Page 10-Saturday, April 3, 1982-The Michigan Daily A l THE SPORTING VIEWS I Five basketball recruits confirm bribe offers / I AW r White Sox murderers row .. . ..guns down rest of division 01 By MIKE MCGRAW Third of a four part series The 1982 American League West could rival the National League East of 1973 for the worst teams from top to bottom. It should be a three-team race, with Chicago, Oakland and Kansas City being the only clubs with any semblance of a pitching staff. Of the top three, the White Sox have the best hitting, Oakland has speed. and defense, and the Royals have the experience. But it will be the White Sox that will win the division with an exciting, extra-inning victory on the next-to-last day of the season to make the playoffs. CHICAGO-- Gone are the funny uniforms, gone is the exploding scoreboard, gone is Bill Veeck and his trateling circus. But also gone are the losing ways of the Pale Hose and Chicago could well be hosting post-season baseball for the first time in 23 years. The White Sox have a murderers' row reminiscent of the 1980 Brewers. Steve Kemp, Greg Luzinski, Tom Paciorek, Harold Baines, Carlton Fisk, and Jim Morrison are all capable of hitting 20 home runs this season. A tough pitching AL West 1. Chicago 2. Oakland 3. Kansas City 4. Texas 5. Seattle 6. California 7. Minnesota staff is led by Cy Young candidate Britt Burns (10-6, 2.64 ERA), with Steve Trout, Rich Dotson, and Dennis Lamp rounding out the starting rotation. The major weakness of the Sox will be defense. Comiskey Park fans watching Kemp and Ron LeFlore play in the outfield may be led to think they're watching a Chicago Sting soccer game. But despite their weaknesses, the Sox should have enough power to win the division and make the fifth row of the upper deck in left field an exciting place to sit. OAKLAND- The A's are a well-balanced team. Manager Billy Martin has managed to counter the best outfield in baseball with the worst infield. Obtaining the 36-year-old Davey Lopes will help matters little. The A's will have to make their run for the title with the likes of ' Dave McKay, Rob Picciolo, Wayne Gross, and Shooty Babitt manning the infield stations. Oakland's pitching will again be strong, unless the game should last more than 21 innings and Billy would be forced to resort to his bullpen. But the starting rotation of Steve McCatty (14-7, 2.33), Rick Langford (12-10, 2.99), Mike Norris, and others will make a solid effort to pitch every inning of all their games. Despite the presence of superstar out- fielders Dwayne Murphy, Tony Armas, and Rickey Henderson, Oakland does not have the talent or the dep- th to repeat as division champions. KANSAS CITY- Since their World Series appearance two years ago, the fans at Royals Stadium have had little to cheer about other than the water show in the outfield. Worn-out stars such as Hal McRae, Amos Otis, Willie Wilson, Frank White, and U.L. Washington have been going downhill since the Series and George Brett can't carry the whole team. The Royals pitching, however, should keep them in the race. The acquisition of Vida Blue to go along with starters Dennis Leonard and Larry Gura plus Dan Quisenberry in the bullpen should keep Kansas City from taking a premature cellar dive. TEXAS- The Rangers are quickly turning from bridesmaids to basement sweepers. Texas had several years of finishes close to the top, but now it seems that allotting it fourth could be too generous. Whatever meager a team the Rangers had fielded in the past seems to be gone now and not even the presence of two of the best third basemen in baseball, Buddy Bell and Larry Parrish, can change that. Texas' starting pit- chers, Danny Darwin,. John Henry Johnson, Rick Honeycutt, and Doc Medich will have to come through if the Rangers are to have any shot at the penant race because their lineup is just too weak. After Bell and Parrish, the Rangers' offense will feature guys who can only get hits by beating out high bouncers off the astroturf. The problem with Texas this year is that it plays on grass. SEATTLE - Yes, ex-manager Maury Wills has laid a foundation to build on for his former team, now its up to current manager Rene Lachman to live up to the Mariners' awesome potential. The strongest point for Seattle will be its Cruz-Cruz double play combination. Newcomer Todd Cruz combines with the fleet Julio Cruz at second base to make the Mariners nearly unstop- pable. Seattle's outfield of Jeff Burroughs, Richie Zisk, and Gary Gray will pound ball after ball over the short Kingdome fences. If the Mariners' young pitching comes along as it should, Seattle could become a major surpri- se. CALIFORNIA - This team would have been good 10 years ago, but not