I Page 10 -The Michigan Daily -Wednesday, February 13, 1985 SPOR TS OF THE DAIL Y Lemieux shines, Wales wins, 6-4 CALGARY, Alberta (AP) - Pit- tsburgh,'s Mario Lemieux, the National Hockey League's top draft last summer and leading rookie scorer, collected two goals and an assist last night to lead the Prince of Wales Conference to a 6-4 vic- tory over the Clarence Campbell con- ference in the 37th All-Star Game. Lemieux, the most touted rookie to enter the league in more than a decade, was named the game's most valuable player. HE HAD given the Wales a 4-2 lead at 17:47 of the second period after taking a pretty pass from fellow rookie Kirk Muller of the New Jersey Devils and slipping a wrist shot past goalie Grant Fuhr. Just four minutes before Lemieux's first goal, Anders Hedberg of the New York Rangers had broken a 2-2 tie. Hedberg, at 33 the oldest player in the game and in the midst of his final NHL season, took a pass from Lemieux and sent home a backhander from the slot. It was Hedberg's first NHL All-Star game. THE WALES Conference got off to a quick start, scoring twice in the first 5:31. Hartford's Ron Francis put in a 10- foot backhander from the slot just 1:40 into the contest. Philadelphia's Tim Kerr, who set up Francis' goal, made it 2-0 with a pretty backhander to the far corner after some hard work behind the net by Quebec's Michel Goulet pried the puck free. But the Campbells, who have won just two of 10 games under the present format, rallied on goals by Marcel Dionne and Miro Frycer. Dionne, the Los Angeles Kings' cen- ter appearing in his eighth All-Star game, had his 35-foot wrist shot deflect off the glove of Wales defenseman Mike Ramsey and into the net just 62 seconds after Kerr's goal. Frycer, a Czechoslovakian native who plays for Toronto, zipped a 25-foot wrist shot past goalie Tom Barrasso af- ter taking the puck off Lemieux's stick at 16:55. St. John's 68, Columbia 49 NEW YORK (AP) - Chris Mullin and Walter Berry scored 14 points each as top-ranked St., John's broke loose in the second half and extended its winning streak to 15 games with a 68-49 college basketball victory over Columbia last night. The Redmen, with the longest win- ning streak in Division I, raised their record to 20-1,nwhile the Lions fell to 7-11 before a capacity crowd of 3,400 at the Lion's Levien Gymnasium. ST. JOHN'S SHOT out to a 26-8 lead with Mullin and Berry totaling 14 points between them, but the Lions, using a deliberate offense and having no player taller than 6-foot-4%, outscored the Redmen 14-4 over the last 7:18 and only trailed by 30-22 at intermission. A jumper by Columbia's Mark Settles at the start of the second half made it 30-24, but that was the closest the Lions would ever get. St. John's led 40-31 with less than 13 minutes to play, but. then Berry and Mullin combined for four points apiece in an 8-2 spurt for a 48-33 advantage, virtually sewing up the game. The Redmen's biggest lead was 23 points with 36 seconds remaining. Mike Moses added 10 points and cen- ter Bill Wennington nine for the Red- men, while Mark Murphy and Settles each scored 12 for the Lions, who suf- fered their third straight loss. Associated Press Chicago Black Hawk defenseman Doug Wilson (Cambell Conference) slams into Raymond Borque (Wales Conference) of the Boston Bruins in last night's All-Star action at Calgary. i THE SPORTING VIEWS Rogers headed to Detroit... ..,this Bear fan can't Quick on the Draw By Mikea 'Iraw t Four years of 'M' sports... .the best and the worst SEEING MICHIGAN ranked number three in the AP basketball poll rekindles memories of that day in July of 1981. Getting ready to head off to freshman orientation, I purchased a copy of Street and Smith's College Football Preview and found not only a Wolverine gridder (Anthony Carter) on the cover, but Bo Schembechler's team was ranked number one. "Gosh, I couldn't have made a more timely college choice," I thought to myself. But alas, that wasn't the case that football season. Still, though, you can't pick a better sports school to attend than the mighty U of M. The four years I've spent here haven't been profoundly successful, but it sure has been entertaining. Let's relive some of those happy memories together. NOVEMBER 1981: Michigan just needs a home victory over Ohio State to sew up a Rose Bowl berth, but with just over a minute left in the game, Art Schlichter fakes out the entire Wolverine defense and scores the winning touchdown. It was a disappointing afternoon, but still it was fun to be able to throw snowballs at people from OSU for a few hours. NOVEMBER 