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COVER STORY The road to recovery

Our sports stars don’t always travel the straight and narrow—and Dwight Gooden and Brett Favre bring to light a problem that faces all professional sports.

VOICES 7

Dave Kindred: The flame forever burns in the city and citizens of Prague. Okla.

Steve Blshetf: The magic is gone, so le ts hope Magic Johnson stays retired this time.

Richard Lapchick: Another voice on kids leaving earlvrn for the S B A and N FL

Letters

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Expos-Padres: The two surprise team s in the National League face one another for the first time this season. Michael Knisley: The best way to deal with Marge Schott is to keep her out of some decisions. Bob Nightengale: The great comeback of Erie Davis

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Baseball Notes

FOOTBALL 38

The Ravens: They're like an expansion team after the move from Cleveland, only they don't have two years to get ready for the 19% season.

Bill Plasch k e: AII the questions are not off-the-field related for the Cowboys.

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NFL Notes

Proving that a hot goaltender can carry a team in the playoffs, the Panthers' JOHN VANBIESBROUCK is convincing opponents that this first-time playoff team is no fluke.

hran M aisei: The talent Randy M oss is wasting is a crime.

HOCKEY 46

R a ts!!! Behind their Devilish defense and with the support of their rodent-loving fans, the Panthers are painting a great story in their playoff debut

FROM THE EDITOR

Larry W lggs: Straight answers to winding questions.

A double switch

BASKETBALL 49

Payton's P a ce : Criticized for previous playoff performances. Gary Payton is playing like one of the leagu es elite this year.

Shaun Powell: Brian Hill isn’t just a baby-sitter.

Mike DeCoorcy: The NCAA rules committee cracks down on palming the ball.

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Openers

The Sports M arketplace: A treasury of products and services.

The C lo se r Updates on TSN stories about Bryan Cox. Jon Stark and Darin Erstad.

Cover photos o f Dwight Gooden by Kevin L a rk in / A ssociated Press an d Brett Favre by Jeffrey Phelps o f the M ilw aukee Jou rn al Sentinel.

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Sports fans hardly knew how to feel when they woke up one morning last week and had two big headlines staring them in the face: The best player in the NFL is going into rehab for substance abuse; the best pitcher in baseball a decade ago throws a no hitter in his continuing fight back from substance abuse. Truly, the highs and lows of sports. Most of us do know how to feel, though, about Marge Schott, the subject senior writer Michael Knisley examines on page 18. Beginning with this issue. Knisley now carries the main responsibility of handling T h e S p o r t i n g N e w s ’ baseball coverage. Michael joined TSN after The

he spent the bulk of his career at the Denver Post. Michael has handled a variety of duties during his tenure here, including stories such as the one he wrote two weeks ago on the com ebacks of Michael Jordan and Mario Lemieux. You can expect the Knisley same analytical thinking and engaging writing applied to baseball that you saw in that terrific story. “As a reporter, you have to be excited by the thought of covering baseball for T h e S p o r t i n g N e w s," Knisley says. "It is what we were about for many years and the area where we still put the greatest emphasis. It is very appealing.' Like anything else, baseball has its. problems, and Schott rates near the top. “I think th e re s an element of grandstanding among the media making hay with her recently."

Knislev* savs. • “Everybody * » knows sh ell say something stupid, if you wait through a conversation long enough." Steve Marantz. who handled baseball the past two years, will take a broader look at the landscape of sports. He will write stories as diverse as the lead essay of this week s cover story to the riveting profile he did a few months ago on S e ra White, the long-forgotten star of women's basketball. We think you ll find that these changes go one more step toward bringing you the high-quality sports journalism you have come to expect

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CAUGHT ON THE FLY

Big talk, small change in this money game Yeah. Bene Bodlg says Fly needs counseling, too. ■ Now that Nashville's a $292 mil done deal, Tags tells the Spies: “In the future. I think well be looking at Los Angeles. Cleveland and ultimately Houston as our priorities for re establishing teams, and not new markets without a prior record of having an N FL franchise." Yeah, like you ll be able to do anything about it if/when Portland. Sacramento or Birmingham coughs up the coin to lure a team, right Commish? ■ Hey-yo, how far off was Magic (He’s Ones, W e e , Three Times a Laker) Johnson's timing this go-round? Not only' did he never mesh as a point forward, but also heres a guy with an ego the size-o-Tarzana who announces his threetirement on the same day: the BuDs close out the Knicks; Farre announces his, urn. difficulties: and Doc throws a no-hitter. Believe Fly (shaddupf). Magic couJda/shoulda/wouIda done things differently if he’d known he was gonna be lumped in with “but first, a word from our sponsors." ■ Fly’s Top 5. or “How thin is M LB pitching? Even the Tribe can’t get a No. 5 to the fore": I. Buddy Black: 2. Mike Blsleek!; 3. Rod Nichols; 4.

Scott Scaddsr. 5. AMe Lopez. ■ Fly hears Illinois Mr. Basketball Rennie Reids. whose senior season was cuhrunched by a car wreck, ain’t plannin’ on stayin’ more than a year at De Paul before headin’ to the National Basketball and Cradle-Robbers Association. ■ Speaking of Fields. DePaul coach Joey Meyer may've thought he saved his job by inkin' Fields. (Hey, the Spies call Fields the not-sodemonic Blue Demons’ most significant recruit since Mark Agalrre hauled his considerable fanny into Ray Meyer’s program, lo. those 17 years ago.) "DePaul is on the way back." Meyer says. Hmmm. Didn’t Brian Mahoney say the same thing about S t John’s after he signed Felipe

Lopez? ■ Fly hears the straw that broke the Big Units back was the five-hour flight to the East Coast last Monday, the night after he lasted only five in K.C. Couple Johnson’s bad back with Mast Langston’s bum knee with the A’s bad talent and you know why the strangers're hopin’ to make May hay (read: build a lead even they couldn’t blow).

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the game on a large The letter arrived in Peter television screen from our Magowan's office in the dugout" Toth wrote, “and spring. For the right price, a the moment I see a ball sail Lazio Toth from Fairfax. T ^ over the Calif., was offering to CW I —Im ; . buy the rights to provideti retrieve baseballs hit r*«I toro*im * ___c ttv r o r o b ^ v t Tm* over the right-field wall ^ T W t o and into San Francisco Bay at the Giants' proposed ballpark, which the team hopes to open in 2OOO in the China Basin right-field wall, I will area. press my remote control Toth offered to assemble dugout door opener, and my a “Baseball Retrieving mixed breed team wifi be Canine Swimming Team." off—jumping into the bay. stationed in a “Dog Dugout" swimming towards the located on land or. perhaps, floating homer. The first dog floating in the shallow water to reach the ball will snag it outside the right-field fence. (by mouth), and with his "M y dogs and I will watch ,

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floating homers." For this Aquatic Home Run Retrieval Franchise, the letter said. teammates barking by his Toth would pay the Giants side, dog-paddle the wet $1,000 a year plus one-third homer to shore." of his revenues, minus “the Toth, who wrote the loner cost of water bowls, fresh on personalized towels, snacks and other > ^ * expenses. NitotoA* It took the Giants b—oro»dwb— to ^ awhile, but eventually too tanrf>your proposal mnr lim* they recognized the wit of an old acquaintance. Lazio Toth is Don Novella, who did some promotional work for the team on a seasonstationery. ticket campaign a few years proposed to sell back. The proposal could advertising space on the come only from.the mind of canine wet suits in which his Novella, better known in his mutts would be outfitted. comic guise: Father Guido And he envisioned a Sarducci. The letter was television or Internet deal postmarked March 28 It 'Mo permit my team to be arrived at the Giants' offices seen in action retrieving the in time for .April Fools Day.

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are under “PWno, Rick," but ever since big bro' Bob became Big .Apple Bob a few seasons ago. these 2-good-to-be-true Magic fans've been footin' the bill. It mighf make some sense to Fly (shaddup!) if someone actually had been siftin' in those seats four of the first five playoff games. ■ Speaking of Pidno, hot dish at the Rumorama (our mono: We will sell no 'vine before it s time): Shag says he won't re-sign with the Magic if Brian Hill's back as coach of this here team. So if/when Orlando bows out to the Bulls. Pifinoll bow in as coach. ■ Those head Halos gobbled up in the Disney takeover last week described Disney's treatment as “as humane and professional as possible." But the Spies say those at the bottom of the food chain weren't quite as content after bein' told to turn in their badges and ... the next bus leaves at 2—be under it. ■ Fly hears the feds are breathin' down on the .Air Force Academy’s athlete program. The Spies (it's just an expression. Mr. Ostrich) say it honked off auditors that, among other things, football coach Fisher DeBerry landed on Planet Reebok and then, on D eBerry’s recommendation, the Zoomies program bought 630 pairs of Reeboks for more than $28,000. That's a sweetheart deal that goes on every dav at OI’ State I'.. but not at military institute. .Are things gonna change5 Sir. yessir. ■ Finally. Fly’s gotta go; the fave TV shows about to come on: “ Hockey Not in Canada."

■ Speaking of the M ’s, last year’s mayday went out for Junior Brtffey This year his wrist is healthy, but he's still bobbin' along at .250. He is self-analysis for the Spies: “I’m just horsecrap right now.... It doesn’t mean a thing." ■ Let’s see if Fly has this right: The only way to see a Blackhawks home playoff game was to buy a ducat (no TY. no PPY). Owner BHI Wlrtz. slippin' on his best garageleague thinkin' cap. blacks out because, he says, season-dcket holders have, in effect, bought exclusive rights to the games. Nice way to grow the franchise. Billy. Course, now no one can see the Hawks in a playoff game. ■ The Spies say the biggest reason the Mavwrecks aren’t ridin* for a Westphal is that UM Larry Brown and Reggio Miller aren’t seem' eye-to-eye in Indy. And. hey, after afl, Browns been the Pacers’ coach for three years fit’s like dog years; it amounts to 21). ■ Fly hears Philberts owner Billy Biles is startin' to sssweat. His team is under productive fis that yer team batting A-V-G or yer area code?), overpriced (payroll: $32 mil-plus), under-marqueed (Dykstra? Jefferies? Puh-lease) and overlooked (attendance is down 22 percent from last year). Sounds to Fly like its time to start whinin’ for a new stadium. ■ Yo. Coach, why’re 3D fanatics Ptiy and DI on the outside lookin’ in at the NBA playoffs? Yeah. veah. those O-Rena seats

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trampled In her lawsuit against Pendleton. the Phillies, the Braves and a host of others. she says she sustained multiple bruises and contusions in or about the head. body. back and limbs, and injuries to the back and head that resulted in injury to muscles, nerves. disks, bones and ligaments For these alleged problems, she is suing for Sol MHH!. So do you blame Pendleton for not wanting to participate in a promotion this season sponsored by his new team. the M arlins5The club gave each player a couple of baseballs and asked if he could toss the balls into the stands as souvenirs. Maybe they should have had Llovds of London insure the promotion first.

V x t Unit' you wonder why pro athletes seem to he growing increasinply tanunlriendK. here s a story to remember Three years ago. during batling praetiee betore a W nlho-Braw v garni •in \elerans Madium. Terry Pendleton made wha; he though; was a nuv gesture He iosx-d a ball in the stands to a woman named Diane Heath But Heath couldn't hold onto the ball. and it bounced under her seat The rest is no surprise Other tans began scrambling tor the ball Heath says she was

SOUNDBITES

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Dr. Malaprop: Berra receives a Doctor of Humane Letters degree

Commitments honored In 1993. Tim Strachan and Dion Johnson were star high school football players in Washington. D.C. Both had bigger aspirations, first to star in college, then maybe advance to the pros. But within a three-month span, rf I their lives were altered forever. First, Strachan. a quarterback who wanted to s I play at Maryland, injured his neck while diving into waves during a vacation. Then Johnson, a defensive back who wanted to play at Bowie F O R - ’ ' (Md.) State, hurt his neck making a tackle. Both were left quadriplegic. But in a demonstration of heart in college sports. Mandan (Land Bowie State remembered the athletes thev had recruited bv granting them scholarships. Johnson has attended a year at Bowie on his grant: Strachan will begin at Maryland in the fall. Coach Mark Du!mer says he will use Strachan as a studentassistant coach. “ I hope it sends a message about values and the Shoe-lns: In response to bike's TV campaign touting Seattle's strength of character of this Ken Griffeyfor president (below), rival shoe company Ftla individual.*' says Maryland nominated its candidate—Cleveland's Eddie Murray athletic director Debbie Vow.

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is there a common denominator here7 In the oast few years the NBA and NHL playoffs have been creeping later and later into June making the winter sports into summertime classics. Blame it on television Blame it on work stoppages Blame it on the commissioners' offices Blame it on Rio Just get it all done before Independence Day. OK7 Here s a look at the dates winter champions have been crowned since 1980

Chilly scenes of summer Doesn't it seem as if there are no offseasons anymore* The Super Bowl ends and we're smack in the middle of the NHI and NBA seasons the baseball season starts and we re still slogging through the NBA and NHL seasons NFL mmicamps open and we re in the middle of the NBA and NHL playoffs

NBA 1980: May 16 Lakers 1 9 8 1 : Mav 14 Celtics 198 2 : June 8 Lakers 19 8 3 : May 3 1 . F6ers 198 4 : June 12 Celtics* 1985: June 9 Lakers 1 9 8 6 : June 8 Celtics 1 9 8 7 : June 14 Lakers 198 8 : June 2 1 . Lakers 1 9 8 9 : June 13. Pistons 1 9 9 0 : June 14. Pistons 1 9 9 1 : June 12. Bulls 1 9 9 2 : June 14. Bulls 1993: June 20. Bulls

199 4: June 22 Rockets 199 5: June 14 Rockets 1996: June 19* ‘ last possible day for NBA finals this year

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198 8 : May 26. Oilers 198 9 : May 25. Flames 199 0 : May 24. Oilers 1 9 9 1 : May 25. Penguins 1 9 9 2 : June 1. Penguins 199 3: June 9. Canadiens 1 9 9 4 : June 14. Rangers 1 9 9 5 : June 24. Devils* 1996: June 17* ‘ Last possible day for NHI playoffs this year *'The first time the NHI season ended after the NBAs. Blame that one on the lockout

from Montclair State University president Irvin Reid.

Malapropositioned No collection of fractured sports quotes can escape a healthy dose of Yogi-isms. So we open this item with one of our favorites from the irrepressible Mr. Berra: “ I get up at 6 a.m.. no matter what time it is." The new collection is called The Book o f Truly

Stupid Sports Quotes. assembled by Je ff Parietti and published by HarperCollins for release in early June. A sampler of others in the book: ■ Ron Meyer, former Indianapolis Colts' coach, on

his decision to start the rookie quarterback. Jeff George: ‘It isn’t like I came down from Mount Sinai with the tabloids." ■ Bill Peterson, former Florida State football coach, during practice: “You guys pair off in groups of three, then line up in a circle." ■ Jim Gantner. Brewers infielder, on his offseason. ‘ I mostly stayed around the house. But I did take a hunting trip to one of those Canadian proverbs." ■ Don King, on Mike Tyson’s lawyers: “ I don't want to get into that. but M ike’s got a whole new set of bannisters."

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THIS WEEK IN AOL S P A R K Y ^ V I R T U A L D U G O U T . Sparky Anderson tells in his weekly column how baseball oughta be His weekly chat in the AOL Sports Dome auditorium is scheduled tor 10 p.m. ET Thursday. W I G G E ’ S W O R L D . Our own dean of hockey scribes. Larry Wigge. gives TSN users the inside track on the Stanley Cup chase with twice-weekly columns. He will provide game-night analysis during the finals and will be an occasional guest in T h e S p o r tin g N e w s Chat Room D O W N L O A D A B L E P H O T O S . Starting this week. The Sporting News adds a Downloadables Library to all of its Top Stones screens and individual baseball team screens Heres your chance to download photos of your favorite players and print them out. C A U G H T O N T H E F L Y . Catch the buzz: The Spies say it s seven days a week. T H E B O B - A N D - P E T E S H O W . Longtime baseball writers Bob Nightengale and Peter Schmuck cover the N L and A L., respectively, with twice-weekly online files. Every team is covered H O W T O F I N D U S O N L I N E , lf you have AOL software, you’ll find us by going to keyword' T h e S p o rtin g N ew s. Or go to Sports from the Main Menu and look for our icon. Important note for Mac users: Our site is accessible on PCs only until this fall, when AOl's 3 0 client is due to arrive.

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Broncos quarterback John Elway, on trying to win a Super BowL but failing:

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They’ll use Minnie-cams Buddy Baron, a deejay at San Francisco's KY'CY 93.3 FM . spun this spoof about Disney's increased involvement in the world of sports: Coming at you across the LLS A . it’s the 'Top 5 Features on the New Disney All-Sports Channel": 5. Mickey* videotapes Goofy buying crack. 4. Dennis Rodman gets a M iss Piggy tattoo. 3. The Seven Dwarfs lose every game to the Globetrotters. 2. Every highlight show, including baseball's All-Star Game, must feature the .Anaheim Mighty Ducks. I. .Any team winning three games in a row will be officiallysanctioned a “ Cinderella Story."

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Yankees owner George Steinbronner.onwhyhe agreed to sign Dwight Gooden:

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Some stories are better than others. This is one of the good ones, in this one. everyone wins. Late on a starry night in Oklahoma, ornery ol’ Sam Muzny carried the Olympic flame down Broadway0 in his hometown of Prague. Sam ran smiling, his ponytail bouncing, the torch held high. Sam running south past the Hinson insurance agency and the P ark s h ard w are sto re and past C harlene's cafe. Sam ran on wings of joy. or. as Sam put it to a reporter who asked how he felt carrying the flame. “Man, I tell va. I didn’t know if I was a poodle or a cockapoo and I didn’t care." As to what Sam said at the moment the Olympic torch was set ablaze in his hand, the m om ent he becam e part of Olympic history. h e r e s what he said, and loudly. “YipYipYEEO\VWW*T This story began last sum m er when the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games said it would honor Jim Thorpe, maybe the greatest athlete ever. It would do the honor by routing the Olympic Torch Relay to T horpe’s birthplace in Oklahoma. ACOG’s good intentions were undone, however, when the b irth p lace was identified as ... YALE!!! Thorpe lived in Yale. I ts an hour's drive from Prague. But he lived th ere in decline from age 36 to 43. All biographies cite I Prague as T horpe’s birthplace, a a c t long known to Sam Muzny.’ I Muzny. 41. is a big ol’ linebacker who w ears jeans, rattlesnake boots and that ponytail. He is part Irish. Moravan. B ohem ian and C h ero k ee. Mainly, he is all Oklahoman and ail fired up by' what ACOG did to his hero, the Sac and Fox named W athoTuck. “Bright Path." aka Jim Thorpe. Muzny will tell you Thorpe was born in a two-room log cabin near a village called Keokuk Falls that once offered haven to outlaws— the Daltons, the Youngers. Frank and Jesse Jam es and Belle Starr, “lf the L’.S. M arshal showed up," he said, “the outlaws would just slip over into Indian territory." W here the Thorpe cabin once stood. Muzny and his team m ates on the Prague High School Red Devils used to stage Thursday night pep rallies. “We’d dance naked around the campfire." As early as the sixth grade. Muzny wrote a school paper on Thorpe and his meaning to Prague. So Ute mention of Yale set M uzny’s teeth to grinding. He decided to set .Atlanta straight and get the torch to Prague. ACOG first resisted enlightenm ent. Then it said it only meant to honor Native Americans, not Thorpe. Even after being forced to admit its mistake. ACOG said it was too late to change the torch route. U ndeterred. Muzny kept at it. He formed the Jim Thorpe Olympic Task Force with local insurance man Roger Pritchett and Cham ber of Com m erce honchos Gary Long and Corrine Long. Soon enough. Oklahom a's governor and U.S. senators came aboard. Sympathetic words appeared in The S porting News, the A tlanta JournalConstitution, Sports Illustrated, The New York Times and in new spapers in Sweden, Germany and Japan. “lf ACOG had just said, ‘OK. we screwed up. let's take the torch to I Prague, too'.’ nobody would have noticed." Muzny said. “But by

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Dagmar Thorpe, granddaughter of Jim Thorpe, hugs Thorpe 's sister. Gale, after Dagmar cam es the Olympic torch to commemorate Thorpe 's birthplace fighting us, they made it an international in c id en t" The incident reached critical m ass in Japan on Decem ber 7 of last year. A reporter asked ACOG president Billy Payne. “Wha! about Jim Thorpe's birthplace? Will the torch go th ere'" To the credit of Payne and ACOG. and in the face of his torchweasel underlings, the boss said the Olympic flame indeed would bt* taken to Prague. So everyone won. ACOG did the right thing. Prague did the nght thing. Together, they did a thing too often left undone these days Instead of dividing along lines of self-interest, everyone came together in a common cause. _____________________________ Out in Pottawatomie County. near her father's birthplace. 75-year-old Grace Thorpe waved a hand to the east and said. ' ■These are Dad's roots. This was the family's land, a * thousand acres. He'd run down horses as they grazed on the sweet grass by the North Canadian River. Getting the torch here just shows what people can do if they're nght and they don’t give up." Some stories, even the reporters like. This is one of those. You knew that much when you went to Sam Muzny s house. To get to Sam’s 600 acres and his little farmhouse where his big dog. Wendell, com es dancing up to Sam's rattly truck, you fly to Oklahoma City. Then you take the interstate east SO miles to Prague. T here you bounce along nine miles of grave! road into the Oklahoma outback looking for a dirt lane that leads to Sam's front yard. Then you see another truck from which em erges a bull of a man in a cowboy hat who laughs and asks ... “You ever been in the country before7" The honest answer. “Not this far in the country." “I’m Sam’s father, Leroy Muzny. We’re glad you could make it." Honest again. “I wouldn’t have missed ii" You come to a small town in the center of Oklahoma. You come to the heart of the heartland and on a starry, starry night you stand on Broadway in a place raised by im m igrants from Czechoslovakia on land shared with Native Americans of the Sac and Fox nation. You stand with m others carrying their babies at m idnight You stand with teenagers and you stand with grandparents. You see a '57 Chevy and a ’67 M ustang parked on Broadway. You hear politicians and bluegrass bands. You hear gray-haired rockers playing. “Wake Up. Little Susie." You stand with a couple thousand people in Oklahoma and you hear the high school band play *The Star-Spangled Banner" and you see old folks on their lawn chairs and you see kids on bicycles balancing ice cream cones. You see America. ♦ D ave K in d red is a co n trib u tin g w riter fo r T m S porting News.

