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University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, January 16, 1991
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Calloway solid for Kings
By Mark Spencer
Kansan sportswriter
Former Kansas guard Rick Callahan has presented arrived early this week as host.
Calloway was cut from the San Antonio Spurs' roster in late October and was on his way home to Cincinnati.
"He got caught up in the numbers game, and Coach (Larry) Brown had to let him said," J R. Parquette, assistant director of media rela-
Rick Calloway
ramento Kings. "He was in the airport when he got the call."
The call was a telephone call from Callaway's agent who told him that he had been signed by the Sacramento Kings.
Calloway was signed by the Kings on Nov. 1 after guard Anthony Bonner was placed on the injured reserve and was cut out after Bonner's return Dec. 10.
"We didn't want to release him, but Bonner came back. He was re-signed Dec. 18 in place of Bobby Hanson who had injured reserve." Parquette said.
Calloway, who is averaging 2.3 points a game, may have earned a place for himself on the Kings' roster. Parquette said.
"From what I've seen, he can play." Parquette said. "He needs some more weight, though. He's skinny."
Besides Calloway, five other former Jayhaws spent the holidays making news on and off the NBA court.
The most publicized is former Kansas All-American Danny Manning, who is now with the Los Angeles Clippers.
Manning has been the subject of several trade rumors, all of which were denied by the Clippers' media team in a telephone interview Monday.
Manning is averaging 13.7 points and 5.3 rebounds a game.
The Golden State Warriors signed former Kansas center Paul Mokeski
to a 10-day contract Friday. The Warriors are the fifth team Mokeski has played for since 1979, when he left Kansas.
Kevin Pritchard, former Kansas point guard, has overcome a recent ankle sprain and is averaging 4.1 points a game for Golden State.
The Cleveland Cavaliers have been receiving a steady performance from Darrell Valentine, a former Kansas point guard who was signed after the Cavaliers' starting point guard, Mark Price, injured his knee. Valentine played for the Cavaliers during the 1988-89 season and was playing in a Mexican professional league before he was signed by Cleveland.
Valentine is averaging 8.9 points a game in 14 starts.
Greg Dreiling, former Kansas center, is averaging 2.4 points a game during limited action with the Indiana Pacers.
"He's still in the developmental stage," said Tim Edwards, Pacers media relations representative.
Dreiling signed with the Pacers in 1986.
Bills not hurt by knee injury
The Associated Press
Both men knew the reality. The ligament and cartilage damage in Kelly's left knee could signal the end of the season for the NFL's top-rated masseur.
But Kelly's remark to Levy demonstrated to the Buffalo Bills' coach one of Kelly's most dominant characteristics - competitiveness.
"He's like the pitcher in baseball who wants the ball," Levy said Sunday after Kelly returned to the Bills lineup and guided Buffalo into the AFC Championship against the New York Giants. Buffalo beat Miami 44-34 Saturday.
Kelly wanted the ball against the Dolphins, and the results were impressive considering that he had not played in a month: 19 of 29 passing for 339 yards and three downs, and 5 rushes for 37 yards.
Team doctors predicted it would be four weeks before he could return. But even after that, as Kelly prevailed on Saturday's game, he hedged his bels.
The Bills' chances of making it to their first Super Bowl were hurt when Kelly was carted off the field during the Giants game.
"They say it's a four-week injury, but it's probably on six-eight weeks," Kelly said last Tuesday.
"I'm not going to go if I feel it's going to hinder me for the rest of my career."
Kelly's last statement had an odd ring to it. He has always considered himself a quarterback with a linebacker's mindset, and his natural competitiveness and toughness made it seem likely that, barring a collapse of the knee in practice, he was going to play.
Still, Levy and Kelly played possum all week, with both insisting a decision on whether he would play or come until the last possible moment.
But after the game Saturday, Kelly was asked when he decided he would play in the game. His response, accompanied with a grin, was immediate: "Oh, about four weeks ago." Later, Kelly elaborated.
"I went hard on my knee all week in pressure," he said. "The knee feels fine now. It's not 100 percent, but I was ready to play today. I would be hurting the team more if I knew I wasn't prepared and tried to play anyway."
Levy said he felt Kelly was a little nervous about the knee earlier in the week.
"I think he had to have some doubts," he said. "I think he started out practice really not sure and being very careful and it seemed like he couldn't move like he wanted to. As practice progressed, he was better."
decided to go ahead with a halfback pass in which Kelly became the receiver after handing off to Thurman Thomas. Thomas never threw the ball because Kelly was not open.
By game time, the doubts were gone — so much so that the Bills
"It keeps getting overlooked (but it was a courageous performance." Levy said. "It takes a tremendous amount of competitive and mental discipline for a guy to put out of his mind the way he did the injury he was coming off of."
