Sports Monday Trivia
Baseball's winningest
left-hander didn't notch the
first of his 363 victories until
he was 28. Who was he?
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Adam Schrager
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As you enter the Michigan football team's
meeting room, you see a mural painted on the
back wall in indelible maize and blue ink, with
the words "Back-to-Back" highlighted.
To Michigan players, back-to-back is not a
request for 6-foot-7 offensive tackle Greg
Skrepenak to stand next to 5-foot-8 kicker
Gulam Khan to see who is taller. Maybe if it
was second grade, in gym class, but in the
Wolverine meeting room, it means something
different.
The mural is there to inspire and motivate
the Wolverines to their second straight outright
Big Ten championship, which they
accomplished with Saturday's 28-18 victory
over Ohio State.
With the title, Michigan became the first
Rose Bowl becoming a
second home for Michigan
team since Duffy Daugherty's 1965 and 1966
Michigan State squads to win two consecutive
outright titles.
"We're the first team in 23 years to win
back-to-back outright championships,"
Schembechler said. "After the loss to Notre
Dame, this team has come back to win 10
straight games...It's due to a great group of
kids."
The last time this happened, the Cleveland
Indians' pennant-less streak was at only 18
years and polka-dots were hip. Schembechler
was a mere babe in the woods at age 37.
"You have to realize how impressive that
is," said Ohio State head coach John Cooper,
referring to the two outright championships,
not Schembechler's age in 1966. "Outside of
two kickoff returns this season and something
like five points last year, they could easily be
the No. 1 team in the country for the past two
years.
But Schembechler won't think about a
National Championships or No. 1 rankings. All
he is thinks about is that in all the times he has
won Big Ten titles (1969, '71, '72, '73, '74,
'76, '77, '78, '80, '82, '86, '88 and '89); this is
his first back-to-back outright title.
"The only time I'll celebrate is tonight," said
a sighing Schembechler. "This is for the
players."
The Wolverine players, who will have the
opportunity to become the first Big Ten team to
ever win back-to-back Rose Bowls, are just as
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by Mike Gill
Daily Basketball Writer
SPRINGFIELD, MA - On
paper Michigan is an experienced,
veteran ballclub with four returning
starters. But if foul trouble prevents
the veterans from taking the court,
that paper is filled with question
marks.
Such was the case in Saturday's
82-75 loss to Arizona in the Tip-off
Classic at the Springfield Civic
Center.
Michigan coach Steve Fisher
found his hands tied and needed to
test such unknown quantities as
redshirt frosh Eric Riley, Chris
Seter, and a three-guard offense with
frosh Michael Talley. But nothing
he tried could stop the inside'
domination by most valuable player
Sean Rooks and center Brian
Williams.
Arizona's ability to get the
Wolverine big men into foul
trouble allowed the Wildcats to
move freely inside. With Terry
Mills returning to the lineup after
picking up his fourth personal foul
only 34 seconds into the second
half, Michigan erased a nine-point
Wildcat lead and took a three-point
See BASKETBALL, page 5
Defense earns 28-18
win on silver Plate
by Adam Benson
Daily Football Writer
Michigan's 28-18 victory over
Ohio State, Saturday, was strangely
similar to their 34-31 win in
Columbus last year.
While the two teams cloned
their 1988 game, the Michigan
triumph finished off their second
straight outright Big Ten
championship season and earned an
honor no team has received in 23
years.
"We haven't lost a conference '
game in two years," said
Schembechler, whose team will
play USC in the Rose Bowl.
"That's special." The win boosted
Michigan to 8-0 in the Big Ten and
10-1 overall.
Like last year's Michigan-Ohio
State game, the Wolverines took
the first half before the Buckeyes
romped through the second. Also
like last season's contest, the
Wolverines prevailed.
In fact, Schembechler should be
getting used to a victory over Ohio
State (8-3, 6-2), winning his fourth
of the last five duels. But however
many times he wins this game,
beating the Buckeyes is a tradition
Schembechler will never tire of.
"This game has always been a
big game," Schembechler said.
"Ohio State really came at us and
gave us everything they had."
The "everything" Ohio State
gave could not stop running back
Leroy Hoard, but an ankle injury
did. Before being forced to leave the
game, Hoard rushed for 152 yards
on 21 carries for a 7.2 average. He
also scored Michigan's first
touchdown on a one-yard run with
3:13 left in the first quarter.
