University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, November 28, 1990
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Kansas to face Minnesota
Kansan sportswriter
Kansas women's basketball Coach Marian Washington will face former Westchester State teammate Linda Hill-MacDonald tonight when the Jahayhows play the Golden Gophers in Minnesota at 7.
Women's Basketball
Washington and MacDonald, the new Minnesota coach, were members of the first women's national champion basketball team in 1969. Washington said she was looking forward to seeing her former teammate at night's game the second of three games this season for the Hawkins.
Kansas opened its regular season last weekend in Iowa City, Iowa, in the Amana-Hawkeye Classic where they finished third. The Jayhawks played a doubleheader tonight and will play on the road again this weekend at Drake.
"It's not a schedule that you would prefer to have," Washington said.
"We tried to get good teams on our schedule and minimize the number of days we would miss classes.
"It does mean that sometimes we are in a situation away from home facing tough teams earlier than we would like. The team needs to realize how much responsibility to them. I can't say enough well the women have responded."
Kansas will try to make up for lack of height and bulk with agility and control of the ball tonight. The Golvers will get there, too, by lot of size and bulk. Washington said.
"We expect that they're going to be a very physical ballclub. Washing up."
Team members will miss only two days of classes this semester despite all the away games, Washington said.
Forward Terrilyn Johnson said she planned to zero in on the ball rather than the opposing team's size.
"We've heard they're big, and more than likely they will be strong with the ball." Johnson said. "I want to focus on what I'm doing instead of speed and quickness because sometimes I throw it off. I need to concentrate on getting the ball in."
Johnson said she sometimes found herself out of focus and missing a lot of layups by not being aggressive enough.
Johnson had nine steals in Sunday's game against UCLA, the fourth highest recorded in Kansas women's basketball history, behind only the legendary All-American Lynette Woodard. Johnson also was the second-leading scorer against UCLA with 19 points.
"I'm hoping they'll be slow and big like we've heard so I can get in the first shot," Chenmaid said. "We're right up here." He added on to the road, "I
Forward Misti Chenault, who set a tournament record scoring last weekend in Iowa, said she hoped to get the first shot in tonight's game.
"That was just one game," she said. "It comes and it goes, I just basically need to keep on concentrating on putting the ball in."
Kevin Cook, assistant coach, went Monday to Minneapolis to observe the Minnesota team. Washington said Minnesota is not currently in Kansas received four votes in the A.P. Top 25 poll released Monday.
Sports briefs
Three Colorado players on All-America team
Colorado and Notre Dame each placed three players on the Football Writers Association of America All-America team.
Ty Detmer of Brigham Young and Shawn Moore of Virginia tied in the selection committee voting, so the association decided to include both.
The three Colorado players on the squad are offensive guard Joe Garden, linemaster Alfred Williams and ballback Eric Brienney.
Nore Dame is represented on the team by punt and kickoff returner Raighl Ismail, nose tackle Chris McInnis, linebacker Michael Stone-breaker
Holyfield sues to keep the heavyweight title
Heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield asked for a preliminary injunction yesterday that would forbid the World Boxing Council from stripping him of his title when he defends it against former champion George Foreman on April 19.
Foreman also is a party to the suit, in which lawyers will ask New Jersey Superior Court Judge Amos Sun Shim. The attorney is seeking injury in any way with the fight
... an attunty included in the 27-page brief, Hollyfield said. "If the WBC follows through with its threat to strip me of the title I won fairly in the 2014 tournament be of grave injury to me for which there can be no fair compensation."
Hollyfield won the title by knocking out Buster Douglas on Oct. 25. The WBC wants him to defend against former champ Mike Tyson.
Royals court Gibson, who seeks $4 million
Slugger Kirk Gibson, shopping for offers as a free agent, has a chance to return to the American League with the Kansas City Royals.
"We'd love to have him." Royals general manager Herk Robinson said Monday, confirming that the team has offered Gibson a contract. "I think Kirk would like to play here, but now it's a matter of working out terms and conditions."
"To sign a free agent you still have to outbid 25 other teams, so you can't be certain of anything until a deal is made," Robinson said.
Gibson and his agent, Doug Baldwin, are seeking a two-year deal worth more than $4 million. The Royals' offer is less than that, but Baldwin says they have uped it once already.
Gibson, 33, was the National League's Most Valuable Player in 1988, his first season with the Los Angeles Dodgers, and helped win the MVP, pennant and World Cup. But the Dodgers injuries incurred of the last two seasons.
He appeared in 89 games for the Doggers last season, hitting .260 and stealing 26 bases.
From The Associated Press
NFL slaps Patriots with fines for alleged sexual harassment
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Two New England Patriots players and a former teammate were fined a total of $22,300 and the team was fined another $22,300 for involvement in the alleged sexual harassment of a female reporter.
Zoke Mowitz was given a $12,500 fine. Michael Timpson and Robert Perryman were each fined $5,000. In addition to the team fine, the Patriots were ordered to pay $25,000 for instructional materials on responsible dealings with the media.
