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Basketball honors seven greats
Hall of Fame welcomes prominent coaches, men and women stars
The Associated Press
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. — Don Haskins and Pete Carril, two of the most prominent coaches in college basketball, were among seven people elected yesterday to the Basketball Hall of Fame.
Scoring ace Alex English, power forward Bailey Howell, women's stars Denise Curry and Joan Crawford and Spain's longtime national coach Antonio Diaz-Miguel also were elected and will be inducted Sent.29.
Haskins, coach of Texas-El Paso for 36 years, has amassed a 687-322 record and seven conference titles.
His biggest win was when his five Black starters beat Adolph Rupp's all-Caucasian Kentucky stars for the 1966 NCAA title.
"Within the coaching community he has a special place in a lot of people's hearts."
said Jim Haney, executive director of the National Association of Basketball Coaches. "There isn't anyone much over 30 who doesn't remember that game and what it meant."
Blacks had broken into college basketball by that time but still were considered inferior to Caucasian players. An entirely Black team defeating an entirely Caucasian team helped change some of those assumptions.
Carril, now a 67-year-old assistant with the Sacramento Kings, was a first-time nominee.
"I don't know if I can feel any better than I do," he said. "I'm overwhelmed. I'm on another planet. You have to be lucky sometimes. And to be a coach at Princeton and to receive this kind of honor involves an incredible amount of luck."
Carril, a former player at Lafayette, used a pressing defense and a patient spread offense to achieve a 525-273 record in 29 years of college coaching, transforming Princeton into the most feared underdog in NCAA tournament history.
He retired from the college ranks last
spring after his team had upset defending champion UCLA before losing to Mississippi State.
After setting all-time scoring records at Dreher High School in Columbia, S.C., and at the University of South Carolina, English became the NBA's most prolific scorer in the 1980s.
English hadn't expected the call because he was left off the NBA's list of its 50 greatest players.
"I felt slighted," he said. "But now I'm elated."
During his 15-year professional career, mostly with the Denver Nuggets, English scored 19,682 points. He was the first player in the NBA to score 2,000 points in eight straight seasons and still ranks among the league's top-10 career scoring leaders.
Curry, UCLA's leading women's scorer,
was selected the French player of the 1980s
during an eight-year pro career in Europe.
Crawford was an AUA star for Nashville
Business College in the 1950s and 1960s.
Diaz-Miguel, who coached Spain for 27 years, led his team to a silver medal at the
Hall Inductees
Don Haskins: 36 years at Texas-EI
Pas. 687-322 record
Pete Carrill: 29 years at Princeton,
525-273 record
■ Alex English: scored 19,682 points during 15-year professional career
■ Beauley Hill: 21, 2 point average
ranks fourth in Detroit Pistons' history
**Joan Crawford; AAU star for Nashville Business College**
Tamara Kinney
Denise Curry; UCLA's top women's
Antonio Díaz Miguei: coached Spain to silver medal in 1984 Olympics
1984 Los Angeles Olympics.
Among the nominees who failed to gain election as coaches were John Thompson of Georgetown, Jerry Tarkanian of UNLV and Fresno State, Tex Winter of Kansas State and the Chicago Bulls, Jim Phelan of Mount St. Mary's, and Alex Hannum, who won NBA titles with St. Louis and Philadelphia and an ABA crown with Oakland.
Banker gives sponsor a good kick in the bucks
Pro Bowl players mob the kicker, interrupt his dance
The Associated Press
HONOLULU — No big deal. Stick the ball on the tee, take a couple of quick steps to the side, run up and kick the ball.
And make a million dollars.
Lance Alstedt, looking as if he had made tons of high-pressure field goals before, calmly drilled a 35-yarder straight through the uprights Sunday.
With a crowd of 50,031 at Aloha Stadium and a national TV audience watching, the 26-year-old investment banker was calm as he took advantage of his only chance during halftime at the Pro Bowl, cashing in on the Hershey's $1 Million Pro Bowl Kick!
His fiancee, Deborah Zimmerman,
said, "I don't think he was nervous at
all. I was."
Alstadt, who said he had played soccer since he could walk but hadn't played football, was thinking positively as he teed the ball up.
"I think the only way to go with
something like this is that you believe you can drill it," he said. "It was just a matter of blocking out the crowd and sticking it."
He looked confident as he teed up the ball, paced off his approach steps and then wasted no time kicking it. The ball was almost dead center and had plenty of distance.
Alstord already was doing a minihula as the ball sailed between the uprights and was singing, "Show me the money, show me the money!"
The NFC and AFC all-stars, who remained on the field to watch the million-dollar try, gleefully mobbed him.
