UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, January 17. 1996
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UMass star to continue medical tests
The Associated Press
AMHERST, Mass. — Marcus Camby will be sidelined for at least two weeks while doctors try to determine what caused the star of the nation's top-ranked college basketball team to collapse before a game Sunday.
A preliminary examination found no heart abnormalities.
Camby had been fighting a cold and taking a cough syrup he said had made him lightheaded. His mother suggested that maybe he hadn't eaten.
But team doctors want to be certain before clearing the 21-year-old to rejoin his teammates with No. 1 Massachusetts.
"I think you have to be ultra-cautious, yes," team physician James Ralph said on Monday after Camby was admitted to University of Massachusetts Medical Center in Worcester.
Camby's collapse minutes before Sunday's game against St. Bonaventure followed the deaths of some young and apparently healthy athletes whose heart conditions were revealed only after their deaths.
The incident reminded many of Reggie Lewis, the Boston Celtics captain who died two years ago after resuming practice months
"I think you have to be ultra-cautious, yes."
James Raiph
Massachusetts team physician
after his collapse during a playoff game. Doctors said Lewis, who received conflicting medical opinions about his heart condition, died as a result of an irregular heartbeat brought on by a virus, an enlargement of the heart and other causes.
And, another UMass athlete, junior Greg Menton, collapsed and died of a heart-related problem last week during a swimming meet in New Hampshire. He will be buried tomorrow.
The Minutemen's team doctor prefers to compare Camby to teammate Michael Williams, a guard who collapsed during a game at Cincinnati two years ago. Tests revealed no cardiac problems, and he was cleared to play two weeks later.
As for Camby, he likely will remain at the hospital until the tests are completed. Ralph said.
"Any circumstance like this is unsettling to everyone. That's why they are going to do every conceivable test," Ralph said, adding that he particularly was troubled that Camby was unresponsive for 10 minutes after fainting.
Camby returned to Massachusetts, saying that he felt 100 percent and was eager to return to playing.
"I'm fine; I feel great," Camby said upon leaving Olean (N.Y.) General Hospital on Monday.
Ralph said doctors still were uncertain what caused Camby to collapse. They had conducted tests that included an echo cardiogram, blood work, CAT scan, brain MRI and spinal tap.
Massachusetts coach John Calipari said doctors told him Camby's life was never in danger. That news, he said, was "like winning the Final Four."
The coach, who accompanied Camby to the hospital, said Camby was taking medicine to fight a cough and felt lightheaded before collapsing.
Camby's mother, Janice Camby of Hartford, Conn., said her son may have gone too long without eating.
Daniel Clapp of the UMass Medical Center said taking an over-the-counter cough medicine on an empty stomach would not have caused Camby to collapse.
Meanwhile, Camby's teammates headed back to campus to prepare for today's game against Rhode Island.
"That might be good television talk, but it doesn't fly medically. There has to be some other reason," Clapp said Monday night.
Massachusetts (14-0) beat St. Bonaventure 65-52 on Sunday without Camby, who collapsed in a hallway outside the locker room shortly before the game. The 6-foot-11 junior had just finished pregame warmups.
However, Camby's heart never stopped beating, and he never stopped breathing.
Camby is averaging 20.9 points and 7.5 rebounds. He has been touted as a potential NBA lottery pick when he decides to turn professional.
"With Marcus right now, I think our team knows their well-being is more important than any game," Calipari said. "Before I left, we said a prayer, and I looked at all of them and said, 'Look guys, if this was any member of our team, I'd be going to the hospital with you.'"
Basketbrawl strikes twice for Texas school
Coach hurt, games halted in separate fights involving National Christian University
The Associated Press
SAN ANGOLE, Texas — For the second time in a week, a basketball game involving San Antonio's National Christian University has been stopped before its conclusion.
Last week at-Abilene, officials stopped play and declared Hardin-Simmons the winner after a National Christian player, upset at a call, grabbed a chair and waved it menacingly at a referee.
Monday night, six minutes into the second half of a game against Angelo State, referees halted play after a bench-clearing brawl in which National Christian coach J. Cesar Cervantes sustained a concussion.
National Christian was trailing 65-48 when Xavier Burke of Angelo State delivered a hard foul while Julio Gonzales was driving to the basket.
Initially, Gonzales walked away from Burke and toward his own bench. Just prior to play resuming, however, Gonzales and Burke
exchanged words and Gonzales threw a punch that missed Burke.
Burke pursued Gonzales toward the scorers' table, where Cervantes tried to separate them. As coaches tried to restore order, Gonzales pinned Burke against the stands behind the scorer's table and threw several punches.
Both benches emptied, and at one point, an Angelo State player came running over from the bench, leaped into the middle of the mob near the National Christian bench and threw a wild punch. National Christian players were involved as well, some grabbing chairs and holding them in a threatening manner.
The brawl, which involved about 15 players, lasted about 30 seconds.
Finally, some order was restored by coaches, game officials and university police. That's when someone noticed Cervantes lying on the floor.
Cervantes, apparently struck in the head or neck, lay motionless for several moments while Angelo State trainers tended to him.
"He was complaining of having neck pain," Angelo State trainer Randy Matthews said. "At some point, he said he had some numbness and tingling in his extremities."
Players from both teams were escorted to their locker rooms by police and coaches while about 500 fans were told to leave the building.
Cervantes, who was conscious and coherent, was placed on a backboard and taken by ambulance to a hospital, where he was treated and diagnosed with a concussion, then released and told to rest.
In the game a week earlier against Hardin-Simmons, National Christian was charged with 23 fouls, including four technicals. Two of those technicals were assessed to Roderick Clak, the player who grabbed a chair and waved it at a referee.
Cervantes came onto the floor in that game as well, and he was given two technicals and was ejected. He had to be restrained from officials.
Referees in that game had to be escorted from the gym by police and initially talked about pressing charges against Clak. Charges were not filed.
Clak was one of the players from National Christian holding a chair and waving it Monday night.
"I don't know who from us was involved," Angelo State coach Ed Messbauer said. "But there are some people who won't play in the next game."
NCAA rule require that any player leaving the bench during a fight be ejected immediately from that game and the next game, Angelo State athletic director Jerry Vandergift said.
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