University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, January 27, 1988
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Sports
Nebraska coach pessimistic for KU game
By Elaine Sung
Kansan sports writer
Nebraska coach Danny Nee is pessimistic about playing against Kansas tonight.
I don't think we have a chance," he said. "We can play our best and we can try, but really the only thing we can do is get our team ready momentarily. Our advantage is the home court, and my big thought even that is that big."
But Kansas coach Larry Brown knows better.
"He's just saying that," Brown said, shaking his head. "If they can beat Missouri at Nebraska, then they can beat Kansas too."
scorers in the conference as well. Vick, a 6-6 senior forward, is averaging almost 12 points and six rebounds a game, and Buchanan averages more than nine points and two rebounds a game.
Kansas is recovering from last weekend's loss to Notre Dame. The Jayhawks have dropped out of the Associated Press Top 20 this week, leaving Oklahoma and Iowa State,
The Cornhuskers are coming off a 29-point victory against Nebraska-Omaha, in which they shot 84 percent during the first half. Nebraska finished the game at 75 percent, a new school record.
Game 18
Kansas
Jayhawks
COACH: Larry Brown
Record: 12-5(1-1)
Nebraska
Cornhuskers
COACH: Danny Nee
Record: 10-8 (1-1)
PROBABLE STARTERS
PPG
F-24 Chris Piper 6'8" 3.8
F-21 Milton Newton 6'4" 7.9
C-25 Danny Manning 6'10" 23.6
G-12 Ols Livingston 6'0" 3.6
G-14 Kevin Pritchard 6'0" 10.7
F-4 Jeff Rekewek 6'6" 6'8"
F-21 Derrick Vick 6'6" 11.6
C-35 Pete Manning 6'8" 8'2"
G-10 Henry Buchanan 6'0" 9.3
G-14 Eric Johnson 6'2" 8.5
COVERAGE: Game time - 8:08 p.m. Wed., Jan. 27 at Devaney Sports Center, Lincoln Neb. Radio coverage by 106FM. TV coverage by KSHB 41, WIBW 13.
KANSAN graphic
The Jayhawks, 12-5, re-enter the conference schedule with tonight's game in Lincoln against the Cornhuskers, 10-8.
Both teams are I-1 in the Big Eight. Both teams won against Missouri, and both lost to Iowa State.
Nebraska beat the Tigers two weeks ago when guard Henry Buchan made an 8-foot shot in the last 5 to give the Huskers an upset victory.
Buchanan, a a-foot senior, played a key role in last year's regular-season overtime victory against Kansas, 83-81.
Buchanan tossed the ball to teammate Derrick Vick with time running out in the extra period. Vick's layup was blocked by a jockey in four years over the Jawhaws.
ranked 10th and 12th respectively, to represent the Big Eight Conference.
Brown has been working the Jay-
banks this week to improve in certa-
tion.
"We've been working the free throws, but there are other things we have to have against Nebraska," Brown said. "They play a lot of different types of defense, and we have to be aware of all of them. And offensively, we have to understand that even though we have Manning, we have to use the inside game more."
Both players are among the top 25
Kansas is now at the bottom of the Big Eight in free-throw shooting, completing 255-for-394 for 647. Nebraska, however, is third in the conference with a 720 average, shooting 257-for-357 from the line.
Kansas forward Milt Newton, who moved into the starting lineup after the loss of Archie Marshall, will help lead the Javahinks tonight in avenging last season's loss to the Nebraska Cornshusk in Lincoln.
Apologies are made for chant
The Associated Press
McPHERSON, Kan. — An obscene chant from the student cheering section at a high school basketball game last week has prompted apologies from school representatives and an impassioned discussion at the McPherson School Board meeting Monday night.
At issue was an impromptu chant from the McPherson High School student cheering section during a halftime performance Friday night of the school's pompon squad. The sexually explicit chant was shouted by the orchestra and sang "Mony, Mony," to which the pompon squad was performing.
Jay Frazier, the school's athletic director, put a stop to the chant during the invitational basketball tournament Friday night, and the school's student body president and principal apologized to people attending the tournament the next night.
"It just got too emotional. They were too wrapped up in the game," Troy Anderson, a McPheson student, told the school board.
He said students in the cheering section were sorry about the chant. The fact that the chant was not repeated demonstrates that the students realized their mistake, Anderson said.
Dave Hale, who has a son on the basketball team and a daughter on the pompon squad, was among the most rattle people at the game. He worked with the other players presented a statement Monday night at the school board meeting.
"Our family will not participate in nor attend any athletic functions until a written plan is affected to handle any future disrespectful, obscene 'cheers,'" Hale said in his letter. Hale, a former defensive tackle for the Chicago Bears, said that meant his daughter, Spencer, the pompon squad and his son, Aaron, the team practices with the varsity basketball team. Aaron Hale has been sidelined with a hairline fracture of the ankle.
About 75 people attended the school board meeting Monday night. The board asked its administrative staff to prepare a plan for dealing with such problems and a status report for presentation at the next meeting.
