Evansville Courier and Press from Evansville, Indiana (2024)

January 15, 1990

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Evansville Courier and Pressi

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Evansville, Indiana

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Monday, January 15, 1990

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21

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The Evansville Monday January 15 1990 C3 Abolish all NCAA rules let the sky be the limit JOB MUBNCH Scripps Howard News Service formed the NCAA because football was getting too big and rough for its britches rules have been defined refined and loo-pholed The answer to every question has become: "It May we give our players No! May we give No! May No for cripes sake you understand English and Spanish? It used to be OK to buy a burger for a basketball player Til buy you all the burgers you can eat if you come to our That turned into: "Here at Upper East-side Manhattan Tech we provide lunch tickets to Ordinary people are astonished that players must provide their own transportation from their home to school mid also from the airport to the campus an NCAA rule It bad when the graduate assistant coach was out there on the tarmac to meet the plane It got bad when boosters started showing up in the lima Now there are about 100 big-time football teams and three times that many Division I basketball teams Only about 40 can be considered the regular bigwigs Others are like Andy Warhol says famous for 15 minutes Abolishing all rules would cause an interesting scene It would test the theory that the natural reaction to "the the limit" is "bottom of the There just enough money nor are there enough players for so many schools to further escalate the cost of winning People complain now about the price of pro tickets and there are only 27 NBA teams and 28 teams in the NFL Out of a no-rule NCAA would evolve this notice in the newspaper "Football game today Oklahoma vs Nebraska Green tree Park near the duck COMMENTARY be quite to the level of the NFL or the NBA And with a minor-league pro atmosphere probably be a lack of that sis-boom-ba electricity that makes college football and basketball the social spectacles they are today Beverly Hills would meet Southhampton for Na 1 in football because Toledo and El Paso stopped competing when the cost of a good team meant $50 for an end-zone seat Ever since President Teddy Roosevelt I Clean up college athletic cheating with the candy-store theory Let them go ahead and gorge There shall be no rules starting now Oily oily oxen free Within five years of freeing booster clubs the average fan would be sick of paying escalating ticket prices needed to win in a no-rules atmosphere And only a few of the George Steinbrenner-type schools would play keeping up with the Joneses It would result in a tiny college super conference But the play would not Foreman has chance to punch promoter ble with Foreman than he did in his two promotional ventures with the punching preacher Foreman threatened to pull out of both mstrfms on fight day "I know if it was him or his said Cooney who still has a license It was to obtain funds for his youth center at Houston that Foreman returned to boxing in 1987 10 years after he retired and became an evangelist The bout is being criticized in some quarters as a shamless burlesque for exploiting both the fighters and the paying public Each fighter is guaranteed $1 million Foreman is the 9-5 favorite to win the bout at the Convention Center where a crowd of 11000 is expected By The Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY NJ George Foreman will get a chance tonight to do something many fighters would like to do punch a promoter Rest assured the promoter will be punching back In a scheduled 16round bout the 41-year-old Foreman will meet Gerry Cooney who promoted two of the former heavyweight fights in his comeback The 33-year-old Cooney also on the comeback trail promoted fourth-round knockout of Carlos Hemandes at Atlantic City and his second-round knockout of Iadialas Mijangos at Fort Myers Fla both in 1988 Cooney hopes he has less trou- SPORTS Courier photo by SONNY BROWN Harrison junior Matt Stevens (right) worked to turn Reitz's Stevens ranked No 1 in the state has a 20-0 record that Jason Frankenberger during a recent 103-pound match includes 14 pins Stevens No 1 but not really yet DiPrimio From staff and wfra reports Reserved seating addsd to Tri-Stato Speedway HAUBSTADT Ind Tri-State Speedway will feature reserved eating when the track opens its 30th racing season in April The addition was made possible by the addition of 600 new