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Nearly all the coaches agreed that their players had no extra time to work. The legislation passed at the NCAA convention earlier this month may help football players who have shorter seasons, but the basketball season is just too long, coaches said.
The potential for abuse from boosters also worries the coaches.
The Associated Press
"Our kids just don't have any time," Oklahoma State coach Eddie Sutton said Monday during the Big 12's weekly conference call.
"You've got academics, you've got practice, then you've got a job," he said. "Something is going to slip. It's not going to be the job because you'll lose it. It's not going to be basketball. So it's going to be academics."
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Big 12 coaches all agree on one thing—new NCAA rules that allow players to have jobs are unwieldy, if not irrelevant.
"What if a guy is waiting tables and somebody leaves a $101 tip on
"I have mixed feelings. I think the intent is good to allow the players to have an opportunity to make some spending money. To make some money to be able to go home, to buy some clothes. I think it's going to very difficult to monitor. I think it's going to be next to impossible during the season with basketball and academics. I believe it's going to be a lot of added work as far as the monitoring process."
Williams, like some other coaches, would rather see some sort of stipend system built into the scholarship.
Kansas coach Roy Williams agreed that the intent was good, but he also did not see any time that players would have to work.
Williams is a supporter of the argument that players should have a part of the money they generate for the athletic department and the university.
the table?" said Texas Tech coach James Dickey. "Is that illegal? I don't know.
"All I know is at the University of Kansas, the players bring in a
tremendous amount of money," Williams said. "Right now, they don't get any of it."
Texas &M coach Tony Barone said he would like to see a situation where schools could provide money through a financial aid office to players based on their need. But giving them the opportunity to work was not the answer, he said.
"I think it's a meaningless situation for basketball," Barone said. "I don't have a player on my team having time to spend time working five or 10 hours a week while taking care of his basketball world, his academic world, his social world."
Some coaches raised the question of whether there were any jobs available.
"There just aren't a lot of jobs in Lincoln," said Nebraska coach Danny Nee. "I don't see how it's going to have a whole lot of impact. I don't see a lot of our players physically finding time to have a job with the length of season, going to practice, going to classes."
Kansas forward Raef LaFrentz said he probably would not work while trying to play basketball.
Baseball hero dead at 59
Flood paved the way for free agent system
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The man might be gone, but the game that Curt Flood played always will bear his mark.
"He was a man of extraordinary courage and conviction, and I think history will bear that out along those lines," former St. Louis Cardinals teammate Tim McCarver said yesterday.
Flood, who took his challenge of baseball's reserve clause all the way to the Supreme Court, died Monday of throat cancer after a long stay at the UCLA Medical Center. He was 59.
Although Flood failed in his personal challenge, he paved the way for others — notably Andy Messersmith and Dave McNally — to bring down the reserve system and open the game to free agency.
While stamped a pariah in some baseball circles, Flood today is regarded as a hero by players and as a pioneer of players' rights.
"Every major league baseball player owes Curt Flood a debt of gratitude that can never be repaid," said pitchers David Cone and Tom Glavine — the current AL and NL player representatives — in a statement. "With the
Flood refused to report, asking then-commissioner Bowie Kuhn to declare him a free agent. Kuhn turned him down.
odds overwhelmingly against him, he was willing to take a stand for what he knew was right."
McCarver said he was shocked when he learned of Flood's refusal to go to Philadelphia. Six weeks after the proposed trade, McCarver and Flood met at a stopover in the Atlanta airport.
A seven-time Gold Glove winner in center field and a three-time All-Star, Flood's battle began in 1969 when he and McCarver were traded to Philadelphia for Dick Allen.
"The whole conversation, he was consumed by it," McCarver recalled. "He said, 'I'm not putting up with it anymore.'"
McCarver said it never occurred to him at the time to join Flood in the crusade against baseball's reserve clause.
"Players were afraid for their jobs," he said. "I know there was that feeling. I had no designs on being apioneer."
That job fell to Flood.
An elegant fielder and a key member of Cardinals teams that won the World Series in 1964 and 1967, he hit more than .300 six times and batted 293 in a career from 1956-71.
against his will, he filed suit and sat out the 1970 season.
After the 1970 season, a deal was made to send Flood to the Washington Senators. His comeback at age 33 did not go well, and he played only 13 games in 1971 before retiring.
The Supreme Court ruled against Flood in 1972. But in 1975, an arbitrator granted free agency to Messersmith and McNally, in effect ending the reserve system and clearing the way for today's free agent system.
Today, Flood's legacy is one of lawyers, court cases and confrontation, leading to a fundamental change in the way the business of baseball is conducted.
But rather than go to Philadelphia
McCarver said it was a shame that he was not known for more.
"People don't realize what a terrific baseball player he was," McCarver said. "He was a teammate who everybody loved. With Curt doing what he did as an individual — and obviously he was a very courageous individual — he was as consummate a teammate as any I ever had."
McCearney recalled that Johnny Edwards, the former Cincinnati catcher, once told him he never saw Flood sulk in the dugout, if he was having a bad day at the plate.
"More than any player, whether he went 3-for-4 or 0-for-4, he would root for the other guys," McCarver said. "That stated in out bold caps."
Man charged with running gambling ring Students implicated in Boston College case
NEWTON, Mass. — A 33-year-old man was arraigned yesterday on charges that he ran a sports gambling ring using Boston College student bookmakers.
Newton district court judge Conrad Bletzer ordered him held on $20.00 cash bail.
James Potter of New York pleaded not guilty to charges of organizing and promoting gambling services, using a telephone for gaming purposes and conspiracy to organize and promote gambling services, prosecutors said.
Kurt Schwartz, a prosecutor with the Middlesex County District Attorney's office, Potter and his organization had been present on the Boston College campus since at least 1994.
"This was just a piece of a much bigger operation that he was running in New York," Schwartz said.
Prosecutors said Potter had links to organized crime and employed student bookmakers to take bets and make payments on the Boston College campus. Potter's associates allegedly would visit the campus to collect money and meet with student bookies.
Prosecutors said at least one student bookmaker who owed money to Potter's organization was beaten and at least one other was threatened.
Defense attorney Thomas Hoopes, however, said investigators had exaggerated certain aspects of the case, particularly the alleged ties to organized crime.
Three other men face additional gambling charges.
Investigators have identified eight Boston College seniors who allegedly worked as bookmakers on campus. The college has suspended them and has begun disciplinary action against at least 20 other students suspected of making illegal bets on sporting events.
Gambling charges first surfaced in late October before the football team's home game against Notre Dame.
Thirteen football players initially were suspended for violating NCAA rules prohibiting gambling. No evidence of point-shaving was found.
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