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Poof! He’s gone— again Time was right for Magic Johnson to retire^ let’s just hope he sticks by it this time

Call it one last Magical sigh of anymore and not big or strong enough to play forward. Oh. he relief. could have hung on for another My first reaction upon hearing season or two. He could have of Magic Johnson's re-retirem ent served as a sw agm an off the is that its better this way. Va •• • * bench, contributing 20-25 Better tor him. Better tor his minutes a gam e He probably family Better for the Lakers. And would have energized the team, better tor those of us who would too. lf onlv he didn't have his rather rem em ber him the way he name and his reputation, not to was in his prime mention his own high standards That guy m asquerading as No. and price tag. it might have 32 in those final two playoff gam es come off. But M agics built-in against Houston wasn't the real celebrity made it tough. Magic He was too old and too He never really meant to steal slow and too heavy. He didn't act the spotlight from the younger or talk like the old Magic, either. players on the team; but he did He was painful to watch and Nice president Jerry West em barrassing to listen to. He took and m em bers of the front office m ore shots at his teammates and A hard point to learn: Johnson discovered he was too heavy and slow to were in an uncom fortable spot. coach than at the basket, and. continue as a point guard and not strong enough to play power forward. They understood Johnson's understandable, thee returned i Not unlike so many Hall of Fame-caliber icon-like status and what he has meant to the some of the criticism. It was as if Camelot i players before him. he couldn't accept that franchise over the years. .And yet they had suddenly turned into M elrose Place. \ the years had robbed him of his skills. needed to plan for the future. And for anyone who was around during He was Magic, and he could still take the Johnson said he wanted “Jordan and the Lakers' golden years, during the warm. I baJ] to the hole. He could sui] go one-on-one Shaq-like money" to play next year. West bubbly, cham pionship seasons of Hareem would never admit it. but he wasn't about to and Jam es and Riles, well... you just wanted j with that great intimidator known as time ! and come away a winner, give it to him. You don't give 37-year-old to pretend all this sniping and bickering i Sorry, but for all the talk about how he overweight point g u ard s $10 million. wasn't happening. You wanted it to all go j could switch to power forward and play Owner Jerry Buss, one of Johnson's away. Now it has. : effective!)' there, the truth of the m atter is closest friends, could have been put in the Now when we reflect on one of I Magic was a point guard. The quintessential worst position of all. He could have been basketball's all-time great careers, we can forced to choose between the two greatest concentrate on the good times, the wondrous ; point guard. .And while he was a 6-9 marvel in his glory days at his best position, he was guards in team history—West or Magic. passes, the clutch shots, the unforgettable Fortunately, that scenario won’t have to be : badly miscast attempting to match muscles smiles. We can rem em ber W innin’ Time. played o u t Just as the thought of the i with the Karl M alones of the world. instead of dwelling on Whinin* Time. It was like Pavarotti trying to sing rock 'n' greatest Laker of them all competing against Did Magic's basketball philosophy ever ; roll. It didn't work. L A for Miami or somebody else. really change5 No. I still think he wanted to Even in his leaner years, he had trouble No question. Magic Johnson has done the win more than any athlete in recent memory. defending the smaller, darting point guards. right thing. Now le ts just h o p e this time he What did change, though, was his Now. years older and 3040 pounds heavier. sticks by it. ♦ perception of his own ability at 36. after he would have no chance against them. Steve B is h e ff is a co lu m n ist fo r the testing HIV-positive and being away from the He wasn't quick enough to play guard O range C ounty Register. NBA since 1991. 4

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Ifs a matter of degrees That’s the real issue of going from high school to the pros

Richard LAPCHICK

I keep getting asked. ""What do you think of the trend of athletes leaving school early to turn pro5" The question has come more frequently as high school seniors decide to skip college and go directly to the NBA Those asking the question are very concerned that these athletes will not be getting a college degree. Depending on who is asking tile question, the blame is directed at the college athletic departm ents involved or the NBA The questioners are missing the bigger picture. Fif*st. the raw num ber of athletes leaving early is tiny compared with the num ber who complete their four years of eligibility' with neither a degree nor any real chance of playing in the NBA or N FL Second, although the NCAA has x toughened freshman eligibility* standards by raising minimum scores needed on standardized tests such as the SAT or ACT. the growing trend among top academic institutions is to discount those tests; 240 colleges and universities have dropped the requirem ent of standardized tests from their adm issions procedures. Ironically, the NCAA's tougher eligibility requirem ents are at least partially responsible for some high school seniors considering skipping college altogether rather than going to a junior college or missing their first year of eligibility at a four-year institution. Twenty-one football players and 25 basketball players declared early this year. The overwhelm ing majority are black Compare that to the total num ber of black athletes who did not graduate from the schools on Emerge Magazine's list of the 50 worst colleges with regard to graduating

black student athletes. To avoid being on Em erges list in football, you had to graduate ■ only 31 percent: in basketball, you avoided • the list with 15 percent or better. Four schools in the football bottom SO and 25 schools in the basketball bottom 50 did not ; graduate a single black student athlete on their team in four Y ears. .An athlete making a decision to turn pro early might be weighing in the fact that he might not get a degree even if he stayed. That is one of the things we have to change. Meanwhile, the 240 top schools that have dropped the requirem ent for a standardized test for adm issions are acting partially in response to a 1992 survey of the American , Association of College Registrars and • Admissions Officers that found that grades and class rank were much better indicators of academic success than test scores. This was especially true for students from families living near or below the poverty line. Contrary to this trend, the result of the newly elevated NCAA test-score standards , going into effect this fall is that IO of the 25 USA Today preseason Super 25 basketball players have not qualified and 40 percent of this year's football recruiting class won't • qualify. According to recruiting expert Tom Lemming, up to 75 percent of the football I juniors he has reviewed will have trouble qualifying in 1997-98.1 am sure that some of these student athletes should not go .to I college. Nonetheless, somehow I cannot believe that num bers this high can be fair to all these potential student athletes in light of the widely accepted criticism of the : reliability- of standardized tests for people from lower-income families. In the case of basketball players, some •

Test anxiety: The points have come tougher on the A C T and SA Tfor Jermaine O 'Seal (6). who don’t qualify will turn to the NBA draft. and I will hear a new round of questions about. "How do vou feel about athletes skipping school to turn pro5'* We need to ask if we are creating our own self-fulfilling prophecy with these rules. In the meantime, what we need to do is make sure those athletes who are accepted by our colleges get a meaningful education with a degree that will prepare them for their reai-world encounter with life after sports. ♦ R ichard L apchick is director o f S o r th e a s te m U n iversity’s C enter fo r the S tu d y o f S p o rt in Society a n d a regular c o lu m n ist,for THE SPORTING NEWS. •

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May 27.1996

VOICE OF THE FAN

In M ike D eC ourcyN re p o rt or. Kobe B ryant ch o o sin g to ju m p to th e MLA over college basketball (TSN May I'M. he said it could be a sm art m ove D eC ourcyN No I reaso n w as that K obe could have flopped in college like Felipe lx )p e z did at M J o h n s D eC ourcy said Lopez “d iscovered hi^ * team m ates w eren 't all that thrilled about tu rn in g over th e bal) to som e over hyped freshm an. So they d id n ’t." How odd. In his fresh m an year. D>pez took m ore than 400 shots. No o th e r player on th e team even took 30<>

B rya n t R e i f f S o r th Las Vegas. S e t.

The players

‘A lot of other pro athletes can take a ; lesson from Mario and Michael. They are both deserving of TSN honors.’

Storm watch

up to a co u rt ch allenge and do the right thing.

I'm sick and Ured of h earin g people berate or question ath letes who leave school early for professional sp o rts. I w ent to school for four years, and while I am proud of having a d eg ree. I would trad e that in a flash tor a million dollars! C ollege is fun (at least the first year), but get real. W hy do you go to co lleg e5 In m ost cases it is so you can im prove your e a rn in g potential in the w orking w orld, lf one o r two y ears of college ball allow s you to achieve th at, then congratulations. I su sp ect m ost w ho co n d em n th o se who leave college early', if they are h o n est, will find they are sim ply jealous for having to w ork a lot h a rd e r for a lot less money.

W arner Plisse lie S e w York *

Short subjects I am sick of all th e publicity being given to sh o rtsto p s Rey O rd o n ez and D erek Je te r (TSN. April 29) Wait until th ey win 13 co n secutive Gold Gloves, play in 2.1.31 straig h t g am es o r win an MNT O zzw Sm ith. Cal Ripken and B arry Larkin didn't get this kind of publicity w ithout doing so m eth in g first

Scott D uyck P ortland, Ore.

Your article on M ario and M ichael w-as v ery good (TSN. M ay 13). B eing a fan of M ario and th e P ens for y ears, th e re is only one th in g to say to o th e r Stanley Cup co n ten d ers: “D oobie. d oobie boo. bew are of th e P enguin."

T h e continuing influx of u n d erclassm en , especially high school sen io rs, into th e NBA is definitely going to h u rt th e college gam e. However, the real lo ser in all of th is is going to be the N B A .As soon as th e player re a c h e s his potential, h e ll b e eligible for free agency, ro b b in g th e team that drafted him of his serv ices. You can't blam e th e k id s for taking th e m oney. T h e NCAA n e e d s to w ake up and allow th e stu d en t ath letes who bring m illions of dollars to universities to sh a re in that incom e. Pay them a sm all stipend so they can have som e se n se of a norm al college life.

M a tt Sites Langley A F B . Va. stats8@ aol. com

John M orrison G roton. Conn

Steve Kionsky S t I XI uis

Ball and change: Bryant may cash in soon. hut his deepen may be a bad sign for the SBA. p u n is h m e n t and h e still consistently puts up AD-Star n u m b ers. He has had to c a rry the b u rd e n of leading a com petitive g ro u p of overachievers, and h e h a s done so with n o thing but g race and dignity I hope he will be re m e m b e red kindly as the best player and only tru e ^tar on a team that d isa p p o in tin g ^ never won an NBA ch am p io n sh ip T hank you. Sam.

M tkey Brodsky Glen O aks. S V

This just in It s a d isg rac e to th e NHL that Lem ieux can n o t be a c o n te n d e r for th is y ear's M asterto n T rophy. He defin es w hat the aw ard is given f o r sp o rtsm a n sh ip and dedication. In f a c t th e aw ard should be renam ed .

Bee; Gefsky Los Angeles

Same old story .As a y o u n g sp o rts fan, I constantly' h ea r how so m eo n e Iv e n ev er see n play w as b etter than an y th in g today. W hy is that? W hy can't so m eo n e sav th is v e a r's B ulls a re the g re a te st team e v e r5 W hy can 't fans over 40 say Tony Gwynn is th e g re a te st h itte r since T y C obb? I ack n o w led g e I n ev er saw Jim m ie Foxx blast a hom e ru n . n o r did I se e Elgin Baylor play. But if y e ste rd a y is so g re at, and th e p re se n t so ro tten , w hy b o th e r even w atch in g an y th in g anym ore? w

Scott Thom pson B ellevue. Wash.

Books vs. bucks W hen will th e m a d n e ss sto p 5 How m any sch o o k ag e bask etb all w an n ab e's will the ! NBA swallow up b efo re it realizes it d oesn't benefit an y o n e5 .An 18-yearold is not read y for the b u sin e ss w orld; w hat m ak es th e se m egam illionaire o w n ers th in k an 18-year-old can h an d le m illions and k ee p h im self attach e d to the real world? C om e on NBA. clean up your act and re stric t th e e n try of h ig h school ath letes. N eed I rem in d you of th e college h a rd sh ip c a se s w ho have b eco m e roadkill in th e p ast 20-plus y e a rs 5 T h is is one tim e a professional leag u e should be able to stand

.As a fan of college football, particularly the tw o tim e defending-c’n am pion N ebraska C o r n h u s k e r . I’m happy to se e Steve S p u rrie r is m aking an attem pt to solve the obvious problem his Florida team had with its d efen se (TSN. M ay 6). D efense d o es win ch am p io n sh ip s, as N e b ra sk a 's B la c k s h ir t show ed in sh u ttin g dow n the high-octane Florida offense at the F iesta Bowl. By the way. N eb rask a just sco red again.

M ichael C a m es P apillion. S e t. rn ikeyc I (Pradiks. net

New York island B eing a d ieh ard K nicks fan and a New York re sid e n t, it is a rare occasion w hen I can re ad an article that actually ap p reciates P atrick Ewing and w hat h e h a s m eant to the K nicks d u rin g his stellar career. Sam Sm ith w as rig h t on ta rg e t (TSN. M ay 13) ack n o w led g in g th at P atrick nev er h a s been co m p lem en ted by a n o th e r legitim ate scorer. as M ichael Jo rd a n has w ith Scottie Pippen. P atrick 's body has e n d u re d y ears of

Marge madness I do a g re e th at M arg e Schott talks too m uch, but th e m edia n e e d s to lay off h e r T h ev m ake h e r sound like H iller him self.

K evin Cox G erm antow n. Ohio .AII of us know M arge Schott often s p e a k ' w ithout fully thinking about what sh e is saying o r the consequences of th o se w ords, but as far as I know. this is still .America and sh e still h a s constitutional rig h ts to freedom of th o u g h t, sp ee ch and ex p ressio n , lf w e can n o t expect o u r m ultim illion-dollar players to be role m odels, then why do we hold Schott to a h ig h e r stan d ard ? She often may be w rong, but sh e is a fellow h u m an being. as fallible as th e re st of us.

Charles Scoville /r e /. Ay.

For senior w riter M ichael K ntsley’s views on Schott, see page 18.

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CHOICE VOICE ‘Marge Schott may have been good at the beginning, but this time she went too far.’ Duane Broum Honea Path, S. C

Star repeal Bravo to Paul A lin er’ W hen wiil t h e v disdainful, arro g a n t professional ath lete (TSN. May 20) realize that w hat they do is NOT that im p o rta n t5 T hey get paid to play a gam e

Joel W uebker Versailles. Ohio /im e b k e r a fr ig h t rift In John Rawlings “F rom th e Editor" (TSN. M ay 20). h e n o tes that Je rry Jones “p re fers to y am m er about how m i> tre jtrd his team is and all th e while oi lers sale haven lo a re m a rk ab le b u n ch of c re tin s ~ On*- tu rn s lo Paul A lin e rs colum n, and th e only “cretin " d isc u sse d i> wide receiv er M ichael Irvin, and A liner lam ents how Irvin once had a sterlin g rep u tatio n S h o u ld n ’t an editor identify th e se “cretin s" b efo re slan d erin g a w hole learn 5

Tom H arris M echanicsville, l a

Bigger, not better How can S haquille O 'N eal b e v g reat (TSN. May 20) if o th e r team s intentionally put him at th e rreeArrrowlTfte so h e can lose g a m e s 5 A g re a t c e n te r is d e te rm in e d by th e n u m b er of tim es h e lead s his team to th e ch am pionship. In that resp ect. H areem A bdul-Jabbar and H akeem O lajuw on rate far ah ead of S haq in th e tim e since Wilt C h am b erlain played. M aybe Dave K indred confused S h aq 's g re a tn e s s with his m arketability b a n d lim

T am pa. Fla.

T h e T ig e rs are clearly no longer a m ajor league-caliber team . .An abysm al front office allowed them to sink into u tter ineptitude, and th e v v e beco m e an e m b arrassm en t. I re co m m en d d isb an d in g th em entirely and holding a d isp ersal draft for th o se players w ho d e s e rv e to rem ain in th e bigs. D e e x p a n sio n in g en eral would help a d d re s s th e talent d e a rth rn baseball, particularly w hen it co m es to pitching Let it sta rt with D etroit.

Stephen Van Eek E xton. Pa.

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athlete leave off and Dr. [begin? Fair competition—the tor sports—is compromised drugs. Competition is directfibnally affected by performance ally and without intent by illegal

Regardless of the drag, Dwight Gooden an Brett Favre M ila to the forefront the probfthat plagues fonal sports ormer cocaine abuseS^JIwight Gooden pitches a no-hitt^on the day Brett Favre announces his ad diction to painkillers—two ath letes at different stages of a jour ney9 without end. A casual fan might lump the two athletes under the same label: “Clay Feet." In the 1990s, fallen sports heroes are cliches, so why9 care? But a critical difference separates Gooden and Favre, and we should care. Drugs in sports affect us as consumers and as hu mans. Drug enforce ment and treatment ultimately is shaped by public opinion. Regarding athletes with addictions, two distinctions are im portant: ■ All drug abuse is not equal. ■ All leagues are not equal in enforce ment and treatment Gooden used an il legal drug: Favre (at least in the official version) a perfor mance drug. Illegal drugs—cocaine, her oin. marijuana—and alcohol are used bvrn ^ athletes in their pri vate lives. Perfor mance *drugs—pain killers, anti-inflam matories. anabolic

nth the most aggressive drug y recognizes the distinction b e ster-oids. beta blockers, stimulants' md performance drugs. It conamphetamines—are used on the jo year-round testing of rookies drugs grab more tabloid headlines? mance drugs may be more relevant to sfSSSKI or anabolic steroids. Ten thou*• :;:. i i d I are conducted—about seven playtors. per week. Additionally, amphetaPlayers insist their private lives are offits, and by extension, their recreational habits. eened during a oncea-year test They resist random drug testing on the theo ugs, which occurs randomly b e ry that performance is no more or less deter tween May I and August 20. mined by illegal drug usage than by a person The reason steroids are screened more rig al relationship or business deal. They want to orously, says NFL spokesman Greg Aiello, is .jfT>£ judged by perfor- “they’re a form of cheating in the game. jnanc£, jperiod. They’re used to get a competitive edge. They F|n% respeciaD y. affect the game in a more direct way.” •er^ariaihs and anti / & o other league carries out random testing government typesr- ^ v e te ra n s, for either category of drug. Maprobably could jrve. ^ o r l ^ g u e Baseball Bas a test for illegal drugs with this non-inva-A 1 ?also screens amphetamines, but players sive approach, but are tested only if probable cause—aberrant not without moral behavior—is established. discom fort Do play The most glaring omission in baseball’s drug ers have a higher re- av policy—and' perhaps In all of professional sponsibility as role :,fportsr-isa failureth; screen forsfeC@s. Look models? Should. we£ Carotin d at the b a s e S t i i s i ^ ^ ^ ^ e h c e s , and hold them t o , the pump^-up^W gpSBfif^fmg bats, and standards inask yourself if e v e ry |p iy is playing fair. private lives One hash) question the sudden prowess of young eyes are on certain athletes,"says Dr. Robert Voy, author a s i a n s L-tifD jm s ^ Sports and P olitesKa book conthink Iso/? R a i s i n g the.use of petTdraMdce drugs. “It but in my posite directions. experietice wmght rooms are where steroid | But performance use starts.” drugs pose no such Generally, owners favor strong enforce 'conflict because they m en t-ran d o m testing—and treatment ac (Breedy affect fans as companied by punishment. Players favor lim a consumers. If perfor- its on testing and treatment without punish~ mance is a function mentof a chemical brew, Unions in baseball and hockey have fended c k

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still moist, and not just from the m em ory of the final o u t Paul Sorrento’s popup to short stop. Even before taking the mound. Gooden had decided to give his father the next nine innings as his gift. Hours before the gam e. Gooden had re ceived a troubling phone call from his sister. Their father, who already suffered from foiled kidneys that require daily dialysis, was in need of double-bypass surgery. Doctors ad vised Gooden to be on the first plane to Tam pa and told him to prepare for the worst. Gooden w-as planning to leave W ednesday m orning, and the Yankees asked w hether he wanted to skip his start against Seattle. Gooden shook his head. *This is where my father would want me to be." he said. “He raised me to play baseball, to pitch. In a way. my life was his life." Indeed, the elder Good en was once a sem ipro player in Georgia and was his son’s first coach in the Belmont H eights section of Tampa. Growing up. Gooden never had a sum m er job. enjoying the easy fife with a father who would take him to the park every day for a gam e of catch. T hose w ere the im ages that filled Doc's head as stepped out of the dugout. He won dered about the grim tone in the doctors' voices, wondered what he would find when he stepped off the plane in the m orning and w-aiked through the doors at S t Joseph's Hos pital. Gooden fidgeted on the mound in the first inning, unable to focus, his delivery out of sync. Gooden walked leadoff hitter Darren Bragg, then watched helplessly as M ariners shortstop Alex Rodriguez hit a line drive over Gerald Williams* head in center field. The ball started lo Williams' left then tailed to the rig h t He said. “I knew right away it was going to be a difficult play. Very difficult." Williams was forced to take an outfielder's most dangerous gam ble, looking away the ball. running to a spot at the warning track and then praying he could pick it up the again. Not only did Williams catch the ball in full ex tension. but he also was able to fire a strike to the infield to double up the stunned Bragg.

