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Wednesday, February 18, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
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Peete will try again with New York Jets
By a Kansan reporter
Staff writer
Former Kansas wide receiver SKIP Peete will take another shot at making the New York Jets professional football team this summer.
Peete, who played for the Jay- hawks in 1984 and 1985, will attend a mini-camp from May 5 to 7 in Hempstead, N.Y., and will return July 14 for a training camp that could last as long as seven weeks if he becomes a member of the team.
After playing two preseason games with the Jets last year, Peete was cut from the roster in the next-to-last selection round.
Peete, who now lives at 1405 E. 28th Terrace, said yesterday that he received invitations in December from the Jets and the Cincinnati Bengals to attend their training camps, but decided to go back to New York because he was familiar with the team's trout procedures.
During Peete's junior season at Kansas, he led the team and was ranked third in the Big Eight Conference with 38 reception for 448 yards and three touchdowns. He was a secondteam All-Big Eight selection
Peete did not play most of his senior season because he wore a brace for seven months after straining and pulling ligaments in his right knee.
Peete said the injury was not bothering him now, but the injury had preoccupied his thoughts last year when he tried out with the lets.
"Last year I was worried about my knee holding up, but this year I am fully concentrating on making the team." Peete said.
Peete played at Arizona for two years where he started his sophomore season and was a two-year letter winner before transferring to Kansas.
Robinson leads AP nominee list
The Associated Press
Manning third for Player of the Year honors behind Alford
NEW YORK — Center David Robinson of Navy, who leads the nation in blocked shots and is among the leaders in rebounding and scoring, was the top vote-getter in nominations for The Associated Press Player of the Year in college basketball.
In balloting announced yesterday, Robinson received 558 points and 40 first-place votes from members of the AP's college poll board. Steve Alford of Indiana was second with 370 points and 10 first-place votes.
Kansas' Danning Manning was third with 220 points.
The other seven nominees are Dennis Hopson, Ohio State, 214.
Reggie Williams, Georgetown, 180;
Kenny Smith, North Carolina, 156;
Armen Gilliam, Nevada Las Vegas,
62; Mark Jackson, St. John's, 32; Ken
Norman, Illinois, 28; and Horace
Grant, Clemson, 22.
Poll members were asked to vote for five nominees, and the top 10 will be placed on a ballot that will decide the 1987 Adolph Rupp Trophy winner for this season. The trophy will be presented at the Final Four in New Orleans on March 27.
Nominees received 10 points for a first-place vote, eight for second, six for third, four for fourth and two for fifth.
Last year's winner was center Walter Berry of St. John's, now playing in the NBA with San Antonio.
The 7-foot-1 Robinson, a senior at Navy, had 106 blocked shots through games of Feb. 9 for an average of 4.6 a game for the unranked Midshipman. He also was third in the country in scoring and rebounding, averaging 29.1 points and 12.3 rebounds a game.
Afford, the senior guard who broke Indiana's career scoring record this season, averaged 23.2 points per game through Feb. 9, and was fifth in the country in three-point field goal percentage at 57.9 for the second-ranked Hoosiers.
Manning, a junior forward, was averaging 22.1 points per game and was fourth in the country in field goal percentage at 64.1.
Hopson, a senior forward, was second in the country in scoring with
an average of 29.3.
Kevin Houston of Army leads the nation with a 31-point average. He received two points in the balloting.
Gilliam, a senior frontcourt player for top-tranked UNLV, is among the leaders in accuracy with a field goal percentage of 60.4 and averages 23.4 points. Jackson, a senior point guard, averages 17.3 points and 6.9 assists.
Williams, a senior forward, averages 23.9 points per game. Smith, a senior point guard who missed more than a week of the season because of arthroscopic knee surgery, averages 17.6 points and 5.3 assists per game while running third-ranked North Carolina's offense.
Norman, a senior forward, aver ages 20.9 points.
United Press International
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Five years after he joined the New York Mets for $600, Dwight Gooden signed a one-year contract worth $1.5 million yesterday and vowed a return to the 20-win plateau.
Gooden, 22, and agent Jim Leader staged a formal news conference for the signing of the contract, which came three days before the All-Star right-hander reports to the Mets' training camp.
Gooden, who signed the contract dressed casually in a white and gray sweater, white golf cap and white shoes, turned serious when discussing his decline since his 1985 Cy Young season.
year — trying to do things I'm not capable of," said Gooden, who would not entertain questions about his December arrest for a scuffle with
"This season I'm determined not to make the same mistake I made last
'I felt I deserved a raise and I think I signed a fair deal.'
Dwight Gooden
Dwight Gooden
New York Mets pitcher
"I was throwing fastballs and curves as hard as I could last year, instead of going for the target," he said. "I realize 35 might have been a career year for me, but I got a little frustrated last season because I was off my game plan. I felt I deserved a raise and I think I signed a fair deal. Anything less than 20 wins will be disappointing to me."
Neader said he aggressively pursued a multi-year contract with the Mets but said, "The climate in the majors is not conducive for that right now."
