University Daily Kansan / Friday, January 22, 1988
Sports
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Game 17
Kansas
Jayhawks
COACH: Larry Brown
Record: 12-4(1-1)
PROBABLE STARTERS
Notre Dame
Fighting Irish
COACH: Digger Phelps
Record: 9-4
F-24 Chris Piper 6'8" PPG
F-21 Mitten Newton 6'4" 7.3
F-21 Danny Manning 6'10" 23.7
G-12 Olsa Livingston 6'0" 3.6
G-14 Kevin Prichard 6'3" 10.5
F-43 Scott Paddock 69" *PQ*
F-24 Mark Stephenson 69" *12.2*
C-54 Gary Voce 69" *8.6*
G-4 David Rivers 60" *23.5*
C-40 Jamere Jackee 62" *4.5*
COVERAGE: Sat., Jan. 23 at Joyce Center, South Bend, IN., 1:35p.m. Radio: KLZR 105.9 FM, KJHK 91 FM. Game will be televised on WDAF-4, KSNT-27
Holmes hoping to shock Tyson
The Associated Press
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — Mike Tyson, the youngest heavyweight champion in history, and Larry Holmes, who could become the oldest, will fight tonight at the Convention Center.
Holmes, a 38-year-old grandfather who announced his retirement Nov. 6, 1986, would succeed Jersey Joe Walcott as the oldest champion.
Walcott was 37 when he knocked out Ezzard Charles in the seventh round on July 18. 1951.
"They'll say I'm too old, washed up, can't fight anymore." Holmes said of his decision to come out of retirement.
Upon leaving the official weighin Thursday, Holmes said, "I'll win. I'll fool everybody."
Tyson, the 21-year-old champion,
predictions, but I can assure you a lot.
Tyson is an overwhelming favorite to win the scheduled 12-round fight at the 16,000-seat Convention Center. It will be televised by HBO at 9:27 p.m. "I believe I'm the best fighter in world," said Tyson. "I believe he had his era. I believe nobody in the world can beat me."
"He's made for me." Holmes said. "Face fighters are made for me. I can punch back. Boxers give me trouble."
A face fighter is one who leaves himself open while attacking. Tyson, known as an attacker, relies on this strategy as an important part of his defense. He keeps an opponent busy defending himself.
The champion, who weighed in at 215 pounds yesterday, possesses excellent quickness and hand speed.
"Larry doesn't have the physical capabilities at this stage of his career," said Eddie Futch, who trained Holmes for 12 title fights.
Holmes, who weighed 225 pounds, had a great left ab, but in his last fall he was scared by the accuracy and accuracy. The bounce also seemed to be gone from his legs.
Holmes thinks his 21-month layoff has been good for him, but most boxing analysts think that a fighter cannot restore what time and age have eroded.
The former champion has trained in seclusion for several weeks in his hometown of Easton, Pa. He didn't arrive in Atlantic City until Wednesday afternoon.
Holmes, who turned pro in 1973,
won his first 48 fights and was the
world's premier heavyweight for
seven years. He won the World Boxing Council title from Ken Norton June 19, 1978 and successfully defended it 17 times before relinquishing it in December 1983 after a dispute with promoter Don King involving a fight against Greg Page.
Still recognized as champion by the International Boxing Federation, Holmes defended that title three times before losing it to Michael Spinks on a close but unanimous decision on Sept. 22, 1985. He lost the rematch on a split decision in his last fight on April 19, 1986.
Holmes unsuccessfully appealed to have the second loss overturned, and he remains bitter about both defeats.
Tyson, who was 20 when he won the WBC title from Trevor Berbick, was 21 years, one month and two days old when he wedgeed Tony Tucker on points Aug. 1 and became the first undisputed heavyweight champion since Leon Spinks upset Muhammad Ali in 1973.
The youngest heavyweight champion before Tyson was Floyd Patterson, who was 21 years, 10 months and six days old when he knocked out Archie Moore for the vacant championship on Nov. 30, 1956.