seats on the west side high above the existing seating Reserved seats will be sold on a first-come first-served basis for the season and for selected individual events For more information call Loris Helfrich at 812-7686025 Formor IU awimmor gats Hall of Famo post FORT LAUDERDALE Fla A former Indianapolis banker has been named chairman of the board for the International Swimming Hall of Fame Frank McKinney Jr 51 succeeds former Treasury Secretary William Simon as head of the Hall of Fame McKinney a two-time Olympic gold medalist was treasurer of the Hall in 1965 the year it opened He retired earlier this month from his job as chairman and chief executive officer of Bank One Indianapolis McKinney swam far Jamaa first Big Ten Ctmfer-ence championship team at Indiana University in 1961 Mater Del wins reserve mat tournament Host Mater Dei had champions in nine of the 13 weight classes in winning the Evansville Reserve Wrestling Invitational The Wildcats had 223 points 104 more than Central and Princeton Mater Dei champions were Matt Weber (103) Pat Boerman (119) Eric Turner (1351 Tim Roberts (1401 Kevin Wilson (145) Maris Rainey (1521 Eric Folz (160) Matt Armen tano (171) and Dan Gelardin (1891 Noah wins New South Wales Open title SYDNEY Australia Frenchman Yannick Noah defeated West German Carl-Uwe Steeb 67 63 64 to win the title in the $400000 New South Wales Open tennis championship It was the eighth-seeded first victory in nearly two yean and came only three months after he considered retirement The match took two hours Meanwhile the Natalia Zvereva the Na 11 seed rallied to beat Austrian Barbara Paulus 46 61 6-3 in the one-hour 45-minute final Pilklngton wins Houston Msrathon HOUSTON Paul Pilkington pulled away in the final six miles for his first marathon victory and Maria Trujillo held off a late challenge to win the division in the Houston Marathon Sunday Pilkington 30 jockeyed for position with Sam Ngatia before taking the lead for good in the 20th mile He finished in 2 hours 11 minutes 13 seconds breaking his previous best by 4:11 Trujillo took the lead from the start and ran most of the race alone until West Krestin Pressler made a charge in the 18th mile working on him being a state said Williams who has had one other state champ 132-pound Damn Grimwood in 1983 "Last year his goal was to get to state Now looking at winning the To do that hell have to avoid letdowns a long hard road to get to said Williams "A lot can happen and Matt is one of four or five kids who have a shot But he beat himself or get psyched out beat everybody capable of Mater Dei will go after its 13th straight Southern Indiana Athletic Conference title this Saturday at Castle The aecond-ranked Wildcats have won 16 conference titles overall The last team to finish first besides Mater Dei was Reitz in 1976 Lance Ellis who went 1780 with four state titles at Indianapolis Cathedral is finding the road a bit rougher at Indiana University The 118-pound freshman has struggled to a 6-3 record that doesn't include results in a tournament at Las Vegas in which he place Ellis won his first five matches including a title in the Eastern Michigan Open until losing 65 to a Kansas wrestler He also lost to a Ferris State wrestler 140 before losing by a 21-6 technical fall to Jack Griffin ranked Na 3 in the country Coaches are reminded to call the Mater Dei athletic office on Friday before 2:30 pm with individual records Question: When is Na 1 not all cracked up to be? Answer When Na 1 before really Na 1 For instance Matt Stevens is the top-ranked 103 pounder in the state nice an honor But unless No 1 at the end of the season and the only way you can do that is by winning a state title it mean much Except to add pressure "He has pressure to prove Na 1 in the state every time he said Harrison vwH John Williams "but he only has to prove it on Feb Stevens has proved it so for The junior is 200 with 14 pins and has allowed only eight points all season Five came against Damon Witherspoon That 8-5 decision was his closest match of the season Only two others Mount Vernon's Brady Gottman and Todd Fisher have stayed within seven points of him done everything said Williams "He works hard every day He practices with pain and when sick just a good dedicated That deification has made it easier for Stevens to handle the expectations that come with being Na 1 expected to pin or win by a technical foil and if I have a dose match I don't feel like wrestled he said Williams want Stevens to feel that Wrestling way which is why doing everything he can to take the pressure off "I want him to enjoy it and not feel like wrestling in the state meet every time he steps