No suspensions were given in the incident, which involved Lisa Olson of the Boston Herald.
The fines, levied by NFL commissioner Paula Taglablue, came after special counsel Philip Heymann of the Harvard Law School submitted a 60-page report on the incident. Taglablue concluded that "a serious incident occurred on Sept. 17 while Ms. Lisa Olson of the Boston Herald was interviewing cornerback Maurice Hurst in the Patriots' locker room. The incident involved misconduct of certain Patriots' players that was degrading toMs. Olson.
Mowatt and Timpson are still with the Patriots, but Perryman was released Nov. 6 and now plays for the Dallas Cowboys.
Taghābile called the players actions and statements "completely uncalled for and improper Mowitt's conduct involved both verbals and demonstrative actions in a manner I could not encouraged the misconduct."
In a letter to Patriots' owner Victor Kim, Tagliabue said, "This entire episode was distasteful, and it damaged to the league and others."
He said he strongly believed that the Patriots' organization and its players had learned a hard lesson and that everyone involved would be best served if this controversy ended without further recrimination.
Olson said she was harassed in the roomer room by several players on Sept. 17. The incident was widely reported, and the league
responded by hiring Heymann to conduct an investigation.
■ Mowatt's account of the locker room incident "is not credible."
■ "We believe Olson's account can two or three players whom we cannot passed and 'modeled' themselves briefly by her in some fashion."
- "No one tried to bring the humiliating activity around Lisa Olson to a stop."
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My satisfaction with the investigation and subsequent sanctions is surpassed only by my wish the disgraceful incident had never occurred in the first place.
Lisa Olson
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- Owner Victor Kiam's reaction was "that he could not disagree with the players' actions. He made clear that he thought that women reporters were intruding in the locker room. He said, 'Why not stand in front of her (naked) if she's an intruder?'
After Tagliabue fined the team and the players. Kiam said:
"The Patriots will certainly abide by his judgments. We regret that the incident occurred. The team and I had previously expressed our apologies and we repeat them once again. The decision has been rendered. Now it's to get on with playing football."
The team said the players would have no comment.
Olson, who now covers the Boston Celtics for the Herald, said: "My satisfaction with the investigation and subsequent sanctions is surpassed only by my wish the Celtics never occurred in the first place.
"It was not my choice to have this matter decided in a public forum, and it is unfortunate that
Patriot management forced this to happen by not dealing with the guilty persons swiftly and decisively."
Page after page of Heymann's report contains detailed dialogue of what was said in the locker room.
In it, Olson alleged that a player stood at her site, naked, and "said in a low voice, 'Here's what you want.'"
The report said she did not see who the person was, "and we cannot conclusively identify the person."
Oner players were laughing and some shouted, "Make her look, make her look."
"Moments later," the report said, "Olson saw Mowatt on the scale (by Hurst's locker, where she had been positioned). According to a number of players, he turned into a villain. So I'm not really writing, you're looking."
"He smiled and purposely displayed himself to her in a suggestive way. Laughter erupted and he grinned, his hands raised, hummed, especially, as she looks like."
James Oldham, Patriots' director of media relations, quickly moved toward the scene while Olson, "embarrassed by Mowatt's actions, quickly lowered her head and continued her interview.
"Mowatt's account of the same period is not credible," the report said.
Several more players separately walked nude past Olson on their way to the shower, it said.
While Olson tried to continue interviewing Hurst, Perryman "stood up, nearby but unseen by Olson and — according to one viewer — 'adjusted his gentials and — according to another viewer shook his hips in an exaggerated laughter, eliciting a further laughter."
Perryman denied to investigators any involvement in the incident, the report said.
It was not until five days later that Kiam was made aware of the incident - by another reporter, not by any Patriots employees.
Kiam had called the incident "a flyspeck in the ocean."
ason strengthens football program with work ethic
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believe in the direction of the program, but we're still 3-7-1."
Being content with success is difficult for someone whose motto is "If you're not getting better, you're getting worse" and who constantly is written by other coaches so he can learn to improve his coaching
In his first year as Jayhawks coach, Mason more than tripled the amount of conditioning players were accustomed to. Soon 23 athletes left the team for various reasons, leaving Kansas with fewer than half the number of scholarship players allowed to a Division I football team.
At the beginning of the 1988 season, Kansas was the worst college football team in the country, according to Penthouse
magazine.
Former Kansas coach Bob Valente had allowed players to fight in practice, which destroyed the team's unity and added to a lack of discipline. So when Mason first started playing defense, he was starting from scratch
Former quarterback Kely Donnahoe said that starting from the first team meeting with Mason, the new coach would team things were about to change
Before the players knew it, all their old habits began changing. Their first surprise was the removal of the television from the Training Table.
"When Mason first walked in, he was so professional." Dohoe said. "There was no doubt in what he was saying. He had a list of goals for the team, and right off the bat you could see that Mason did whatever he said he was going to do."
Glen Mason offers a referee his advice during the Iowa State game.
