University Daily Kansan / Tuesday. February 24, 1987
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Purdue topples Illinois
From Kansan wires
CHAMPAIGN, III. — Everett Steele sank a three-point field goal and two free throws in overtime last night, helping No. 6 Purdue rally from a 16-point deficit to beat No. 14 Illinois 76-75 in the Big Ten.
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Todd Mitchell scored 19 points, including a field goal and two free throws in the extra period, as Purdue improved to 21-3 overall and 12-2 in the league. Illinois, which lost to Purdue 87-86 in overtime earlier this season, fell to 19-7 and 9-5. Purdue faces league-leading Indiana, 14-1. Thursday night.
Pittsburgh 94
Villanova 83
PITTSBURGH — Charles Smith scored 22 points and Jerome Lane had 20 points and 17 rebounds leading Villanova to 48-43 victory over Villanova last night.
Pittsburgh improved to 23-5 overall and 12-3 in the conference and is assured of at least a tie for the Big East. Conference regular-season players have raced to a caucuse and Georgetown are tied for fourth in the Big East with 10-4 records.
Villanova, which lost 58-57 to Pitt earlier in the season, fell to 15-13 overall and 6-9 in the Big East.
New Orleans 89 SW Lousiana 63
NEW ORLEANS — Ronnie Grandison
sorened 18 points and pulled down
10 rebounds last night powering No.
20 New Orleans to an 89-63 victory
over Southwestern Louisiana.
The Privatees, 23-2. used a tough man-to-man defense throughout the game.
Wendell Perkins scored 13 points and Elden Irving added 11 for New Orleans, which won its 15th consecutive game at Lakefront Arena.
Joyner wins Sullivan Award
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INDIANAPOLIS — Jackie Jowner, who set two world heptathlon records within a month, last night won the women's 10k race to the country's top amateur, athletics
Joyner set a world record with 7,148 points to win the seven-event competition at the 1986 Goodwill Games in Moscow. Less than a month later, she broke that world record. She also won the Olympic Festival in Houston, setting world heptathlon marks in the long jump and the 200-meter run.
Marathoner Joan Benoit Samueller, who won the award in 1986, presented the trophy to Joyner before more than a thousand people at ceremonies in the Indiana Roof Institute. The trophy was presented by the Amateur Athletic Union, is given for the previous year's accomplishments.
"To all the women out there, all the people who see me win this award, they can look at me and realize they achieve their dreams." Joyner said.
The 24-year-old from East St.
Louis, Ill., is the eight female win-
heptathlete
Jackie Joyner
'I it was a struggle for me.'
ner in the award's 57-year history. This was the first time two women have earned the distinction in consec-
"It was a struggle for me." Joyner said, "My mother and father didn't have all the money in the world, but their best to help their children."
Other finalists this year were Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback Vinnie Testaverde; wrestler Bruce Baumgartner; swimmers Mati Biondio and Betsy Mitchell; gymnasm Kristie Phillips; figure skater Debi Thoreau; basketball player Kevin Kiraly; and basketball players David Robinson and Cheryl Miller.
Testaverde, Thomas and Miller did not attend the ceremonies because of prior commitments.
Joyner is the sister of Al Joyner,
1984 Olympic triple-jump champion.
and the wife of Bob Kersee, who coaches his wife and the UCLA women's track team.
"Bobby was having difficulty coaching me in the long jump." Joyner said. "I think I'm a great long jumper and Bob told me otherwise. It took me a long time to boothop to my coach on the field. When we went home, we did other things."
Joyner said she was surprised to win the award — a foot-tall statue of a male runner — ahead of such a person as brende of Miami and Robinson of Navy.
"I kept telling my husband, maybe Testaverte would win," she said. "He's the Heisman Trophy winner. Or may David Robinson."
Joyner, who will compete in this weekend's U.S. Indoor Track Championships, said her remaining goals are to win a world record in the long jump.
Kersee, who coached 1985 Sullivan finalist Valerie Briscoe-Hooks, said, "This means a lot to me. I know what this award means in amateur sports. It's nice to have a wife who has one where I can look at it every day."
N.Y. Giant detained
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Lawrence Taylor, the linebacker for the New York Giants, was detained at Kansas City International Airport because he joked about carrying a gun, the FBI said yesterday.
FBI spokesman Max Geiman said the incident happened Saturday morning, Taylor was in Kansas City to attend the 101 Banquet, where he was honored as the NFC's Defensive Player of the Year.
When he arrived at the airport about 8 a.m. Saturday for a flight to St. Louis, he apparently made a joking remark to friends that the trophy, which was packed in soft luggage, probably would be mistaken for a gun, Geiman said.
Taylor missed his flight when airport security and the FBI were called
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