The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, September 23, 1998 -15

Louisville men's basketball, women's
volleyball slugged by NCAA sanctions

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AlP) - The
NCAA banned the Louisville men's
basketball team from postseason play
for one year yesterday and placed the
school on three years' probation because
of rules violations.
The nine violations in the men's bas-
ketball and women's volleyball pro-
grams involved extra benefits, recruit-
ing, financial aid, institutional control
and ethical conduct.
The Division I Committee on
Infractions handed down other penalties
as well, including a reduction of schol-
arships in both sports. The volleyball
team forfeited three scholarships over
the next two years, the basketball pro-
gram one in each of the next two sea-
sons.
The basketball program's postseason
ban also will include this season's
Conference USA tournament.
"We had nearly 100-percent agree-
ment with the NCAA Enforcement staff
on all facts of the case," Louisville pres-
ident John Shumaker said. "The
NCAA's response has been tough but

the sanctions are fair and I respect their
conclusions."
The allegations came to light early
last year and, following an investigation
that produced hundreds of pages of tes-
timony, the NCAA in April issued a for-
mal letter of inquiry into both programs.
The letter labeled the alleged viola-
tions as "major," including a charge of
"lack of institutional control" in the vol-
leyball program.
The university acknowledged seven
of the volleyball infractions involving
recruiting violations and rules prohibit-
ing extra benefits for athletes or their
families. It disagreed with the two other
allegations, that it did not sufficiently
educate volleyball coach Leonid Yelin
about NCAA rules and that then-assis-
tant basketball coach Scooter McCray
obtained a discounted hotel rate for the
father of forward Nate Johnson.
Louisville was placed on probation
for two years in 1996 after an investiga-
tion unearthed questions concerning
former player Samaki Walker's use of
two cars in 1995.

Because the new violation involving
the baskethall program occurred within
five years of the starting date of the pre-
vious penalties, the committee applied
its repeat-violator provisions to the case,
said Bonnie Slattion, the committee's
acting chair.
"It's fair to say the (postseason) ban
was primarily because of the repeat vio-
lator status,' Slation said. '"1 ider the
repeat-violator penalties, we could pro-
hibit all competition for two years in a
sport. We chose not to do that."
Neither Yelin nor basketball coach
Denny Crum were present at the atler-
noon news conference.
"Certainly, I'm deeply disappointed
and saddened by the decisioin," Crum,
who was on a recruiting trip, said in a
statement released by the school.
"Regardless of the outcome of the deci-
sion, I am ultimately responsible for our
basketball program and I feel had that it
has had such a negative effect on our
program and this university."
After the investigation was made pub-
lic, the university reprimanded Crum,

transferred McCray to an administrative
post and froze both their salaries, It also
suspended Yelin for a month without
pay and froze his salary, reprimanded an
assistant volleyball coach involved in
many of the violations and canceled the
volleyball team's preseason trip to Japan
last year.
Slatton said the committee took those
internal sanctions into account before
imposing its penalties.
Louisville athletic director Tom
Jurich said he did not know whether the
school would appeal the penalties.
"I rate any penalty as severe no mat-
ter what it is because I hate like hell to
be in this situation,' Jurich said. "I want
to be a stand-up, take-my-medicine kind
of person. I want our department to
understand that we've made some mis-
takes and that it's not OK to break the
rules.
"Then we're going to have to sit down
and figure out where we want to go on
this. It (an appeal) has not been ruled out
but it is not what we're focusing on at
this time."

AP PHOTO
*ouisviile's Alvin Sims and the rest of the Cardinals won't be playing in the NCAA
tournament this season. The basketball program was put on probation for a year.

McGwire, Sosa stay in
yard; Cubs, Mets tied

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ST. LOUIS (AP) - Mark McGwire failed
o add to his major league record 65 home
runs, yet gave a sellout crowd some drama
with two warning-track fly balls in the St.
Louis Cardinals' 4-0 victory over the NL
Central champion Houston Astros last night.
McGwire has homered five times off
louston pitching,+ and he came close to
adding two more against left-hander Mike
I ampton.
McGwire drove a ball to the warning track
n center in the first, then lined out to the
track in left-center in the third.
In the sixth, reliever Scott Elarton, who sur-
rendered homer No. 40 back on July 12, need-
ed only four pitches to get McGwire on a
called third strike.
In the eighth, McGwire sent a foul liner
into the seats off Doug Henry before striking
out for the 152nd time.
Morris (7-5), hasn't allowed a run in 16
innings since he was touched for six in the
ghth inning at Houston Sept. 11.
Ron Gant hit a two-run single in the first
and a solo homer off Hampton (11-7) in the

fourth.,
CUBS TIE METS DESPITE SLUMPIN'
SAMMY: The Chicago Cubs ended their
skid last night, even though Sammy Sosa
couldn't stop his slump.
The Cubs moved into a tie for the NL wild-
card spot, snapping a three-game losing
streak with a 5-2 win over the Milwaukee
Brewers.
Chicago is tied with New York, which lost
to Montreal 5-3. The Cubs and Mets each
have four games left.
Sosa failed to close in on McGwire, hold-
ing at 63 home runs and leaving him in an 0-
for-21 drought.
Before striking out for the second time,
Sosa hit a towering shot off Brewers reliever
Al Reyes in the seventh that just hooked foul
down the left-field line.
To chants of "Sam-my! Sam-my!" Sosa
went 0-for-4 with a walk. He has not gotten a
hit and has struck out eight times since hitting
homer No. 63 with a grand slam last
Wednesday in San Diego.
Before his last three at-bats, Sosa had to

wait as a new pitcher warmed up.
Sosa entered the game at sold-out County
Stadium two homers behind McGwire, who
also failed to go deep Tuesday night. The St.
Louis slugger hit his 65th against the Brewers
on Sunday.
Terry Mulholland (6-5) pitched eight solid
innings. He gave up one run on six hits, three
by Mark Loretta.
Jeromy Burnit z hit his 38th home run in the
ninth off Cubs reliever Rod Beck.
At a time when the Cubs needed Sosa the
most, Chicago's slugger hoped to regroup
against his favorite pitching staff. Ten of
Sosa's homers have come off the Brewers, his
most against any team. Earlier this month, he
connected for Nos. 59-62 against Milwaukee
during a three-game series at Wrigley Field.
But he struck out twice, hit into a fielder's
choice and drew a walk.

Mark McGwire
failed to go yard
last night, but his
St. Louis
Cardinals defeat
ed the Houston
Astros, 4.0.
McGwire remains
two ahead of the
Cubs' Sammy
Sosa in the home
run race. Sosa
also failed to
leave the park
last night.
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Thursday, September 24, 1998
4:30 PM
Hale Auditorium Assembly Hall
701 Tappen
Open to the Public
Reception to Follow
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Professor
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Chairman of the Board
The NASDAQ Stock Market
G. Michael Crooch
Executive Committee

Ed mund L. Jenkins
Chairman
Financial Accounting
Standards Board
Warren McGregor
Executive Director

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