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3 NOV " 2 1988 ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH PORT CLASSIFIED 7-26 SECTION WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1988 mm NCAA Penalty Jolts Jayhawks f 1()1 VINCENT ASKEW: A former Memphis State player who was recruited by KU. He never played for the Jayhawks, returning to Memphis in 1986. LARRY BROWN: The former Kansas coach admitted giving Vincent Askew, a recruit, $364 to fly home to visit his gravely ill grandmother. ROY WILLIAMS: "When you say 'probation for three years, that's what the other schools are going to bring up to the young men we're recruiting." VA 0V Compiled From News Services MISSION, Kan. The National Collegiate Athletic Association placed Kansas' basketball program on probation for three years Tuesday, making the Jayhawks the' first national champion to be barred from defending its title. , Kansas received a ruling from the NCAA's Committee on Infractions, barring it from postseason competition, barring paid recruiting visits in 11989 and reducing to 12 from 13 the number of players on scholarship ..next season. Further, the Infractions Committee is requiring Kansas officials to report annually to the NCAA for three years or risk imposition of further penalties, including the "death penalty." That would suspend the basketball program for two years. The violations took place while Larry Brown was coach. Brown left after last season to become coach of the San Antonio Spurs of the National Basketball Association. The Infractions Committee noted that even without probationary violations, the university is eligible for the death penalty because its football program was placed on a three-year probation in 1983. This gives KU two major violations within a five-year -period. "Kansas was on the bubble, so to speak," David Berst, assistant NCAA director for enforcement, said. "I'm sure there was a lot of discussion on that point, but no severe violations involved any of the players who were on the team. It was a tough decision." The committee said it declined to impose that penalty because: "The violations, while serious and calculated to obtain a recruiting advantage with one highly visible transfer student-athlete, were isolated to a 10-day period," with the NCAA finding no other "significant violations" in the program. Southern Methodist's football program is the only one that has been idealtthe death penalty. The NCAA was easier to understand when Walter Byers was executive director. Then it was just morally righteous, or self-righteous. Schultz took over a year ago and immediately set forth to streamline things. Everyone applauded. Dick Schultz would be good for college sports. And who knows? Maybe banning beer advertising is a good thing, too. "Does it make sense for us to have a tough drug testing program on the one hand and then have beer commercials in our telecasts?" Schultz told Sports inc., a sports business magazine. "I personally have a problem with that, and I know a lot of Larry Brown and the Jayhawks celebrate after winning the 1 988 PENALTIES AGAINST KANSAS Midwest Regional. . Ap ' ance with NCAA rules, including full audit of athletes' summer jobs; make annual reports on wages and salaries paid to players employed in university summer camps and camps operated-by school's athletic staff. Must "show cause" why it should not be penalized further if it does not dissociate three unnamed "repre-sentatives of the athletics interests from the athletic program based upon their involvement in violations of NCAA rules." No postseason basketball competition in 1988-89. The Big Eight Conference must decide whether Kansas is eligible for its postseason tournament. Can pay for no campus visits by basketball recruits in 1989. Loses one basketball scholarship for the 1989-90 academic year. Must make annual reports on action taken during probationary period to bring its program into compli NCAA Ponders Hops, Hoops And Hypocrisy I I KEVIN HORRIGAN SPORTS ;-.v-PJ EDITOR bear these penalties alone." ; The NCAA penalties leave the Big Eight Conference with a decision to make regarding Kansas' participation in the conference tournament, which selects the Big Eight's representative to the NCAA Tournament. "We understand the NCAA did not prohibit Kansas from taking part in the Big Eight Postseason Tournament," Commissioner Carl James said in a statement. "The issue of automatic qualification will be discussed by the conference faculty representatives and athletic directors at their next meeting Dec. 7-9 in Kansas City." . Two years ago, with Memphis State on NCAA probation, Metro Conference officials allowed Memphis State to play in the league tournament. The Tigers won, and the NCAA did not pick another Metro team as an at-large entrant. The NCAA's 10-page report on sanctions against Kansas said its investigation had begun when an un-See KANSAS, Page 5 since Final Four teams each got more than $1 million, and even first-round losers took home checks for $230,000. These athletic directors aren't going to be very happy if the rights fees in the next TV contract go down because the networks can't sell time to breweries. The ADs already are scrounging. Their latest proposal is to add a 12th game to the regular-season college football schedule. Big schools with lots of money can pay off a cupcake to come down to their campus on what would have been an open date and get beat up on for the polls. Cup-See HORRIGAN, Page 5 games is two weeks out of a 28-week season. That's not a lot. Ten games is three weeks." Federko was most upset with