SPORTS UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday, February 23,1995
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Majors want games boycotted
Minor leaguers asked not to play exhibitions
The Associated Press
MILWAUKEE — Even as baseball negotiators agreed to resume talks Monday in the Phoenix arena, striking major leaguers formally asked minor leaguers to boycott exhibition games.
"Players not on the 40-man roster of course have a legal right to play in replacement games," players' union negotiator Donald Fehr said yesterday. "Major league players, however, have the corresponding right to regard any individuals who play in such games as scabs."
Teams maintain that minor leaguers have always appeared in exhibitions. The union has said it would consider a player a strikebreaker if he appeared in a regularly scheduled exhibition game, one at a major league training site or one for which admission is charged.
"In the past, non-roster players might occasionally play in such games alongside major leaguers," Fehr said. "but it was not the press."
"We'd all be pretty foolish if we thought it won't impair bargaining."
Donald Fehr players'union negotiator on their request for a minor league boycott
ence of the non-roster players which made those games major league exhibition games. It was the presence of the major leaguers that did, and this year the major leaguers are on strike."
The union, which represents about 1,110 players on 40-man rosters, scheduled three meetings next week to explain its position to minor leaguers: Monday in Tampa, Fla., Tuesday in West Palm Beach, Fla., and Wednesday in Phoenix.
Exhibition games begin next Wednesday, with the California Angels playing Arizona State University. The other major league teams will begin using their replacement players on March 2 and 3.
"We'd all be pretty foolish if we thought it won't impair bargaining," Fehr said.
When talks resume on Monday, acting commissioner Bud Selig will lead the owners' delegation. Selig participated in the two days of talks in his hometown this week, sessions that were devoted more to venting rather than negotiating.
But the sides did, for a change, behave nicely toward each other. Selig even took Fehr to Jake's, a deli owned by the acting commissioner.
"There was no discussion today of substantive issues, proposals or anything like that." Fehr said.
"We'll see what effect corned beef has," Selig joked.
Fehr said for the first time publicly that players had been borrowing from the union's strike fund, estimated to total about $175 million when the strike began last Aug. 12.
UCLA could be next for No.1 jinx
The Associated Press
STANFORD, Calif. — UCLA may not want it, not until late at night on April 3, but the Bruins are in line to become the new No.1 team in college basketball in a few days.
First, however, the No. 2 Bruins must win against California tonight in Berkeley. Second, returning home for a Sunday game, UCLA needs to beat Duke, a team looking for something to restart a season gone astray.
"I don't want it," UCLA coach Jim Harrick said of the No. 1 ranking.
UCLA's claim to the top spot was strengthened with an uphill 88-77 victory at No.19 Stanford Tuesdaynight, after the Bruins, 19-2, knocked off Arizona and Arizona State last week at home.
The last time the Bruins were on top was 13 months ago. They took a 14-0
record into a road game at California on Jan. 30, 1994 and lost.
That began a tailspin that gave UCLA five more defeats in the regular season and a first-round NCAA tournament disappointment, losing to Tulsa 112-102.
Not only did California upend UCLA a year ago, the erratic Bears, 12-9, are the only team to beat the Bruins at home this season, 100-93 on Jan. 28. The other Bruin loss came in their league opener at Oregon on Jan. 5.
"The head that wears the crown is very shaky," Harrick said of the history of being top-ranked in 1994-95.
Alabama, North Carolina, Massachusetts, Connecticut and now Kansas have worm the No. 1 mantle like a swarm of bees — losing games within days or hours of being anointed No. 1.
Stanford, 16-6, led 47-44 at halftime
Most of the Bruin defense was taking care of guards Brevin Knight and Dion Cross, Stanford's scoring leaders, who were held to a total of four points after halftime.
on 45 percent shooting, but the Bruins began to block out on rebounds and even used a zone defense at times, to hold Stanford to just 34 percent shooting in the second half.
Freshman J.R. Henderson of the Bruins, 6-9 and usually a starting guard, was kept in reserve, but only for a few minutes.
He ended up scoring 19 points and spent much of the second-half playing defense against Stanford's 7-1 center Tim Young.
"When I have a big guy, I can take him inside, get a few moves, then I take him outside and they don't know what I'm going to do." Henderson said.
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