"We were the teams with the two best division records, so maybe it's appropriate that we do face each other," Levy said.
Kelly, who said his knee was fine after the game, will be in the lineup against the Raiders, which Levy called a great football team after it beat the Cincinnati Bengals 20-10 in the other AFC playoff game.
"They're an extremely well-balanced team, an extremely talented team," he said. "They have an outstanding defense, good specialists and good special teams. I hope I've described us as well. I believe I have."
Levy said he expected that, unlike when the Bills came from behind to beat the Raiders 38-24 Oct. 7. Bo Jackson would be in the Los Angeles lineup, despite the fact that Jackson sustained a hip pointer in Sunday's game.
"Bo said he'd be ready to play," Levy said. "I assume he will be."
U.S. troops watch live TV programs
The Associated Press
But religious sensitivity is issue
NEW YORK — Somewhere in the Nafud desert, a U.S. Army truck beams low-powered, high-frequency signals to a group of soldiers huddled in a tent against the cool night air of Saudi Arabia.
There might be 25 to 30 in the group, watching intently as a saw edged voice cuts the silence "Islander goal!"
It is Jigs McDonald doing TV play-by-play of the Los Angeles Kings-New York Islanders hockey game from SportsChannel America, via the Armed Forces Radio and Television Service broadcast center.
"War or no war, we'll have the same timely programming for the soldiers in the gulf that they would get if they were home," said George Balamaczi, chief of news and sports for the broadcast center. "Live is the best way to know what we want to see. It makes them feel close to home . . . not left out."
The broadcast center in Sun Valley, Calif., takes the feeds either via satellite or a fiber-optic line from the three networks in nearby Los Angeles. It then relays the signal via its own satellite network.
Radio still is the biggest source of communication in the gulf. Because of restrictions by Moslem religious leaders who monitor incoming communications, AFRTS is using three or four low powered transmitters in Desert Balamac said their range probably was not more than 50 miles.
"With recreation being what it is over there, I imagine TV, radio and mail from home are the big three items," Balamacai said. "We feed about 1.5 million military and dependents and have about 30 zones around the world where the signals are dropped."
AFTRS is beaming 20 to 22 hours of live sports play-by-play every week to the Persian Gulf, as well as to U.S. military personnel throughout
"We get to 85 or 90 percent of the audience in the gulf with radio, and TV is witnessed probably by only 50,000 or 60,000 life, maybe 75,000." Balamaci said. "The rest see it on videotape."
"We're not at that point in the state of the art yet where they can receive live programming on ships — unless
About 160 U.S. Navy vessels, including many in the Indian Ocean, are now linked to AFRTS via the International Marine Satellite System and can receive radio programming on their own satellite dishes, Baidamat said. But as far as ship-to-ship goes, everything is on videotape.
they're tied up at the island of Bahrain, which has a dubbing facility." Balamacai said. "Then they can be tied into cable."
Balamacai said there were several television receiving stations in major Persian Gulf cities "where we have embassies, but most of our people are out in the desert, and right now, we great efforts are limited. We making great efforts to get videocassettes out, sometimes the same day of the event."
The U.S. military transmitters are not allowed to broadcast 24 hours a day because of "host country sensitivities." Balamaci said, but Saudi religious leaders have not had any objections to the content of the sports shows since they were briefed on cheerleaders.
"The only things we've had problems with are some entertainment shows like "Arsenio Hall" and "Entertainment Tonight — shows with a lot of T&A in them. The religious monitors at Saudi sites get upset about that," Balamaci said. "Most of that has been smoothed over now. For example, when they see cheerleaders along the sidelines in a football game, they know it's part of the American culture.
"Some programs we send over, we've got to give our people the 'heads up' as to what's coming, because there might be something in there the Saudis would consider sensitive, he said. Then they can use it and keep the air. We have to respect the Saudi culture They're the host country."
A typical weekend of television for U.S. troops in the desert started last Thursday night with the Kings-Islanders game. During the game, Sports-Channel America and AFRTS also played. Several soldiers in the gulf and the Islanders' Pat LaFontaine and Jigs McDonald from Uniandele. N.Y.
"It was 3:30 on the morning in Saudi Arabia, and I don't how many people could watch it at the time." SportsChannel America representative Dan Martenssen said. "But already we've gotten some mail from servicemen and their families, thinking us for the program."
Saudi time is eight hours ahead of Eastern Standard Time.
Martinsen said that it was announced at Nassau Coliseum a day early that the game would be broadcast to the gulf the following night. Fans were urged to bring banners in support of their servicemen.
"We had an amazing number of banners, from family members and friends, sending greetings." Mar-
rion said. "It was very touching, really."
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