KU hopes to extend OSU losing streak
By Keith Stroker
PROBABLE STARTERS
Kansas Jayhawks 11-6
Cincinnati Wishawks ppa
Kansan sports writer
The Oklahoma State Cowgirls, tied for second place in the Big Eight Conference with a 3-1 record, might have the clear-cut advantage over Kansas, but they are suffering from a two-game losing streak. The Jayhawks want to keep that streak going.
Coach: Marian Washington PPG
F-23 Sandy Shaw 60" 11.6
F-32 Lisa Baker 5'11" 6.2
C-44 Lynn Page 61" 6.5
G-12 Lisa Braddy 57" 9.4
G-33 Lisa Doodhertv 58" 12.7
Okla. State Cowgirls13-4
**Kia State Cowsitts 14**
Coach David PPG
F-34 Jamaie Siems 5'11" *18.7*
F-23 Clintette Jayne 5'11" *18.1*
C-24 Sheila Hughes 6'3" *7.6*
G-13 Alisa Duncan 5'7" *8.2*
G-40 Liz Brown 5'7" *6.9*
The Kansas team's team, 11-6 overall and 1-3 in the Big Eight, plays
host to the Cowgirls at 7 tonight in Allen Field House.
Oklahoma State. 13-4 overall, dropped an 83-81 decision Saturday to Oklahoma in Norman and Monday fell 85-62 to No. 2 Louisiana Tech at home. However, Kansas coach Marian Washington said the Cowgirls had several strengths to be reckoned with.
"Oklahoma State has a team that can compete with anyone in the country," Washington said. "They had all five starters return from last year's team and had one of the best recruiting years of any team in the nation."
The Cowgirls are led by the two forwards, Jamie Siess, averaging 18.7 points a game, and Clintey Jordan, averaging 18.1 points a game. Siess has hit 26 of 51 three-point baskets for 51 percent.
Oklahoma State also has freshman guard Liz Brown. She is the all-time leading scorer in Oklahoma prep history with 4,281 points, and she averaged 35 points a game in high school.
Washington said Oklahoma State had a versatile offense, one that could either run a fast break or slow the ball down and run a half-court offense.
"We have great respect for them," Washington said. "Playing away from home is not easy for any team, but they will be difficult to beat."
The Jayhawks might have junior center Deborah Richardson back for the game, said Kansas assistant coach Julia Yeater. The 6-foot-4 Richardson injured her knee in practice two weeks ago and has been undergoing therapy sessions twice a day.
Yeater said whether Richardson would play would depend on the trainer's prognosis and how Richardson performed in the shooting session prior to the game.
Washington said sophomore center Lynn Page had performed well in her replacement role for Richardson in the starting line-up but that Page, a veteran of the NCAA, would play aggressive basketball in the games, similar to the tempo in practice.
The 6-4 Page has hit 32 of 60 shots from the field for 51.4 percent, the best of the Kansas starters.
The Jahayhaws have taken freshman LaTanya Nelson off the redshirt list, something Washington said they had to do because of the injury situation the team faced. Kansas lost senior forward Jackie Martin for the season when she ruptured her Achillendon last week against Colorado.
Washington said she had planned to redshift Nelson this season so she could practice with the team and learn the team's system. She said Nelson would play at a forward or center position, coming off the bench.
Kansas leads the series with the
owgrigs 10-3, and the losses
have been in Field Hockey.
Last season, the Jayhawks defeated Oklahoma State in Stillwater, 67-61. In the game in Lawrence, the Cowgirls beat Kansas 81-68, which snapped a five-game winning streak the Jayhawks had against them.
Buffalo's Conlan named NFL Rookie of the Year
The Associated Press
SAN DIEGO — Shane Conlan of the Buffalo Bills was named the 1987 NFL Rookie of the Year yesterday by the Professional Football Writers of America.
The linebacker, who was selected eighth in the first round of the NFL draft, led the Bills in tackles with 114. He particularly prospered when he was moved inside after the Bills acquired Cornelius Bennett to play outside linebacker.
The Bills had two other players on the team, Bennett and cornerback Nate Odomes. The New Orleans Saints also had three players chosen: defensive end Shawn Knight, safety Alkis and guard Steve Trapio.
Vinny Testaverde, the first pick in the 1987 draft, was the top vote-getter at quarterback in the rookie-of-the-year balloting. He was the only Tampa Bay Buccaneer selected and
was one of nine first-round draftees who made the squad.
The other first-rounders were wide receiver Ricky Nattiel of Denver, tackles Bruce Armstrong of New England and Harris Barton of San Francisco, defensive end John Bosa of Miami, defensive tackle Jerome Brown of Philadelphia, Bennett and Conlan.
Brian Bosworth of Seattle, taken in the supplementary draft, which will cost the Seahawks a first-round pick this year, was the other inside linebacker.
Also chosen on defense were tackle Jerry Ball of Detroit, cornerback Delton Hall and safety Thomas Everett of Pittsburgh.
On offense, the other selections were tight end Robert Awalt and guard Todd Peat of St. Louis, wide receiver Frankie Neal of Green Bay and running backs Troy Stradford of Miami and Christian Okoye of Kansas City.