Hoard left after breaking a 40-
yard trounce through Ohio State
defenders in the fourth quarter, but
fullback Jarrod Bunch stepped in..
rushing for 70 yards and scoring
two touchdowns in the final quarter.
'Any time you play
Ohio State, it's going
to be hard hitting
both ways. It's a big
rivalry and
everybody goes all
out.'
- Senior guard
Mike Teeter
Most of Michigan's stampede
came in the first half, when the
Wolverines gained 195 of their 310
yards on the ground.
"(Michigan) was controlling the
line of scrimmage and we weren't
playing well," Ohio State
linebacker Derek Isaman said. "We
came up in the second half and
started playing better and tightening
up a little bit."
The , only thing that kept
Michigan from breaking the game
open were two costly fumbles that
stopped Wolverine drives, and the
See FOOTBALL, page 2
Senior receiver Chris Calloway finds open space in the endzone but cannot hold onto the ball as Michigan
wastes a touchdown opportunity.
by Steven Cohen
Daily Sports Writer
As a child growing up in inner-
city Detroit, Kourtney Thompson
received large doses of reality in the
form of his environment. Though
his surroundings could at times be
oppressive, he always had room for
his dreams about baseball.
Seventy miles away, in the
suburban enclave of Oregon, Ohio,
another tyke oiled his glove and
shagged flies with equal
determination. His name was Phil
Price.
Last June, the dreams of
Thompson and Price received their
biggest assault to date. As the
major leagues held their annual
amateur draft, both players were left
unselected.
The two Michigan outfielders
were forced to consider whether
their dreams would ever materialize.
Last season Thompson, who
played sporadically during his
Michigan career, led the Wolverines
in hitting with a .351 average to
capture the Bill Freehan Award. He
was a third-team All-Big Ten
selection at designated hitter in
1989.
Price was a second-team All-Big
Ten selection last season and a
Thompson and
Price still looking
for a major break
by major league standards. They are
also outfielders, perhaps the
toughest position to make in the
majors, and neither possesses a
singular trait that makes them stand
out.
As Price says, "I don't throw 70
miles an hour, I don't hit a lot of
home runs, and I don't run like the
wind."
But now they are forced to
believe even more in themselves as
major league baseball didn't believe
in them.
"I think both players should
have been drafted," Eastern
Michigan coach Roger Coryell said.
' "They have the skills, by
professional standards, to have been
selected."
Minnesota coach John
Anderson, who has watched
Thompson and Price wallop his
Gophers, has seen enough players
come and go to be philosophical.
"The professional draft is hard to
figure out," Anderson said.
"Professional baseball is looking
for certain types of players. You
can argue with the system, but the
bottom line is that professional
baseball decides who they want.
"There probably was a kid who
was drafted in the second round who
leers back on track,
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From Staff Reports
After last weekend's sweep at
the hands of Ohio State, Mich-
igan's seniors came through this
weekend and put Michigan back on
the winning path with a sweep over
Western Michigan.
The Wolverines beat the Bronc-
os, 5-1, Friday night at Yost Ice
Arena and won again, 4-3, Saturday
night in Kalamazoo.
Michigan (8-5-1 overall and in
the CCHA) held off a second period
comeback by Western Saturday
night to clinch the sweep. After the
Broncos (8-6, 6-6) pulled to within
2-1 on Keith Jones' goal at 1:31 of
the second period, Patrick Neaton
and Alex Roberts scored to give
Michigan a 4-1 edge.
But Western's Paul Pollilo
scored at 11:59 and 13:41 of the
second period to again pull the
Broncos within one goal.
Goals by David Roberts and
Rob Brown gave Michigan a 2-0
advantage in the first period.
ver WMU
as well as sophomore Denny
Felsner.
"This was a total team effort,"
co-captain Alex Roberts said. "The
forwards helped the defensemen out,
the defensemen helped Sharples out
and took away any second chances.
We were hungry after two losses
and we came out with 20 guys
flying."
Pardoski's goal at the 11:52
mark of the second period turned
out to be the game winner. Just last
week, Michigan coach Red Ber-
enson placed the senior forward on
"leave" from the team for academic
reasons. Pardoski was reinstated af-
ter last weekend's games.
In addition to scoring his first
goal of the season, Pardoski set up
Turner's first tally of the year,
which gave Michigan a 1-0 lead.
"Anytime you miss a week with
those kinds of circumstances,
you're going to come back and try
to prove something," Turner, who
missed the first 10 games with a
wrist injury, said of his linesmate.