1981: The low point in Michigan basketball history. The team loses to EMU. JANUARY 1982: THE TEXAS A&M SCARE: It looked like Bo was really going to leave, but the fears were put to rest when it was announced over the speaker at Yost Ice Arena that Bo was staying. By that time, though, it was too late to get my housing deposit back from Texas A&M. NOVEMBER 1982: BEST CALL: Fourth and goal. Two-yard line. Ten seconds left. Trailing by six. What should Illinois coach Mike White do? How about a handoff up the middle for a loss of two? Genius White said on his TV show the next day that he'd call the same play again. JANUARY 1,1983: ROSE BOWL: This turned out to be the only trip to Pasadena and it wasn't much fun. The UCLA fans desire to rub in the result ranks this game right up there with the hockey team's 12-1 loss at MSU as the toughest game to sit through. FEBRUARY 1983: The triple-overtime loss to Purdue has to be the best basketball game. Kurt Clawson and Eric Turner each hit three pointers at the buzzer to prolong the contest. The Boilermakers pulled it out, but the game proved that the three-point circle was a great rule. NOVEMBER 1983: The Illini beat Michigan 16-6 to ensure a Rose Bowl trip. This becomes the best thing to happen to that miserable part of the country since the introduction of corn cob handles. LATE NOVEMBER 1983: THE BEST SPORTS DAY EVER: The football team downs the Buckeyes for the only time in four years. Then that night the hockey team stuns MSU in East Lansing, 5-3. Its first win over the Spartans in two years. JANUARY 2,1984: ROSE BOWL: UCLA (6-4-1) 45, Illinois 9. And they want to give Mike White a lifetime contract? FEBRUARY, 1984: MOST HEADS UPC PLAY: Against the Illini, Tim McCor- mick intentionally fouls Bruce Douglas Whie with four seconds left and the game tied. Luckily, Turner races the length of the court and re-ties it at the buzzer, but Illinois wins in four OT's. MARCH 1984: With two games left in the season, the only way the hockey team won't make the playoffs is if it loses twice at home while Lake Superior wins twice. And wouldn't you know it, that's exactly what happens. MID-MARCH 1984: Second choke in a week. All the basketball team needs to do to make the NCAA tournament is beat Northwestern. But John "A dork even by Northwestern standards" Peterson wins it for the Wildcats in over- time. MAY 1984: SECOND BEST SPORTS DAY EVER: John Giordano and Gloria Soluk get canned at the same Board of Control meeting. JUNE, 1984: BEST STRATEGY: In a bunting situation against Indiana State in the NCAA Regionals, baseball coach Bud Middaugh puts center- fielder Mike Watters 60 feet from the plate down the third-base line. Very confused, the Indiana State batter bounces to the pitcher. JULY 1984: BIG TEN FOOTBALL LUNCHEON: All the Big Ten coaches assemble under one roof. After Schembechler, Hayden Fry and Lou Holtz there is about as much personality in that group as there is in a small bowl of Hamburger Helper. At the luncheon, Mike White starts the I-L-L....I-N-I cheer with the Illinois luncheon crowd, then points out to everyone that Schembechler left when he got up to talk. What a schlong (White, that is). FALL 1984: MICHIGAN FOOTBALL: I never thought I'd miss Steve Smith so much. OCTOBER 1984: WORLD SERIES: Since the Cubs weren't there to make it exciting, I rooted for the next best thing. Unfortunately, though, Steve Garvey didn't get struck in the face by a sharply batted ball. DECEMBER 21, 1984: HOLIDAY BOWL: This was an exciting but depressing game. The worst part was when BYU receiver Glen "I listen for footsteps" Kozlowski did his cowboy dance after scoring the tying touch- down. I know it would have been a penalty, but it wouldn't have bothered me if at that point, Mike Mallory came off the bench and blasted the guy about 23 rows into the Murphy Stadiumcapacitace. FEBRUARY 10, 1985: The biggest disappointment of all. After finally put- ting together a good team, the Daily Libels come out cold and are upset in the second round of the IM playoffs. Now I know how Ray Meyer must have felt. Well that brings us back to the basketball team and I think we may be set- ting ourselves up for major disaster in the early rounds of the tournament against Oral Roberts. But regardless of what the hoopsters do this year, they are very likely to be rated number one before next season and that's sure to mean trouble. It's all part of an endless cycle for a school that hasn't won a major national cham- pionship since '64. 