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Bv B o b K l a t s c h or a moment, it was impossible to find Dwight Gooden in a sea of Yan kees flesh. T here were hugs and high-fives everyw here on the mound, tears on the faces of grown men who had just witnessed a miniature miracle. The man. who for years couldn't say no. finally did. One bv one. Gooden thanked his teammates, his coaches, his m anager—and then, silently, spiritually, his father. It was Dan Gooden to whom Gooden had dedicated that fateful gam e May 14 at Yankee Stadium. where he threw the first no-hitter of his ca reer and the ninth in team history. As Good en was carried off the field after the 2-0 vic tory• over Seattle, his mind was 1.100 miles away in Tampa, w here Dan Gooden was awaiting o p en h eart surgery. This is a story of baseball excellence, no doubt, but also a tale of redemption. Gooden. who spent nearly 22 m onths away from base

ball while serving a drug suspension, has re claimed his career in a way that has surprised even his loyalists.Three weeks ago. Gooden was 0-3 with an I 1.48 ERA He had lost his ro tation spot, getting stashed away in long re lief. and the Yankees were quietly assuming George Steinbrenner's experim ent had failed. Despite all of Gooden's hard work. it appeared that years of cocaine use had stolen the life from his fastball. But now. with David Cone's season all but over after surgery to repair an aneurysm in an arte ry in his pitching shoulder. Gooden hasn't just returned to the rotation, he has em erged as the Yankees’ ace. their possible savior, and—above all— a survivor in his fight against drugs. Somehow—for reasons Good en can't explain—his arm has returned to 3985. He's throwing a fastball as mean as when he was 20 and the gam e's youngest Cv Young Award winner. “Never, never in my wildest dream s did I ever think this would happen." Gooden says, his voice raw with exhaustion. His eves were

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in a story that began at Shea Stadium in the 1980s. Gooden and D arryl Straw berry were the out-front figures for the sexiest, hippest team of the decade. Dwight threw the unlettable fastball: D arrvl had the swing that could launch a fastball 500 feet But neither player was a match for the temptations of New York in the '80s. hn fact. Gooden admits he was an alcoholic in 1986. his third year with the Mats. When he missed the M ets' victory parade arter the World Se ries, he said he overslept. But no one was fooled. That winter. Gooden was involved in a vicious brawl with Tampa police. The follow ing .April. Gooden tested positive for cocaine. It was the beginning of a struggle that he would w*age into the ’90s. Just as the M ets declined, so did Gooden. He suffered three consecutive sub-.500 seasons (1992-94). He was so outraged by his poor perform ance on Opening Day 1994. he kicked a dugout step and sustained a broken toe. •

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Soon after, he went on the disabled lis t Gooden was despondent, unable to accept his mediocrity. It had been seven years since his last brush with cocaine, but in June *94. the beast returned. Alone in a Manhattan nightclub at 3 a set. Gooden was drunk, and when one of the employees offered him some cocaine. Gooden was unable to reason through the fog. Why not he thought For that moment of weakness. Gooden would, two weeks later, end his once-glorious career with the Mets. On June 24.1994. Gooden was pummeled by the Pirates, allowing eight earned runs in Ss innings. On June 23. the Mets announced Gooden had been sus pended for violating his after-care pro gram. Just as in 1987. Gooden entered re habilitation. As a patient at the Betty Ford Clinic in Palm Springs. Gooden was in the same facility that Strawber ry had been admitted to 79 days earli er. Sadly, the two former Mets, once in lock-step on their way to Cooperstown. were in sync on the way down. too. But in Gooden’s case, a 28-day stay at Betty Ford didn’t help. Indeed, as the summer of ^ unfolded. Doc was more depressed than ever. His drink ing increased and. subsequently, so did his use of cocaine. T h e first drink was always the bridge. From there, it was off to the races," Gooden says rue fully. By September. Gooden had failed at least eight drug tests. On September 15, 1994, a letter ar rived at Gooden’s house from acting commissioner Bud Selig. Gooden re members it because he’d been out all night and was still under the influence of cocaine. As he put it *1 was so high I couldn’t even play with ray kids." When Doc finally got around to reading Selig’s dispatch, it brought news he surely must have known was coming: Because of his repeated violations, the original 60day suspension would extend to the entire 1995 season, too. Gooden stopped, took a deep breath and took stock of the ruins. "That was my low point" he says. T h a t day, I said to myself. 'I either stop using or else Trn never going to play baseball again.’ At the rate I was going. I was going to end up dead." F ir s t he sought out an agent named Ray Negron, who took Gooden to a Narcotics Anonymous meeting. There. Gooden met the chapter’s leader, an ex-M arine named Ron Dock. “I was looking into the eyes of a man to

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Addiction by distraction It was shocking and sad to learn that Brett Favre had built a reputation as a gamer with the help of painkillers. Now, he faces his biggest battle. Bv M ichael B ai m a n n iht* saint* l^ambeau Field aud itoriu m w h e r e h e had answ ered q uestion s about re p e a te d triu m p hs, w h e r e he had been hailed as th e NFl.'s most valuable player. w h ere he had so often and unfailingly met the p r i s s with one-liners and good ob boy candor. Brett Favre ap p e a re d o nce m o re Bul this time t h e r e was no victory to savor, no good tidings to s h are T h is time. Brett Favre cam e with informa tion that was s h o ck in g and sad T h is time. B ren Favre cam e to say he was entering the NFl.'s s u b s t a n c ^ a b u s e program Flanked by Packers coach Mike Holmgren and girlfriend D eanna T y n e s on May 14. Favre looked like F aire, but sounded like a stranger. He spo ke in a halting, trem bling tone It was obvious h e was having difficulty finding the right words, but then, th e re could really be no right words. It undoubtedly took guts for F a i r e to make this public admission of a problem. But even this ad m issio n probably stopped s o m e dis I tance sh o rt of the complete truth "Voluntarily. I'm going to get into an in treatm ent facility for however long it takes to get better." Favre said. "My objective is lo get b o n e r so I can c o n tin u e to play a! the level that I have and to get to t h e ^ u p e r Bow! " I t s kind of a difficult time b e c a u s e t h ro u g h o u t th e y ea rs I v e played with pain and in ju n e s and. uh. su ffe red n u m e r o u s s u rg eries and possibly b ec am e d ependent ujxm medication T h e s e c o m m e n ts left the im pression that Favre had b e c o m e addicted to painkillers. l i n s was true, yet it probably did not re pre sent the entire tru th . T h e tru th , his father Irvin says, was that Brett had developed an addiction to the d r u g Vicodin. a narcotic analgesic But the truth also included the no tion. the e ld e r Favre ack n o w led g es, that a problem with alcohol a b u s e could exist. To u n d e rsta n d the impact this disclosure had in Wisconsin, you n e e d to u n d e r s ta n d that the Packers, in America's Dairyland, are as m u ch a part ut daily life as dinner Favre is o n e of th e two most celebrated figures in the state H i e o t h e r is defensive end Reggie White. For almost To years, the P ack ers had w a n d e re d aimlessly in a post-I .urn bard i w ild ern ess ut defeat. Favre. on offense, and White, on defense, w ere the leading figures in th e r e s u r g e n c e that at least b ro u g h t the W hat, after all. is the first p h ra s e that !W:> P ack e rs to th e NFC Central c o m e s to mind w h en s o m e b o d y m en tion s c h a m p io n sh ip , it) a playoff victory over the Brett Favre? "He's a gamer." detending Super Bow! cham pion 49ers. to the Right. How many tim es have you s e e n it? NFc" title gam e Favre is qu estio nab le, doubtful, totally iffy. For the Wisconsin m edia, tor the W isco n com pletely b an g e d up. His hip is hurt. His sin public, the painkiller addiction alm ost side is hurt. His ankle is hurt. No problem. was too e a s y Bret* Favre h a s a sub stanceHe plays anyway. He plays amazingly well. He a b u s e p r o b l e m ' O h . let it bt* painkillers s ta rts b l consecutive regular-season gam es. That s at least explicable T h a t - an o ccu pa the "longest c u r r e n t streak am o n g NFL q u a r tional hazard. That s almost the red b ad g e of terbacks. In the c o u rse of doing so. he e a r n s o n e of football's highest accolades: "He plays courage'

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with pain." Now you u n d ersto o d m o re fullv how that streak occurred. Favre has had m o re than his s h a re of lumps, possibly bec au se part of his g a m e is improvisation. S en sing p re ss u r e , finding no open receivers, h e moves, h e buys time. Earlier in his career, he loo often tried to m a k e s o m e th in g out of nothing. But by 1995. his ju d g m e n t had m a tu re d and. at 26. his considerable physical skills w ere not at all ero ded . Now. if he no lo n g er tried to m ak e the im possible hap pen, h e still frequently *

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And afte rw ard h e jo k ed ab o u t how he co u ld n ’t g et out of th e pocket. "Som etim es. I tried to get out of th e re and I couldn't. My an kle w ou ldn’t let me. I got ca u g h t, and M ike (H o lm g ren ) had that look on his face like. ‘W h at th e hell you d o in ? If you didn't know b efo re that day. you knew th en th at this w as a m an who e a rn e d . with him an indom itable will. You didn't knowth e n that will was receiving a re g u la r p h a r m aceutical assist. But m aybe this w as nothing m ore than the

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q u a r te rb a c k c a rry in g out the e x tre m e d e m an d s o f his p ro fe s s io n . In th e days after F avre’s announcem ent, however, information trickled out. indicating that not only his vocation, but his lifestyle, had co n trib u ted -lo substance-abuse problem s. F avre had n ev e r been hypocritical a boul his habits. He had never touted one lifestyle and lived another. He liked to party, and he didn't mind adm itting i t In his rookie season with th e Falcons. F avre's n ick n am e was -Barfly." Irvin Favre. while m aintaining that his s o n s p rim a ry su b stan ce -ab u se problem is with painkillers, also says Brett will be evalu ated for alcohol abuse. “I think at tim es I m ight have looked at it like h e d rin k s too m u c h .- Irvin Favre says "I've questioned him on it. I think that's as far as it's gone. ‘S om e people say. Well. I u n derstand he's going in for alcohol, too.’ T h e only thing I can say is. h e m ay I've w anted him to go in. and I want th em to test him f r o m head to toe. S om eb ody m en tio n ed that one could stem from th e other. You could be drinking too m u ch and that could cause you to m aybe say. ‘I want to pop som e pills.' T h a t’s not what he's in th e re for. H e ’s in th ere for th e dependency to painkillers. Alcohol could affect it. and I th ink they ll b e f l e c k i n g that, too." W h a te v er th e mix. it was serious enou gh th at Favre suffered a seizure du rin g a hospi tal stay after ankle s u rg e r y f e b r u a r y 27. T h e r e is consid erable debate about the pre cise cau se of th e seizure, but th e re is no d o u b t th at it w as th e w ake-up call. Favre c h e c k e d with team p hysicians and then leag u e officials, and eventually sought treat m ent. As a re su lt of his self-referral, h e will face no im m ediate league discipline. On th e source of Favre's Vicodin addiction. th e re w ere m o re q u e s tio n s than answ ers. T h e am ount of m edication that we give out th ro u g h team doctors, no one's going to be addicted to." P ackers trainer P e p p e r B u rru ss says, addin g that the m edical staff m ust doc u m e n t th e distribution of m edication to the league. P eople close to th e team s u g g e s te d that Favre was getting the d ru g s through friends. lf only th e q u a r te rb a c k selec te d friends as well as h e picked out receivers. F av re 's father raised th e q u estio n of w h e th e r th e P a c k e rs had adeq uately m o n i tored B rett’s painkiller intake. T h e y may be telling th e tru th or they may not," Irvin Favre says. - I t s u n fo rtu n a te , but th e nam e of the g a m e is to put th em on the field and win ball gam es. I’m not b eing critical on the handling of Brett. I just wish we could have had a clo s e r eye on him." A part from this one a re a of potential disag reem en t, th e P ack ers and the Favres were a united front on th e issue of Favre's rehabilitation. T h e te rm “su pportive" u n d e rs ta te s th e te a m 's relationship to F av re's recovery. T h e a n n o u n c e m e n t of th e problem , with H olm gren and g en e ral m an ag e r Ron Wolf in a tte n d a n c e , was so m e th in g of a m odel for handling th e se difficult situations. T h e re was so m uch su p p o rt for F avre that you half-expected H olm gren and Wolf to check in with the q u a rte rb a c k for tre a tm e n t Any m ore sup po rt and Favre m ight have developed an addiction to em pathy. “He n e e d s to be lauded for his decision." Wolf says of F av re’s move to s e e k help. “For a p erso n to do that is adm irable. Som e peo ple refuse to accept th e responsibility I think this is a situation of a young man stepping forward and asking for assistance. T h at's so m e thing to be recognized." It was th o u g h t in W isconsin that, th ro u g h

handling this c n s is in a public, th o u g h painful way. p erh ap s the P ackers had finally beaten the Cowboys. T he Packers had lost to the Cowboys on th e field six tim es in the past three seasons, but maybe the G reen Bay fran chise at least knew how to face up to a su b stan ce-ab u se problem No c h a rg e s No de nials. Quick and clean, limiting the dam age, • maximizing the sym pathy F avre's te a m m a te s w ere no less sym pa thetic. W hite's c o m m en ts w ere typical. ‘ O ne thing you have to resp ect about B re tt— he cam e out and said. 'I have a problem .' T hat is the first step toward g ettin g rid of the prob lem ‘ He ha> my full support. T h e re is no way I have lost resp ect for Brett. Instead. I have gained m ore respect for him because of what he did. ‘ He is our q u a rte rb a c k and we are going to need him. so we are going to g iv e him as m uch su p p o rt a s we can. He is one of the guys w ho is going to lead u s to a cham pi onship " ¥

• h o u g h ev e ry o n e unanim ously e x pressed concern for Favre. the man. next autum n th ere will inevitably be c o n c e rn about Favre. the q u a r te r back. Will h e play again at an M V ? level' T h e P ack e rs expect F av re’s in-patient treatm en t to be com pleted before the sta rt of training camp. W hen he e m e rg e s from that tre a tm e n t— re p o rte d ly being given in K ansas— Favre will theoretically be clean, so b er and ready to play. And th ere is no rea son to believe that this substance-abuse prob lem will have robb ed him of arm s tre n g th or mobility or the ability to m ake precise deci sions in a fraction of a second. .After all. while he was in the grip of sub stance abuse, ’n e had all those qualities. .And he will have the total support of a team that k n o w s how central he is to its su c c e ss but also a p p e a rs to have g e n u in e personal con cern for him. ‘ M y first co n c ern is for B rett's health, and m y sec o n d is for how he h a n d ie r th e p re s s u re w hen he c o m e s out." H olm gren says. T h e r e may be p re ss u re to live a certain lifestyle, and th e re will be people w atching to see if he plays at the sam e level as he did be fore. No one n ee d s any m ore p re ss u re in the gam e, and I im agine that will b i' a tough go I ve got a lot of co nfid ence in his ability to h an d le that, but 111 adm it I’m a little naive about th e se things. I’m try in g to learn all I can. I'm just going to c ro ss my fingers." Favre will be u n d er a m icroscope, but play ing for the P ack ers in G reen Bay. h e 's accustom ed to i t T he suprem e test will not be m ak ing the third read with the blitz in his face, ei ther. H e's experienced at t h a t too. T h e -test will be when he gets b anged up .And that will h ap p en , b e c a u se h e 's an NFL q u arte rb ack . W hat will h appen w hen his co m p etito r's h e a rt w an ts to c a r r y him back on the field, but his body rebels? What will h appen when th e re is no c o m p ro m ise for the pain. when the painkiller, either in capsule or liquid form. is strictly off-limits? A nvbodv # • w ho has followed F avre's car e e r— from the strong-arm ed kid capable of m aking both astou nding plays and lousy d e cisions to the M YP in the NFL— would bet on him to m eet any challenge But this challenge will be to u g h e r than any he has yet seen. ♦

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Rscalyctafenged, physic As their wild ’n’ wooly series wrapped up, the Padres and Expos, two of baseball’s small-revenue teams, proved they just may have what it takes to contend this season BV KEVIN KERNAN'

his was a scene straight from the television show ER. Over worked doctor receives long distance I a.m. phone call from underworked husband. On this night, though. Padres catcher Brian Johnson, who has been trying to muscle into the starting lineup aD season, had good news for his wife, Sara, who is in her first year of residency at a Chicago hos pital Johnson’s 12th-inning home run had saved the Padres, lifting them to a dramatic 2-1, victory over the Expos in the first game of a threegame slice of small-revenue heaven. “The last thing they expected was us beat ing them with a homer," Tony Gwynn says, pointing to the fact the Padres are last in the majors with 26 home runs. Thats not the only surprise. The Padres and Expos have shocked th e iladonai League and big-paycheck baseball leading their re spective divisions. In what could be a playoff preview, the Padres won two of three in this

O n? CW I No boredom for Expos and Padresfans. this season, as proven by the seriesfeaturing com petitors such as the Expos’M artina (above) and Grudzielanek (left.) and the Padres’Henderson. weekend penny-saver series at Jack Murphy Stadium. Each was a one-run game. Each was more exciting than the last In this era of political correctness, it might be more appropriate to call the two teams fis cally challenged “It's not about paychecks, ifs about chem istry " Padres pitcher Bob Tewksbury says. “Both teams have it" “I think the Expos have real good pitching and a solid lineup and defense," Padres first baseman Wally Joyner says. “I kind of see the San Diego Padres when I look at the Mon treal Expos." Life has been a mirror image for the two teams. The Expos have baseball’s lowest payroD at $15.4 million, and the Padres are working on a $25 million budget a big boost from the ■fire-sale days of the Tom Werner era but still in the bottom quadrant The teams are ex pansion cousins, born into the National League in 1969. That year they both put up pathetic 52-110 records. They also share the distinction of having the only two managers in the majors who were born outside the United States—Felipe Abu in the Dominican Republic and Bruce Bochy in France. Both men are deeply respected by their players and are essential reasons for their team’s suc cess. “Felipe is the best manager Ive ever seen," Expos pitching coach Joe Kerrigan says, ‘and Ive been in this game for 22 years. He’s

ready for every situation, no matter how in significant. He knows when to pull die plug on certain guys. He has a great feel for Ae personality of his team. Always has. “He talks in parables. He relates a lot of stories in baseball to fishermen to get his point across." Abu is a fisher of ballplayers, now in his 17th season of managing, but only his fifth in the majors. That shows how dumb major league owners can be, bypassing a talent such as Abu for nearly two decades. All those seasons in the minors, though, have prepared him for the team's changing ways. Lose out fielders Larry Walker and Marquis Grissom, plug in a Tony Tarasco and a Henry Ro driguez. Shortstop WD Cordero departs. Give the job to converted Class AA outfielder Mark Grudzielanek and aflow him to blos som into one of the leagues top hitters. The Expos lead the N.L in nearly all offensive cat egories. Abu, 61. says managing in the minors, in deed, has made it easier to manage the Ex pos—“but ifs better here." he says with a laugh, “because I get to keep some of the guys." Bochy, who is only in his second season of managing in the majors and sixth overall has the same calming influence on his players. “He’s absolutely perfect for today's players,” Padres third base coach Tim Flannery says. Both managers made subtle changes in die series to squeeze out wins. Last Saturday,

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.^ou put right Gelder Sherman Obando in the starting lineup for the first time in 22 games, and Obando responded with two doubles and knocked in the winning run in the 3-2 viaor>‘ that snapped Montreal's three-game losing streak. In the series finale. Bochy gave Marc New field a rare start in left and rested Rickey Henderson. In the Padres’ two-run. four-sin gle first inning. Newfield delivered an REI single to left, in the eighth. litlJe-used Luis Lopez drove in the winning run with a sacri fice fly. In the ninth, catcher Brad Ausmus. starling over Johnson, picked off Moises .MOU at second to save the game. .MI three affairs showed each team's unique strength—pitching. In this era of arm-starved franchises, the Padres allowed seven runs in the series. while the Expos gave up eight. That’s one game for most teams. The Padres are third in the majors in ERA with a 3.33 mark; the EX' POS are fourth at 3.74.