Holmes will receive $2.8 million for the fight. Tyson will make between $4 million and $5 million, and he has also signed a six-fight deal with IBO for $26 million. The first. Mackenzie to take place Mackenzie 21 in Tokyo. Tyson will probably face former WBA champion Tony Tubbs.
There will be a second title fight on tonight's card, which is promoted by King in association with Trump Plaza.
There will be three scheduled 10-round heavyweight bouts, matching Michael Dokes of Las Vegas, Nev., a former WBA champion, against Ken Lakusta. Francesco Damiani of Italy, a 1984 Olympic silver medalist, will fight Dorcey Gaymon of Jacksonville, Fla., and Mike "The Bounty" Hunter of Los Angeles will fight Oliver McCall of Chicago.
Carlos De Leon of Puerto Rico will defend the WBC cruiserweight championship against Jose Maria Flores of Uruguay.
In two scheduled 10-round middle-weight bouts, Davey Hill Jr. of Canada will fight Hector Rosario of New York and John "The Beast" Mugabi of Uganda will meet Bryan Grant of Memphis, Tenn.
Jayhawks to face tough Irish
By Elaine Sung
At first glance, the Notre Dame Kansas matchup looks close.
The Irish have guard David Rivers, one of the nation's premier guards. The Jayhawks have pre-season All-American forward Danny Manning.
Notre Dame is 10-4 with losses to Indiana, Lafayette and two to DePaul. Kansas is 12-4 with losses to Illinois, St. John's and Iowa State.
"The home-court has become an advantage, especially with all the fan support," Kansas coach Larry Brown said. "That will swing the game one way or the other."
But the battle will be occurring tomorrow afternoon in South Bend, the home ground of the Fighting Irish.
The home-court advantage is playing an especially big part of a team's performance this season. Home teams in the Big Eight have won six of seven conference games so far, and are leading the league in road play, is 7-0 in home games this season, 4-2 on the road and 1-2 on neutral ground.
Joyce Center, home of the Fighting Irish, is not a new place for the Jayhawks. Kansas played there in 1947 and 1956, but 49-38 against Ohio but losing 66-64 to
"The team that wins on the road in the Big Eight will win the Big Eigh," senior forward Chris Piper said. "It is a great game to walk through the conference."
Kansas, like most of the other Big Eight teams, is taking a short break from conference play. This will be followed by another series at Notre Dame leads the series 8-3.
This year is turning out to be Rivers' best year. He was also a preseason All American, averaging over 23 points and 4 rebounds a game.
Rivers is fully recovered from an injury that occurred in August 1866, when he was thrown through the windshield of a van he was riding in.
Rivers suffered a 15-inch gash in his abdomen and through rigorous rehabilitation, was able to return to Notre Dame's starting lineup in 2014.
Brown knows that Rivers can dominate the game
"I don't think anybody's going to be able to stop him," he said. "We'll just try to keep someone fresh on him all the time."
One of Kansas' plans is to match junior guard Oisai Livingston against
Livingston, who has never played against. Notre Dame, said he was
"The coaches have told me that I just have to keep in front of him and not to go for the spectacular plays," he said. "The team with the least amount of mistakes will come out the winner."
expecting a good game and was ready for Rivers.
There is a motivational factor for Manning as well. Brown recalled that five years ago, when Ed Manning and his family had first moved to Lawrence, Notre Dame's coach Digger Phelps had made some derogatory remarks about the assistant coach
"He said it was a disgrace that a school could hire a truck driver to become a basketball coach," Brown said.
Danny Manning would not comment on that, but last year's 40-point performance against Notre Dame was statement enough.
Kansas beat the Irish 70-60 in Allen Field House while making do with two key players missing. Senior guard Cedric Hunter and freshman forward Keith Harris were both out with sprained ankles.
The Jayhawks had to call upon several of the younger players to overcome the Irish, including guard Jeff Guelder, center Sean Alvarado and forward Mark Randall.
