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Saturday, August 8, 1981

The Michigan Daily

MCCORMICK MIGHT REDSHIRT
'M' cager to have surgery-again

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From Daily staff reports
Michigan basketball center Tim Mc-
Cormick, who has already undergone
surgery on his left knee this summer,
will have his right knee operated on
next Thursday, according to an Athletic
Department spokesman.
The spokesman said that the decision
to operate on the right knee was made
because "the left knee came along
quickly and there is still pain in his
right knee."
"THE RIGHT knee isn't as bad,"
Michigan basketball coach Bill Frieder
said earlier this summer, "but he does
have problems with it."
The June operation on McCormick's
left knee left Frieder quite optimistic.
"It (the operation) was quite suc-
cessful," the Wolverine cage coach
said. "The left knee, which they did, is
really responding."
Prior to this operation, it had been
assumed that tendonitis caused the 6-
Canham has
kidney stone
removed
By RON POLLACK
Daily sports writer
Michigan Athletic Director Don
Canham underwent minor
surgery to have a kidney stone
removed Thursday morning at
St. Joseph Mercy Hospital in an
operation performed by Dr. Carl
Van Appledorn.
According to Canham's
physician, Dr. Robert Anderson,
the stone was "too large to pass
by itself through the ureter, to go
into the bladder and be pushed
out through the urine."
CANHAM became ill during
the Big Ten Kickoff. Luncheon,
which was held in Chicago last
weekend.

10, 230-pounder's knee troubles, but
while performing the surgery, Dr.
Gerald O'Connor, the team physician,
found calcium deposits, as well.
THE ADDITIONAL surgery puts his
participation in the 1981-82 season in
jeopardy, although McCormick has
said that he feels he can play next
season.
Following McCormick's June
operation, Frieder did not seem overly
concerned about the possibility of his
center having another operation.
"Even if they did operate on the right
knee, there's a chance he'd play (in '81-
82)," he said. "And if he isn't able to
play, we'd redshirt him a year. If we
have to redshirt him, then we'll get
three good years out of him after that.
That's the way I've been looking at it."
This past season, McCormick
averaged 5.2 points and 3.5 rebounds
per game coming off the bench as a
freshman.

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Canhamr
.'up and around'
Canham should be released
from the hospital in "three or
four days," according to Ander-
son. "That would be a standard
time. We don't expect it to take
longer than that. He's up and
around."

MICHIGAN CENTER TIM McCormick (44) passes to guard Johnny Johnson
(34). McCormick, who has already had his left knee operated on this sum-
mer, is slated to undergo surgery on his right knee next Thursday. The
operation jeopardizes his chances of playing in the 1981-82 basketball season.

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Baseball's
troubles not
over yet;
umps might
walk out

SAN DIEGO (AP)-Even though the players strike
is over, major league baseball is finding labor peace
somewhat evasive. Now American and National
League officials are battling with the umpires.
The Major League Umpires Association may
boycott the All-Star Game tomorrow in a still-
pending labor dispute, the association's president, Ed
Runge, has hinted.
"WE'RE STILL negotiating with the two leagues to
see whether we're employed or not," Runge said in
an interview Thursday night.
"We weren't assigned to the exhibition games this
week because they don't want to start paying us
again until the 10th," he said.
Asked if members of the association will work the
All-Star Game in Cleveland, Runge replied, "I'm not
saying we will and I'm not saying we won't."
BY ADDING a new tier of playoffs with the split-
season concept, the two leagues must negotiate new
terms with the umpires. Richie Phillips, counsel for
the Major League Umpires Association, says the two
sides are "light years apart," from any agreement.
According to Phillips, the league presidents want
four-man umpiring teams for the mini-playoffs and

are offering $4,000 per man. Phillips said four umps
would be fine, if the teams use only seven players
apiece. He wants six umpires assigned, the same as
League Championship and World Series crews and he
wants them paid $6,500 plus 10 percent of the gross
revenues from the first three games of each series.
He bases those demands on the players' mini-series
package which he said provides for game salaries
plus 60 percent of the gate for the first three games.
"I want the umpires on equal footing with the players
for this series," Phillips said.
Also still being negotiated is how much the umpires
will lose in salary as a result of the players' strike,
They received full paychecks for both July and
August with the understanding that some money
might have to be given back to the leagues when a
settlement is reached.
Originally, it was understood that the umps would
not be paid beyond 30 days of the strike. Subsequent
negotiations between Phillips and league presidents
Lee MacPhail and Chub Feeney have narrowed the
gap. At the moment, the leagues are arguing that the
umps should lose a total of three days pay for the
players' strike. Phillips has said he will accept one
lost day.

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