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he Padres are winning with Bochyball—singles and superior defense, especially' on the corners with Joyn er and third baseman Ken Caminid. Caminiti is a warrior. The question is wiD he survive the season or be sold off in body parts after the year. He did not start until the final game of the series because of an abdombaJ strain, one of a series of injuries thai have plagued him. Ai times, it has been so painful for him to swing lefthanded that it has brought tears to his eyes. Still, Caminiti has been the Padres' rock. leading the club in homers (5) and RBIs (24). *'He’s our MVP. no doubt** Gwynn says. Henry Rodriguez, who is battling Barry Bonds for league lead in homers (15) and RBIs (46). drops the hammer for the Expos. His previous season high for homers was eight He hit nine in April. T h e biggest thing with Henry (now)," says teammate Darrin Fletcher, “is that he's getting a chance to play every day." Opportunity knocks with the Expos. “All the players have to do is ^ o w that they can pl^'. and they are going to get an op portunity." says first-year general manager Jim Beattie. His counterpart with the Padres, Kevin Towers, also a first-year G.M.. believes the teams will continue to run similar courses. “With the young players we have coming, our lineup in 1998 could look a lot like their line up looks now" So what does the success of the Padres and Expos say about the game? Show-ing his law7 er roots. Padres president and CEO Lar ry Lucchino says. “It shows that teams in smaB markets get off to fast starts. Talk to me again in October." Beattie had a similar response for the team that had the major's best record the first quarter of the season. “We can have our fun now and enjoy the thing, but the baseball sea son is a long season." Beattie says. “We have to quadruple what we’ve done." Still, one of baseball's most endearing as pects is thai it is not a game of paycheck suc cess. Since 1978. Lucchino has been a part-

Bennett Wiliams. “Ed Williams used lo say there are three things money can't buy." Lucchino says. “Love, happiness and the .American League pennant. I think that ap plies equally well over here in the .Nauonal League. “(One thing we all have an equal amount of is the will to '^in.'* Lucchino says, “lf you have limited resources, you have to rely on other things. The Expos have done it v^ith brilliant scouting and player development We've tried lo do it the old-fashioned way with scouting.

player development judtciou'i trader and an occasional free agent. “Well make the best out of what we have and hope that maybe the little engine that could v.iil keep chugging up the mountain " lAicchino then allowed himself a Miiall smile of satisfaction. "In a wav." he savs. “that makes n more run. ♦ Kevin H em an covers the Padres and the Chargers for the San Diego CntonTribune

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Getting off Schott-free The best way to deal with Marge is to not deal with her at all

Michael KNISLEY et’s tell a tittie story about Reds owner Marge Schott and see ii it helps explain baseball’s once and (apparently) future burden. Seems that last season, then Reds manager Davey Johnson wanted to make John Steams a major league coach. Steams. who spent 11 years as a catcher with the Mets and the Phillies and the better part of the last decade as a minor league manager and major league scout was ready. But Johnson already had five full time coaches on his staff, which, in the World According to Schott was a few too many in the first place. Marge doesn't believe a mulfimillion-dollar ballplayer ought to need coaching, lf she dips that deep into her pocketbook to buy a product the product ought to be finished at the point of purchase, damn iL No wavrn was

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or anybody else in the front office going to coax a sixth coach's salary out of her. So when the Reds broke camp in the spring of 1995. Steams became the invisible man. johnson kept him with the club, in a uniform with no name or number on the back. .All season long, he stayed with the team, working with catchers, helping set the defense, analyzing scouting reports with the staff all the way to the National League Championship Series. In a remarkably successful conspiracy of silence, no one in the clubhouse, the front office or even the Cincinnati media snitched on Johnson and Stearns. Marge never knew. “I just tried to keep away from her." says Steams, who is Johnson’s first base coach with the Orioles this season. “She didn’t know who I was.

She only knows who the manager and the general manager are. Everybody else, she really doesn't know. She didn’t even know I was there." It worked. Steams got the big-league coaching experience he will need on his career path to a manager's job in the majors. He and Johnson found the best way to circumvent the Marge Factor They left her out of the loop. W hk she didn’t know couldn’t hurt anybody. “John was the mystery man." Johnson says. “Got a full playoff share, too." Too bad the national media, ESPN and most recently a national sports weekly, have not used that approach with Schott, if Marge has taught us anything since 1984, the year she bought her way into the Reds’ general partnership, it is that she will string herself up as soon as she spies ■x^ the rope. Most of the media that see V her regularly (shes hard to miss on the field before Reds’ home games; sh e s the one leashed to the big, slobbery dog) practice a sort of defacto conspiracy of silence around her ess, because getting a boorish answer out of the fuddled owner is simpler

than spit. We’ve become inured to it. ESPN put her back in the loop. Asking her about the Nazi armband she keeps at home—the braiiHeaser that spawned her oh-so-eloquent lecture on “Hitler. The Early Years"—isn’t even a new line of questioning. Schott gave the same answer to die same question to the New York Times four years ago. For whatever reason—probably, the network wanted to strike while the Schott iron was still hot from her John McSherry gaffes, in which she relentlessly singed herself—ESPN figured it was time to plumb that well one more time. It's news that she hasn’t changed her mind since then? Schott, one of the few women in professional sports’ top ownership, often complains, and legitimately so. that the game’s old-boy network systematically e x u d e s her. Baseball is nothing if not old fashioned, even if it allows LL Cool J to rap a little T a k e Me Out To The Ballgame" as part of its new ad campaign. So when Marge cries foul over the suspension she served (one year) and fine she paid ($25,000) for racist and anti-Semitic remarks back in 1993, she might have a whisper of a point But maybe there’s a reason for the way baseball's other owners treat her on a dayto-day basis, beyond conventional sexism. Maybe the other owners figured out a while ago what Johnson and Steams figured out last year. Maybe the best way to deal with Marge is not to deal with her at alL That way, what she doesn't know can’t hurt anybody. Should they drum ber out of the game altogether? Take her franchise away? No. Her transgressions aren’t the threat to baseball’s integrity th a t say, a gambling scandal could be. Marge is an em barrassm ent but she isn’t a criminal S hes petty—she has driven away some of ber top scouts over minutiae such as laundry bills on the road—but she isn’t corrupt Should they have let her into the game in the first place? No. I am constantly amazed at the lengths to which our professional sports leagues go to investigate the virtue of the athletes they sign, while they turn a blind eye to the character flaws of the high rollers who apply for franchise membership. How could even the most obligatory of inquiries 12 years ago not have turned up some evidence that Marge might fire some of those loose cannons in her arsenal of offensive attitudes? At this point, baseball can’t afford the pubtic-refations problem Schott is causing. It must do more than facilitate her lame apolog)" it needs more than a letter from N.L President Leonard Coleman to Schott, sent late last week after her recent transgressions, lf the game needs a legal justification for another, stiffer set of disciplines, it has to look no further than Bud Setig’s statement of February 3.1993, mat announced the earlier sanctions. It ended this way: “Mrs. Schott is reprimanded and censured in the strongest terms for her use of racially and ethnically insensitive language and sternly warned not to engage in such conduct in the future." The future is now. What she stifl doesn’t know about ethnic sensitivity is hurting a lot of people. ♦

Michael Knisley, a senior writer for T h e S p o rtin g N ew s, begins covering major league baseball with this issue.

May 27,1996

can s e e how b lessed we really are to put th ese uniform s on and do the th ings we do. you have to enjoy it m ore. E verybody should not play for a year and then co m e back. You'd have a w hole new appreciation for the game." Perhaps now the fans in Cincinnati will have a w hole new appreciation for Davis. Sure, they ll never em brace him as they do Barry Larkin. But perhaps now they can re alize Davis always gave his utmost, and if ii w asn’t good enough, there's no reason for apologies. ‘ Look. if som ebody is e x p e c tin g ^ see the Enc Davis of five or six years ago." he says. “th ey’ve got a problem. That's just not going to happen. But I know I can still contribute." S ays M anager Ray Knight: ‘WTien Enc Davis cam e to this league, he was as good as any player who cam e to the league kl 20 y e a r s .... W hen I played against him I feared him more than any other player when he was on base. "WTien he went to L A to join Darryl Strawberry and to play in his hom etow n. I didn't think that was good. Too many things going on. Both were in their prime and I Erie the Red: Davis is enjoying himself, but thought they might rival Mantle and Maris, he'd really like one more shot at a World Series. but it didn't happen and I didn't expect it. the Reds' media guide, buried along with oth Then when he went to Detroit. I think he had er non-roster players. lost interest. _ “I w asn’t goin g to com e back, but my “But what I've seen so far. Eric Davis is still friends, my family, everyon e kept saving I a bona fide star" was retiring too soon," Davis says. T h e y said Davis’ dream, of course, is to return to the I was too young to retire. World Series. The last time the Reds were “lf I didn’t think I could still play. I would there— in 1990. when they swept the A's in have just stayed retired. But I knew I could four gam es— he never popped a cham pagne do it I just didn’t know whether they would bottle. Never rode in the parade. He was ly give me the chance." ing in an Oakland hospital with a bruised kid Davis, who turns 34 at the end of the ney suffered during the series. month, has em erged as one of the b iggest “He d o esn ’t have to carry the team any surprises in baseball. He not only is playing i more." teammate Thom as Howard says. “He nearly every day. h e’s leading the Reds with just has to do his part, lf he n eed s a break, IO home runs and 33 RBls entering the week. h e ll get a break. In his heyday, he couldn't “I’m having m ore fun now than Iv e ever take three days off. had in my career." D avis says. “W hen “I just know w e’re all happy to have him y o u ’ve been away from the gam e and you back. This is where he belongs."

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Davis finds acceptance the second time around Instead, all Davis heard were the boos. The folks of Cincinnati never em braced him. Hell, neither did the organization. "It w asn’t the fans." Davis says, “they got on m e b ecau se of the m edia perception. W hen things w ere wrong with me. nobody took the initiative to write what was really wrong. A lot of the media wrote what (former Reds manager) Lou Piniella said or what (for mer general manager) Bob Quinn said. No Bob body wrote what I said. NIGHTENGALE ‘ Lou says h e n eed s a center fielder who can play more than 80 gam es. Nobody ever wrote that I sh ould n ’t even have been out he com parisons w ere unfair, cruel there for the 80 ga m es (because of the really. You simply don’t tag a kid the bruised kidney suffered during the 1990 next W illie Mays or M ickey Mantle. World S eries). That was the problem. I re You d on ’t project him to be in the m em ber Lou calling a press conference say Hall of Fame before his rookie season. ing he was putting me on the disabled list be cause I’m chronically tired. You just let him be Erie Davis. “W hat is thatf lf vou take a man who has a He never had the chance. regular job and you say this guy’s not playing He w asn’t permitted to slump. He wasn't because h e’s chronically tired, of course (the permitted to strike out with runners in scor fens are) goin g to be angry." ing position. He wasn’t permitted to play h u rt Davis was shipped off to the D odgers, last Anything less than WTflie M ays w as unac ed two years, was exiled to the T igers, and ceptable. : then retired. He was out of baseball in 1995. T h a t ’s som eth in g I always had to deal seem ingly never to be heard from again. with." Davis says, his voice barely above a Even w hen he decided to give baseball one whisper. “People always expected me to be a last try this winter, signin g a $500,000 non certain way. or be a certain person. I could guaranteed contract with the Reds, no one never be m e. and when I did. it w asn’t good gave him a prayer. enough. T his is why you can’t find him in the Offi “N obody knew how I fe lt what I was going cial Baseball Register. You can’t find him on through, nothing. They’ didn't bother to know the Ail-Star ballot. You can barely find him in the person."

Quick hits ■ W hen the D isney folks cleaned h o u se last w eek, they gave president Richard Brown a severance package worth about $1.2 million. Included in the package w a s y a free lifetim e pass to Disneyland. ■ W"hen Al Leiter threw h is no-hitter against the Marlins. Giants outfielder Barry B onds actually asked Giants pitcher Mark Leiter if they w ere related. W hen told they w ere brothers. Bonds wanted to know if Al was a rookie. After getting the low down. B onds sh ru gged his sh ou ld ers and told Mark: “Hey. man. w e signed the wrong brother." ■ D odgers m anager Tommy Lasorda. on the fact each of h is starters hailed from a different country until Ramon M artinez’s return to the rotation: T h a t ’s unbelievable. That’s som ethin g you may never see again in baseball history." Two w eek s later, the Ex pos rotation con sisted of Ugueth Urbina of Venezuela,

RheaI Corm ier of Canada. Tavo Alvarez of M exico. Pe dro M artinez of the Domini can Republic and Jeff Fassero of the United States. ■ T he A thletics had a prom otion last w eek that provided for a $1.50 seat if you w ere bom between 1968 and 1980, nam ed Charlie, wearing hot pants, carrying memorabilia from 1968-80 or just wearing a m ustache (real or fake). It was Charlie Finley Day. honoring the former owner. T he A’s drew only 15.791. But it was the fourth-largest crowd of the season. ■ T he T igers, who enter the w eek having lost 25 of their last 29 gam es, can at least m ake their mark this season with the worst pitching staff in m od em baseball history’. T h ey entered the w eek with a team ERA hovering around 7.00 and are on pace to eclip se the modern-dayrecord of 6.70 by the 1930 Phillies. M ore em b a rra ss mg. the team ERA is nearly two runs h igher per gam e than the league average. No team has finished with an

him a lot— his spunk, his at titude. I know (front-office officials) don’t want to hear that. but som etim es pres ence g o es overlooked in this gam e. Som e players have a p resen ce that rubs off on other guys, and we don’t have that presence now “

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MARTY CORDOVA OF,IW K Identify a problem, solve it That's the way to keep his young career on track, Marty Cordova says. Swing at good pitches. Go after the strikes and leave the bails alone. You know, the same stuff they start telling you in Lithe League. Sure, it sounds simple. Of course...

lf it were simple,your grandmother would be hitting .300. “Ifs so early ifs tough to tell, but I lee! good at the plate,' says Cordova, the 1995 A.L Rookie of the Year who is among league leaders with a .336 batting average. “I just need to keep swinging at strikes and taking the bails. Thafs what I want to do all season. I've got to lay off of the balls." if he can do that Cordova figures, who knows what he can accomplish? Although he lift 277 with 24 homers and 84 RBls last season, he also struck . out 111 times and walked only 52 times in 512 at-bats. It is one thing to be aggressive, it is quite another to be reckless. Identify a problem, solve it. This year, seven weeks into the season, Cordova had struck out 18 times and walked 15—a ratio that is far more acceptable than last season's. "Marty has been pretty good at taking his walks so far," Twins hitting coach Terry Crowley says. “Last year. I thought that was something he had to work on. In some situations, pitthers are just not going to give him a pitch to hit “He’s got to be patient and wait until the count is in his favor.” A lot of that involves approaching the plate with a plan rather than trying to figure out the pitcher's strategy on the fly. “There were times last year where he tried to think along with the pitchers," Crowley says. "Sometimes it worked out Sometimes it didnt “Now, I think he's being more correct in his assessment of what the pitcher is trying to do. Thafs the mark of maturity.’ Of course, that doesn't mean Cordova is always correct But in a game of adjustments, Cordova seems to be doing-what he needs to do. Identify a problem, solve it ♦ —Scon M ala

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CALIFORNIA .ANGELS W-L: 20-22 Place: 4th Monnd woes: .V'i a former pitching coach, manager Marcel Lachemann frustrated by the team's inabilir>- to get consistent results from its staling rotation. Jason Grimslev*. Shad Williams. Dennis Springer and Phil Lefnîch have been csJled up from Class .A.AA Vancouver and given auditions, yet the search continues. Jim .Abbot! (1-6) hasn’t been able to lend stabilit>- Lefnîch was given onK- Two starts before being re turned to Class .A.AA A'ancouver. "I think some of the arm strength is not there.*’ Lachemann sa>*s. “He's still three or four miles per hour under what he pitched al one night in '93 t*before his shoulder surger)), and thats quite a b it’ ... .Adding to the team's pitching problems is the loss of Mark Langston. However, the lefthander tried to look on the bnghl side when he learned he \îll miss six to eight weeks because* of arthroscopic knee surgery. "I'm disappointed it happened.” he sa>'s. *i>ul I feel fortunate I’m a modern-day ballplayer. If this happened IO years ago. I'd probably be done for the season." .. Pilcher Scott Sanderson made a comeback from back surgery al age 39 because he wanted to "go oui on my terms." This %as going to be his final sea son. but the .Angels couldn’t allow him that satisfaction. With a 7.50 ERA and an (L2 record. Sanderson \âs released. Little Information: When changes are afoot. Lachemann doesn't like to tip his hand loo soon. .Asked if his closer is Troy Perci\al. who is among the .American League leaders Viixh 11 saves, or Lee Smith. Lachemann replied. *^Vell see what happens." .Asked who \îl) lake Sanderson’s spot in the starting rotation, he said. ’AVell have to wait and see what happens."... Jack Howell already has three pinch-hit home runs. t>ing the .Angels’ single-season record shared by Joe .Adco(.‘k (19661 and George Hendrick (1987). ... Randy \’elarde hit a home run in his first at-bat in New "^’ork since learing the Yankees last season. The New York fans ga\r him a standing ovabon. — CAVE Cimux&UM

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W-L: 20-21 Place: 3rd Clutch performer: Catcher Terry Sleinbach hit a game-tying, pinch-hit solo home run with two oui in the ninth inning last Saturday al Boston to solidi^' his reputation as a clutch hiner. In the lOih. Mark McGwire and Phil Planner each drove in a run to give the .A’s a 6-.i\ictory. Steinbach is 2Ci-for-.55 (.364) as a pinch hitter and has five career pinch-hit home runs. He credit.'^ his success to former manager Tony La Russa. "W ith Tony, you nes’er had a day off even w+ien you had a day off." he says. "You always had to be ready." Steinbach also has been a stabilizing fora* behind the plate for the young stable of pitchers, none of whom had more than 17 carter \iciones entering the season. " I’m not sure w*here we d be without Sleiny." starter Carlos Reyes says. Starter sidelined: Righthander .Ariel Prieto has bwn lost for at least three starts, Prieto suffered a strained tendon in his nght elbow in the first inning last Saturday. He had not misstxi a start this season, and the .As hadn't altered their rotation other than moving Todd \‘an Poppel to the buDpen and bringing in Don Wengeri to start Entering the week. the club w-asn'l sure what it w-as going to do about Prieto’s nexi scheduled start Thursdav al .New York. Buddv Groom seemed the likely candidate to take the spot start "In my life. I’ve never had a problem with my arm." Prieto says. “Of course I’m scared because I don't know w'hat’s wrong." The club put Prieto on the 15-day disabled list Sunday and activaied pitcher Jim Corsi from the D .L ... Leadoff hitler Ernie Young has provided power, but he didn’t have a stolen base in his career until Saturday. "He’s not your prototype lead off hitter because he's not a speed merchant" manager An Howe says. "But he's learning to work the count as he goes along. He’s still a young player and there are still things he has to learn offensivel)'. But the main thing is you can see his confidence level going up He knows he ^ compete and do w'ell at this level."

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SEATTLE MARINERS W-l: 22-20 Place: 2nd Rest Is best A bulging disk is the rea son Randy Johnson has experienced pain in his right leg tor nearly a month, but team physician Dr. Larry Pedenga believes the problem will be corrected without surgery*. Johnson, the reigning .A L Cy Young Award winner, went on the 15-day disabled list May 14. two days af ter beating the Royals. Johnson. 32. probably will be side lined the remainder of this month and possibly into June, johnson says going on the IL L for the second time in his Mariners career is the best thing. “It's not going to get healed up unless I give it enough time to completely heal. I'm not benefitting myself or the team with this continuing problem. Its in the best interest of me and the team (to go on the D .D ." The Mariners will have a difficult—ii not im possible— task in replacing their ace. He is SA) this season. 23-2 lite past two seasons and 34-5 since May 15. 1994. ... Righthander Bob Milacki was promoted from Class AAA Tacoma to replace Johnson and he defeated the Orioles last Saturday for his first major league win since 1993. Quick change: .Alex Rodriguez has been moved from ninth to second in the order. Manager Lou Piniella said during spring training that Rodriguez eventually would move into the No. 2 hole, but the move occurred sooner than planned. “Joey (Cora) has struggled with the bat and .Alex has learned the strike zone much better." Piniella says. ... Righthanders are preventing Russ Davis from becoming a consistent offensive force. He is 11-for-39 (.282) against left handers and 19-for*88 (.216) against righthanders. Last sea son. when he played sparingly for the Yankees. Davis had only 24 at-bats against righthanders.... .After being no-hit by the Yankees' Dwight Gooden May 14. the Mariners col lected 19 and 21 hits in their next two games. Gooden's nohitler was the second against the Mariners. Mark Langston and Mike W itt combined for a no-nitter for the .Angels on .April ll. 1990. — JrMSTRHT

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CS late May here in the land the NFL forgot, and no one is quite sure w hether to believe there s a new team in town. An NFL team has uniforms. Not the Ravens. .An NFL team sells tick ets. Not the Ravens. .An NFL team hawks merchandise. Not the Ravens. No. the team formerly known as the Cleveland Browns faces a unique challenge in its relocation to the city the Colts abandoned in 1984. “We're an expansion team without two years to prepare." says Kevin Byrne, vice president of public rela tions. The Ravens didn’t get league per mission for their move until Febru ary 8. didn't hire a coach until Febm ary IS. didn’t name the team until M arch 29. You expected a smooth transition? T h e r e s so much to do in such a short period of time, its almost comi cal." says David Cope, the club's vice president of marketing and sales. Comical—now there s a word to describe the black-and-white uni forms the Ravens wore during their recently completed minicamp in Ow ings Mills. Md They looked like the Mean Machine from The Longest Yard. “Our uniforms will not be looking like this. I can guarantee you." wide receiver .Andre Ri son says “111 get a crayon and do some work on them before I wear this." Owner Art Modell quips. "We out PennStated Penn State." At least the anecdotes are colorful. W hen ESPN televised the draft from Ravens head quarters. club officials couldn’t even provide a banner for an appropriate backdrop. They wound up asking the city to return the two large black-and-white “Ravens" flags that were used the dayrn the team 's name w*as announced at Baltimore's Inner Harbor. Brian M cCarthy of NFL Properties says the league had seven m onths to design the Patriots' new logo but will have had two m onths to complete the Ravens' design and color schem e by early June. Frankly, that's the least of the Ravens' wor ries. They didn't know how many seats were in Memorial Stadium, their home for the next two seasons, and had to take a new count. ■T heir stadium-to-be at Camden Yards? They don't even know what its going to look like. Heck, they've got the Baltimore Cobs Band begging to return from the NFL wilder ness. but no time to meet with band officials. “W e're ready to turn the name over to the Ravens and have 200 people m arching for free." band director John Ziemann says.

