SPORTS
IN BRIEF
ra
e
court reveal
juro whoexp
their ety dwing
n, 25, w nvicted by
a jury Feb. 10 of pe and
aiminal devia conduct in con­
nection 'th an ult t urn-
mer on iree Washington,
19-year-old beauty pageant con-
tant. He' �uled to be
n1enced Idt 26.
t week, attorneys for the
boxer ked 'on Superior
Court Jud Patrt GiJford to
re the names 0 jurors who
were said to have expressed
safety concems. Gifford . in
an order Feb. 11 that she would
not publicly re the jure '
names beca 0 concerns they
bad expressed for their own and
their famlli ' safety. Such con­
cerns may be relevant 10 Tyson'
planned appeals, defe attor-
neyssaid.
But Deputy Prosecutor David
J. Dreyer 'd in a motion filed
Monday that u., rei of the
names is not warranted. He con­
teIXled that jurors in every case
are entitled 10 privacy.
1bc jwors' concerns were
rooted in "their j\Btifiable an­
ticipation of trong public reac­
tion to the verdict." That concern
has beendemonstJated to be true,
Dreyer said.
D atIIOmeya t:.Ye
interviewed jwom in relation to
an investigation an
comment from 0 j r tIIIt the
trial was rigged and out of the
jury's hands.
The juror has denied making
the remark and the prosecutor'
office concwred after an in -
tigation. Defense attorneys con­
ducted their own investigation
into the juror' alleged comment'
and have not yet reported their
fiI¥1�.
'PGA Tour
ek minority' I
tudent for
golf Intern hlp
WASHINGTON DC - Dead­
line for applications for the first
Professional Golf Association
(pGA) Tour Mioority Swnmer
Internship Program ha been
extended until March 31. At:,.
cording to Ralph Stringer,
president of the Stringer
Marketing Group.
Stringer and his firm have
been retained by the PGA Tour
to help process applications and
administer the program. A
total of 15 paid internships will
be available from June 15
# through August 14 for qualified
male and female African­
American, Asian American,
Native American, and Hi panic
college students.
Five internship will be
based in or around PGA Tour
headquarters in Ponte Vedra,
. Florida. Two internships have
been established with the
Tour's promotions area, and
will involve traveling the PGA
Tour week-to-week. Another
position will be ba ed in
Pinehurst, North Carolina and
other positions in Trumbull,
Connecticut, and Princeton,
New Jersey.
QUAUFYING criteria for
the internships vary, but in
general the program' seeking
college tuden with an inter­
e t in golf and a solid academic
history.
Students intere ted in
receiving an application form
hould write to the attention of
Karen Durden at: PGA Tour,
112 TPC Blvd., Pont , Vedra,
Fl. 32082.
. manaae to sit back and relax. 1 can alk out of an
Interview or pr conference' and tep rilht back into '
Mike Po ell off e. Before it may have taken
a bile to come down off it; no 1 can easily separ te
the t 0 and that' been a bi difference for me,"
stated Po 0 '.
When Bob on broke the orld reeo din 1
apJ�eclleCl 29 f on inuch
'ridlteDecl by
Powell, in winninl the award, joined ueh previous
inners as Eric Heiden (19 1), Seb ian Coe (1982).
Mary Decker (1983), Edwin M (1984), Lewi
(1985), Said Aouita (1986); Orea Loupnis. (1987),
Ben Johnson (1988), Florence Oriffith-Joyner (1989),
Ro er Kingdom (1990) and last year's winner, Grell
LeMond.
To make the ward even sweeter. former lOlli-jumP
record holders Bob Beamon and Ralpb Do ton, the
-'only two men to hold- the world 10 -jump record
'Since Jesse Owens - in addition'to Ilor Ter-Ov­
anesyan, who was scheduled to ttend the Owens
dinner - were in attendance. It as a wonderful
honor for Powell but he's been on a competitive hiab
ince he captured a silver medal in the lonl jump at the
1988 Seoul Olympics. Still, jumpina indoor at
Millrose would be different for him. '
"Indoors is totally foreiln to me, " said Powell, as
writers moved closer to let every word. He hadn't
jumped indoors in two years. "It's a shorter ap­
proach; there's a circu -type atmosphere which can
definitely help me. I don'! have a lot of experience
(indoors) tiut this i a areat challenge for me. Beinl in
New �ork and comln off the world-record season,
pec{ple are loinl to be expeetln a lot from me and 1
expect a lot from myself. '
"It's just a challenge and challenges keep you going
every day. This year i a challen e for me to get the
gold medal and jump over 30, feet. "
Goinl into last year, Powell's loals would have
been imply to beat Lewis in a competition or jump
over 28 feet. In last year's national championship
held on Randalls Island, Powell seemingly had the
competition in the b thoulh he was ,an unflatterina
· "I' ark or ed to say I can
jump fartber than that," be said, convincinaly, "be­
cau I don't b bat I y off of just tryil1l to sound
lood and say I'm ,oina to break the orld record. I
kDo bo I feelo" And if be never jumps that far
apin, ould be be .uiarJed?