Gooden, who in 1986 was 17 with a 2.84 ERA for the World Series champions, received a 14 percent salary increase.
thing settled and avoid arbitration. It would have been very tragic to lose an arbitration case and have Dwight play at the same salary, "Neader said. "Five years ago, Dwight signed for $800 with the Mets ... we certainly come a long way."
"Long before numbers were ever filed, we and the Mets both decided to make a heck of an effort to get the
Asked whether club general manager Frank Cashen had asked him to consider living in New York rather than in Tampa during the off season. Gooden said he's been giving some thought to a permanent move to New York. "But I'd still love to make this area my home." Gooden said. Gooden grew up in Tampa, and his parents still live there. He said he hadn't worked out the details of his community service.
"It will probably be working with young kids and that's all right," he said.
Friars nip Seton Hall
Tennis
Continued from p. 13
United Press International
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Billy Donovan scored 23 points and made six of six free throws in the final 25 seconds, leading No. 19 Providence to a 91-47 victory over Seton Hall last night.
Ernie Lewis added 20 points and Delray Brooks scored 10 for the
Friars, winners of their last eight meetings with the Pirates. James Major led Seton Hall with 29 points, including seven three-pointers.
In addition to helping the Jayhawks prepare mentally. Wolf must provide leadership on the court.
The Kansas队 is young, with two freshmen in the top six singles spots, but Wolf said he didn't see anyone getting nervous about playing in a national tournament.
"If anything, we're a little more relaxed," Wolf said. "But I think here we can to be a certain amount of nervousness and your tournament of this magnitude."
Providence improved its overall record to 18-5 overall and its Big East mark to 8-4. The Pirates, 14-10 and 31, also received 15 points from Gerald Greene and 14 from Mark Bryant.
"He can lead by example," Perelman said. "The team has grown accustomed to seeing him win."
For Wolf, who has played No.1 singles in all four of his seasons at Kansas, the national tournament is the breakthrough for the program he has helped build.
"It a reflection on what the athlete department and the school and the court understand."
"I couldn't ask for more this semester," said Wolf, who already advanced to the quarterfinals of the Rolex Indoor Championships earlier in the season.
The Kansas lineup for the tournament will be Wolf playing in the No. 1 singles position, followed in order by
junior Sven Groeneveld, Wildey,
freshman Chris Walker, senior Larry
Pascal and senior Kevin Brady. In
doublets, Wolf and Wildey will队
up at the No. 1 spot, followed by
Pascal and Brady at No. 2 and
sophomore Jim Secrest and Walker
at No. 3.
Perealan is happy to see his team finally advance to a national event.
"But, I also feel it should be a beginning, too," Perelman said. "It's great to be at this level.
"There's a great athletic tradition at KU. For us to be a small part of it is really rewarding."
DePauw has no secret for home winning streak
GREENCASTLE, Ind — DePauw coach Mike Steele, whose team hits the longest current home winning streak in the nation at 61 games, spends a lot of time trying to convince people he doesn't have any secrets for success.
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"Guy are always asking. What's the secret of winning at home?" said Steele, whose Tigers are 19-3 and ranked fourth in NCAA Div. III. "We just have a good basketball team. We've lost only three games this year, and we lost only two games last year."
DePauw's home court, Neal Field House, was built in 1982. Almost $3 million for its construction was raised by donations from the surviving members of the school's undefeated and unscored-upon 1933 football team, who dedicated the facility to their coach, Raymond Neal.
DePaw lost its first two games in Neal Fieldhouse, then won three straight at home over two seasons before losing Jan. 1, 1983 to Tri-State. 56-55. Since then, DePaw has had a perfect record at home, and no member of the 1987 team has been on the losing end of a game in the fieldhouse, where the team has outscored opponents by an average of 21 points a game.
Kentucky owns the NCAA's longest home winning streak ever with 129 straight victories from 1943-1955, although 84 came in Alumni Gym and the remainder is Memorial Coliseum.
Every home victory extends the Div. III record that the Tigers established last February, when they won their 151st straight game to surpass the mark set by Hamilton (N.Y.) College in 1980.
U.S. gets official invitation
The invitation to the Calgary Olympics from the International Olympic Committee was presented to Hemlik by Cliff Deeds, international marketing manager for the Federal Express Corp., which delivered the invitations to nations around the world. The shipments began Feb. 13, exactly one year before the XV Olympic Games begin at Calgary.
"For all of us within the Olympic family, the countdown to Calgary has now begun." Hemlick said. "We feel we will have one of our strongest Winter Olympic teams in history, and I think the American public will be pleasantly surprised by what we accomplish."
COLORADO SPRINGS. Colo. — The U.S. Olympic Committee yesterday began its formal countdown to the 1983 Winter Olympics in Calgary when USOC President Robert Hemlick accepted the invitation to compete in the Games.
Both Sieger, a junior, and Carr, a senior, were unanimous selections for the second straight year. Each posted a 2.9 grade point average a year ago, but Sieger this year improved his GPA in electrical engineering to 3.2, while Carr posted a 3.05 GPA in physical education.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Oklahoma forward Dave Sieger and Nebraska guard Brian Carr head the list of players selected to the 1987 Academic All-Big Eight basketball team the conference announced yesterday.
All-Academic team announced
All five players selected to the first team had GPAs of 3.0 or better
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