the Tocchet case, particularly Tocchet's comments that he was dazed after Chynoweth punched him. "That's not an excuse; he lost it when the guy sucker-punched him," Federko said. "If some guy kills somebody because he lost it what does that mean? It doesn't mean much. "If you run over somebody driving home because you lost control of your car, you're still responsible." " Brian Sutter said the suspensions were a step in the right direction. - "You have to start somewhere," he said. "If this keeps going on, the sus- -pensions will keep getting harsher." ; Defenseman Gordie Roberts agreed. - "It's about time the NHL. does something to clean up its act he See PENALTIES, Page 7, Suspensions Too Weak Kansas basketball was not involved in the 1983 case; football was not involved this time. The NCAA further said that KU must show why it should not be penalized further if it fails to dissociate three people from KU athletics because of their involvement in past violations. Neither the school nor the NCAA made public the three names. Former KU assistant coach Alvin Gentry earlier this month identified one of them as Mike Marshall, a former guard who played at KU during the 1983-84 season and worked in Brown's basketball camp during the summer of 1986. Dissociation includes no involvement in recruiting, and KU must refuse to accept financial contributions from those three individuals. Brown said in a news conference at San Antonio that he was "sorry that the present players and staff must suffer the consequences of these penalties, and had I known the extent of the penalties at the time, I would not have left the University of Kansas to people have a problem with us running a drug education spot followed by a beer commercial." It's a gutsy move. Wrongheaded, maybe, but gutsy. Eight out of every 10 dollars the NCAA spends are generated by the basketball tournament Two years ago the NCAA signed a three-year, $165-million deal with CBS. This ensured that Brent Mus-burger would continue to be part of .the March winds, and enabled the NCAA to beef up its enforcement division (to catch scofflaws such as Kansas) and support minor sports programs. It made athletic directors ecstatic, stick and hit Mario Lemieux of Pittsburgh in the chest Monday. James Patrick of the Rangers broke the jaw of Philadelphia's Ron Sutter, another Sutter brother, when he crosschecked him in the head Saturday. ,"If the suspensions were for 40 games, more severe, maybe it would stop," Federko said. "But six and 10 games? How many times do you see six- and 10-game suspensions, and it's still happening. "Six and 10 games is not so severe. It's not like it's for a long time. Six Smythe Division. Their record is partly attributable to their meager power play, which has produced a leaguejow five goals. Edmonton's power play was feared when it had Gretzky, who has scored .76 points in 27 career games against the Blues. The Oilers miss his talent, several Blues players said, but they also miss his presence. On the ice. In the locker room. On the road. "He has the same effect Mario Lemieux has on Pittsburgh," defense-man Gordie Roberts said. "He just makes everyone around him so much better." But the Oilers had some pretty good "everyones" around Gretzky. And though they may have slipped a bit in the early going, they are far i from hitting the skids. "Obviously, it would be foolish to say Edmonton is the same without Wayne," Blues goalie Greg Millen said. "But they've always had a great hockey club with some of the greatest " It'll take someone getting killed before they really do something about it. 99 BERNIE FEDERKO, discussing the NHL's suspensions for violence. This one should make the Sunday paper, in Ralph Graczak's fabulous "Our Own Oddities" comic strip. Dick Schultz, executive director of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, wants to ban beer advertising during telecasts of the NCAA basketball tournament His announcement was made in a magazine story Writers Tab Reds' Sabo Top Rookie NEW YORK (AP) Chris Sabo proved that the Cincinnati Reds don't have to finish second at everything. Sabo was named the National League Rookie of the Year by the Baseball Writers Association of America on Tuesday. The third baseman batted .271, hit 11 homers and drove in 44 runs for the Reds, who finished second in the NL West for the fourth consecutive season. He received 79 points, and 11 first-place votes from a panel of 24 writers, two from each NL city. First baseman Mark Grace of the Chicago Cubs was second with 61 points and righthanded pitcher Tim Belcher of the Los Angeles Dodgers was third with 35. "It means a lot to me," Sabo said. "It's like the All-Star Game; I was voted to that but I wasn't counting on it. When I got it, I was happy. It's the same with this. I wasn't counting on it If I did it great. If I didn't get it I wasn't going to quit." Reds owner Marge Schott, who has been critical of the team's second-place finishes, attended Sabo's news conference at Riverfront Stadium. "Well, at least we won something. Right Chris?" she said. Sabo stole 46 bases, tied for fourth in the league and the most for a Reds rookie since Bob Bescher's 54 in 1909. Sabo hit 40 doubles, third in the NL Sabo was the only rookie to play in the All-Star Game, and he did it be-' fore the hometown crowd. At the start of the season, Cincin- right next to a full-page Budweiser ad! Also, Dick doesn't look like a zucchini!! Oddities, indeed. I do not understand the NCAA. On Tuesday, it crushed the Kansas basketball program for $1,500 worth of improprieties paid to a kid named Vincent