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By DON MacLACHLAN
Ever wonder what it would be like to watch a
football game from the 45 yard line in the press box
or a basketball contest from midcourt?
For sports broadcaster Tom Hemingway it is a
regular occurrence and part of the job-sitting
behind as microphone describing the action to his
radio audience.
"SOMETIMES I DO miss not being able to just
watch and enjoy a game without getting wrapped
up in it," Hemingway said.
Sound funny? Well for a man with a demanding
schedule like Hemingway's it certainly could be
relaxing to simply sit in the end zone and observe a
game.
Hemingway, WUOM's sports director, handles
the play by play for Michigan football and basket-
ball home and away. In addition he covers every
Detroit Piston game for WJR in Detroit. When foot-
ball season winds down Hemingway's leisure time
is drastically reduced.
"I'LL NEVER forget a sequence last year where
I had a Michigan game Thursday night, then a
Pistons game on Friday," Hemingway recalled.
"That Saturday afternoon I did the Michigan-
Purdue game in Lafayette. Luckily the Pistons
played at Indiana Saturday night."
"After the Detroit game I hurried back to do the
Michigan-Marquette game here and finished off
with a Pistons game that night."
"That was probably the roughest stretch I han
died," Hemingway admitted. "But that's my job
and luckily I enjoy basketball."
In between plane flights to different cities
Hemingway is busy with his homework-such as
looking over players and statistics for the upcoming
game.
"I THINK IF you find out in a hurry that if you
don't prepare you will be the first one to know and
the audience won't be very far after that,''
Hemingway said.
Despite all the preparation and accumulation :of.
interesting tidbits, especially for football games due
to their length, an occasional mistake remains
inevitable with all those numbers and names pop-
ping in and out of the lineup.
"There is no sense disguising a mistake,"
Hemingway said. "If you've got the wrong guy
carrying the ball for a TD and you don't correct
it-that is bush. I don't think the listeners think
you'll be 100 percent correct anyhow."
Hemingway graduated from Michigan State in
1959 with a degree in Radio-TV. He has covered
sporting events over the radio for almost twenty,
years-but that first time on the air still stands out
in his mind.
"IT WAS A HOCKEY game up at State and I was
scared to death, just petrified," Hemingway con-
fessed. "It left me after I got into it but hockey isn't
an easy sport. They wear those helmets and either
you spot the guy's number or you are de'ad."
Since that first time his voice graced the airwaves
the easy going Hemingway has covered numerous
Michigan games. He started at WUOM in 1962, and
in those 15 years he does have a few favorites.
"I got here the same time that Cazzie Russell
did," Hemingway said. "In .1965 they won in double
overtime against Indiana in Bloomington. Michigan
was down by eight with about 50 seconds to play and
they came back to tie the game at the end of the
regulation time.
"In the first overtime they were behind by four
points with 30 seconds left and tied it. Finally in the
second overtime they came back to win. It was a
great Indiana team. That is when they had the Van
Arsdale twins and Jon McGlocklin. Those players
and Cazzie still remember it vividly."
IRONICALLY THE only sport Hemingway didn't
play as a youngster was basketball. His first love
was baseball. The veteran announcer still covers
heaven
the Michigan baseball team in the spring.
Hemingway loves the life behind the mike.
Earlier in his career he freelanced for WWJ-TV in
Detroit from 1965-1970. Being in front of the camera
is a completely different world from the privacy of
his radio booth.
"There is no doubt TV is where the glamor is," he
said. "Being on TV establishes you as a sports ex-
pert and on radio you are down a few rungs on the
ladder. But I could never go back to a TV slot. It
was really hairy for awhile."
Despite all the travel and demands on his time
Hemingway is content with his play-by-play duties.
His summer consists of mostly free time but for the
next eight months all systems are go.
"It's a fun thing," Hemingway said. "I
sometimes think I'm stealing money. The epitome
of life is spending 24 hours a day doing what you en-
joy. If your work is a part of it then you've got your
leg up on some people."
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By KATHY HENNEGHAN
Four years agh, Ben Poquette didn't
even ithink he would make Central
Michigan's varsity basketball team.
Today he is trying out for the Detroit
Pistons.
The 6-9 Chippewa center was the first
player drafted by the Detroit club last
June. Coach Herb Brown sees Poquette
as a power forward, or possibly backup
center to Bob Lanier.
Michigan fans may recall that had it
not been for Poquette, the Wolverines
just may have made that trip to Atlanta
in last spring's NCAA tournament.
