8 - The Michigan Daily - SPORTSMonday - Monday, April 3, 1995
Arkansas looks to
repeat as champs
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SEATTLE (AP) - The expecta-
tions have surrounded UCLA for the
past 20 years. They have suffocated
Arkansas for the last 12 months.
On Monday night, UCLA, with a
record 10 titles but none since 1975,
meets Arkansas, which is trying to
become the eighth school to repeat as
champion. That these just happen to
be the hottest teams in the country
makes the 57th national title game
even more compelling.
Add in the announced appearance
of John Wooden, who coached UCLA
to all those titles in 12 years, and the
Kingdome becomes the site of history
meeting the present.
"The tradition is so great at UCLA
and now we have a chance to add to
that tradition," UCLA All-America
forward Ed O'Bannon said Sunday.
'Everyone talks about the teams from
the past and now we have a chance to
be one of those teams from the past.
"I'm excited about having a chance
to play against the defending champi-
ons. I didn'trealizethatI really wanted
to play them until after they had won
their game."
Arkansas (32-6) won its 11 straight
NCAA tournament game with a 75-
68 victory overNorth Carolina, agame
in which the Razorbacks rallied be-
hind Corliss Williamson and applied
a wearing defense for their 15th win
their last 16 games.
Top-ranked UCLA (30-2) reached
the championship game with a 74-61
victory over Oklahoma State, its 18th
straight, with point guard Tyus Edney
driving, dishing and leading the way.
Edney sprained his right wrist in
the first half when he fell hard. He still
scored 21 points and had five assists,
but missed Sunday's interviews to
receive treatment at the University of
Washington. X-rays were negative.
"It's negative but it hurts," UCLA
coach Jim Harrick said. "He couldn't
shoot his outsidejump shot very well in
the second half but it certainly didn't
bother his penetration. It might limit
what he can do well. He's played with
injuries before. If they open the floor
he's a guy that you really need in that
situation. I'm very, very concerned."
Edney's ballhandling will be criti-
cal against the Arkansas backcourt of
Corey Beck and Clint McDaniel, the
keys to the pressure defense that held
North Carolina to one field goal over
the final 15 minutes.
"I think we have the two most
underrated guards in college basket-
ball," Richardson said. "Those two
kids are the reason we are speaking to
you today. Because of the style and
the way we play, you have to control
the guards and I don't know of any
two guards in the country that can
control a game the way these two
young men can."
they weren't making a gazillion
dollars. What they were doing was
playing the game they loved.
The brand of ball they were
playing may not have good, but
their attitudes were.
Now, however, it's back to
million-dollar prima donnas
complaining that they are underpaid
and unappreciated by their clubs.
And owners who whine that they're
broke only to turn around and pay
$4 million to a .250 hitter, and raise
ticket prices.
Lost in it all, strike or no strike;
are the fans. The father taking his
son to a game. The 12-year old
sitting in the stands with her mit
hoping catch a foul ball.
The owners and the players
simply don't care, and it would be
great if on April 28 the people
returned the favor.
It would be more than fitting i,
fans from Boston to Seattle, Detroii
to Miami just stayed home. That
would send a message to
management and labor that the only
reason both are around is because of
the people buying the,-tickets.
Simply put, it's time for basebaf
fans to go on strike.
It's time to show all involved
that, no matter what Major League
Baseball wants you to think, things
aren't the same as when it left.
They don't care about you.
Why should you care about
them?
Michigan's Jimmy King chases after a loose ball in an all-star game in Seattle yesterday.
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SEATTLE (AP) - Iowa State's
Fred Hoiberg already is the unofficial
mayor of Ames, Iowa. The sugges-
tion was made Sunday that he put his
name on the election ballot in some
other cities, too.
Hoiberg scored 20 points on 7-of-
12 shooting and was chosen MVP
after leading the West to a 117-88
victory over the East in the National
Association of Basketball Coaches
All-Star game.
Michigan's Jimmy King added 19
points and Purdue's Cuonzo Martin
had 18 for the West, which hit 15 of
31 3-point attempts. The East was a
dismal 3-for-18 from beyond the are.
Hoiberg, a 6-foot-4 guard, was 6-
for-10 from 3-point range and Martin
4-for-8.
Ray Jackson, King's Michigan
teammate, played for the East and led
the losers with 15 points.
But the star of the game was clearly
Hoiberg, who made 183 3-pointers in
his brilliant Iowa State career.
"I was just fortunate to be playing
with Brent Barry and Jimmy King,"
Hoiberg said. "I think we just played
better as a team today."
Return of Major League players means end
to replacements' baseball careers and dreams
DETROIT (AP) - The replace-
ment baseball players had their mo-
ment in the sun. But that was Florida
sun. They never got a chance to play
in Tiger Stadium.
Oh, they got a whiff of big league
life.
They went through six weeks of
spring training. They played a full
exhibition schedule. They dreamed
the dream.
They played their final exhibition
against the Braves' replacement play-
ers Friday night in Atlanta. They flew
on to Detroit and were put up in a fine
hotel. Their creamy Detroit uniforms
were hung in lockers in the Tigers'
clubhouse.
