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University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, March 30, 1988
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Manning wins the Eastman Award
Kansas forward Danny Manning was named the 14th recipient of the Eastman Award, given to the top basketball player of the year as selected by the National Association of Basketball Coaches.
KU senior named best in country
By Elaine Sung
Kansan sportswriter
In an elaborate ceremony yesterday afternoon on center court at Allen Field House, Kansas forward Danny Manning received the 1988 Eastman Award as the nation's outstanding male college basketball player.
The award was presented by Jack Hartman, head of the National Association of Basketball Coaches and former Kansas State men's basketball coach.
"Coaches around here say he's unstoppable, and I can definitely support that," Hartman said.
Manning, with his mother, Darnelle, on his right, received the gleaming silver statue in front of about 50 members of the media.
"The award means a lot to me because coaches across the country voted for it." Manning said.
The NABC selected its All-America team last week and, of the five players picked, the recipient of the Eastman Award, now in its 14th year. The honoree is selected based on sportsmanship, contributions to team play, and leadership. He joined Manning on this year's All-America team were Arizona's Sean Elliott, Michigan's Gary Grant, Bradley's Hersey Hawkins and North Carolina's J. R. Reid.
Other players who have received the award are David Thompson (1975), Scott May (1976), Marques Johnson (1977), Phil Ford (1788), Larry Bairy (1979), Michael Brooks (1980), Danny Ainge (1981), Ralph Sampson (1982 and 1983), Michael Jordan (1984), Ewing Smith, Berry Jerry (1984) David Robinson (1987). The award is on permanent display in the Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Mass.
The ceremony was originally planned to take place at the Downtown Athletic Club in New York, but the plans were changed after Kansas won the Midwest Regional Championships on Sunday in Pontiac, Mich.
KU coaches will visit Indiana's Calloway
Assistant sports editor
Bv Craig Anderson
Kansas men's basketball coach Larry Brown, assistant Alvin Gentry and assistant Ed Manning plan to visit Indiana junior forward Ricky Calloway next week. Calloway, the Big Ten's freshman-of-the year in 1985-86, announced March 21 that he would transfer from Indiana.
Calloway reportedly is a lock to come to Kansas if he is assured that Brown will remain as Jayhawks coach for the next two seasons. The 6-foot-6 former high school All-American from Cincinnati originally listed Maryland, Ohio State and Xavier as his other top choices but has since decided against hometown Xavier.
"I really don't want to come home," Calloway said. "Nothing against them, but if I wanted to stay with them I would have done so out of high school."
Because of NCAA rules, Calloway will have to sit out next season and will be in his 20s.
Gentry said that Calloway would be a big addition to the Kansas program.
"I think he's going to be a typical Big Eight (swingman)," Gentry
said. "He's a Jeff Grayer, Mitch Richmond, Derrick Chievous-type plaver.
"He's a tremendous athlete who can go either inside or outside. He's a good kid," Gentry said.
Before his freshman season at Indiana, Calloway played for Brown at the National Sports Festival in Baton Rouge, La. Last season, Brown said that Calloway was the best small forward in the United States.
Calloway started last season for the 1987 National Champion Hoosiers. This season, he averaged 11.8 points and 4.3 rebounds a game. Calloway didn't play in Indiana's 82-78 loss to Richmond in the first round of the NCAAs. He failed to after reportedly having fallen into Coach Bob Knight's dooher.
Callaway said that he was leaving Indiana because he was unhappy with his lack of playing time under Knight. However, he denied reports that he left Indiana to ensure that he'd earn a shot in the NBA.
"The NBA isn't the reason I left, though it enters your mind," he said. "I just wasnt happy (at Indiana)."
Blackledge gets wish; QB traded to Steelers
The Associated Press supplied some information for this story.
The Associated Press
Quarterback Todd Blackledge, the No.1 draft choice who never lived up to expectations at Kansas City, got his wish to leave the Chiefs yesterday when they sent him to the Pittsburgh Steelers.
The Steelers gave up a fourth-round choice in this year's National Football League to obtain the offensive father, Ron, is their offensive line coach.
"I'm esstatic," said Blackledge, 27, who returns to the state where he starred in college, helping lead Penn State to the No.1 ranking in 1983.
Blackledge, after backing up Bill Kenney his first three seasons, won the starting job in training camp in 1986 and again last season, only to lose it back to Kenney both times.
Last season's reversal was particularly galling to Blackledge. He
started the two games, but after the players' strike, Coach Frank Gansz went back to Kenney, just as John Mackovic, former Chiefs coach, did after seven games the previous year.
Blackledge, who maintained he was never given a fair chance to prove himself, played in only one game the rest of the season, ended it on the inactive list and asked to be traded.
Yesterday's deal culminated several months of negotiations between the Chiefs and Pittsburgh.
"It's been a long process, but under the circumstances we have a deal we can live with and Pittsburgh feels the same," said Jim Schaaf, the Chiefs' general manager.
Blackledge's contract with the Chiefs expired Feb. 1.
37 Clemson athletes fail drug tests
The Associated Press
Kansas swimmer sets sights on Olympics
CLEMSON, S.C. — Thirty-seven athletes at Clemson University have tested positive for drugs since the school's testing program began in January 1985, the school said yesterday.