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Michael Jackson for tickets during a radio talk show. Jackson told him to contact him at the team ’s minicamp. “I have one party who w ants to buy 1,000 tickets and would do so this afternoon if I gave them the op portunity." David Model! says. "This town is NFL-hungry." And its too late to turn back now. Art Modell agreed to contribute $24 million toward the construction of the new stadium when the state leg islature balked at the deal negotiat ed by the M aryland Stadium Au thority. T h a t was a blip—24 million blips," Modell say's. T he Ravens then spent nearly $2 million reshaping a police-training academy into the football complex it was when the Colts left town, get ting th ree new fields ready just in time for mini camp. They didn’t nam e W estern M aryland College as their trainingcamp site until May 7. And they still haven’t decided on a radio affiliate, m uch Jess announcers. The delays | are partly the result of the team ’s f desire to put its best foot forward. to satisfy fans who might be reluc tant to em brace a team relocating from another city and m ight o p pose the construction of the new stadium. Reaction thus far has been positive, but the true test will come £ when tic k e tsa re sold. I f one project or another takes an extra w eek to get done the right way. it makes sense for us to do that rather than rush things along." David Modell says. “Well get every thing done." But it won’t be easy with a frontWinging It The Ravens' office staff that has been reduced generic duds prompted from 75 to approximately 50. with Modell (above) to say, We many em ployees facing their own out-Penn Stated Penn relocation problem s selling hom es S ta te' Meanwhile. in Cleveland and buying new ones Jonathan Ogden was the in Baltimore. franchise’s first No. I pick. Eventually, the focus will be on In addition, the Ravens will sell 6.000 sin football The Ravens lost 13 free agents and signed only' one. guard Jeff Blackshear. Mod gle-game seats in all price ranges. Ticket prices w ere announced last T h u rsd ay with e l however, said that had nothing to do with the transition, and the team ’s minicamp went applications becoming available May 29. off without a hitch. “We recognized that the strength of the T h e r e w asn’t a guy late for a m eeting, NFL is not corporate cocktail parties, but the wasn't a guy late for a practice, wasn’t a bus fathers and m others bringing their sons and that wasn't on time." coach Ted M archibroda daughters to the gam es." says David Modell, says. It’s like we haven’t missed a b e a t like .Art’s son and a team vice president we've been here the whole time." Thus, the team is trying to make the PSL .As opposed to. say. a few m o n th s “We all package as fan-friendly as possible, offering buyers the chance to pay them back interestjoke, no matter what happens we’ve still got to free over three years, or receive bank financ kick it off at the first preseason game." Byrne say's T h e NFL isn’t going to wait for u s " ♦ ing for a longer term. Even the players are part of the pubDc-relaKen Rosenthal is a columnist for the tions e ffo rt W hen one fan asked receiver Baltimore Sun.

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year. This way. Sanders won’t be pressured as much on both sides of the ball.

NFL REPORT

Cowboys confidential: It’s about... football I just aren’t showing up and hanging oui Guys I are working. “lf this corresponds to great football as it has in the past we are going to have a heck of a season." Everyone deals with stress in a different way. It's obvious how the Cowboys are deal ing with the fear that top receiver Michael Irvin might be sent to prison if convicted of cocaine and marijuana possession. They are running around it over it and through it Five things the Cowboys are doing while waiting for Irvin’s June 24 trial:

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1. Working Deion Seeder* solely at wide re ceiver

s s t CTraere. Closer. Got the latest scoop^bout the Dallas Cowboys for you. It's h o t juicy, about something nobody has dared mention since the end of last season. It involves passion, sweat and desire. It's a story of men doing incredible things with their bodies. You ready? OK. get this: It's about football The Cowboys are still playing it And by the looks of things this spring, still playing it very well In an offseason filled with talk of grand ju ries and Grand Manners, we know this is a shocker. But its true. “If people think for one second that just be cause we have one player in trouble we’re not going to play this y e a r... they are sadly mis taken," says specialist and leader BOI Bates. “For some reason this has been, so far, the best offseason participation we’ve had. Guys

Get oat of town In case Buccaneers owner Malcolm Glazer has not been reading the newspa pers—a strong possibility, considering Glazier’s vision is impeded by three bales of facial hair—he should be re minded of two things. First, one reason Ken Behring abandoned his at tempt to move the Seahawks to Los Angeles was the over whelmingly negative local reaction. Second, the same thing will happen to Glazer if he at tempts to move his Bucs there. So Malcolm, shut up and stay away. Nobody in Los Angeles wants you. lf you didn’t want to keep the team in Tampa, you shouldn't have purchased it two years ago. Los Angeles has enough carpetbaggers and con men. Buccaneers officials visit ed Hollywood Park officials last week to hold talks that some in the Bucs organiza tion hope will lead to a Los Angeles stadium deal by training camp. It appears

“He will not take a defensive snap until La bor Day,” owner Jerry Jones says. ‘T his is the first time he’s been on a team as a receiv er first This is the first time in a long time that he's played football this time of year." Sanders is learning the offense so rapidly' that Jones expects him to be a full part of the game plan by September, instead of being written into only a handful of plays. “Just think of the potential of this player when he’s playing football for a full season." Jones says. 2. Watching Kffvin S aith beal and Aiandis Brice o a t e n .

These cornerbacks are the key to Sanders’ potential on offense. It appears Smith will re bound from an Achilles' tendon injury that cost him last season, and Brice could be ready to assume a major role after mostly watching as a fourth-round draft pick last

some in Tampa are already resigned to losing a Septem ber referendum asking for a state tax 'increase for new stadium funds. Too bad. Malcolm. So sell the team. Give it away. Just steer clear of Los Angeles. where fans want a team backed by a local, not a yokel.

Let the battle begin Amid Brett Favre’s emo tional speech about entering a treatment center because of an addiction to painkillers.

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there was a clear theme. If he can admit to substance abuse, so can other promi nent players in the NFL That message wouldn’t somehow be intended for a certain person under indict ment for cocaine and mari juana possession in Dallas, would it? T h a t’s the real angle here," says Brian Noble, the former Packers linebacker who is now a television re porter in Green Bay. “Here is a guy owning up to his problems, while others in the league are obviously not owning up to theirs." There was surely nothing intentional here. Whoever wrote Favre’s speech would have to be mighty insensi tive to be thinking about any body but Favre. Nonetheless, judging by the way it came out, with Favre specifically saying he hopes other NFL players also get help, observers con sider it a clear first strike against the Cowboys in what will be a season full of them.

Quick hits Let’s hear it for Mike

3. Coossaling Broderick Thomas.

With Thomas, signed from the Vikings, the Cow boys think they finally have a linebacker who can get to the passer. He and Fred Strickland figure lo ade quately rep^ce Dixon Ed wards and Robert Jones, free agents who left for other teams. But this is only if Thomas can overcome several offfield problems, including be ing arrested twice in the last year on charges oi unlawfully carrying a weapon and once for drunken driving. “Broderick and I have an understanding." says coaoh Barry Switzer, who is more beloved than ever among his players. “We’ve spent some time together. He knows his responsibilities here. And he knows well stand behind him if he meets those re sponsibilities." 4. Raving m r Clay Shiver and Stepfret Williams.

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The Cowboys think they nabbed the draft's best center, in Shiver, and its surprise re chiver, in Williams. Although veteran center Ray Donaldson is working hard to rehabilitate the leg injury he suffered on Thanksgiving Day. third-rounder Shiver from Florida State helps the Cowboys breathe easier if Donaldson shows up with a limp. Williams? The third-rounder from North east Louisiana may be the first rookie receiv er Troy Alleman has openly complimented since Aikman arrived as a rookie quarter*

back seven years ago. 5. Figuring out how Irvin Is going to be with the team.

Although the Cowboys can’t discuss Irvin’s case, it appears obvious they think he will not be punished by either the courts or the NFL How could this happen? Simple. One Cow boys fan can hang a jury and eventually cause an acquittal. There is a pretty good chance that any jury in Texas would contain that fan. The NFL then, would never assess a penalty that the courts would not.

Sherrard, who recently signed a sweetheart deal in Denver worth $4 million for four years. Sherrard, who was a first-round draft pick of the Cowboys in 1986, has suffered three broken legs and a partially dislocated hip during his career. Nothing would be nicer than to see nice guys Sherrard and John Elway climb that mountain together. Secret weapon: Scott is Favre’s story reminded making mysterious moves. Leigh Steinberg of the time ers. known for signing char one of his notable clients acter players, lost their sec turned into a raving maniac during a hospital stay. The i ond one in less than a year when running back Rodney reason? Suddenly, somebody Culver and his wife were else was controlling his killed in the recent ValuJet painkiller dosage. “I remem crash in Miami. “I think the ber wondering why guys guys are a little stronger would do that to themselves. than last year.” defensive Then I thought about a con tackle Reuben Davis told the versation I once had with San Diego Union-Tribune. NeD Lomax." Steinberg says. “But that doesn't mean a “I asked him when his hip grown man can't cry.” The h u rl He said. W ien doesn't Chargers will wear No. 22 on it hurt?’ He said it hurt all the their helmets this season in time. iike_a background ra honor of Culver. After rais dio that never gets turned ing $100,000 for the children off. When you hear th ai you of deceased linebacker realize why guys take pills." David Griggs, they have al Why is it that only good ready started a fund for Cul guys seem to be killed in ver’s two daughters, with tragic accidents? The Charg-

owner .Alex Spanos throwing in the first $10,000. To con tribute. send a check to. The Briana & Jada Culver Trust .Account care of Bank of .America, PO. Box 1631. San Diego. CA. 92112. The Idiocy Continues. Promising wide receiver Oarnay Scott after missing some optional but important work outs with the Bengals, rlu cently was arrested on suspi cion of carrying a loaded concealed weapon in a car. police said. If being a bad boy is so vital to being a good re ceiver. why is Jerry Rice never in trouble5 ♦ Bill Plaschke covers pro football for the laos Angeles Times.

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BALTIMORE RAVENS New attitude: Since he became the team's coach several months ago. Ted Marchibroda has heard all kinds of stories about receiver .Andre Rison. So tar. Rison has been a model citizen. "He has come out and worked real hard." Marchibroda says 'There is nothing negative lo say about Rison. He has been very professional." During a recent two-week mini camp. Rison didn't miss a practice, complain about his role rn the team's new offense or even arrive late for a team meeting. He threw a “Welcome to Baltimore" party for his team mates and nearly 800 tans recently, and he has •even volunteered to restructure his contract if it means bringing in better players. "I've been watching guys like Michael Jordan and Mag ic Johnson, seeing what they do to be lead ers." Rison says. ‘That s w-ha! I’m about now. being a leader. Man. I haven’t had the home crowd cheer for me for two years. If Baltimore fans cheer for me. I just might cry." Rookie watch: The team has begun prelimi nary negotiations with linebacker Ray Lewis and soon will start discussions with offensive tackle Jonathan Ogden. Nice president David Model! will handle the negotiations with Og den. and director of football operations Ozzie Newsome will be involved with the contracts of I-ewis and the other draft picks. Lewis' agent. Drew Rosenhaus. wants his client signed by June I.- But Newsome doesn't exfleet any signings until after that date, when teams can restructure contract s to make room under the salary cap — M/KE PRESTO! ♦

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says. "Quinn has that stutter step or move that produces a gap of x-amount of yards for a split second." Happy returns? Its early, but special teams coach Bruce De Haven is excited about his candidates to return punts and kickoffs. The punt-return group looks particularly im pressive. Besides incumbents Jeff Burns. Steve Tasker and Russell Copeland, the list in cludes four newcomers— rookies Erie Moulds and Leon Neal and free agents Chris Brantley and Henrv Bailey. Burns, who is recovering Return on Investment Mobley, the Broncos' rookie linebacker, is from major reconstructive the front-runner to replace Milburn as the team '$punt returner. knee surgery, would like to Bengals thought they had a 50-50 shot at lur continue to return punts. Moulds and Neal ing free-agent tight end Johnny Mitchell from have shown natural comfort in fielding punts dunng workouts. “This might be as good a an expected signing with the Chiefs. They also worked out the Eagles’ Reggie Johnson, who bunch as I can remember having." DeHaven — GEOFF HOBSON savs. — Vie CARUCCI is primarily a blocker. •

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team is impressed with running back Ki-Jana Carter's rehabilitation following knee surgery, but his status remains uncertain. The club fig ures it needs a veteran backup to carry the load if Carter can't. That’s not a knock against Erie Bieniemy. who has been everything the club had hoped. But his siz^-5-7.200 pounds—works against him. So Early excitement It didn t the team is insurance shopping. Last week it take long for Quinn Ear worked out Lewis Tillman. 30. who led Chica go in rushing with 899 yards in 1994. Gary ly to show- whv the team Brown, who was cut by the Oilers the day be made him its No. I wide fore the draft, is also on the list Like Carter. receiver after signing Brown is a Penn State product. It probably him as a free agent for won’t hurt him that the Bengals are lifting el $2.2 million per year During minicamp and i ements of the Nittany Lions' running game. A signing is not expected until after June I. other offseason w-orkouts. Early has grabbed the attention of his teammates, coaches and Collins' status: Free-agent linebacker .Andre Collins would love to start elsewhere for less club officials. He has displayed the fluid style and quick bursts that made him the go-to re I than the $770,000 the Bengals are willing to ceiver in New Orleans, where he caught 80- pay him to play mostly on nickel downs and behind right outside linebacker Rico McDon plus passes in each of the past two seasons. “Tremendous separation quickness is some ald. Collins' problem is that the team has the thing he has that separates him from other re right of first refusal and plans to make a June reivers." director of pro personnel A J. Smith 15 offer to him. ... Before last weekend, the

not be the seven blocks of granite, but if the Broncos don’t eventually have a dominant defen sive line under coach Mike Shanahan, it won't be because he hasn't tried. Last year. Shanahan signed free-agent tackles Michael Dean Perry and James Jones. This year. he has signed outside pass-rushers .Alfred Williams and Aaron Wallace and is try ing hard to sign either Ray Childress or Tony Casillas, maybe both. Shanahan wants a rota tion of six or seven defensive linemen he can alternate by series because nobody tires faster in a game than a defensive lineman.... Simon Fletcher, the team's all-time sack champ, has decided not to retire but wants to sign with an other club, preferably Philadelphia. “ Slash" No. 2: Rookie linebacker John Mob ley. the team’s first-round draft choice, took some reps returning punts at minicamp and emerged as the early leader to replace Glvn Milburn. Mobley returned punts at Kutztown State and also was the goal-line fullback. Oth er candidates are Randy Hilliard and Mike Sherrard.... Draft choice Brian Graggert from Wyoming struggled in his first duel with vet-

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HOUSTON OILERS A new look: It appears the team is going to have a new punter to replace Rich Camarillo. General manager Floyd Reese has been negotiating with Reggie Roby and Rick Tuten. free agents who are among the best in the league. Camar illo turns 37 this season, and his gross average has dropped the past three years. Roby (34) and Tuten (31) are younger and have stronger legs. Tuten is interested in being reunited with special teams coach Russ Purnell, who coached him in Seattle. The only drawback on Roby, who wants to kick in a domed stadium for the first time in his career, is that he does not hold for kicks. Camarillo is an excellent holder w'ho played a key role in .Al Del Greco's success. Tuten is also an experienced holder. A Ray of hops: Defensive tackle Ray Childress. who was waived early in the offseason be cause he was scheduled to make $2.2 million, might be re-signed if he agrees to a payout. The Cowboys and Broncos are interested in Childress, but. like the Oilers, they have prob lems with the cap.... Coach Jeff Fisher could not have been more pleased with his players after a four-day. unofficial minicamp. "The players' attitude has been fantastic." Fisher says. *These guys are going about their busi ness with more confidence than I’ve seen in them. ... Many of them are in better shape than last season." — JOW McClain

INDIANAPOLIS COLTS Tight at tight emf: Coaeh Lindy Infante and his staff have some interesting de cisions to make at several positions, including tight end. One quandary in volves backup Bradford Banta. who has been kept on the roster two seasons for his long-snapping abilities. The team had hoped he would im prove as a receiver, but in two seasons he has one reception. Second-year standout Ken Dig ger is the starter, and Iowa's Scott Slutzker was drafted to help in short-yardage situations as an extra blocker, a role that Bauta has assumed the past few seasons. The team also likes free agent Mar cus Pollard, who played eight games last season af ter opening the year on the practice squad. Potts lo limbo: .Another question is what to do with fullback Roosevelt Potts. Potts The fourth-year back. who has seen his role diminish since the acquisition of Marshall Faulk in 1994. is in the dub's dog house because of his weight and last year’s brief training-camp holdouL Potts, who played at 245 pounds after arriving in 1993. reportedly arrived al minicamp at 271 after undergoing off season knee surgery. Zack Crockett elevated his stock in the playoffs and is the expected pre season starter at fullback ... With Ellis Johnson moving to left defensive end. the team signed veteran Freddie Joe Nunn. — TBH? HuTOBB

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JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS Whatever ft takes: Last season, coach Tom Coughlin thought run ning back Jam es Stewart lost his balance too m uch m aking cuts. To help with that, Coughlin suggested Stew art take martial arts lessons, which he is doing. “It will be beneficial for him," Coughlin says. “He can really accelerate, but sometimes he tries to go so fast he loses his balance. This will help." Stewart said h e ’s all for anything that will help him improve. Plus, he likes the martial arts. “I think it's m ore for your flexibility," Stewart says, “They asked me to do it, and I said OK. It can only help. But really I’m h ere to play football" Stew art will battle N arr one M eans for the starting job this fall l o t f f oggd goods: T here was som e talk that defensive end Tony Brackens, the first of the two second-round picks, had fallen out of the first round because of a dam aged knee. Coughlin, who attem pted to trade up to get B rackens only to have him fall to him in the second round, says B rackens checked out fine with the team ’s p h y sical ‘He just had it cleaned out," Coughlin says. B rackens is ex pected to be a big help to a pass ru sh that had a league-low 17 sacks. ... T he team signed three exclusive-rights free agents to new contracts— safety M onty Grow, tight end Rich Griffith and linebacker Reggie Clark. Of the three. Griffith saw the m ost ac tion in *95. — P i n PRISCO

LaChapeiie got off to a good start in training camp last year before be ing sidelined by injuries. The Chiefs, loaded with receivers at the time, let him go. But they like his size (6-3.205), and he has a good shot at making the roster. ... Q uarterback Steve M atthews was the World League's secondrated passer with a com pletion percentage of 59.9 and seven touchdown passes. He has thrown six interceptions, but four cam e in the opening game— his first serious com petition since his 1993 senior season at M em phis. M atthews has spent m ost of his profes sional career on the in Ctean SiatK Concern about Brackens’knee may have knocked him jured list. ... M atthew s’ into the second round, but he checked out fine in a team physical competition for the No. 3 job will come from Bucky Richardson, who signed with the team because he wants to play quarterback. O ther team s wanted Richardson a s a running back. World te s te rs : Midway Joteay cm tee s p o t As negotiations with John through the 10-game ny Mitchell dragged on. some observers ques World League season, tioned w hether the team really needs a passthe team had reason to ch eer the p ro g ress of catching tight end. Keith Cash and Derrick two participants. W ide Walker com bined to catch 67 passes last sea receiver Sean LaChapelle son. But only two went for touchdowns, and neither can provide the big-piay capability of ranked third in recepdons (29) and first in yardage (549). Mitchell. — AWM ToCJfflR

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MIAMI DOLPHINS Without a Tteca: Defen sive end T race .Arm strong's recovery from wrist and ankle surgery is going well. He has been lifting w eights for nearly six weeks, a cru cial part of A rm strong's conditioning because he is only listed at 260 pounds and has to build him self during the offseason to offset weight loss during the sea son. .Armstrong missed the May mini camp be cause of the ankle surgery in January and wrist surgery in February, but is expected to be ready to practice by the time camp s ta rts .... The schedule-maker was kind by keeping the team out of the cold in '96. The Dolphins play only’ one D ecem ber gam e in what could be frigid climes, D ecem ber 22 against the Jets. Jimmy Johnson doesn't like the cold. but he hasn't made the subject taboo like Don Shuia did. T m thankful 111 only have to get the par ka out of the closet once." johnson says. M efittiR g rules: The team has moved former backup linebacker Dewayne Dotson to full back where he will compete with Keith Byars, Robert Wilson and Stanley Pntchett. T here are whispers the move may hurt Dotson because-of the logjam at the new position, but in truth, he no longer fit the mold of linebacker of the future. Johnson wants sleek, fast play ers who can chase the ball and drop in cover age. Dotson is not fast enough to fill that role. He does show the promise to be a punishing blocker at fullback. — ArMAHKJ SalSUBH)

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42-NFL NBY ENGLAND PATRIOTS Change of plans: The

