Basketball vs. North Carolina Friday, 8 p.m. Seattle Kingdome, Ch. 2 SPORTS Basketball Midwest Regional Friday and Sunday Pontiac Silverdome The Michigan Daily Thursday, March 24, 1988 Page 9 Adam's Rib BY ADAM SCHRAGER Tubbs lives up to name in loss to Tyson in Tokyo Cellulose, sweat, and pain. No, I am not referring to the daily aerobics class at the CCRB, but instead I am talking about the Mike Tyson-Tony "TNT" Tubbs heavyweight championship match held Sunday in Tokyo. The Tyson second-round technical knockout of his "challenger" just further proved that there will be no excitement in heavyweight boxing until June 27 in Atlantic City when a real challenger in the form of Michael Spinks steps forward to face Tyson. The fight, the first held in the new Tokyo Dome or the "Big Egg," was over before it even started. All of the pre-fight hype focused not on Tyson's first title defense outside of the United States, but instead on the alleged obesity of the No. 2 contender. TUBBS, WHO WON the WBA championship from Greg Page in April 1985 at his "optimal" weight of 229 pounds, lost his title to Tim Witherspoon in January 1986 at 244 pounds. Tubbs, the world's new "big, fat tub of goo," walked into the "Big Egg" in front of 51,000 fans weighing a plump 238 and a quarter pounds. To make matters worse, Tubbs had pulled his trunks up to his chest, making it look like he was inflicting a self-wedgie. Fans had to be held back from harpooning the blubberous body in the ring imper- sonating a boxer. After the spectacle of seeing "Terribly Near Titanic," Tubbs dis- robe, the sight turned to the man that would make the most macho viewer shiver. Tyson came down the aisle with no robe, no socks, and no expression. THE RESULT WAS the same as it has been for almost every Tyson fight - an early knockout. Tyson (34-0, 30 knockouts) goes about his business better than anyone else in the boxing world today. "My mission is to go out there and destroy," said Tyson, who was supposed to become more mellow and relaxed after his recent married to television star Robin Givens. "I can't lose. I refuse to lose. When I come into the ring, I have intense tunnel vision to get my hands on my opponent." Due to this tunnel vision, the only way experts believe Tyson can be beaten is to run or stay away from him during the bout. The fighter who can box is the best chance against Tyson. But alas, Tubbs could not move due to the harpoons stuck in his rotund anatomy and due to his trunks being pulled up so high. He suffered the same fate as 29 boxers before him, being knocked out. TUBBS' TUMBLE, which made people refute the saying that weebles wobble, but they don't fall down, came at 2:54 of the second round and gave the Japanese public a total of seven minutes and 56 seconds of heavyweight championship boxing ever. For little under six minutes of work, Tyson accumulated nearly $10 million while Tubbs dropped to 25-2 and ended up with $550,000. This fight aside, there is only one fighter left for Tyson to muti- late. Michael Spinks, also undefeated, remains as the lone person able to "fight" Tyson and actually cause some excitement in the heavy- weight world in the near future. Tyson is expected to make $17 to $20 million against Spinks, whom many believe has the boxing skills and punching power to de- throne the intense champion. But until June 27 and Tyson's next title defense, the world will re- member only the humongous, gargantuan, plump figure of Tony "TNT" Tubbs, which isn't that bad according to Tyson. "It's his prerogative to come into the ring the way he wants, but just remember that no matter what a man weighs, he won't beat me because I can't lose." Doily Photo by JESSICA GREENE Dally Photo by JESSIC Coming off their first-second finishes of both the 100- and 200-yard breaststroke races at the Big Ten meet, Mike Barrowman (right) and Jan-Erick Olsen (left) will both be seeded in the top four for both events at the upcoming NCAA meet. Olsen is a senior from Norway, and Barrowman is a first-year swimmer from Rockville, Md. Mduo By TAYLOR LINCOLN When it comes to breaststrokers, Michigan coach Jon Urbanchek has two of the nation's finest in Mike Barrowman and Jan-Erick Olsen. Both will enter the NCAA champi- onships with realistic national title