anymore. The signing of free agent Reggie Jackson to combine with Bobby Grich, Don Baylor, Rod Carew, and Freddie Patek could make the Angels the team to watch in the early '70s. MINNESOTA - Instead of having his new stadium, the Hubert Humphrey Metrodome, built, Twins' owner Calvin Griffith should have kept the old stadium and got- ten a new team. TOMORROW: AL EAST From Staff and AP reports PITTSBURGH - Five high school basketball players selected for the Roundball Classic all-star game, in- cluding one who has verbally commit- ted to Michian, admit they have been offered bribes to attend certain colleges the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported in a copyrighted story yesterday. The five declined to name the schools and said they had eliminated them from consideration for scholarships. "I'VE BEEN offered cars and money, but it was done in very under- cover ways," said Michigan recruit Richard Rellford. Paul Jokisch, a high school football and basketball standout who will also attend Michigan on a basketball scholarship, denied ever being offered a bribe, but added that illegal in- ducements do exist. "It hurts me to say it, and maybe I shouldn't, but the black kids from the inner city are the prime targets," said Jokisch. "I'm from Birmingham, Michigan. No one of- fered me a cent during by recruiting in. either sport. "I'd have turned it down, but believe me, I can see where a lot of kids might be tempted.". MICHIGAN head coach Bill Frieder spoke of the cheating that exists in the recruiting of high school players. "It's hard to pinpoint," he said. "Certainly there's some cheating in athletics, but it's hard to tell how much. "I think it goes on (in the Big Ten), but I don't think it's been rampant. Our conference has had teams go on probation in the past five years. "Our kids work in the summer time with real jobs. They're not phony jobs." OTHERS WHO said they had been of- fered bribes were Keith Wesson of Niles, Ohio who is reportedly still being recruited by Michigan; Greg Willey of Oak Hill Academy in Virginia; Lloyd Moore of Clairton, Pa.; ard Andre Banks of Chicago, Ill. "What Digger Phelps said last week about there being a lot of payoffs of- fered and made is true," said Andre Banks, a 6-foot-4, 175 pound guard from Chicago. Phelps, head coach at Notre Dame, said recently he had reported four schools to the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) for offering cash payments of as much as $10,000 per year to recruits. "IT'S BEEN going on for years, Banks was quoted as saying in a story by sports writer David Fink. "The head coaches don't do it, most assistant coaches wouldn't get directly involved in it, but the alumni wind up doing it after an assistant coach tips them off about a particular kid," he ad- ded. Wesson, a 6-foot-10 center, said the first offers he got caught him by sur- prise. "Lots of schools are doing it," l- said, "Usually it comes down fro people associated with the schools, but not from the coaches.". WILEY SAID he is considering four schools that have not made illegal of- fers. "The ones that offered me things like money and cars were the ones who have come off losing seasons or have programs that have been on the way down," Wiley said. Moore, a 6-foot-9 center, said he w "turned off" by illegal offers. "The way .it came down to me was that I wouldn't have to worry about the high cost of transportation," Moore said. a .Av ka Frieder ... cheating hard to pinpoint 'M' nine take two from poor fielding Redskins Special to the Daily OXFORD, Ohio- The Michigan baseball team won its ninth and 10th games in a row, bombing Miami (O,)'s two ace pitchers to take a doubleheader from the Redskins, 14-3 and 12-2, yesterday in Oxford, Ohio. The Wolverines drilled 28 hits off the hapless Redskin hurlers, including four home runs and six doubles. .Thirteen errors in the twinbill didn't help Miami, either, as nine unearned Michigan runs resulted. CHRIS SABO'S two-run blast in the first inning of the opener put the Wolverines ahead to stay. Jeff'Jacob- son added his own two-run round- tripper in the fourth and Jim Paciorek blasted a solo home run in the sixth stanza, his sixth of the season. Sabo went five-for-eight in the two games with four RBI. In the last four games, the third baseman has collected nine hits in 16 at-bats, The Wolverines jumped out to a quick lead in the second game, as well. Paciorek cracked an RBI single in the game, which was his 200th career hit. Freshman Ken Hayward slammed a 450-foot solo home run, the first of hO Michigan career. Wolverines Greg Schulte, Dave Stober and Rich Bair each collected three hits in the doubleheader. 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