Of that number, 29 tested positive for marijuana, six for cocaine and two for steroids. Suspensions have been reported, but school officials would not reveal how many, and the names were those who tested positive made public.
Of the 37 positive results, 11 resulted from random testing.
"I think we've got a viable drug testing, counseling, education program," said athletic director Bobby Robinson. "I think our results are accurate, and I think it shows we are serious about it."
The results, released because of a request by the State newspaper in Columbia, S.C., under the Freedom of Information Act, showed that 2.171 million were random, had been administered since the program began.
[Athletes who test positive are required to undergo counseling and might be subject to suspensions from their respective sports.
On Oct. 19 of that year, Clemson cross-country runner Stijn Jaspers was found dead in his dormitory room. An autopsy later showed the cause of death to be heart failure. An analysis of his blood found a nondilide dose of a prescription pain killer, phenylbutazone.
Clemson began drug testing in 1980 and began testing illegally dispensed prescriptions.
Two track coaches were suspended and later resigned in connection with the incident.
Correction
Because of a photographer's error, the scores of last weekend's soccer games were incorrect and a player was misidentified. Kansas defeated Iowa State 1-0 and Oklahoma State 4-1. The Kansas player was Marc Boussaquet, graduate student mid-fielder.
Bv Tom Stinson
Kansan sports writer
It's a picture of the eight 100-meter backstroke finalists at last summer's national swimming championships. The defending Olympic champion and former world record holder, numerous national champions. All Americans and world-ranked backstrokers are in it.
Kansas junior Glenn Tramnel is in it.
It's on his wall.
it. It's on his wall.
With a good swim, any one of the eight men could win a national championship. Any one of them could be a 1988 Olympian. Any one of them could come home from the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, South Korea, with a medal.
Trammler knows this. But he's not too worried about it.
"I keep the rankings in the back of my mind," the Topeka native said. "Any one of eight can make it (to the Olympics). We're all within about a half second. And I'm one of them if I'm on that day.
"But when the time comes, I'm not going to get all upight about making the team. If I make the team, great. But if I give it my best shot, that's great."
Glenn Tramml, one of the best backstrokers in the country, is seeded sixth in the NCAA meet and is an Olympic hopeful.
Trammel was sixth in last summer's championships. The top two in this August's Olympic Trials will make the trip to Korea.
The All-American also placed sixth in the 100-yard backstroke at last year's NCAA Championships. Going into next week's NCAA Championships, he is seeded sixth again with a 49.61 in the event. But he is less than a second out of first.
"But he has to hit it (the national championships) right. The top six or seven are all right there. This year, we trained him for the 100 and 200 backstroke and the 200 IM (individual medley). This summer, we will train just for the 100 backstroke. I think he'll be ready to go."
"When I sat in his living room, I told him that I felt he'd be one of the greatest backstrokers in the country," Coach Gary Kempf said about recruiting Trammel. "I thoroughly expected him to be this good.
Trammel's career best, and KU's school record, is 49.38. He holds the school record in the 200-yard back-stroke with a 1:50.48.
At the NCAA meet in Indianapolis, Trammel also will be competing in
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the 200-yard backstroke, the 200-yard individual medley and the 400-yard medley and freestyle relays.
On the medley relay with him is junior Dan Mendenhall and sophomores Pat McCool and Andrew Billings. On the freestyle relay is Billings, junior Allan Chaney and freshman John Easton.
Tramnel does not waste energy thinking about goal times and rankings. His philosophy is to work at life but to take it as it comes. If Glenn Tramnel thinks he did his best, Glenn Tramrel is pleased.
"If I can look into a mirror and say that I did my best, I satisfied. I can't really remember any specific instances when I couldn't do that. I'm sure I blew off a test sometime or was tired at a workout but, as far as the majority of life, I can't remembrere that. I didn't do everything I should have I try to do everything to its fullest until it's done."
Trammel had to put everything he had into a new idea when he came to Kansas. As this year's tri-captain, he has had to adjust to dealing with a team concept.
At Topeka West, the high school All-American set six Kansas state records but he said he never felt he competed for a team.
"We really only had about four or five swimmers," Trammel said. "We all swam for ourselves but also for others." He never really developed into a team.
"The people here are like family.
We all go through the pains, problems and troubles with workout, but also play together outside of the pool.
"Being a captain as a junior was a different role. I had to adjust to giving leadership to the underclassmen and not overdoing it to the seniors. It was a lot of fun with us being such a close team. We really came together at the conference meet."
Kempf said, "His team-mindedness is incredible. He showed this at the conference meet. I wasn't going to have him shave because he
already had his (NCAA) cuts, but he wanted to shave so the relays could make their cuts. That says a whole hell of a lot for Glem Tramml."
Competitive swimmers usually shave their bodies for the most important meet of the season. It is part of the tapering process that swimmers use to mentally and physically prepare for their races.
Trammel said the NCAA Championships were his individual meet.
The Big Eight Championships were Trammler's team meet, he said. He won the 200-yard backstroke and finished second in the 100-yard backstroke and the 200-yard individual medley.
Although competing on the two relays, he said he was striving for good individual performances.
"Now, I just kick back from the team aspect and go to the individual aspect," he said. "I concentrate on myself even though six people are going. I look at what I'm doing and not really worry about everyone else."