• ranked 21st in the league. .After he returned ; trow an ankle injury, the Jets finished sixth in I total defense, jones' impact was recognized [ by his teammates, who voted him MAT How ever. he has yet to make the Pro Bowl or play : a full season: because of injuries, he has i missed 14 games in three years. : Final fling: Running back Reggie Cobb, four j years removed from his 1.171-yard season with the Buccaneers, is trying to resurrect his • career. “Being realistic. I’m looking at this as my last shot." says Cobb, who signed a oneyear deal for the $275,000 minimum. Cobb . was cut by the jaguars after last season's opener, and spent the rest of the season out of football. — R ich Caron

N FL Hayers .Association has given the team's vet erans an extra four davs • off this summer. Coach Bill Parcels planned to have his veteran players arrive at training camp lour days before the scheduled July 18 start to participate in a minicamp But when other teams scheduled the same kind of minicamp, the NFLPA stepped in. It notified the Patriots that the minicamp is really an extension of ♦* training camp and in violation of the time con straints placed on reporting dates as estab i lish^ in the collective bargaining agreement. Parcells could have rescheduled but decided Bagel’s boys: The addi to cancel the minicamp. tion of Charles McRae. Collins coming back? Linebacker I odd Collins Lincoln Kennedy and reportedly is ready to end his one-year retire Pat Harlow puts pres ment. The veteran stunned the Patriots a year sure on assistant head ago when. on the opening day of training coach Joe Bugel. who camp, he decided to leave football. Outing the handles the offensive winter, he applied for reinstatement but want line. .All three are former ed the Patriots to trade him to a team closer first-round draft choices and a1) were disap lo his Tennessee home. The team refused. pointments last season. The Raiders are Coliins. who can become an unrestricted free agent after this season, apparently has decid counting on Bugel to resurrect their careers while improving protection for quarterback ed to remain in New England this year and - then move elsewhere as a free agent.... lf he Jeff Hostetler. ''The draft just rates athletic ability and potential." senior assistant Bruce does return, hell compete with Ted Johnson for the starting middle linebacker spot in the .Allen says. T h e difference between greatness and being average is coaching." Harlow prob teams new 4-3 defense. — KEYW MAWIX ably will start at right tackle, leaving Kennedy and McRae to compete with Robert Jenkins on the left side. Kennedy, who was acquired from the Falcons, once ballooned to 415 Salary (Dices: Despite pounds. 65 more than his current weight having two years re Bad sign: With Kennedy on the roster, the odds are against re-signing offensive tackle maining on a five-year. Gerald Perry. Coaches became frustrated $5.99 million contract, middle linebacker Mar with Perry last season when he'missed 13 vin Jones wants to rene games because of a twice-broken forearm.... No. I pick Rickey Dudley will not attend the gotiate. His agent. Drew teams June minicamp. N FL rules prohibit Rosenhaus. noting the rookies from participating in more than one recent $3 million-a-year deals signed by until their school session ends. Dudley no Br van Cox. Hardv Nickerson. Cornelius longer is enrolled at Ohio State, but he still Bennett and Quentin Coryan. says Jones is must wuit for final exams to end.... The team “salivating" at the explosion in linebacker will move its headquarters from El Segundo salaries. “We think Marvin is the next in to the Bay Area in mid-June. — ROH KrqICHICA line." savs Rosenhaus. who would like a new ♦ deal by the end of the season. But the team doesn t have to worry about a holdout, be cause Rosenhaus says there's ‘ no possibili ty" of a walkout. Without jones in the lineup Safety concerns: The re for the first six games in ‘95. the defense turn of cornerback Rod Woodson will strengthen the secondary in more ways than one. It allows Carnel] Lake to return to his natural strong-safety position, where he has earned two Pro Bow*} invitations, and it allows Myron Bell, who became a starter when Lake switched to cornerback, to become an extra back in the team’s nickel and dime defenses. Bell got a lot of playing time last season and the experience will improve the team’s depth. ... Peon Figures is expected to be IOO percent but he will have trouble displacing W illie Williams at the other corner. Williams led the .AFC with seven interceptions last season and played so well that Figures, a No. I pick in 1993. probably will be the backup.... The team added two players to its roster—linebacker Patrick Scott and tight end John Farquhar. They join tight end A J. Ofodile and running back LaMonte Coleman. 1995 practice-squad players who were re-signed after becoming Charger tragedy: Running bock Culver and free agents. his UVV were killed in the \ 'alujct crash.

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Out pattern: The team lost a pair of practicesquad players when kick returner/wide receiver Henry Bai ley signed a-contract with the Bftls and wide received Mill Coleman signed with the Lions. ... The team raised ticket prices for the 1996 season, with the biggest jump coming in fourth-level seats that went from $35 to $42.

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Cindrich, Sweeney’s agent says his client is involved heavily with charity functions, but the coaching staff wonders if Sweeney is upset about Kevin Mawae’s promotion to the start ing job.... Cornerback Sate Odomes. coming back from two major knee operations in the past two years, participated in team drills dur ing the voluntary camp — JOW CLAYTOR

.ARIZONA CARDINALS Dragging his fact There W oodson

— Gerry Dulac

SAN DIEGO CHARGERS Heartbreak: For the sec ond time in l l months, the Chargers are griev ing. Running back Rod ney Culver and his wife. Karen, were among those killed in the Valujet crash. Their daughters. Briana. 2. and Jada, I. were not on the flight Last year, linebacker David Griggs was killed in a car accident “One would have been more than anybody’s fair share of tragedy." G.M. Bobby Beathard says. Culver. 26. who joined the Chargers in ^ after being released by the Colts, was a popular player. He was deeply reli gious and helped organize the team’s chapel group. Culver was used mostly in shortvardage situations and on special teams. Strongest man: Offensive lineman Tony Berti was crowned the teams strongest player after bench-pressing 225 pounds 39 times. Berti. a sixth-round pick in ’95. might be Harry Swayne’s replacement at left tackle. The Charg ers, along with the Raiders and Cardinals, are keeping in touch with Swayne as he recovers from arthroscopic knee surgery. The Chargers would prefer Berti (6-5. 287) or Troy Sienkiewicz (6-4. 300). also a No. 6 pick in ’95. to supplant Swayne. Between the two. they have been active for one game.... Coach Bobby Ross is eager to see running back Jo Jo Jones in camp. A rookie free agent from Lambuth University, he is listed generously at 5-6. 186. He has looked good in drills. — JAY PARIS

SEATTLE SEAHAWKS Elate In coart

Brian Blades' sentencing hear ing May 28 is the next big obstacle for the team. Seattle president David Behring, safety Eugene Robinson, defensive tack le Cortez Kennedy and others are expected to attend the hearing in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Despite pleading no con test to last July's shooting of his cousin. Charles Blades. Brian contends it was an acridenL His hope is to receive probation. The Seahawks have no cap room available and are counting on their m&n possession receiver. Blades caught 77 passeSslast season despite be ing emotionally affected by the loss of a rela tive he considered his best friend. Sore back: Kennedy was relieved to learn that his back problems stemmed from a pinched nerve. The concern was that years of double team blocking might be catching up with the five-time Pro Bow) defensive tackle, but tests showed no structural damage.... Center Jim Sw-eeney skipped M ays voluntary camp with out contacting coach Dennis Erickson. Ralph

seems to be no percepti ble movement in owner Bill Bidwiils search for a director of football oper ations, and it appears in creasingly likely the front office situation won’t change. When Bid will hired Vince Tobin as coach in February, he said he would hire a director of operations from outside the orga nization sometime after the draft. But it has been a month, and no names have surfaced. Some in the organization don't think anyone from the outside will be brought in. Bidwill will say only the search is progressing, and that he has a lot of resumes to sort through. He might be taking so much time because he is a little gun-shy after giving former coach/general manager Buddy Ryan so much power. Bood faith: Defensive tackle and franchise player Eric Swann is participating fully in the veterans voluntary camp, which runs through this week. Swann is obviously making a state ment that he is committed to the club and wants the team to make a long-term commit ment to him by signing him to a multiyear deal. His agent says they are extremely reluc tant to sign the team’s mandatory one-year tender offer, lf there is no multiyear deal be fore the start of camp, Swann could holdout... Running back LeShon Johnson is seeing clear er these days after undergoing laser surgery on each eye. — HHT Soffits

ATLANTA FALCONS Job vacancy: Two of the three linebacker posi tions are set. with Jessie Tuggle in the middle and Cornelius Bennett on the weakside. But the third starting job is wide open. Ron George, a backup for most of his three-year career, will be given a chance to win the job held by Clay Matthews last season. George, a 6-2. 242-pounder, has only one sack and 85 career tackles. George will be pushed by Matthews, 40. and three free-agent acquisitions: Tracy Hayworth (Li ons). James Williams ( ja g u a r s ) and David Brandon (Chargers). Hayworth, a starter in 30 of 72 Detroit games, can be used as a rush end in passing situations, lf the defense is going to improve on last year’s No. 29 ranking, some one must step up at the strongside position. Return engagement .Another offseason goal was achieved with the re-signing of free-agent defensive tackle Moe Gardner, who has aver aged IOO tackles over five professional sea sons. Gardner received a one-year deal. The team has decided not to re-sign Pierce Holt. who started alongside Gardner the last three seasons.... .Antone Davis, a free agent plucked from the Eagles, will begin camp as the back up right tackle, although he could compete for a starting job. The acquisition made former first-round pick Lincoln Kennedy expendable, and he was traded to the Raiders for an undis closed draft pick. — TORY FABRIZIO

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DETROIT LIONS

Too can oaty strate)! $3.6 oUltoo SO far. The Cowboys probably won't trade Irvin because such a

move would cause serious saiary-cap problems for the club

CAROLINA PANTHERS E rtfo 06: P a n th e rs b a c k u p q u a rte rb a c k Jim Kubiak is a U.S. Navy en sign w ho says h e could n't accept a ro s te r spot af te r training cam p even if th e te a m o ffered it to him . He alre ad y know s w h e re h e l l be w hen C arolina plays its S ep te m b e r I o p e n e r against Atlanta— abo ard the U.S.S. E isen h o w er aircraft carrier, se rv in g as an electrical officer in th e e n g in e e rin g de p a rtm e n t. “M y first c o m m itm e n t is to th e Navy." h e says. K ubiak g ra d u a te d from th e Naval A cadem y in 1995 as th e M idship m en's c a re e r passing leader and with a four-year mil itary c o m m itm e n t. H e h a s received p e rm is sion to u se his vacation tim e to participate in cam ps. T h e team signed him in M ay to b e the fo u rth q u a r te r b a c k b eh in d K e rry Collins. Steve B euerlein and Kelly Stouffer. PuntiBg (ob open: N ow th a t fo rm e r p u n te r T o m m y B a r n h a r t h a s sig n ed with T am pa Bay. th e re will be com petition for th e job b e tw een fo rm e r C PL p u n te r A aron F an n er, rookie Sean T e r ry and Kevin Feighery. Kan n er could b e the favorite because of his pro ex p e rie n c e and h is ability to kick off. K icker J o h n K asay s tru g g le d at tim es last season with sh o rt kickoffs. F e ig h e ry was on the prac tice squad part of last season and is playing for F ran k fu rt in th e World League, w h e re h e was av e rag in g only 36.2 y a r d s p e r p u n t th ro u g h five gam es. — C w O f S &AXDLER

CHICAGO HEARS No M i : O n e of th e top free-ag en cy re c ru itin g aids for th e B e a r s - h a s been th e C hicago Bulls. It d id n ’t h u r t th e ir deal ings with B ryan Cox. for exam ple, to cap off C ox’s visit and first day of n e g o tiatio n s w ith c o u r ts id e s e a ts at a Bulls gam e. C oach Dave W a n n ste d t fig u re s th o se trip s a re g o o d sc o u tin g trip s for him . too. "Tw o th in g s ju m p out at m e th at I think sep a ra te th e m from th e re s t of th e te a m s." h e says. “N u m b e r o n e is how they play defense. E v ery b o d y plays d e fe n se and t h a t s th e thing th at pro b ab ly n e v e r g e ts talk ed ab o u t

en o u g h . T h e second th ing is tu rn o v ers. T he g u y s are so disciplined and m ak e good deci sions. T h a t’s a real credit to (Phil J a c k s o n ’s) c o a c h in g and th e discipline of th e t e a m . " ... T h e B ears have several a d v a n ta g e s over te a m s vying for b a c k u p q u a r te r b a c k Dave Klieg. His wife is from th e C hicago a re a and th e B earsrare viewed as h a v in g m o re im m e diate u p sid e in 1996 th an su ito rs Atlanta. T am p a Bay and H ouston. New dee) qeesttosetf: W a n n ste d t’s th ree-y ear c o n tra c t e x ten sio n drew so m e criticism that he h a s won n o thing to e a rn an extension. But W a n n ste d t w as 9-7 in his th ird y ea r and m issed th e playoffs b e c a u s e San F rancisco co u ldn't beat .Atlanta in th e seaso n finale. M ike H o lm g ren w as 9-7 in G re en Bay his third y ea r and got an extension. .And he had Brett Favre and Reggie W hite.— JOHN MUUJN

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No rush: C o ach W ayne Peonies still is c o n s id e r ing th e fate of re c e iv e r B r e n H errim an. w ho ' h a s said he won t rep o rt to c a m p u n le s s h e g e ts a su b stan tial raise T hat w on't h a p p e n . H erri m an . w ho is sc h e d u le d to m ak e $1.35 million th is season, can b eco m e an u n re stric te d free ag en t in 1997 and th e team alre ad y has p re p a re d tor h is d e p a r t u r e by a c q u irin g Glyn M ilburn. P e rn m a n s m o n o ' could be u se d to sign safety B ennie Blades, w ho h a - balked at a cut of m o re than $1 million B lades {lid not m a tc h P e r r im a n 's p ro d u c tio n )a-t -»-ason. but th e defensive-w eak Lions can b etter h a n d le th e loss of a re c e iv e r th a n a stro n g safety. T h is is a difficult decisio n for P o n te-. w h o will ta k e h is tim e. .. R ookie Reggie Brown will sta rt at w ea k sid e linebacker, but h e l l be m oved to th e m idd le in nickel situa tions. New Wood: Vice chairm an Bill Ford Jr.. the son of o w n er William Clay Ford, continues to put his stam p on the front office. He recently p ro m oted several officials to vice president, most notably L arry Lee. a fo rm e r D etroit player. Ford Jr. also took the entire front office (about 50 people) on a three-day retreat. “T h e p u r pose was. ‘W h a t should we. as an organiza tion. b e do ing differently to win th e S uper Bowl and have th e m ost satisfied fans in the country.' " Ford Jr. says. “It was a very goodand spirited th ree days." — Tom KAWALSKI

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of B ren Favre's decision to e n te r th e NPTN subs t a n o - a b u s e prog ram , the club says it is not r»sponsibie for his re p o r t ed addicuon to pain pills G eneral m a n a g e r Hon Wolf -a y s h e is not c o n c e rn e d about the t e a m s system for dispensing the painkiller Vicodin. saying th e team i- m onitored closely by th e leag u e Favre - lather. Irvin, d o e s n t blam e t h e P ack er- but has asked coach M ike Holm gren to m ake -ure h i- -on w a-n ’l gening th e pill- from o th e r players ’*He got th em , so m e w h e re ." Irvin Favre -a y - "I know he had access trom oth er placer- Ive asked him «H olm gren) as a co n cern ed father an d parent to look into th e s i tu a tio n " Fullback E d g ar Bennett, one of the most orten-iqjured P ack er* th e past two seaso n s, -ays h e h a s n ev e r received m o re than one o r two Yicodin pills from the training staff. B ennett says he rarely u se s Vicodin because of its stro n g effects. First on boart): N ebraska co rn e rb a c k T y ro n e Williams, a third-round pick, signed a threeyear deal w orth a reported $800.1X10. He is the first P a c k e rs draft ch o ic e to sign. W illiam s faces felony c h a rg e s for a 1994 incident in which he is accused of firing a gun into a mov ing car. but he is not expected to s e rv e jail time. T h e club would like Williams to becom e its nickel back next s e a s o n . ... F o rm e r C ardi nals tight end W endell G ain es h a s been signed as a defensive end. — Tom Sfl.va$TBN

DALLAS COWBOYS New tort: T h e artificial tu rf at T e x a s Stadium is b e in g re p laced th is off season . but th e new tu rf d o e s not kill plans to grow a g ra ss field in th e near future. T h e new car pet is e x p e cted to be in place for th e Cowboys' first h o m e exhibition. July 27. against O akland. This will be the third artificial s u rfa c e installed at T e x a s Stadium . T h e original field w as rep laced for th e 1982 seaso n . T h e old tu rf had b e c o m e incredibly slippery, rarely d ry in g com pletely late in the season after the heat subsided. O w ner J e r r y Jo n e s feared waiting for stadium re c o n s tru c tion. p lann ed for a s early a s next seaso n , m ight result in n e e d le ss injuries. No cents: T h e C ow boys have 3.6 million reas o n s w hy they are unlikely to trade wide r e ceiver M ichael Irvin, lf traded before Ju n e I. Irvin's c h a rg e ag ain st th e salary cap for the re m a in d e r of his signing b o n u s would be $3.6 million. If tra d e d after J u n e I. th e C ow boys would be c h a rg e d 1996‘s p r o r a t e d portion, ro u g h ly $900,000. T h e re m a in in g portion ($2.7 million) w ould a c c e le ra te into 1997. ... D espite his legal dilem m a and potential prob lem s with th e N F L Irvin continues to practice regu larly at th e C o w b o y s’ practice facility. ... H u rv in M c C o rm a c k sig n ed a o ne-year deal for his $196,000 qualifying offer, giving the C ow boys 71 players u n d e r co ntract with nine u n sig n ed draft choices. — H U E Y S r AMLA

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NEW YORK GIANTS Walker to walk? As the Belky back: A bigger Smith hopes to produce a breakthrough season for the Vikings.

MINNESOTA VIKINGS Bolk rate: Runnlfif back Robert Smith has bulked up to 212 pounds and says he is poised for a breakthrough season. "I feel quicker and faster than ever." says Smith. who ranks among the NFL's fastest running backs. “I think part of it is just aging." Smith, who missed last year's training camp in a contract squabble and half the season with ankle problems, hopes nego tiations don’t bog down again. He is a restrict ed free agent tendered at $770,000. meaning any team that signs him would have to forfeit a first-round pick. The 49ers showed interest, but they do not have a first-rounder to dangle. Smith is the clubhouse leader in a crowded backfield that includes .Amp Lee. James Stew art, Bobby Phillips. Scottie Graham and rook ie Moe Williams. Full Moon: Look for quarterback Warren Moon to sign a contract extension worth up to $10 million. The team is trying to lower his 1996 salary-cap number by adding a couple more years. .Although Moon will turn 40 in November, he is coming off a 33-touchdownpass season in which he started every game. But Moon, who has been selected to eight consecutive Pro Bowls, is 87-83 as an N FL starter, including 3-7 in the postseason. Moons agent, Leigh Steinberg, also represents first-round draft pick Duane Clemons, a defensive end. — CURT BrOWI

NEW ORLEANS SAINTS Still connnonicating: Al though he has indicated a willingness to return to Green Bav as Mark Chmura's backup, freeagent tight end Keith Jackson continues to ne gotiate with the Saints. A 'five-time Pro Bowl player. Jackson reportedly has lowered his asking price by $700,000 to $1.6 million annually. The Saints are standing

team decides how to free money to sign rookies, running back Hersche! Walker appears vulnera ble. Coach Dan Reeves admits that with a back field including Rodney Hampton. Tyrone Wheatley and second-year fullback Charles Way* Walker will be hard pressed to earn playing time and perhaps even to make the team. His $1.7 million salary-cap value for ’96 is astronomical for a third-string tailback and kickoff returner, lf the team cuts him after June I. he would cost $600,000 against the '96 cap. Walker contributed little in 1995 and was frustrated by his lack of op portunities. ... First-round pick Cedric Jones is looking for money similar to what No. 5 over all pick Kerry Collins got from Carolina last season (seven years. $14.7 million. $7 million bonus). But Collins is a quarterback and Jones is a defensive end. Sparks Ignites: G.M. George Young, pleased he re-signed seven of the team’s unrestricted free agents, says the signing that “ sparked" the team’s plan was cornerback Philippi Sparks, who agreed to a new contract on the day before free agency began. Sparks’ signing allowed the team to make Hampton a transi tion player. The team also signed offensive tackle Greg Bishop and linebacker Marcus Buckley, two restricted free agents, to new deals. — tea Best

PHILADELPHIA EAGLES Simon says: The team is interested in signing for mer Broncos defensive end Simon Fletcher, who retired after last season but has had a change of heart. “I was thinking, ’ ‘No. no. no.’ but then I thought about it overnight and decided. Wes. yes. yes.’ " says Fletcher, who has 97^ career sacks. “I’m going to give it a shot I want to go where Rock)* got his start— Philadelphia." Coaches envision Fletcher as a third-down specialist He presumably could assume the role filled last season by Daniel Stubbs, who signed with the Dolphins last month. Fletch er. who recorded only five sacks last season, probably will have to take a big cut from the $1.1 million he earned with the Broncos.

