football's Raiders and Rams abandon Los Angeles for former NFL depots in Oakland and St. Louis, respectively. Not that the people on the Left Coast have much to worry about. Rumor it has that the Arizona Cardinals, Cincinnati Bengals, Seattle Seahawks or Tampa Bay Buccaneers — or any combination thereof — may be willing to fill the void before the season after next rolls around. The owners win either way. According to the latest count in Sports Illustrated, more than three dozen franchises are using a variety of threats to wring concessions from one town or another. There is such a laundry list of greedy demands that it's surprising cities still vie for franchises. In Tampa Bay, the city fathers built a stadium only a few years ago to lure a baseball team. Now, they'll have to find an additional $50 million to renovate it for the Devil Rays. And they've already signed a 30-year lease absorbing many of the costs while turning over a significant cut of the profits from every event staged there. "Our chase is over," Mayor David Fischer said at the time the city cut the deal. "Our frustration is over." But if the recent past is any indication, it may just be beginning. Times says Nelson to go to Knicks The Associated Press NEW YORK — Don Nelson has been offered the job as coach of the New York Knicks, the New York Times reported Monday. "Things are going well, but I'm not going to announce anything until everything is signed and sealed," team president Dave Checketts told the Times. The Times and Sunday Boston Globe said an announcement would be made this week — possibly tomorrow — but a Knicks spokesman said that no announcement was imminent. If a multi-year contract is agreed upon, the 55-year-old former coach and general manager of the Golden State Warriors reportedly will receive $2 million a year, the Times said. The new coach will replace Pat Riley, who resigned after the 1994- 95 season. Nelson, who also has coached the Milwaukee Bucks, resigned from the Warriors in February with the team's record at 14-34. Before his departure, Nelson had become embroiled in bitter feuds with some of his players, then suffered from viral pneumonia. In 17 1/2 seasons as a coach, his record is 815-604, making him the sixth-winning coach in NBA history. He has been chosen the NBA's Coach of the Year three times. New York general manager Ernie Grunfeld had the final decision and chose Nelson over former Boston coach Chris Ford, even though, according to the Globe, Checkets was not a fan of Nelson. Ford received official word from Grunfeld on Saturday that Nelson would be coach, the newspaper reported. SERENGETI DRIVERS *Imports & Domestica* *Machine Shop Service* *Parts Departments* DON'S AUTO CENTER "For All Your Repair Needs" 841-4833 920 E. 11th Street Get one of these. You Come First! Tickets on Sale Now! GIANT IGUANA $425.95 Go out and enjoy these. 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