Arnold Palmer reluctantly considering retirement
The Associated Press
INDIAN WELLS, Calif. — It is September for The King.
In the words of the old song, "The days
dwinkle down to a precious few."
"My ambitions, my desires are as strong as they've ever been. I still want to do things," said Palmer, now 58.
Arnold Palmer is aware of it.
But the abilities have diminished with the passing decades. The flair and flavor have faded; he has been deserted by the bright magic that once seemed his alone.
"I miss being able to do some of the things I used to do. That little special thing you want sometimes just isn't there and you can't find it and that is bothersome," said the man who, more than any other, helped raise golf to its present level of public acceptance and popularity.
It bothers him more than anyone else.
A bullet link here is all they need.
A pained, embarrassed expression shades
the faces of some of his contemporaries when
asked to assess his game.
"It doesn't matter. Not at all. It doesn't matter how he's playing," said Lee Trevino.
"He's About Tamer! He's sure the king!
'He's the one the people want to see. I
attend to the tee, and they go like that.'
Trevinio and softly putted his hand
together.
"Nicklaus stands on the tee, and they go
like this." He repeated the demure applause. "Furry zzzz on the tee, and it's the same.
"It's charisma," Trevino said. "He has it.
He has it more than anyone ever had; more
it than you do."
"Arnold stands on the tee, and they go crazy. They yell and clap and stamp their
"He can play forever," Trevino said. "And I hope he does."
"I see a few ..." he said, paused and corrected himself, "a couple of more years on the seniors' tour, a couple of tournaments on the regular tour.
The reluctant thoughts of retirement now cross Palmer's mind. He sometimes speaks of his career in the past tense.
"When I quit," he resumed, "it'll be a very quiet sort of fading away. I don't believe in big retirement announcements or any of the other things to sort of just slide on and do your thing."
"I would like to say you' be able to see a dramatic finale to my career," he said, "and I will tell you how."
He has been doing his thing for 34 years, playing golf with an unmatched verve and zest, with eager joy and boundless enthusiasm and playing with the ability to communicate all those qualities to galleries that came to love him as no other player who ever
lived.
He joined the tour in 1955, the slope-shouldered son of a Latrobe, Pa., greenkeeper, a kid with a powerful unorthodox, lunging arm, played for Jimmy Demparet and Smaad Snead.
He turned a placid pastime of the favored few into a game for the masses. Shirt-tail flying, hitching the britches, quick-stepping along the fairways, hacking out of the rough, the mobile face expressing every emotion and desire, he attacked and challenged and gambled.
His emergence coincided with the advent of television coverage of golf. He was the hero demanded by golf, by the public, by television.
He became an idol, a symbol. He played with presidents and kings and became the celebrities' celebrity. But his appeal was to the masses
"He popularized the game. He gave it a shot in the arm when the game needed it," said Jack Nicklaus, his old friend and golfing foe.
"He was the bearer of good things to come; he was the initiator," said Tom Watson. "I am reaping the benefits of Arnold Palmer and the legacy he gave to golf."
The glory years were in the 1950s and '60s. "Those were the good days, the fun days," she said. "We've had a lot of laughter."
And Arnold was the King, a title bestowed by his contemporaries that remains in use.
er-ending. We'd play seven days a week and chop on each other all the time."
He won the 1958 Masters, the first of four green jacketes he was to acquire. He revitalized the British Open with victories in 1961 and 1962. He put the word "charge" in golf's lexicon with his dramatic, come-from-behind triumph in the 1960 U.S. Open at Cherry Hills.
Palmer, however, has not won on the regular tour since 1973. In recent years, his activity has been confined primarily to the Seniors' Tour, with an infrequent foray among the younger players.
It is, he said, thought-provoking.
"I think a lot about the game of golf, about what has happened to the game from the days I started playing," he said in a nostalgic conversation that, at times, carried a tone of valedictory.
"To think somebody is going to win a million dollars in a year," he said, drawing out the words in awe. "Well, you know what I went through," said Palmer, the first to win
Many of the changes have been good. Some are not so positive.
And he finds the prize money hard to believe. That, he said, is a major change.
"The quality and condition of the course have risen enormously, no comparison." Pump
$1 million in a career, the first to win $100,000 in a season. In 1958, he led golf's money-winners with $42,608.
"When I started playing the tour, the total purse for the tour for a year was $750,000," he
But he quickly established he wouldn't change now for then.
"I was very, very fortunate that I had the opportunity to come in and play the game when I did," he said. "People who think I'd rather be playing the tour now are wrong.
"I enjoyed the era I was in. I feel very fortunate I was able to come out and play golf, play the tour when I did, have the opportunity to do what I did.
"I don't think the players now realize the esteem they are held in by the galleries. And anything they do to hurt that esteem only hurts the same, the future for themselves.
"They should know galleries hold them in awe. They should treat it that way. That means something to the game of golf. I feel very strongly about that."
"People have all forgotten what the tour was like when we'd come out and drive around (he and wife Winnie hauled a house trailer) and we'd be out for three months at time and never go home.
"Sometimes I think, well, jeez, I ought to just sit down and write, take sort of an account of all that has happened.