Leaving town: Offensive lineman Antone Davis signed a two-year, $1.9 million deal with the Freons, and linebacker Derrick Oden signed a one-year deal with the Dolphins. The team did not try to re-sign Davis, its 1991 No. I pick. He was a major disappointment in five Philadelphia seasons. Davis opened the ‘95 season on the bench but started 14 games at right tackle after Lester Holmes suffered a Week 2 knee injury. The departure of Oden, one of the club’s top speciakeams players, hurts an already thin iinebacking corps. The current starting middle linebacker is James W illis, who was claimed on waivers last No vember. — P aul Domowttch

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Three backups signed or agreed to terms as the front office continues to work its way through a list of unsigned players. Quarterback Jam ie Mar tin signed a two-year deal for undisclosed terms, and offensive guard Chuck Belin and running back Brent Moss agreed to one-year deals. All three play ers will have to fight for roster spots come training camp. Martin. 26. has yet to throw an N FL regular-season pass even though he has been a member of the organization since 1993. Despite being a star college runner for W is consin, Moss went undrafted last season be cause of drug problems. He played in four games after being promoted from the practice squad October 16. rushing for 90 yards on 22 carries. He needs to be lighter and in better shape this preseason if he is to contend for a backup job behind Lawrence Phillips. Belin agreed to a one-vear deal worth $361,000. He does have some pass-blocking skills. Still looking: Linebacker Shane eonian has gone from team MNT in 1994 to the unem ployment line, eonian is an unrestricted free agent, but the team is showing no interest in re-signing him at 32 and with a recent history of creaky knees. Conlan’s agent says his client has gotten feelers from San Francisco. Philadelphia. Carolina, New England. Detroit and Green Bay. —JO I THOMAS

EAN FRANCISCO 49ERS Young1* future: Now this may sound crazy, but this is an important year for Steve Young. After lead ing the N FL in passing for four consecutive sea sons. Young fell off in *95. H ell be 35 in October, and the team is high on his backup. Elvis Grbac. who’s eligible for free agency after the *96 season. Young is working to get in shape for another “MVP-type year" that would end any question about the quarterback job. Young, un der contract through *97. wants to play several more years. Recovered from last season's shoulder ailment he's surely in good enough shape to do that Most likely. Grbac will be al lowed to leave as a free agent rather than lured to stay with a promise of the starting job. But its something the team is looking at so the re sults of the season could influence a decision. Line depth: There is no proven depth among the defensive linemen, and the health of the starters is a more significant issue. So the team was pleased to see third-year defensive tackle Bryant Young at a recent minicamp. Young has been working out zealously and is

in great shape. He was in good shape before, but after missing four games with an ankle in jury. Young is trying to make sure it doesn’t happen again.... Jeff Brahm and Gino Torretta. both of whom spent time on the roster in *95 but did not play, will compete for the No. 3 quarterback job. — IRA M a la

TAVIRARAYBUCCANEERS Dawsay, Roby out The team cleared about $1 million under the salarycap by w-aiving wide re ceiver Lawrence Dawsey and punter Reg gie Roby after they de clined to take pay cuts. The Bucs signed Charles Wrilson and Tommy Barnhardt to replace them. Dawsey. a sixvear veteran, is the seventh-leading receiver in team history. But his cap value would have been $1 million, and injuries had curtailed his effectiveness the last three seasons. Wilson, who played for the Bucs from 1992 through ’94. was re-signed for $300,000. Besides join ing Courtney Hawkins as backups to starters Alvin Harper and Horace Copeland. Wilson also will contribute on special teams. Roby, a Pro Bowl alternate who set a team record for gross punting (42.8), was scheduled to make $605,000 in ‘96. Barnhardt ranked 21st in the league last season (41.1) with the Panthers, but his 27 punts inside the 20 ranked fourth. Barnhardt’s three-year contract with the Bucs averages $400.000—roughly the figure Roby turned down. Thonas re-sigas: Restricted freeagent wide re ceiver Lamar Thomas signed a one-year deal last Thursday, but the fourth-year veteran may have a tough battle making the roster with rookie N ib Silvan possibly taking his spot as the No. 5 receiver. Silvan is expected to chal lenge for the kickoff and punt return duties, and the Bucs like his speed. — ftex PUEUFSf

WASHINGTON REDSKINS Mo1Honer. Veteran kick er Eddie Murray was re signed when he finally relented on his demand to double his salary. Murray. nicknamed “Money," is the thirdleading scorer in N FL history' with 1.473 points, lf he hits his next seven extra points, he would break Tommy Davis' record of 234 consecutive extra points. Washington was Murray’s fifth stop since De troit waived him in 1992 after 12 seasons. Vet eran Chip Lohmiller’s concentration had gone AW O L and rookie Scott Blanton was out with a puDed groin muscle when Murray signed last August The team was not happy' with Mur ray's short kickoffs, but assistant coach Pete Rodriguez’s special teams still led the league. Its doubtful coach Norv Turner will keep a younger kicker for kickoffs and long field goals, and with neither Blanton, C F I veteran Sean Fleming nor rookie Louis Perez having any experience. Murray should keep his job. Standouts: Turner singled out a few players for their fine play in minicarap: offensive tackles Andre Johnson, the team’s first-round draft pick. and Shar Pourdanesh, a C FL veteran; re ceiver Michael Westbrook: guard Tre John son: defensive end Rich Owens; and halfback Stephen Davis. Defensive coordinator Ron Lynn cited cornerback Erie Sutton, secondyear safety Darryl Pounds, and ends Sterling Palmer and Kelvin Kinney. — DATO EUM

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heres really only one thing op ponents can say when they face the Panthers’ suffocating, pesky. neutraJ-zone-trapping defense that has carried them to the NHLs final four.

Behind a Devilish defense and maniacal, rodent-loving fans, the Panthers have trapped their way to a remarkable playoff debut b y Lakey w ig g e

Beware the Panthefs: Bill Undsay (l l) and Rhett Worrener (23) congratulate Tom Fitzgerald (center) ofter ke scared in the second period of Fhnda s (jom e I victory lf the Panthers maintain their stingy, trapping d^ense and hot goaltending. Lemieux may see his Cup hopes go by the boards.

Rats! Each time the Panthers do something to excite their fans at Miami Arena, rubber and plastic rats are tossed onto the ice to cele brate. it afl started because of an incident in the team's locker room on opening night, when right wing Scott Mellanby dismem bered a real rat with a slap shot Word got out after that game that Mellaiv by got two goals and one rat— a rat trick, if YOU Witt. And no one has been able lo exterminate this team since. Rodents never showered the ice more fre quently than when the Panthers upset the Ryers. che No. I team in the Eastern Confer ence in the regular season, in the second round of die playoffs. Every time one hits the ice. opponents cringe. But goaltender John Vanbiesbrouck revels in the celebration. After all. he’s the one who started it “I was the one who opened his big mouth.*' he says. “b u t you know. Eve never seen play ers and fans form this kind of relationship. It's amazing how much this has brought us att together." Vanbiesbrouck, 32. has been the biggest pest tor opponents, He never really was given the opportunity to be the No. I goalie during his nine-phis seasons with the Rangers, shar ing the job with Bob Froese and later with Mike Richter. He was traded to Vancouver in June i993. then selected a few days later by the P o th e rs in the expansion draft But-since his arrival, Vanbiesbrouck clear ly has been one of the league’s best goalies, posting goals-againsi averages of 2.53 in 1993*94, 2.47 in ‘94-95 and 2.68 this season. He says those rough days in New York made him stronger. ‘ Playing in ^ew York City for a decade. your skin gets pretty thick," he says. “You iearh to shul out a lot of things. Often, the ability of knowing what’s coming up is more important than whafs already happened’ it's that mental toughness that enabled Vanbiesbrouck to lead the Panthers to the conference finals against Mario Lemieux. Jaromir Jagr and the Penguins. “Vanbiesbrouck was unbeiievabie." Flyers center Dale Hawerchuk says. “Eve seen that before with Grant Fuhr in Edmontoa He’d turn aside 2D-some shots in a period, and they'd come back." That happened in Game 4. when the Fly ers pelted Vanbiesbrouck with 24 shots in the second period, scoring twice lo tie the score. 2-2. But he kept the Panthers from be ing overwhelmed, enabling the team to tie the score at 3 with 5.5 seconds left in regu lation. Al 4:06 of overtime. Dave Lowry scored the game-winner. Vanbiesbrouck’s strong play also gave Mike Hough the chance to score the winning goal in over time of Game 5 and Bill Lindsey the chance to give the Panthers a confidence-boosting 1-0 lead in Game 6. In the process. Florida became onb’ the third expansion team since 1970 to reach the final four in only its third season and the sec ond team lo do it on its first postseason run. “l l s been a long way since that first learn, when people gave us no chance to win and we .fin ish ^ just one point out of a playoff spot each of our first two years." Vanbies brouck says. ‘ It's all been worth the wait, though."

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May 27,1996

reer goals against him. more than against any his is m ore than merely a little-enother goaltender. But in Game I. Vanbiesgine-thal-could story. After all. the brouck shut out Lemieux and Jagr. It was Flyers scored 232 goals in the regu only the fourth time all season they had been lar season (fourth best in & e held scoreless in the sam e game. “Beezer league) but m anaged only l l goals in six seem s to be in a zone now." Lemieux says. gam es against the Panthers. They failed to But first-year P anthers coach Doug score m ore than three goals in any of the MacLean says you can have only limited suc gam es and were shut out once. cess against those two Penguins. “You can’t It may have looked as if the powerful Fly shadow Mario Lemieux and Jaromir J^gr. the ers allowed the Panthers to dictate the style same as we couldn’t shadow Erie L in d ro s/ of play, but som etim es against a team that he says. “One forward can’t play 30 minutes uses a trap defense, they might not have a a game against the r n / choice. But the Capitals had great success getting T he Devils proved last year a team with a in the way of Jagr and Lemieux. and the Pan- • successful system can win it all. And though thers play that type of game better than the m ost people will not give that sam e kind of Capitals. “We saw them concentrate on going credit to Florida, the Panthers are a lot like at the Boston defense in tile first round of the the Devils. playoffs— and they did the same thing to our “T h e y re a hard-working club," Penguins d efen sem e n / Flyers coach T erry M urray coach Eddie Johnston says. “T h e y play like says.’“T hey didn't give our defensem en a New Jersey did last year. They clog the mid chance to break out. They were constantly dle and try’ to keep you outside. We’ve got to breaking up our rushes in the neutral zone." take shots on them, get them on net and then That, in itself, is one reason the Panthers go to the net harder than the Flyers did. have a chance against the multitalented Pen “Lf you look back. New Jersey used four guins. Game I proved P ittsburgh's defense lines like the P anthers. They had four bal continues to be mistake-prone in its zone anced lines that just kept coming at you. The .Another reason is the Penguins are with Panthers have the sam e thing." out star center Ron Francis. He suffered a The Panthers don't care if they beat you 1broken bone in his left foot blocking a shot in 0—as long as they frustrate you and force the series-clinching game against the you into making mistakes. Rangers. “T h e y play a zone, just like basketball." The Panthers will not deviate from their H aw erchuk says. “W hen you play against a game plan. They will lift the puck out of the zone, you’ve got to just bust through the zone when the Penguins apply extended holes in it, through the wall." pressure and continue to attack defensemen The Panthers try to limit space, staying in like. well. rats on cheese. their opponent’s face. “O ur style of hockey is T h a t cliche that hard work beats talent overtim e hockey." Hough says. “We try to when talent doesn't work holds true year af play mistake-free hockey." ter year." M urray says. T h a t's where upsets M ost ex p erts felt the Flyers would have Beauty and tlw Beezer. Lem eux's moves have beaten Vanbiesbrouck many a time throughout th e . • happen, lf you’re put up against the wall, and their way with the Panthers. They were big years, but it was a different story in Game I. in which Lemieux was held scoreless. you don’t come out swinging and get the job ger. stronger and had Eric Lindros playing at done, it's over. dros. but Jovanovski did it throughout the se his b e s t But the powerful Flyers didn't wear ‘ Florida won a lot of the puck-possession ries." Clarke says. down the Panthers. Instead, it was the Pan ‘ Florida won a lot of battles along the boards, in situations that thers who took the play to the Flyers to win were key. You generate a lot of confidence twice in overtime. the puck-possession batties over the series by winning the game within a he challenge for the Panthers in the Its flattering that 14 of the original 20 play game." semifinals is even more daunting: ers selected by Florida in the expansion draft along the boards. T he Panthers don't score many highlightMario Lemieux. Jarom ir J agr and are still im portant parts of the team. Bobby film goals. They generate scores usually by the Penguins. T he Penguins took Clarke built the Panthers on experience and in situations that were key. sucking with a grind-it-out defense, forcing the regular-season series. 3*1. But it wasn’t character before returning to the Flyers as turnovers and throwing the puck on net. decisive. They outscored the Panthers. 12-10 president and general manager. MacLean apologize^ if his team ’s style is You generate a lot “W ith those guys you just hope to get a “T hey’ve done a good job building around boring. He says he can't help it: h e ’s still break," Johnston says of the Panthers. “You that nucleus, adding speed and s k ill/ Clarke learning how to coach in a town that boasts of confidence over the series have to work as hard as they do. or they'll says. “Getting Eddie Jovanovski in the draft coaches such as Jimmy Johnson and Pat Ri beat you every night." In the P anthers’ 5-1 was the key. He’s going to be a force on de ley by winning the game win in Game I last Saturday. Vanbiesbruuck fense for years to come." “They write the books on coaching." and the Panthers didn’t give any breaks. In Jovanovski, in inct did his best impression MacLean says with a smilejust read within a game.’ stead. they pounced on the ones given by of Devils defensem an Scott Stevens, staying them." ♦ Penguins defensemen. in Lindros’ a c e all over the ice. Ijx rry Wigge has covered hockey fo r — rn;*:"•’ T*)rr'' f ^ :rr«*■' Entering the series. 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Some easy answers to the iciest of questions he surprised him self by taking the serieswinning shot from just inside the blue line to beat Blues goaltender Jon Casey in the r n second overtim e of Cam e 7. "I never try that kind of desperation shot. Good thing I did this time." What he m eans: “I had to do something: none of our other big scorers were coming close to scoring, in fact Sergei Fedorov (one L goal in the playoffs) h asn ’t been the same Larr\ since he did that Nike commercial. Now. its WIGGE almost like he expects the opponents to play him at half speed like they do in the commercial. Just do i t Sergei: we need you if we hope to win the Cup.” here a rr a lot of questions being ■ Avalanche goalie Patrick Roy on his 0-5 asked by hockey fans— and not record and 5.41 goals-against average against many answ ers being given as we the Red W ings this season: “I’d prefer to move closer to the Stanley Cup fi em ber my record against them before nals. H ere's our take on som e choicerem sub this season (13-3-1). Besides, they're not jects playing anyw here as good now as they did ■ Penguins center Mario Lemieux says he during the regular season." isn't playing at the same level he was three or What he m eans: “I can't hear their lour years ago and that he's not going to criticism: Iv e still got my ears plugged up decide w hether to return next season until with two Stanley Cup rings." after the playoffs "I can't beat a defenseman ■ Panthers coach Doug MacLean on his one-on-one the w ay I used to " team 's stifling defensive system. “Everyone What he means: "lf the Penguins win the says w e're boring. If this is boring. I hope Cup. I’m going out on top. lf we don't win. I'm we're boring for another month." only coming back if m anagem ent gives me What he means: "No one wanted to give assurances I will spend more ume on a lint* me a chance to coach— no one. This just goes with Jarom irJagr next season " lo show vou that the establishm ent doesn't ■ Red Wings center Steve Yzerman says

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No respect T h e re s nothing wrong with playing star players tough in the playoffs, trying to neutralize their talent. But som e of the tactics being used surprise even coaches who have been in the game m ore than a decade. “What Doug Gilmour was doing to Wayne Gretzky and what the Capitals were doing to M ane U'mieux and Jarom ir Jagr would be a crim e if someone was doing it on the street." former Canadiens coach Jacques Demers says. “You can't let the stars run free. but there are other wavs to check them

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We told vou last week that Jets coach T erry Simpson wouldn't be behind the bench when the team moves to Phoenix next season— and he was hred. We also said Robbie Ftorek would be Sim pson's replacem ent, but that won’t happen. The Devils protect ed their interest in Ftorek. who coached .Albany to consecutive American Hockey League titles, by promoting him to assistant coach with the promise he will succeed coach Jacques Lemaire. Lemaire probably will be promoted to general m anag er and G.M. Lou Lamoriello to president in the next cou ple of years. New Phoenix owner Steven G luckstern will bring rn form er M innesota and C'anadiens star Bobby♦ Smith as a consultant. Look tor Smith to recommend the hir ing of form er Maple Leafs coach Pat B urns, his coach in Montreal.

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e n o u g h to win th e c o n ference tide in the regular season." Flyers general man ager Bobby Clarke says. “Does that mean we have to make a lot of changes? I don’t think so.” What he means: “Coaching in the playoffs—the \"s and O s and the ability* to get players motivated for all situations— is key. Unfortunately, there are only a handful of coaches who can do th a i and I sure don't want to go behind the bench myself." ■ Blues center Wayne G retzky becom es a free agent July I. Is he going to be back in S i Louis? “My agent tells me there were only two stum bling blocks in talks before the playoffs. I want to come back." W hat he m eans: “.After getting only two goals in the playoffs.J don’t think th e re s a chance anyone else would be willing to throw around $7 million a season for m e” ■ Red W ings goalie Chris Osgood picked out a save he m ade on a Brian Noonan shot from just outside the goal crease in the second period of Game 7 as the key to surviving the second Low Flyers: Philadelphia captain Erie Undros and coach Terry round of the playoffs. “It was Murray (left) shall return, despite a playoffflop against Florida. a bang-bang play. Luckily he know what it really takes to choose a winning didn't have much to shoot at.” W hat he m eans: “Boy. was I glad it was coach ” Noonan, lf he was dum b enough to lose his ■ The Flyers and Rangers still are stinging playbook, th e re s no way he's sm art enough over second-round elimination. Major to rem em ber what mv w eaknesses are.” changes are predicted. “We were good a knee injury • ♦ in the first round of the playoffs and watching Jon Casey suffer a second-round neck injury. Blues G.M.-coach Mike K eenan says som ething m ust be done to protect goalteiklers from collisionminded tor w ards. "Goalies everyw here should be wor* 9 lied ii this is going to be the league’s attitude." Keenan savs. "lf vou can overtly» at• ■ tempt to injure a goalie with out risk ol punishm ent. what s to stop team s from just taking out goalies and knocking them down for the rest of the playoffs?"... Fuhr says he will be off crutches and begin skating in July, giving him time for rehabili tation from major knee surgery. ... .All of Chicago's centers will be free agents —Jerem y Roenick. Bernie Nicholls. Denis Savard and Brent Sutter. G.M. Bob Pulford says he will do whatever it takes to re-sign Roenick. but he would like to add som e youth up the middle. Edm onton's Jason Arnott is on Pulford’s wish list. Look for .Arnot! to re-sign along with Doug Weight and Zdeno Ciger. ... Red W ings coach Scottv• Bowman on critics who pointed out that

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the Blues had only three players 25 or younger, lb above 30 and six 35 or o ld e r “lf that team had started the season as they* are now. they# would not have finished SI points behind us. With age com es experience— and that's one strength you can not teach 2 young player." Rather than pay a reloca tion fee of m ore than SIO million. W halers owner P e ter Karm anos says he will keep his team in Hartford two m ore years because of the city's com m itm ent of 8.433 season tickets— up from just over 5.000 last sea son. Karm anos wants m ere concessions, but he turned dowm a plan that would have given W halers m anagement control of the Civic Center. To accept that, he would have had to agree to stay in Hartford for the 1998-99 sea son. ... Everyone talks about 0 Florida defensem an Ed J o vanovski standing up to Eric U ndros in the playoffs. But the P anthers have another im pressive rookie defense man—Rhen W a g e n e r.... In jured Flyers right wing Mikael Renberg will see a specialist at Duke University about the abdominal muscle injury that has troubled him

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The Western Conference finals will be decided by the play of two premier, and respectful, backcourt leaders Bv A rt T hiel o r a black-belt p ra ctitio n er in th e c ru d e art of trash talking, th e inquiry from G ary Payton w as rem arkably sly and subtle. D uring a p ause in G am e I of the W estern C o n feren ce finals b etw een P ay to n ’s S u p er so n ic s and Jo h n S tockton’s Jazz, the two best point g u a r d s in th e W est h ad a brief e x change. “I asked him if h e w as O K .” Payton says. “and h e said h e was fine.” S to ck to n w as not fine. A left h a m s trin g m u sc le s tra in e d in th e p re v io u s s e rie s a g a in s t th e S p u rs w as c o m p ro m is in g his m ovem ent.- He w a sn 't lim ping, h e w a s n ’t ask in g out. But h e did m iss 8-oMO field-goal attem p ts, rarely p e n e tra te d and w as m ostly h e lp le ss to do an y th in g ab o u t th e 102*72 d e feat at Key .Arena— th e m ost lopsided play off d e f e a tin Jazz history. S tockton w as e x p e cted to be back at th e point for G am e 2. But th e implication of Pay to n 's q u estio n w as c l e a r S tockton w as slip ping. Even if h e w ere to regain full health be* fore G am e s 3 and 4 this w eekend in Salt Lake City. would it be en ough ? O r h a s th e torch been passed, th e one that signifies p re -e m in e n c e a m o n g th e W est's b a c k c o u rt leaders? Stockton is 34 with a pain in his leg and a pain in his face; Payton, at 27 h a s th e youth, en e rg y and skills to supplant Stockton as the W e s ts b e st point guard. N e ith e r h a s been to th e pinnacle of an NBA Finals, a d ro u g h t about to end for one. T h is is th e Jazz's th ird trip in th e last five y e a rs to th e W e ste rn finals: Pavton h a s led S eattle to th is position twice in four years. B oth clu b s are d e sp e ra te to m ak e that final leap o u t of th e W est. no m a tte r if th e Bulls

m eat g rin d e r awaits. Each team will accom plish or fail in the feat b eh in d its dom inating floor leader. B ased on th e first g a m e alone, th e Sonics will m ove on. Not only w ere Payton's 21 points, seven a s sists. four re b o u n d s and three steals superior. h e virtually Swallowed his rival (four points, seven assists, one steal in 32 m inutes!. “T h e two sh o ts S tockton m ad e in th e first half w ere difficult." S onics c o a c h G eo rg e Karl says. “ High a rc h e rs , off b alan c e.” But th e r e w as no way Pavton. re c e n tly voted NBA D efensive Player of th e Year. would al low S to ck to n h is specialty; th e p en e tratio n and pass. “ i ju s t c o n c e n tra te d on k e e p in g Jo h n in

‘ I’ m m o r e s e rio u s n o w . I ’ m m o re p ro d u c tiv e . I ’ m s h o w in g m y s e lf on the court not by ta lk in g , but by d oin g the o th e r t h i n g s .’