Of those players, only Gueldner remains in the lineup. Hunter has
graduated, Alvarado and Randall have redshirted this season and Harris may or may not play, depending on Kansas coach Larry Brown.
Manning remembers the game well.
"It's going to take a team effort. We'll definitely need to play with effective intensity, and we'll need to take the crowd off the ball."
"We didn't have Cedric, and we were missing Keith," he said. "We're back in the same situation again. We don't have Archie or Marvin."
The Jayhawks are still trying to pull together and adjust to the recent losses of starters Archie Marshall and Marvin Branch.
"It's going to be a tough game, and we're just getting used to our new team." Piper said. "It's like we're starting over again."
The team went through a week of tough practices with suicide spruits and strength exercises, and Brown said they have made progress.
"We'd better be because it doesn't get any easier." he said.
The team's injury report is looking up going into tomorrow's game. Pipper is still sore with a pulled groin muscle and for the first time this week, sat out most of practice yesterday.
Forward Mike Maddox is recovering from blisters on his feet and is doing much better, Brown said.
Kansas tennis player Craig Wildey practiced Wednesday at Alvamar Tennis Club for the Jayhawks' matches this weekend.
Men's tennis team to open spring season
Kansan sports writer
By Tom Stinson
Kansas" men's tennis team opens its spring season this weekend against Ball State and Minnesota at the Alvamar Tennis
Kansas takes on Ball State, Kansas coach Scott Perelman's alma mater, at 6:00 tonight. Kansas then plays Minnesota at 5:00 tomorrow.
Ball State takes on Minnesota at 10:00 Sunday morning.
Perelman played tennis at Ball State from 1973 to 1977 and was an assistant coach for the Cardinals from 1979 to 1981. He was coached by Bill Richards, Ball State's current coach, while in college.
This will be the first time the two coaches have faced each other in a dual match.
"I'm excited to have both teams
here," Perelman said. "Both the matches this weekend should be extremely competitive. Minnesota is the best on paper, but anyone can win this week."
Minnesota is ranked 24th in the country, and Perelman said they are contenders for the Big 10 Conference championship. Leading the Gophers is number-one singles player Jonas Svensson.
since I've been here," Perelman said. "They're tough. They have one of the most established midwest programs."
Ball State has won the Mid-American Conference championship the last four years. The doubles team of Todd Hershey and Eric Nixon is ranked 12th in the nation for the Cardinals.
"We haven't beaten Minnesota
See tennis, p. 10, col. 6
Kansas must cope with loss of Martin
By David Boyce
Associate sports editor
Kansas senior forward Jackie Martin hobbled on crutches into Allen Field House last night with the rest of the women's basketball team from a bittersweet victory in Colorado.
Although the team won its first Big Eight game, 72-71 against Colorado, the Jayhawks lost Martin for the remainder of the season to a ruptured Achilles' tendon.
The team must now regroup for its 11 a.m. game against 13-2 Nebraska tomorrow at the field house.
But despite the impending game against the Big Eight leader, Washington and the rest of the Jayhawks were still thinking about Mar-
"It was a case in which one team won, one team lost and both teams left the locker rooms crying," Washington said of the Colorado game.
"It will take a tremendous effort for us to beat Nebraska." Coach
Marian Washington said. "We will have to play solid defense because Nebraska has very good shooters."
Martin will not talk about the injury until after surgery, Cook said. The surgery has not been scheduled vet.
Martin was injured in the first half when sophomore guard Lisa Braddy drove to the basket and Martin stepped in to receive the pass, said assistant coach Kevin Cook.
The Cornhusker attack features guard Amy Stephens, averaging 15.6 points a game, and forward Maurice Ivv, averaging 19.3 points.
"The next moment, Jackie was on the ground." Cook said. "She said it felt like a dream."