onto the said Williams "I just want him to go out there and wrestle and not worry about anything While Stevens has had plenty of decisive victories not a scoring miu-bW "Matt is a very steady said Williams not an up-and-down kid and he beat his head on lockers very level-headed "The only problem he has is he sometimes gets a little too cautious He gets a lead and then he can get conservative You wont see Him winning a 17-16 Said Stevens who has a career record of 67-10-3: "Tin trying to be more aggressive but I don't want to do an thing stupid Stevens was ranked fifth in the preseason poll after going 29-2-1 last year and qualifying for state He moved up to Na 1 in early December and has been there ever since And after winning sectional regional and semistate titles last year Stevens hopes to get the only one that eluded him the state championship KIND OF THE COOPER LIFE LINER Lendl rolls while his cap flaps in breeze PERFORMANCE CLASSIC GOOD LOOKS 60000 MILE TREADWEAR QSoi PROTECTION LIMITED WARRANTY PLUS No Charge Replacement Limited Warranty (sfc far Ml dttsnsij their best form-wise But some guys are going to be very fit after having some time off and working on getting themselves back into McEnroe seeded fourth after an erratic but successful comeback year boosted his confidence by beating Edberg on Saturday in the finals of an exhibition tournament in sweltering humid Adelaide In several of his matches McEnroe seemed quicker than last year and showed flashes of his ffnfflubmintlng game hard deep angled serves deft soft-touch volleys and superb anticipation of shots It was a style that brought him three Wimbledon and four US Open titles the last of them in 1984 He has played the Australian only twice before getting as for as the semis in 1983 and the quarters in 1985 Graf played a full tournament since winning the Virginia Slims title in New York in November that gave the 26year-old West Gorman 14 titles fin: 1989 about his chances of winning another in the often gasping heat here He rule himself out after a week when he beat Na 8 Stefon Edberg and other players upset Lendl and No 2 Boris Becker But McEnroe who turns 81 next month is realistic enough to know need more than a little luck to survive two weeks of matches in a stadium where the Rebound Ace hard courts sometimes reach temperatures far higher than the 106degree heat recorded outside in recent days "If you go out there and it is 140 degrees on the court anything could McEnroe said "But if conditions are good I give myself a chance I feel Tm hitting the ball well but I couldn't play six or seven matches in a row at my best in that heat "It is the fit guys who are probably going to do he says "Fitness is going to be a bigger advan-tage rather than form because not too many guys are going to be at By The Assodatod Press MELBOURNE Australia Ivan lucky cap flapped in the breeze as he began defense of his Australian Open title Monday with an easy victory in a tournament John McEnroe described as a wild The topeeeded Lendl shrugging off an upset against Yannick Noah last week in Sydney dispatched Californian Jim Pugh 6-3 62 6-4 with a combination of crisp passing shots lobs and drop shots from the baseline Pugh the two-time defending Australian doubles champion made too many mistakes and was too slow to give Lendl more than a mild workout on the Rebound Ace hard courts Rarely did Lendl venture to the net in the 96-minute match and he was broken only once in the eighth game of the final set Pugh double-faulted at game point twice mish*t a few shots into the stands and too often drove his two-handed shots wide from both sides Lendl said he got his strange-looking cap while practicing with Australian coach Tony Roche before coming here The cap is not part of the wardrobe of clothes Lendl is promoting for Mizuno of Japan for a cool 325 million "It may not be an elegant thing but this tournament is not about being Lendl said "If I do my job as well as the hat does Fd be FHo Sanches the seventh seed from Spain was the first seeded player to foil as he lost to Jean Fleurian of France 6-2 64 6-4 Two-time defending champion Steffi Graf was scheduled to play her first match at night against 17-year-old Carrie Cunningham of Livonia Mich Pam Shriver the llth-seeded woman won her first match 62 6 4 against Eva Sviglerova of Chechoslovakia McEnroe who last won a Grand Slam title more than five years ago fooling himself I 90 DAYS FREE FINANCING TCDRilCs VISA MASTERCARD I CnlVIOa 90 DAYS SAME AS CASH MASTER TIRE ACCESSORIES INC 905 COLUMBIA EVANSVILLE IN 428-4575 TIRE SUPPLY OLD HWY 231 SO JASPER INDIANA 482-3122.

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