"Oh, yeah. I would have been satisfied ben I
made the Olympic team in 1988," he said. PoweD
plans to compete in Barcelona and the Atlanta Gam
in 1996. "Thia is ju t lOme thick icin on this cake. n
The West Covina: Calif., resident with all that
swirl around him, i till ble to be Mike Powell.
"I'm learnina to delelate my time now. I Jive so
much; then I need so much for myself. Rilht now, this
, is a two-week period where I'm Jivina my If to
everybody," said Powell, who captured the 1990 Foot
Locker Slam (Dunk) Fest title. "Prior to this I was
home for three weeks and I was traininl. After lettina
back from the Superstars Competition (he finished
flflt), I'm loilll to be into trainin for three months
and let focused ln. ,.,
His only other meet will be in Yokahama,' Japan,
this month for a �:Iow-key" meet. Then he'll start
trainina for outdoors in April by runnin some r .
"My oaI is to let faster," he said, "then start
jumpina in May. "
Bob Beamon was happy that Powell broke his
record 24 year to the day on hi birthday, not so much
because of what he did but more so because of what
it tran lated for the sport.
"Mike lave track and field a hot in the arm that
it really needed," stated Beamon .: "Breakin the
record means youllJer athletes will be inspired by
Mike." .
His coffee cup drained, Powell accepted the Jesse
Owens International Trophy Award and noted, as he
tood at the podium with Beamon and Ralph Boston,
that this is a "tough fraternity to let into. "And an.
aside, "I'm not finished. I'm stilllearninl."
Could it be that Mike Powell can out jump what he '
accomplished in 19911 Scary thouJht, but he's no
10 er an almoIt. He'. arrived.
0-14 vs. Lewis. He w leadina when Lewis' last jump
beat Po ell by h(l/f an inch: 28 feet 4 � inches to 28
feet 3� inches. With the world record all his, this
outdoor season, complete with the Barcelona Summer
Olympics, should be quite interestinl for Powe�l.
"Every year I try to build off of the base I created
the previous year. Thi year I'm not only comina off
a base from a phy ical standpoint of what my
conditioninl is now, but I'm also coming off a base
where I already have jumped 29, 4�. I know I can
jump that far and I know that I'm in better shape nd
I know I can jump farther. ,
"It's hard for me to hold b ck the smile. I'm ready
to et out there and test the waters and see where I
am," he said. But before he does that he has to make
ure he keeps an even approach because once you set
a world record in any port, your life tends to become
hectic.
"That's a ood word to use," he said, adding a
smile. "It's calm chao riabt now. Riaht after Tokyo
it was chaos and I was out of control, but riabt now
it's controlled chaos. I know it'. cominl and I can deal
with it and I can still et aU my trainina in and tin
Propo al would give high
athlete
chool
contrac
,
By DAYNA WELCH
CaptMl New. s.mc.
communications �r for MHSAA,
"some seboo can afford 'to sponsor
their five beststarters from the basketball
team in competitiom· OU 'de scbool
year-round, while othe can't"
tion science or math," JolDon said,
"but it's in the stOOent's t interest mt
to facilitate the 'dumb jock' image."
A survey was sent out in January to
all of the school that belong to
MHSAA, which i1XJudcs all but about
100 talewide, Johnson said.
� survey gave the schools a num­
ber of cboiees in which direction the rule
change could take.
from lack of koowledge abou 1bc DlODc..L
"MHSAA's only role been to
facilitate the discussion tbat'. been
going on CQr the t two "
JoJ::aon . d.
ANOTHER FEAR IS that some
students are specializing in a. particular
sport to the point of e
Parents may argue that if Uxy don't
have a problem with their child con­
a:ntrating on one sport, why bauld the
school? J however, pointed out
that sports. only one facet in the
primary of developing each in-
dividual well-rounded tudent
That, he . d,' accomplished by keep-
inga balance between sports, academi�
and various �r activiti .
" Alhletics . much a part of educa-
tiom CCMrlDg cboia:s schoo
other baYe dDen.
1bc survey, whidl' stticdy for in­
foDD8tion gakring, will have i «:sui
presented and' '00 at the MIAAA
leple&eDlative governing board's 8DI1UlIl
meeting. May 3-6.
Qitics of a rule change � that
recreational youth athletic programs
arouod the s1a would be severely af­
fected.
LAN Anew rule that could es-
sentially give high scbools an exd "ve
contract with their athletes may be
adopted by the Michigan High ScOOoI
Athletic Association (MHSAA) as early
as May.
Stemming from the actions of an
advisory group of the Michigan In r­
scbolastic Athletic Administratots hi-
ociation (MIAAA), the rule could
prohibit, limit, tudenl atble from
playing the � rt out 0 scbx>l
during the academic year.
� rule change was proposed umcr
concern over an inaeasingly uoleYel
playing field between schooJs in some
districts.
"For example," said Jo1m Jo
JOB SO, HOWEVER,
responded th t mo t recreational
progtllDl oa:ur during the summer and
no popoul been made _, �
. Me during summer b
� point Jobmon . that
MHSAA IeCdvcd a lot of
lately because 0 tmsinformation and a