Central played-North Carolina-Char-
lotte in Bloomington in the first round of
the regionals. Poquette missed a last
second tip-in that would have won the
game for the Chippewas. Instead UNCC
advanced to Lexington, met Michigan
in the regional finals and the rest is his-
tory.
"We played well against Charlotte,"
recalled Poquette. "We should have
won that game."
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Seemingly, Central would have been
easier for the Wolverines to handle than
Charlotte proved to be. Michigan beat
CMU 104-63 at Crisler last December.
Not so fast, said Poquette. "If Char-
lotte could do it (beat Michigan) we
might have been able to," he said..
"When we played Michigan we didn't
have two guys who joined the team in
January - Jeff Tropf and Dave Grau-
zer. They changed our whole game."
And he doesn't think the Big Ten, is
any tougher than the Mid-American
Conference, of which Central Michigan
is a member, although Michigan ,,#
posed of both Central and -lent Stht
(102-66)rather easily.,
"I think our league is just as good.
The level of play is comparable,"
Poquette claimed. "Just look at the
record of Big Ten teams against MAC
teams - I think Michigan was about
the only team who didn't lose to one of
them.
"Miami (O) beat Purdue, Western
Michigan beat Michigan State, we beat
State, Toledo beat Indiana - right
there are some pretty big wins. And the
teams in the MAC are all pretty equal.
It's a wide open league."
The MAC served Poquette well. It is
doubtful he would have had comparable
playing time and exposure at a larger
school.
By his own admission, Poquette's
cage career got off to an inauspicious
start. At East Lansing High School he
was a gangly, seldom-used reserve un-
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til his senior year. Then he came into
his own, setting school records for
blocked shots and rebounds.
Poquette was the center on a team
that was ranked sixth in the state
before bowing to Saginaw High School
in the regionals. Although he had im-
proved immensely, he worked close to
the basket and was hardly whai one
could call mobile.
Central was the first school to recruit
him, and the only school to seriously in-
terest him.
"After the season I was also con-
tacted by Eastern, Toledo and
Michigan State," Poquette added.
"Since I had grown up in East Lansingi
I sort of wanted to get away from State,
Plus, Brian Brpslin (an .MSU cager.
also from East Lansing) told me it
would not be in my best interests to go:
to State."
"I liked Central since they talked to
me first. I thought I could play there
eventually, but I didn't think I'd make
their varsity team right away. Its
seemed too hard for me and I didn'
think I had a chance."
But , Poquette made varsity and
played about half the time the first year,
and started atecenter for the next three
years. He averaged 17 points and I2
rebounds a game last year and setsthe,
school record for blocked shots. I
Whetlfer or not Poquette can play ins
the NBA is another question entirely.
"At first it didn't seem possible for
me to play in the pros," said Poquette.
"But by the end of my junior year I was:
averaging 20 points and 10 rebounds &
game. I was playing really well and we,
were winning. C
"An assistant coach told me, 'Keep it,
up and you could play in the pros. Yous
have the size and the quickness.' Then I
worked really hard over the summer
because I knew I'd have to have a good}
senior year to have any chance,'
Poquette explained.
"My coaches talked to Will Robinson,
the Pistons' chief scout. He felt that I'd
go in the second or third round of the
draft, and he said the Pistons would
consider drafting me," he said. "After
that I wasn't too worried. I decided to
wait and see what happened.
"My dad heard on WJR that I'd been
drafted. He called me, then the Pistons
called me. I was shocked. After that,
the phone didn't stop ringing."
Poquette's main competition on the
Pistons looks to be Phil Sellers, a
second-year man out of Rutgers, or Al
Eberhard, a three-year veteran from
Missouri. Poquette feels he has a good
shot at making the team, but it is by no
means his only option.
He is one semester short of his phys-
cal education degree-- all that remains
'is student-teaching.
Or, he might consider playing Euro-;
peani ball for a year or two. He toured-
France and Italy for three weeks last.
summer on a Pro-Keds squad which in-
cluded former Purdue center Tom;
Scheffler.
"The trip was an opportunity for all;
the clubs over there to see us and to
make offers," Poquette explained. "If-
the Pistons decide to cut me, a couple:
teams are interested in me. If it doesn't;
work out this year, there's always next:
year."
All things considered, the future looks;
fairly bright for a guy who didn't think'
he could make Central Michigan's var-
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