— G ar/ Pavton front of m e." h e says, th en quickly r u s h e s to defend th e player h e had just defended into irrelevancy. “I know h e 's a great player and h e's going to co m e back. H e's go ing to have a good g am e o n e of th ese gam es. He m ight have good g a m e s for the rest of th e series. ‘Ti h e was h u rt. I didn't see it. lf (the leg) w as b o th e rin g him . it w as covered up real well. It w as ju st o n e of th o s e days. He just wasn't clicking.”

Payton's pace: V ie Sonics ' guard logs heaiy minutes, w o rn relentlessly at both ends of the door and rarely skips games— just like Stockton, one o f the players Panton admires most n addition to avoiding inflam ing a van q u is h e d o p p onen t. Payton is m ost sin c e re about his praise ol S tockton Not long after h e was drafted with the second pick in 1990 s first round. Payton began talk ing (actually. Payton began talking w hile still in th e w om b) about how' m uch h e ad m ires and tries to em ulate Stockton. Payton s e e m s to pay m ore re sp e ct to Stockton than any o th e r opponent. He won'; be seen yapping at him as h e did last S atur day to S tockton's backup, second-year guard Howard Eislev. It m ight seem an odd affection, given that Payton is a hip-hop ‘90s guy from th e hardest p art of a h ard town. O akland. Stockton still w ears h is b ask etb all s h o r ts sh o rt, th e way they did it at Gonzaga Prep School, a Catholic high sch o o l in s u b d u e d Spokane, p art of a ru ra l e a s te rn W ashington th ai h a s little in com m on with Seattle and West Coast glitz. But they both atte n d e d sch o o ls in the N o rth w e st. S tockton at S p o k an e's G onzaga University and Payton at O reg on State. Both have learn ed th e b ed ro ck of a good p ro ca r e e r is defen se. S tockton is th e le a g u e ’s c a r e e r steals leader, and Pavton led th e league this season with a career-best average of 2.86 a game. B oth are ex tre m e ly tou gh m en w h o play long m inutes, rarely skip g am es and have re m a rk a b le re cu p era tiv e powers. .Although Payton's streetw ise m outh is so m ethin g of a sm all NBA legend, don 't let S tockton's beatific looks m ake for ar. underestim ation of resolve. ‘T h e y look like a bunch of s c h o o lb o y s , but they d o n ’t play like th at.” said Sonics re se rv e N ate McMillan earlier this season about the Jazz. ‘T h a t 's a team that likes to take cheap sh ots. T h e y 're going to hit vou. and th ey 're going to try to fru strate vou.

"Stockton c o m es acro ss a - a perron who plays the gam e hard and d o e s n t do any dirty work. But h e's probably the m eanest, toughest guy on that team. W hen he s ' i s j pick on a big guy. h e ll give him an elbow in the ribs. Nock ton s been getting away with it tor years.” U k e Payton. Stockton would not admit in jury* even if he had a piano leg p ro tru d in g from his ab do m en . But e v e ry rune h e sat or. the bench last Saturday, a hot pad was u n der his so re thigh. .After the g am e, h e took Cl m in utes of treatm en t before en te rin g a lock e r room em pty of players but tu'il of re p o rte rs wanting to know how th e Jazz m an aged the lowest point total in th eir playoff history. ‘T h e leg is fine.” h e said. typically it e r r o neously ‘‘W hen you've been playing a team dike the Spurs) for a while, then lace a new team , you have to m a k e ad ju stm e n ts, to -change gears. We didn't do that very well “ N o, we w eren 't tired We felt g o o d in w arm ups. T h e y ju st c a m e out and s m o k e d us. S m oked, sealed and pack ed , in fact, just like th e salm on at S eattle's Pike Place M a r ket. It was hardly a1) S tockton's fault, how ev e r F o rw ard Shawn Kemp, norm ally o v e r m atch ed against Karl M alone, utterly dom i nated h is .All-Star te a m m a te in G am e I for p e rh a p s the first lime In the first half. Kem p hir al) nine of his shots, including a m o n ster d u n k in M alone's face, and had eig h t re bou nds. K em p's play h elp ed re d u c e the fourth q u a r te r to a layup drill for the sc ru b s lf th e Jazz w ouldn't adm it to fatigue, th o u g h th ey had e v e ry right to. then they have to settle for a m ore odious excuse*— age Next to th e sp n n g -te g g e d so n ics, w ho had five days of rest and practice after sw eeping •wo-tune defen d in g ch a m p io n H ouston, th e jazz appeared old and slow “ I told lur g u v s w e looked like fb a b v :

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robins in the nest. mouths open, waiting for the ball to fall in," said Jazz coach Jerry Sloan after the game. “On defense, as quick as the Sonics are on film, they look like they have six defenders out there. Today, it looked like they had IO guys. ‘They contained John a lob They did a great job of doubling him." Son ics double teams on Stockton weren't frequent in Game I. but they were annoying. Sloan didn't allow for the injury excuse. But he couldn't much deny the age issue. “John s not 19 years old anymore." he says. “ But he's fine." He always has been. Stockton and Malone. 32. have together played 192 playoff gam es without missing *

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one. and have b een a b se n t for only eight of a combined 1.886 reguiarseason games. But Malone. Stockton and t h e i r te a m | m ates need to I break through to the Finals now, because i it is getting harder every season, partic ularly in the - West With the aging of Stockton and Clyde Drexler. the trade of Tim Hardaway, the re tirement of Magic Johnson, the temperament of Nick Van Exel and the injuries to Kevin Johnson, this season established the West's top two guards as Payton and the Kings’ Mitch Richmond. The Mavericks’ Jason Kidd and the Trail Blazers’ Rod Strickland are not far behind. For Payton, his ascension, on a national TV forum with a fading Stockton, could not be more propitious. He is a free agent after this season, and he could be worth $50 million over six or seven years. Payton, who was also superb in the early rounds against the Kings and Rockets, leading the Sonics with 22.6 points, 7.4 assists and 2.1 steals per game, is also cleaning up a resume that includes dubious performances in the team's first-round playoff losses each

of the last two years. Although injuries were a small factor. Payton’s head didn't appear to be in either series. He took the brunt of pub lic criticism for the Sonics' disappointments. T h e biggest difference now is that I’m di recting this team a little bit better than I have in the last two or three years," he says. “I’m more serious now. Tm more productive. I’m showing myself on the court not by talking, but by doing the other things. “I like testing myself against Penny Hard away and Stockton to show people that you know, Tve got talent too. and I can play with them. Trn changing for the better. I'm getting a lot of knowledge. This summer is going to be a very big step for me. and I’ve got to get prepared." That preparation includes a step through Utah this weekend, because the Sonics have about three years of unfinished business backed ep. Now that the curse of the first round is behind them. they need to fulfill the expectations mandated from a regular season of 64 wins, the lOth-best record in league history. The minimum requirement for that fulfillment is the Western Conference cham pionship. . Reaching the Finals will also mean that Payton the student will have surpassed his figurative mentor. Stockton. “Gary's actually got more skill areas than Stockton," Kari said earlier this year. T h a t ’s not saying Gary's better than Stockton. I just think Gary can have an impact in a game in more areas." For Payton, the torch is waiting. ♦ A rt Thiel is a colum nist fo r the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.

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As caretakers go, Hill boasts a Magic touch squad that. on potential, should be the team of the 'late) '9<>s. I ’mil the Magic cash in on that potential. Hill will be an inviting and vul nerable target. Not that he deserves it. He was a loyal N BA assistant coach who never played the game but made up for 'lack of experience by absorbing knowledge from proven N BA coaches. In 27 years of coaching. Hill has learned his trade well. He does not stonewall or alien Shaun ate his players. He communicates. He does POWELL not hold grudges. He does not rip his players in the media. .Above all. he does not place his ego before the team. Plenty of Hall of Famecaliber coaches have been guilty of some or n the larger and more important sense. all of the above. Magic coach Brian Hill seeks to remove He was elevated from assistant coach the sting of last year's sweep by return largely on the advice of the Magic players. ing to the N BA Finals, in a personal Hill has the same kind of relationship with his sense, he's trying to remove a stigma: that he players as most other coaches. Not better, not is merely a caretaker for a team out of con worse. When the players are tired of hearing trol... Hill's voice, hell be replaced, just as ans oth Thats the widely held belief after two er coach would. episodes allowed everyone to sneak a peek "Thanks to Brian's rapport with us. you!! at Hill’s leadership clouty or supposed lack of probably find more humor on this team than it There are even whispers that Hill's job is any other." Magic guard Nick .Anderson says. on the line if the Magic lose to the Bulls in But let's get to the meat of th> issue: Does the Eastern Conference finals, which couldn't Hill have less leverage than some of his play be further from the truth. ers’ None of it helps the image of Hill, a hard The plain truth is. yes. working and studious basketball man who In this situation, what coach wouldn’t’ has the luxury and liability' of coaching a The M ag ic management has always

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now. because their .All-Star centers are approaching Two years ago. they com middle age. Plus. Barkley peted for an N BA champi would give the Knicks a onship. Two months from much-needed co-star tor now. the Rockets and the Patrick Ewing, and the Rock Knicks might be in hot pur ets could use someone with suit of another attractive en Barkley's inside presence. tity: Charles Barkley. Before the February trad.After both teams were ing deadline, both teams eliminated in the second phoned in bids for Sir round of the playoffs. Charles, only to be turned Barkley immediately b e down by the Suns, who fig came their winning Rx. W hy ured a healthy team would Barkley? Simple. The Rock prosper in the playoffs. The ets and Knicks need to win Suns were healthy. but as we know. thev hardly prospered. Now the Suns are sitting on a heavy pay roll and unable to sign any marquee free agents this summer lf they're looking to re build. which is likely, then Barkley— who turns cranky in a losing atmosphere— will be the first to go. The Rockets would I be willing to part with Robert H orry plus picks, but the Suns would probably hesi tate before helping a big conference rival. Most likely, thevll Sun downer Barkley might be send Barkier to leaving Cotton Fitzsimmons behind. Gotham. The Suns

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need defense and toughcouldn't figure out a way to ness, and the Knicks have a break the Jazz defense, will surplus. .Anthony Mason or • also catch heat in San .Anto nio. Charles Oakley is available. Barkley seems * unsure Given the Spurs' failure to about his future in a Suns I return to the conference fi uniform. .After the season. nals. Dennis Rodman was proved right. Rodman said he knocked the decision to trade Dan Majerie and the Robinson always folds in big refusal to re-sign Danny ■ games, that Hill reacts poor Ainge. ly in pressure situations, that “A mistake, no question." a “ friendlier locker room" Barkierdoesn't equate with a better # savs. rn "Our two best team, that the Spurs would shooters, and one is in Cleveland and the other is never replace his toughness on T N T We have too many and rebounding. Charles Smith was sup deficiencies." Barkley says he isn t camposed to help. But Smith, the paigning for a move. but “ if . player obtained at midsea they want to trade me to a son who was supposed to be team that has a chance. Ill a 30-minute starter at power forward, the player whose g°~ skills were supposed to be unleashed in the wide-open Western Conference, aver .After getting thumped by aged six points and shot 42 Hakeem Olajuwon one year. then being outplayed by Karl percent in the playoffs and Malone the next. David ; was benched tor W ill PerRobinson faces serious ques- • due. lions about his ability to meet the challenge of the The easy pick tor the postseason. Nothing in the Spurs' loss 76ers at No. I would be Mar to the Jazz refuted that argucus Camby. the best big man ment. .Against Felton Spen = in the draft. But thev also could make cer. Robinson disappeared in three of the last four games a case for pairing Allen herof the series. : son or Stephon Marbury next to Je rry Stackhouse to Spurs coach Bob Hill, who 0

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secure their backcourt for the next decade. Here s how the top *ix pick> could untold I) 7Sers. Cambv. Massachusetts: J) Raptors. Shared AbdurRahim. California; 3) Griz zlies. Marbury. Georgia Tech; 4) Bucks. Iverson. Georgetown. 5) Timberwolves. Rav .Allen. Connect!* cut; 6) Mavericks. John Wal lace. Syracuse

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man for th*- Nugget*' job The laker* weren't nece*sarily damaged bv Magic Johnson'* decision to retire It give* them a >4 million salary-cap cushion With about >V million, the Laker* rank among tho top three or four teams, in terms of mon ey available to spend on int* agent* this summer The hunt for Shaquille O’Neal just got better . Funny how things change in 12 months A year ago. George Karl re ceived a one-half vote of con fidence from the Sonics, who had collapsed in the first round tor the second consec utive season. Ju*t recently Karl’* option for next season was picked up brSeattJe. and Karl’s name was mentioned tor the vacant position in Charlotte ll the Sonics reach the N BA Finals, inok for Karl to sign a lengthy and lucra tive extension T m tired of the one-year, the what’s-going-to-happen. the turmoil and the distraction of George Karl." he says. “ I think I de serve better than that, and Wally (Walker, the Sonics' president! has basically agreed with that." ♦

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in the direction of another teammate. Trainer Jamie Whited caught the show. and she didn’t appredaie it Something happened that so traumatized her that she hasn’t returned to work. Manning apologized to her. in writ ing and on the phone, and also absorbed some unspecified discipline from athletic di rector Doug Dickey.

COLLEGE FOOTBALL REPORT

Moss: a super receiver who has gone offsides Notre Dame ofScials to renege on the schol arship offer Moss had accepted months ear lier from coach Lou Holtz. Later. Holtz recommended Moss and his family contact Bobby Bowden at Florida State, saying he does a great job coaching the superstars. Moss looked ever>* bit of that this spring. At 0^. 210 pounds, he has the size and s^jeed that quarterbacks love. Reports from Talla hassee indicate he has as much talent as any Ivan player on the team save senior tailback War MAISEL rick Dunn. He also seemed lo adjust well lo life on campus. However, when the spring se mester ended. Moss returned home lo serve and>* Moss bt\'anie a schoolbo) )e,chis 30 da.vs in the work-release program. end in Wcsi \ ‘irpnia. He could jump Part of that program calls for random drug testing. Midway through the 30 days. Moss oui of the j;r\'mnasium—and his bas ketball paled bt'fore his talents as a failed the te st and law-enforcement officials wide receiver. All of that poientia] languished revoked his work-release status and put him in a Charleston. W \ ‘a.. jail last week. Moss. in South Central Regional Jail in Charleston. a Florida State freshman, tested positive for A hearing scheduled for last week was con marijuana earlier this month while serrin^ a tinued. At the hearing, a judge will decide 30-day SL*nlena‘ in a Charleston work-release whether to let Moss off with a warning or repropram. sentence him for the original battery convic Moss received the 30-day sentence after tion pleading pjiln- last July to a misdemeanor Bowden said through a spokesman last charge of batter>- He w^s invoK'ed in a school ^ week that he would m ^ e no comment until fipht in which he kicked someone already on i the West Virginia courts are through with the arround. The incident helped convince Moss. What is unknown is Moss* disdplinarv*

COLLEGE BASKETB.ALL REPORT

Legislating a halt to the hesitation dribble enough, perhaps you don't remember when baseball bathed itself in balk calls a few years back, or the challenges college officials faced onK- two seasons ago when interpreting or ders to cut back on handchecking. "Palming." or "carrving." had just about been officiated out of existence. Referees tended to call a violation only when ballhandlers lost control and tried to regain it with an illegal-looking dribble. This application of Mike the rules fadlitaled the crossover dribble that DeCOURCY has made Tim Hardawav’ so dangerous in the ncsz3Ks;?w NB.A and helped Chris Smith become a star at Connecticut in the early 1990s. hey almost sneaked this one by us. The committee members deemed this to just like Nebraska's slick-quick be an unfair advantage lo the offense and point guard TvTonn Lue might thus will encourage game officials to enforce change directions in a flash and slip this rule: T h e dribble ends when... the drib the bail past an overmatched defender bler catches or causes the ball to come to rest We were looking for changes in the 3-point with one or both hands.” l*ne that never came when the N C M men’s College basketball is teeming with great basketball rules committee held its annual small guards such as Lue. Hareem Reid of meeting. .After the committee finished its .Arkansas.. Aaron Hutchins of Marquette and work. it was talking mostly about new time God Shammgod of Providence. All of them out allotments (two full and three 2Gsecond have been knowTi to change directions on the breaks per team in TV games). dribble by using a slight hesitation th a t as But the most significant action taken at the .NCAA coordinator of officials Hank Nichols committee s annual meeting w*as to declare interprets ii. amounts to an interruption, lf the “palming" rule a point of emphasis for the the ball goes back on the floor after th a t ifs 1996-97 season lf this seems innocuous a turnover.

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J f s a crim e . . . : for a player as talented as Moss to waste his immense talent status within the Seminoles’ program. Florida State has a drug-testing program, which is confidential. A first positive offense results in counseling for the offender. A second man dates a suspension and a third mandates a seasonlong suspension. Moss is in trouble. His body keeps provid ing opportunities that his head squanders. NoU'e Dame has come and gone. Florida Stale is in limbo. For a1! of his talent at mak ing defensive backs look foolish. Moss can't gel open from himself.

The bare facts Vol Fan No. I—*Thai Pevion Manning. I love him. I just think he hung the moon." Vol Fan No. 2—"Again?" The Tennessee quarterback has been dis ciplined for dropping his trousers in the team training room on March I and baring his soul

For those of you without a life. some en terprising Golden Domers have set up a web site conneaed to a camera trained upon the ongoing. $50 million ex p ^sio n of Notre Dame Stadium. The capacity of the House that Rockne Built will increase by one-third. lo 80.000 seats, for the 1997 season. The site, located ar h ttp :// www.nd.edu/jeremy/stadi u m /. is updated every five minutes. bi the meantime. youH have to be satisfied with the progress reports of Lou Holtz. The Notre Dame head coach has inspected the Irish’s new digs fi^m every perspective— even the one from the fans who chronically complain about his love affair with the run ning game. "I sal in the top row and yelled. Throw it to the tight end.’ " Holtz sav-s. "and they could hear me on the field, so it will maintain that charismatic atmosphere." The expansion is being built straight up. but Holtz says Irish fans concerned about ac cess lo their favorite icon need not worry. *^*ou used to be able to sit in Row 12 and see Touchdown Jesus." Holtz says. "Now. its my understanding that more people will see it than before." ♦ loan M aisel covers college football fo r Seivsday. Readers can now com m unicate directly with Ivan via e-m ail at imaiseltsn^aoicom.

The hesitation dribble w-as one loc^ that helped accomplish the goal identified when the 3-point shot was introduced in 1986-87; "To put the little man back in the game." Now. we've got 6-10 guys such as Kentucky’s Wal ter McCarty making 3-pointers regul^fr, but not many his size penetrating the l ^ e as deft ly as Wyoming’s 5-8 LaDreD Wlutehead. "Most of the point guards today do i t ” Nichols says, "and they’re going to have to get used to this. Hopefiilfv-. we can get after it early, and they can make the adjustment"

That Special K foimula Most of the attention during the Duke dy nasty was spent on big men Mark Marie. Danny Ferry and Christian Laettner. but per haps the most significant factor as the Blue Devils made seven Final Four trips in nine seasons was coach Mike Kr^*zewsld’s ability’ to attract and instruct athletic wing players. Coach K had remarkable success with Johnny Dawkins. Robert Blickey. Phil Hen derson. Thomas Hill. Brian Davis. Antonio Lang and the best of the lot. Grant Hill. His recruiting got away from that philosophy in recent years as he fixated on big men. some worth his time (Cherokee Parks) and some not Ooey Beard). The current Duke class should help return the Devils to the hard-guarding, high-flying style they once employed. When the Devils signed ^ 5 Nate James of S t John’s ai Prospect Han in Frederick. Md., the collec tion of players who can play small forward or shooting guard or both grew to five: 6-5 Ricky Price. Trajan Langdon and 64 Jeff Capel among the returning players, plus 6-7 early signee Chris CarraweJl of Cardinal Riner in S t Louis. Transfer Roshown McLeod, who came from S t John’s, also can play small forw-ard.

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Parting shots Former USO point guard Cameron Mur ray will turn up at Louisville and be eligible in 1997-98.... Syracuse is rn a difficult situa tion now that point guard recruit Jason Hart has asked to be released from his letter of in te n t He says he wants to attend school dos er to his L ^ Angeles home, where is broth er is suffering from a severe kidney ailment The Orangemen are struggling with whether to grant the release. 4 M ike DeCourcy covers college basketball fo r the Com m ercial A ppeal in M em phis. Tenn.

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