ambitions in their events. Going into the NCAAs (April 7- 9 in Indianapolis), Barrowman and Olsen will be seeded second and third respectively in the 100-yard breast- stroke and second and fourth respec- tively in the 200 breaststroke. Olsen will also swim the breaststroke leg of the Wolverines' No. 1-ranked 400-yard medley relay team. The two served notice to any doubters they may have previously had when they posted one-two fin- ishes (Barrowman first, Olsen sec- ond) in both the 100 and 200 breast- stroke at the Big Ten meet earlier this month. Neither Barrowman nor Olsen has taken college swimming by surprise, though. Barrowman is in his first year at the collegiate level, arriving at Michigan with blue chip billing after winning at nationals last spring. Olsen, a senior, is a two- time All-American who dominated the Big Ten prior to Barrowman's arrival. OLSEN, a native Norwegianer, began as a competitive swimmer when he was 12 years old. "I started 'sets sights on NCAAs swimming competitively and I was winning all my meets, so it kind of went from there. In high school, I set a goal of making the Olympic team (for the '84 summer Games), which I did, and that was a great boost. "I was interested in swimming in the United States in college because Norway doesn't have competitive swimming after high school. I came to Michigan because it was a team on the rise, and it worked out. We went from finishing third in the Big Ten my freshman year to winning it the last three years. "Also, I had heard great things about coach Urbanchek. My rela- tionship with him has been very good. Partly, I think that we get along well because he went through the same thing (adjusting to Michi- gan from a foreign country)." Ur- banchek, a native of Hungary, swam at Michigan from '58-'62. For Barrowman, swimming has been part of his life for as long as he can remember. He has been climbing up the latter of competitive swim- ming since he was about eight years old. By the time he was 16, he rose to 11th place at nationals. BUT IT wasn't until he met Jozsef Nagy, formerly the Hungarian national coach, that his swimming career really took off. Barrowman met Nagy at nationals when he was 16. Soon afterwards, Nagy's wife's job as a foreign ambassador to Hun- gary brought him to Washington, D.C. He lived less that 10 minutes away from Barrowman's home in Rockville, Md. "From the time I first met him, I knew he was top flight," said Bar- rowman. "He couldn't speak En- glish, but you could tell that he knew what he was doing... He took me from eleventh at nationals to winning nationals as a senior. "I spent all my time with him - for two years he was my best friend. Basically, I taught him English and he taught me swimming." Because of the amount of time they spend together in training and because of their status as two of the preeminent swimmers in the coun- try, the nature of the relationship between Barrowman and Olsen is unique. "HE PUSHES me to work harder and I push him to work harder," said Olsen. "We bring out the best in each other. As far as competition goes, I don't think of it as competing with him. It really; wouldn't have mattered if I'd finished- second and he finished first at Big Ten's, orthe other way around." K Barrowman offered a similar analysis of their relationship.: "Normally I go into a race thinking that I won't be beaten, and if J do get beaten I'm going to be upset. But with Jan it's different. We spend so much time together that he's almost* a part of me. If he wins, it's like I win, too. That's a feeling I've never had before. It's nice." Still, both are aiming to be No. 1. A+ STUDY HA' GO ON A SEARCH Announcing the University Library's Spring Seminars on Online Searching 4N (Kp\C o\ I'M LITTLE from Golden Gei BUY DIRECT FROM GRI NATURAL, SHELLED ALM U.S. EXTR Only Barrowman's humility bars him from saying that he won't be satisfied with anything less than first place at NCAAs - or any race. Meanwhile, Olsen admits that he would like to close his career at the top. "NCAAs are a little more mdi- vidual (than Big Tens), partly be- cause it's my last race. Beating Mike isn't something I think about, but it would be nice to beat him because if I do I'll be near the top. 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