Washington said the effect of Martin's injury has not yet hit the team. Center Lynn Page, who may become
Coach: Marian Washington PPG
F-34 Meshro Western 5'8" 8.1
F-32 Lisa Baker 5'11" 6.1
C-44 Lynn Page 6'4" 5.2
G-12 Lisa Brady 5'7" 9.4
G-23 Sandy Shaw 60" 11.7
See WOMEN, p. 10, col. 6
Men's swim team ranks 18th in latest poll
PROBABLE STARTERS
"It's a real credit to the men's program," Kempf said. "I felt we were good enough to be ranked but
Coach: Angela Cormuskers 13-2
Coach: Angelica Beck PPG
54 Kim Kihm 19.1
F-34 Meunie Bally 19.3
C-34 Stephanie Bobli 5'10"
G-21 Pam Fiene 5'6"
G-35 Amy Stephens 5'7
The men were ranked 18th in the latest top-20 poll compiled by a panel of coaches across the country. The men's dual meet record is only 2.4, but Coach Gaym Kempf said all six ranked squads against nationally ranked squads.
By Tom Stinson
For the first time in its history, the Kansas men's swim team is ranked among the nation's elite.
Kansan sports writer
The men's and women's swim teams travel to Texas this weekend to take on Texas Christian tonight and Southern Methodist tomorrow
with the competition we've faced this year, our record didn't show it."
"Southern Methodist is a real tough team," Kempf said. "Our men beat them in the Alabama Championship meet, but we were more rested
Kempf is one of the coaches on the voting panel.
Southern Methodist's men are ranked 15th and their women 20th in
than they were, so it should be more even this time."
Kempf said Texas Christian was a well-balanced team, but he said he didn't know much about them this season.
In preparation for the Big Eight Championships in March, Kempf said, he planned to enter swimmers in a variety of events. The strategy is to establish a third event for swimmers to compete in at the conference meet. A swimmer may enter three events in the conference championships but only two in dual meets.
Kempf said the squads were beginning to swim fewer yards in practice in order to concentrate on everyone's individual events.
"This is an intense part of the year," the coach said. "We're doing a lot of quality work right now. I like it, from them, which makes it tough."
Aempf said freshman Jeff Stout and sophomore Pat McCool had become unexpected assets and sophomore Marcia Otis and junior Jenny Fisher had made big improvements over last season.
Monk set to return despite knee injury
The Associated Press
HERNDON, Va. — Art Monk practiced with the Washington Redskins yesterday for the first time in more than six weeks as the team began preparations for Super Bowl $ \mathrm {X X}^{1 1} $
monk, the No. 2 receiver in team history, ran pass patterns and agility drills during a two-hour practice session at Redskin Park.
"He looked good out there," Redskins coach Joe Gibbs said. "It's something we will evaluate as we go."
Monk had previously been working out on his own after being placed on the inactive list Dec. 9 with a partial knee collateral ligament in his right knee.
Entering this season, Monk's 270 catches were ranked best in the National Football League over the
Although Monk refused to talk to the media after the workout, his teammates had plenty to say and seemed encouraged that he could be in the lineup for the Jan. 31 game against the Denver Broncos.
last three years. Although he was limited to only 38 acceptions this year because of his injury and the 24-day players' strike, he still commands respect from the opposition.
"It's great to have Art back," wired receiver Gary Clark said. "I'm sure there's still some pain in his knee, but he's not letting it show. He's out there giving it his all, and that's what Art Monk is all about."
"Having him in there takes some of the pressure off me and (wide receiver) Ricky Sanders," Clark said. "You know Art is going to take some defenders with him. He's just a great player, by far the best receiver on this team."
Monk's 504 receptions ranks 20th on the NFL career list. The eight-year veteran has played in three Pro Bowls, and he set an NFL record in 1984 when he caught 106 passes.
"It's great to see him working out there again," cornerback Barry Wilburn said. "There's nobody like him. Even though he wasn't running at full speed, he seems to have a clock inside his head that tells him when to 'turn it on.'
"He'll be ready for the Super Bowl, no doubt about it."
In other news, Gibbs gave placekicker Ali Haji Sheikh a vote of confidence yesterday, saying he had no inclination to use Jess Atkinson, even though Haji Sheikh has missed five of his last eight field goal attempts.