The first player to congratulate him was Carolina Panthers kicker John Kasay, who had offered him some tips.
"That was exciting," Kasay said.
"He handled the pressure real well."
Asked if Alstodt had a future as a kicker, Kasay added: "He shouldn't give up his day job. But he made more than I did this season."
"John's getting 7 1/2 percent," said Alstodt, joking that he expected to
"I felt like saying, 'Reggie, Barry, get off me,' and tell them, 'My people will call your people."
Lance Alstodt
Winner of Pro Bowl field-goal contest
900-score may strike record in bowling book
get a call from Kasay asking about his cut. "And I guess the second call I'll get will be from the IRS."
Alstedt said he was going to use the $1 million as a nest egg and that, after a whirlwind week or two in the limelight, he will return to his job at Chase Securities Inc. in New York.
He and three other contestants were selected randomly from more than 200,000 entries nationwide. He earned the trip to the Pro Bowl and a shot at the grand prize by winning a "kick-off". Jan. 21 at Miami.
OMAHA, Neb. — When Jeremy Sonnenfeld of the University of Nebraska bowled his first strike, he was thinking only of getting a good start to the tournament.
The Associated Press
Then he threw another and another until the sophomore had 36 strikes in a row in what could become the first sanctioned 900 series in bowling history.
Sonnenfeld, an All-American bowler as a freshman, said he previously had bowled seven perfect games, but none of them consecutively.
Sunday's masterpiece came on the Sun Valley Lanes in Lincoln.
"Each one is just as precious as the one before that," Sonnenfeld said. "But to have three in a row and to set a world record—well, I just don't even know what to do."
An American Bowling Congress official said there had been at least four 900 series reported, but none had been approved officially for various reasons, including unsanctioned tournaments and lane conditions failing to meet standards.
"If this is approved, it would be the first 900," said Miller, a representative for ABC and other sanctioned bowling organizations. "But it's not official until we've checked everything out."
Miller said ABC probably would have a final ruling within days.
Eric Aslakson, one of Sonnenfeld's teammates on the defending national champion Cornhuskers' bowling team, said his friend was cool as ice.
"No one could believe what they were seeing, the impossible of imposibles being done in front of them," he said.
Sonnenfeld said the best thing was that it had happened in front of his girlfriend, also a bowler.
"She's come to games before, but I've never thrown a perfect game in front of her," he said. "But when I threw all three games, well, she just came over and gave me a great hug, and it was really special to have her there."
Knight looks to freshmen for leadership
By Steve Herman
The Associated Press
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — So Bob Knight yanked Neil Reed from the lineup and played three freshmen for most of the second half. So what? It is nothing new.
"You never know how he's going to line people up," said freshman center Jason Collier. "Everybody's got to be able to come in there and play no matter what. No matter who it is, they've got to be
The Indiana coach never has hesitated to make changes in the lineup, even up to the last minute before the opening jump.
makes what no matter who is able to do the same thing somebody else can do."
In the first half Sunday, Reed played all 20 minutes and led the Hoosiers with 11 points. After the break, he waited patiently on the bench until 3:52 remained and added just five more points in Indiana's 78-74 loss to Illinois.
Bob Knight
Afterward, Knight complained about a lack of leadership from Reed and other
juniors and said he would look for direction from his large class of freshmen.
"It's real difficult to talk about," said Collier, who didn't start but had 11 points in 26 minutes.
He said right now the team just had to win out to have a chance for the Big Ten title.
The loss dropped Indiana to 17-6 overall, 4-5 at the midpoint of the conference schedule. Unless the Hoosiers make a big push at the finish, they are in danger of ending Knight's quarter-century streak of never going four years without at least one Big Ten championship.
On Sunday, Knight started junior Robbie Eggers in place of Collier. That lasted less than four minutes. Illinois jumped ahead 10-4 before Knight lifted Eggers and put Collier in. The Hoosiers then reeled off 15 straight points — including seven by Collier 10-9.
"We need leadership. And I'm going to get it with freshmen. It's just that simple," Knight said. "I've done everything I can to get leadership out of those juniors, and the hell with it. I'm done trying to get leadership."
Reed appeared to be the primary culprit Sunday — Patterson played 37 minutes and led the Hoosiers with 17 points — but Knight wouldn't elaborate.
Sunday's starting lineup of Eggers, Reed, A.J. Guyon, Andrae Patterson and Charlie Miller was the 14th combination Knight had used this season. No group of players has started more than four games.
However, Illinois guard Kiwan Garris said he had a pretty good idea why Knight banished Reed to the bench.
"Probably because he wasn't really trying to get around the picks in the first half, and I scored a lot of points," Garris said. "He probably benched him because he wasn't playing defense."
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