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Wednesday, February 11, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
Sports Briefs
Dean Smith approaches 600th coaching victory
RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina basketball Coach Dean Smith is willing it leave it to others to determine the significance of his approaching 600th coaching victory.
"It just means that I've coached for a long time," he said.
The Tar Heels held off Virginia on Sunday for Smith's 999th triumph. Wake Forest comes to the Dean E. Smith Center tonight with the possibility of becoming a part of history.
Smith, 55, will add one more entry to his list of achievements with a victory in the building named in his honor in February 1906. Victory number 600 will be his first win, and he will as the 10th winsning Division I coach of all time.
Starting the year. Smith's record of 579-171 gave him a winning percentage of 772, fourth on the all-time list. With a 20-2 record through Sunday's action, he now captured 20 victories or more in 17 straight seasons. His only losing season in 25 years was his first, an 8-9 mark in 1961.
After that first season, Smith was hung in effigy for failing to produce a winning team. Now, in the eyes of the fans, he could coach forever.
Georgetown aims for win 1,000
WASHINGTON - Georgeton is going for its 1,000th victory since beginning basketball in 1906, but Coach John Thompson is less interested in the program's long past than its near future.
The Hoyas are favored to secure win number 1,000
tonight against Connecticut.
Since its first game 81 years ago, a 22-11 victory over Virginia, Georgetown has compiled a 999-674 record It won a national championship in 1984, was runner-up in 1943, 1982, 1985 and played in 11 NCA tournament s.
Thompson, who inherited a 3-23 program in 1972, has accounted for much of the Hoyas basketball glory, along with such stars as Patrick Ewing, Eric "Sleepy" David Wingate. John Duren and Reggie Williams.
Arbitration cuts Motley's salary
ATLANTA — The Atlanta Braves said yesterday that outfielder Darryl Motley would receive the $210,000 they offered, marking only the second time in 11 years that baseball arbitration has resulted in a pay cut.
Motley, at a hearing Monday in New York, had asked for the same $257,000 salary he received last year, when he hit .203 with seven home runs and 20 RBI in 72 games with Kansas City.
Game cancellation upsets Orr
BOSTON — The National Hockey League's decision to abandon its traditional All-Star Game for a two-game series with the Soviet Union is a disgrace, former Boston Bruin Bobby Orr said.
"Twenty-one-some-d阳 National Hockey League players are being shattered by their own league." Orr said.
"The All-Star Game is supposed to be a showcase for the 40 best players in the National Hockey League." he said. "It is not supposed to showcase the Soviets. What is happening this year is a disgrace."
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