But the dream all came crashing
down at 1 1:59 p.m. Saturday. The
order came from management law-
yers, one minute before the replace-
ment players were eligible for bonus
money.
It was all about money anyway.
Striking major league players, af-
ter almost eight months, made a ten-
tative peace with club owners and
will return to work. Spring Training
II will begin in a few days and last
about three weeks. Opening day was
set back until April 26.
Owners accepted the players'
back-to-work offer Sunday, never
even taking a lockout vote that would
have prevented real major leaguers
from reporting to spring training
camps.
"It was not a surrender. The play-
ers were on strike, they made an un-
conditional offer to come back, and
we accepted that offer," acting com-
missioner Bud Selig said following
the 4 1/2-hour meeting.
The voluntary reporting date for
training camps will be Wednesday,
with a mandatory reporting date of
Friday.
Each team would play 144 games,
18 fewer than the original schedule.
That would result in the cancellation
of the season's first 252 games, rais-
ing the total wiped out by the strike to
921 since last August.
"It was fun while it lasted," De-
troit replacement pitcher Bill Kostich
said Sunday as he packed his gear and
headed back to his job with a plumb-
"I'll never
forget how my
name looked on
the brack of that
uniformi.
- Bill Kostich
Detroit Tiger replacement
player
ing supply company in suburban
Dearborn Heights. "I'll never forget
how my name looked on the back of
that uniform."
Kostich was one of the lucky ones.
He is only 24 and the Tigers might
find a place for him on one of their
minor league teams.
The older players know they just
had their last hurrah in baseball. Dave
Gumpert, 33. will go back to
Bloomingdale High School where he
is baseball coach and athletic direc-
tor.
Jay Pettibone, 38, will return to
his job with the U.S. Customs Ser-
vice.
That still leaves the saga of Sparky
Anderson and Tom Runnells. 0
Anderson refused to manage re
placement players and was placed on
an unpaid leave of absence. He ex-
pects to return once the regular play-
er-s do.
"I'm just elated that this thing is
over," Anderson said by telephone
from his home in Thousand Oaks,
Calif. "I've been itching to get
started for a long time. And my wife.
is itching to kick me out of the
house."
The return of Anderson prob-
ably means interim manager Tom
Runnells will return to managing
the Toledo Mud Hens, the Tiger,"
top affiliate.
"I'll be fine, no matter what hap-
pens," Runnells said. "But I really
feel sorry for some of those replace-
ment players. I came to respect them
so much during the six weeks we
spent together in Florida.
"They worked hard. They came
together. They were a real team at the
end there."
Sullivan leads Wolverines in North Carolina
AP PHOTO
The San Diego Padres' Tony Gwynn is in and the replacement players are
out. Major league baseball players ended their 8-month strike last Friday.
Daily sports. We never strike.
By Chaim Hyman
Daily Sports writer
The Michigan men's track team
ran its second meet of the outdoor
season Saturday at the University of
North Carolina Invitational at Chapel
Hill. Six Wolverines placed in the top
three in their events, but sophomore
All-American Kevin Sullivan was the
only member of the team to win his
event.
Sullivan's performance in the
1500-meter event is the first in what
he hopes will be a successful outdoor
season. Sullivan ran the event in
3:39.95, edging out the second place
finisher from Nebraska by a margin
of 6.5 seconds.
"I'm pretty pleased with my per-
formance," Sullivan said. "I was look-
ing to qualify for national in the 1500
(meter) and I was able to that."
From a team standpoint, Sullivan
feels that Michigan faced up well
against tough competition, but has a
long way to go before the Big Ten
Championship meet held in late May.
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"As a team we were good,"
Sullivan said. "Some of us had really
good performances against top com-
petitors from Northt Carolina and
Nebraska, and as a team we were
average overall."
Junior All-American Scott
MacDonald finished second in the 800
meter event with a time of 1:51.45. This
is MacDonald's first meet since sitting
out the indoor season due to injuries.
Senior Tyrone Wheatley, last
season's Big Ten champion in the 110
meter hurdles, finished second for the
Wolverines, with a time of 13.88.
Neil Gardner came in second in
the 400 meter hurdles with a time of
52.06. Gardner has mixed feelings
about the meet, but feels his perfor-
mances will become better as the sea-
son progresses.
"I had a good performance in the
400 meter hurdles," Gardner said.
"This event is coming along really
nicely for me, hopefully I will be able
to qualify automatically for nationals
as the season continues."
As a team, Gardner feels that
Michigan did not do as well as it could
have, because of the lack of spacing
between indoor and outdoor track
seasons.
"We definitely could have done
better as a team," Gardner said. "Some
of us ran well, but we would have
done better had we been more rested
from the indoor season."
Theo Molla and Sean MacKay
finished second and third, respec-
tively, in the 5000 meter event, with
times of 14:30.23 and 14:31.87.
Chris Lancaster finished third in the
shotput withadistance of 15.85meters.
Stan Johanning was second in the
javelin toss with a distance of 63.84
meters. Although Johanning finished
strong, he is disappointed with the meet.
"I'm personally disappointed,"
Johanning said. "I went to North Caro-
lina with the intention of qualifying
provisionally, and I wasn't able to do
that."
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