4 wait By MARK BOROWSKY W ILLIAM CLAY Ford and Russ Thomas had me worried for a few days. When Monte Clark departed as head coach of the Lions, I agonized over the possibility of them hiring a Chuck Knox, a Bill Walsh, a Chuck Noll. In other words, someone capable. But my fears have quickly dissipated. Instead, they hired Darryl Rogers. Now I can breathe easily and sleep at night. If you are wondering why I like Darryl Rogers coaching the Lions, I am formerly from Chicago, and have about as much liking for the Detroit Lions as Bo Schembechler does for 45-42 football games. Yet the Lions are the only team in the NFC Central Division with the talent to give the Bears problems. But now, forget it. Darryl Rogers, as we all know, once headed the football program at Michigan State, and began to turn the Spartans' program around until he departed for Arizona State. Actually, "departed" is too kind; "screwed over"' is more appropriate. He took MSU's recruits and sent its football program spiraling to the Big Ten basement, after denying he would leave $7.00 HAIRCUTS WITH Valeri THROUGH MARCH 1, 1985 AVANTI HAIR FASHIONS 2040 Green Road 665-5433 on numerous occasions. He is one of the few people in the Big Ten that both Michigan and Michigan State dislike with equal intensity. The fun continued at Arizona State, where he turned the Sun Devils into winners before suffering a 5-6 season in 1984. When the Lions job was offered to him, he jumped at it. Well, not exac- tally. He said that he wasn't offered the job, and even when it was rumored that ye was he denied it all. Then the Lions said he was the new head coach, and Rogers admitted, yes, he had been hired and all of his hedging was a joke, ha ha ha. Naturally, everyone at Arizona State was upset at Mr. Rogers. Can you say liar? I thought you could. Perhaps General Manager Thomas was looking to replace Clark with someone a bit more exciting, or Monte made Harold Shapiro look charismatic. Indeed, the Lions got themselves one great personality, who (after reading George Barnard Shaw, no doubt) once said that Michigan fans were "arrogant asses." The man must have lots and lots o' charisma. But so did Attila the Hun. And Attila probably had character, too. If you look around the NFL, some of the best coaches are duller than a butter knife, but cut just as well. Tom Landry sells Bibles in the off season. Bill Walsh is always calm and in con- trol. Don Shula is stoic and blase. And Chuck Noll lives in Pittsburgh. Hardly exciting, these men are the best in the league because they are respected by their players and thus can motivate them to execute. Not that Darryl Rogers doesn't know how to run an offense. He is a supposed offensive genius, unlike Monte Clark or Bo Schembechler, or Bob Knight on cer- tain Sundays in Champaign. Plus, the the playoffs. They out-intimidated the Raiders, neutered the Broncos, and went 7-1 in their own division. This was accomplished even though the Bears became best buddies with the team doc- tor. One of the casualties was quarter- back Jim McMahon (With The Golden Arm). Overall, the Bears had six dif- ferent players start at quarterback during the season. The defense was second to none, and Walter "I'll Never Grow Up" Payton broke Jim Brown's rushing record. Even so the Bears need another cor- nerback and a more diversified offense. Mike Ditka, who is rumored to eat nails in his soup, will make sure this will happen. They are only going to get bet- ter. The Lions, meanwhile, just won't jell under the guidance of someone they won't respect. The defense is non- existent, and their offense can't carry the load. The rest of the division looks just as sordid. Green Bay scores at will, but its defense couldn't stop the Business School of Ypsilanti. Bud Grant was lured out of retirement because the Vikings were more lifeless than Gran- ts's non-existent sideline demeanor. As for Tampa Bay, well, at least their uniforms are nice to look at. So next season I have nothing to worry about, as the Bears will go 8-0 in the division, 13-3 overall. The Lions will go 4-11-1 again and won't win that many if Darryl Rogers doesn't get some respect, and soon. Respect comes from you peers, which you won't get by calling adversaries "arrogant asses." But Rogers did have a point. Some of' us here at Michigan are a bit arrogant at times. But at least we'll admit it. Rogers ...won't get respect new kid has Billy Sims, who carries the football like a seasoned pre-med carries a four point. With deter- mination. But so what? The NFC Central is no longer the embarrassment it once was, and all because of the Bears. 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