8 - The Michigan Daily - SPORTSMonday - Monday, April 3, 1995 Arkansas looks to repeat as champs WHITE Continued from page 1 0 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. KoNB 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. -U., "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." t4l' I - - I .4 Run Around the Diag Sunday, April 9, 1995 Main sponsors: Division of Kinesiology, Elmo's Supershirts, Kinesiology Student Government Race format: Individual 5K race or 2 mile walk or Team 4X2 mile , . E. UNIVERS17 ,A. a I~y T T f T IME TO STORE YOUR WINTER CLOTHES Don't ship your clothes home this spring. We'll store your coats, jackets ... everything w- r- F- F- I LAP I MILE It r .. ' ?"