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"They were all watching that damn TV," Mason said. "What I remember most was that there were people who didn't nobody was talking to each other."
After the players began to establish a group identity for themselves, Mason's next task was to teach his players to take pride in the program. Soon the football jokes began to vanish.
One of the most difficult things Mason had to do in his first three years was to keep his players motive, skills and hats had them by then on to 40 to 50 points.
Last year before the Missouri game, Mason gave the entire team a small key. He wouldn't tell them it was for him to keep it with them 24 hours a day.
Right before the game, he told them that like a race-car driver, they had fine-tuned themselves to the setup that they were ready for the Tigers.
Donohoe, now a Kansas graduate assistant, said no coach worked harder than Mason.
While coach at Kansas, Mason has entered and won golf tournaments sponsored by college football bowl representatives. Victories in those tournaments have earned him trips to Hawaii, London, and Cancun, Mexico.
All they had to do now, he said, was turn the key.
He hasn't gone on any of them. He hasn't had the time.
Mason's day is one long appointment, leaving him about five minutes to catch his breath during the day. He was the last person in the last one to leave the office.
In the summer, Mason and his father commuted to work early in the morning and loaded newspapers onto trucks until late at night. Mason belonged to a union and was hired for a variety of blue-collar jobs.
Mason said he learned a lot from his father about football and life — even though his dad never was able to see one of Mason's high school games because he always was working.
But Mason insists that he is not a workaholic. He said he inherited his work ethic from his father, who worked at the Newark News for 40 years while the family lived in Colonia N.J.
"I remember my dad told me, " there are two things you can do." Mason said. "Either we'll have to find you a new place to move to, or you're going to have to accept it and make the most of it. I made the most of it, and from then on I try not to sit around thinking of what I don't have, but make the most of what I do have."
Mason was a star at Woodbridge High School and was angry when he was transferred his senior year to the newly created Colonia High School.
Mason earned a football scholarship at Ohio State and was a projected starter at center in 1971.
B But Mason, coming off a knee injury he suffered in the Rose Bowl months earlier, broke his ankle in a preseason practice.
"I remember he came into my room to talk to me." Mason said. "You can almost hear him and see him sitting there saying.' You had a tough break, two tough breaks in a row. But there's no room for self pity, decide what you want to do and get on with it."
His senior year in football also was shattered, but the knock on his door late one night came not from his team but from Buckeye coach Woody Hayes.
Coach Mason watches from the sideline during the Missouri game.
While he is rebuilding the Kansas program, Mason's business-like appaoh has left some players feeling distant from him, but fullback Roger Robben said that was the way a coach had to be.
Former Ohio State assistant coach Lou Holtz, who recruited Mason to the Buckeyes as a player and is now coach at Notre Dame, said he watched Mason grow as a coach and wanted him as an assistant coach.
Mason returned to his alma mater in 1978 as an assistant, and in two years he was promoted to offensive coordinator. During that time the Buckeyes led the Big Ten Conference in seven games in seven season bowl games.
"He progressed too fast for me," Holz said. "I would have loved to have had him in my program, but I turned around and he's coaching at it."
Mason is real personal, but not to
After leaving Ohio State, Mason took his first head coaching position at Kent State in 1986, a team that had not had a winning season in 10 years.
His first year there he led the Golden Flashes to a 5-6 record and second place in the Mid-American League. He also pummed the MAC Coach of the Year.
Although Mason is thought of as a demanding father by most Kansas players, former walk on safety Jeff Zieke, who died last spring of spinal meningitis, saw another side of Mason.
the point where he tries to be buddy-buddy with the guys." Robben said. "The coach before Mason tried to be buddy-buddy with the girls there is a line not to touch with Coach.
When Zielke became too ill to play, Mason found him a job in the football office because he enjoyed being in the game and was concerned about the former player.
"We were totally overwhelmed," Zielke said. "There's a real kind side to him that I don't know how many people know about."
Mason has kept in touch with Zielke's family since his death and gave them tickets and a hotel room for this season's game against K-State. After the game he gave Tzedek Jeff's father, the game ball.
Mason's wife, Sally, said she knew about Mason's other side. She said Mason called home at least once each day to talk
with her or their two children.
She said there was a romantic side to him also, and she recalled the first time they met when she was a Buckeye cheerleader.
On a team flight to Wisconsin during Mason's junior year, he slipped an "occupied" sign onto the plane. He didn't know, was taking in front of him.
"Woody Hayes didn't allow talking on the plane, but we met later and became good friends," Sally said. "We stayed in a class together and late fell in love."
But Mason doesn't like to be seen as a softy. His favorite movie stars are John Wayne and Clint Eastwood, who knows many of their lines by heart.
But Mason doesn't have time to worry about how people perceive him. He is too eager to get back to Kansas' football a stronger program.
"I can't wait for the alarm to go off in the morning so that my get my feet on the ground and get back at it." Mason said. "I love to coach and see these young guys starting to believe in themselves and the program."