Askew, who wound up at Memphis State. Penalties were heavy no postseason play, loss of a scholarship, annual progress reports because this was KU's second violation in the last five years. The football program, of all things, was put on probation in 1983, thereby proving the front half of the admonition, "Cheaters never Chris Sabo "It means a lot to me' Player 1st 2nd 3rd Total Sabo, Cin 11 6 6 79 Grace, Chi 7 6 8 61 Belcher, LA 3 5 5 35 Gant,Atl 1 5 2 22 Alomar, SD 21 11 Berryhill, Chi 1 3 Jeffsries.NY 1 3 Jordan, Phil 2 -2 NOTE: Voting for the 1988 Na-. tional League Rookie of the Year is on a 5-3-1 point basis. nati was going to use him asfe backup infielder. But when third baseman Buddy Bell got hurt at the end of spring training, Sabo took over. He made an impact from the start On April 7, Sabo had 11 assists in Cincinnati's 8-1 victory over the Cardinals, tying the major-league record for third basemen for a nine-inning game. The NFL's labor dispute remains at an impasse and its fate may be in the hands of the court. PAGE 3E win and winners never cheat." But then why wasn't the "death penalty" imposed and the basketball program suspended? That was the way the NCAA was going to deal with repeat offenders. Well, said the NCAA, it was an isolated instance. ' I do not understand the NCAA. I do, however, now understand why Larry , Brown left Kansas for the National Basketball Association. It was reported that he gave Askew $366 so he could visit his sick grandmother. Ah-hah. The old sick grandparent ploy, raised to a fine art by Joaquin Andu-jar at the start of every spring training. Federko: By Dave Luecking Of the Post-Dispatch Staff Count Blues center Bernie Federko among the doubters. He doubts whether the National Hockey league has accomplished anything by suspending three players this week. He doubts whether the violence will stop. The suspensions, he says, are too lenient "It'll take someone getting killed before they really do something about it," Federko said Tuesday, before the Blues departed to the site of one of the incidents Edmonton. Edmonton's Mark Messier got the lightest suspension six games for using his stick to dislodge four teeth of Vancouver's Rich Sutter, the younger brother of Blues coach Brian Sutter. Philadelphia's Rick Tocchet was suspended for 10 games for purposely gouging the left eye of Dean Blues Hit By Vahe Gregorian Of the Post-Dispatch Staff Blues left winger Tony McKegney turned on the TV the other night to catch his first glimpse of a new show. "It seemed really strange to see him in another uniform," McKegney said. "Him" being Wayne Gretzky. The Great One was playing against his former mates for the first time since Edmonton Oilers owner Peter Pock-lington pocketed a king's ransom of nearly $15 million in exchange for Gretzky, the eight-time Most Valuable Player of the National Hockey League. From the Los Angeles Kings, Edmonton also acquired prolific scorer Jimmy Carson. But in the furor surrounding the trade, the once-steady buzz of "dynasty" was reduced to a murmur. Now the Blues, in the first of four games through the hostile territories of Edmonton, Calgary, Quebec and Chynoweth of the New York Islanders in a fight Thursday. The injury will put Chynoweth out of action for at least six weeks. Chicago's Dave Manson was suspended for 10 days for picking a fight Friday with Vancouver's Dave Bruce after a game won by Vancouver 5-2. Manson kneed Bruce in the bead during the fight The NHL also is expected to act on two other incidents, both involving the New York Rangers. : New York's David Shaw swung his Road, Take On New Oilers .Montreal, have their first shot at the new Oilers. "I certainly, feel more confident going in there," McKegney said. But Blues coach Brian Sutter doesn't believe that Gretzky's ab-jsence offers a reprieve. "We don't worry about what other teams have," Sutter said. "What's gone in the past is we worry too much about the other teams. We have to worry about the St Louis Blues. "If you go in somewhere worrying about getting hit in the head, you'll get hit in the head a few times." If the Blues (5-3-1) can capitalize, they have a chance to make prosperous an eight-day journey that normally would appear treacherous. Why? Their four opponents, usually among .the league's best teams, have a combined record of 19-21-6. . And the Oilers are off to an abnormally sluggish start j With a 5-4-2 record, the defending Stanley Cup champion Oilers are in a three-way tie for second place in the players in the world. We're going to -have our hands full." v ; - T And some argue that the Oilers may be even tougher when they fuse together their new elements. Brett Hull and Mike Bullard had a -better look at the Oilers than many of I their teammates, because they came -from Calgary, one of the few teams in recent years to have done well ; against Edmonton. - ; . ; "He's the greatest to ever play the ; game, but I don't think he was the -whole team," said Hull. "And Edmon-; ton always did better against Calgary -when he was hurt They all seemed to dig down a little harder when they : were playing without him. ; "And they have so many other tal- ; ented players." Such as Mark Messier, who has as- sumed Gretzky's captaincy, goalie ; Grant Fuhr, high-scoring Craig Simpson, Jari Kurri and Carson. "It's going to be tough to figure them out" Bullard said. "Before, you Sec BLUES, Page 7 ; t i PRO FOOTBALL i Former Hazelwood East High star Gerald Nichols is a no-nonsense
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Ok, If Brown is out, who do YOU want as the lead assistant / ACH - MBB
