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AD's to discuss
TV p ro posals
CHICAGO (AP) - College athletic well as a two-year, $11.1 million
directors, hoping to come up with an package with ESPN.
acceptable TV football plan for the fall, "If our proposal is defeated, I guess
will discuss three different proposals we're out of the television business,"
and their dollar values today during a NCAA spokesman Jim Shaffer said
special meeting for football playing Monday.
schools.
The session was called by the NCAA "AT OUR last meeting, the majority
to discuss and vote on a new television of the schools said they favored some
plan sent July 3 to its 113 voting mem- sort of plan. Now, we'll find out how
bers in Division I-A and 90 in I-AA. seriously they meant it."
THE NCAA proposal seeks voluntary Waiting in the wings with alternate
cooperation by universities instead of plans should the NCAA's fail to gain a
the ironclad deal that the Supreme working majority is the College Foot-
Court ruled two weeks ago was in ball Association, which claims 63 mem-
violation of federal antitrust laws. The ber schools and many of the game's
court said the NCAA cannot continue as powerhouses. The Football Television
the sole bargaining agent for its foot- Planning Committee, a compromise
ball playing schools. coalition that enfolds the CFA and in-
That ruling, which upheld a decision cludes the Big Ten and Pac-10 con-
by U.S. District Judge Juan Burciaga in ferences, also has a proposal.
a lawsuit brought by the universities of Both alternate plans include some
Georgia and Okalahoma, effectively sort of exclusive network deals, not
killed a $263.5 million deal the NCAA unlike the NCAA package that was
signed in 1982 with CBS and ABC as struck down by the high court.
Kimball lands spot
on U.S. diving team
From wire reports make the U.S. Olympic Team by
INDIANAPOLIS - Bruce Kimball finishing second in the 10-meter plat-
became the third Ann Arbor diver to form on Sunday.
Joining Kimball on the men's team
will be former Wolverine Ron
Merriott, who qualified in the three-
meter springboard on Saturday.
Another ex-Michigan diver, Chr:,
Seufert, made the women's squad,
also in the three-meter springboard.
KIMBALL, who will be a junior at
Michigan this fall', scored 619.90
points, well behind first-place
finisher Greg Louganis' 659.16. After
10 dives Kimball was stuck in eighth
position but moved up with a string
of excellent dives. At one point Kim-
ball pulled to within six and one-half
points of Louganis before falling
back.
Kimball's inclusion on the U.S.
team also makes three divers from
Dick Kimball's Ann Arbor Diving
Club that have qualified for the
Games. Kimball is the Michigan
Kimball diving coach and co-Olympic coach
along with Ron O'Brien of Ohio
... late dives did it State.
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U.S. team made of gold?
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LOS ANGELES (AP) - A single
task is being put before the U.S.
Olympic men's basketball team by its
coach, Bobby Knight.
"For two weeks," Knight says, "I
want to make this the best basketball
team in the world - bar none."
IN THAT quest, Knight has a collec-
tion of some spectacular talent, a team
that appears to be a sure bet for the
gold medal.
The 1960 U.S. team, which included
Oscar Robertson and Jerry West, is
considered the best in Olympic history,
winning its games by an average of 42
points. But the presence of All-
Americas Patrick Ewing, Wayman
Tisdale, Sam Perkins and Michael Jor-
dan makes this team potentially just as
awesome.
'For two weeks I want to
make this the best
basketball team in the
world-bar none.'
-U.S. Olympic coach.
Bobby Knight
The United States has been a
dominant force since basketball made
its debut in the Games in 1936, reeling
off a 69-1 record and winning the gold
eight times in nine tries.
ITS ONLY loss came in -the con-
troversial championship game in 1972
to the Soviet Union 51-50, ending the
Americans' winning streak at 62. The
Big 0: Nothing won yet
NEW YORK (AP) - The 1984 U.S. "OUR TEAM had several guys
Olympic basketball team still has to who went on to excel in the pro
prove itself at the Los Angeles ranks," Robertson said. "Time will
Games before it can be compared tell, but many of this year's team
with the American team that swept will go on to distinguish themselves
the competition in 1960, gold in the pros and some will not."
medalist Oscar Robertson said Coached by the University - of
yesterday. California's Pete Newell, Robertson
"The '84 team is very good, but it was joined on the team by future
hasn't won a gold medal yet," said NBA standouts Jerry West, Jerry
Robertson, who started at forward Lucas, Walt Bellamy, Terry
at the Rome Olympics and went on Dischinger, Darrall Imhoff, Bob
to become a Hall of Fame guard in Boozer, Adrian Smith and Jay Ar-
the National Basketball Association. nette.
Americans seemingly had the victory
when time expired, but the clock was
ordered restarted with three seconds
left. The Soviets threw the ball the
length of the court and Aleksandr Belov
scored at the buzzer.
The United States and the Soviets
didn't meet in the 1980 Olympics
because of the U.S. boycott, and they
won't meet this time because of the
Soviet boycott.
This time, the U.S. team presents a
U.S. basketball team
Steve Alford, G, 6-1, Indiana
Patrick Ewing, C, 7-0, Georgetown
Vern Fleming, G, 6-5, Georgia
MichaelJordan, G/F, 6-5, North Carolina
Joe Kleine, C, 6-11, Arkansas
Joe Koncak, C,.7-0, SMU
Chris Mullin, G/F, 6-6, St. John's
Sam Perkins, F, 6-9, North Carolina
Avin Robertson. G, 6-4. Akansas
Wayman TiGdale, F,6-9, Oklahoma
Jeff Turner, F, 6-9, Vanderbilt
Leon Wood, G,6-3, FullertonState
front line headed by the 7-foot Ewing,
who led Georgetown to the NCAA title this;
year. He is a fierce rebounder and in-
timidating defender. His forte is shot-
blocking.
NORTH Carolina's Perkins and
Oklahoma's Tisdale, both 6-9, give the
Americans board strength and scoring
power. Jordan a 6-6 clutch performer
and college player of the year, and St.
John's Chris Mullin, 6-6, a deadly out-
side shooter, will swing at guard and
forward.
Leon Wood of Fullerton State is the
only pure point guard chosen on the 12-
player squad and will be joined in the
backcourt by Arkansas' Alvin Rober-
tson, Georgia's Vern Fleming and
Steve Alford, who plays for Knight at
Indiana.
Vanderbilt's Jeff Turner, a 6-9 for-
ward, and 6-11 Joe Kleine of Arkansas
and 7-0 Jon Koncak of Southern
Methodist complete the squad, sur-
vivors from more than 60 players who
went through a grueling set of trials
beginning in April to represent the
United States.
KNIGHT DREW some criticism for
his selections, passing over such stan-
douts in the Olympic Trials as Auburn's
Charles Barkley and Antoine Carr, a
former Wichita State star. But he has
emphasized that defensive ability and
unselfishness on offense were key fac-
tors.
"Another group may have picked
another team," Knight admits. "We
think we have the best players for the
way we want to play."
A gold medal would make Knight
only the third American coaeh to win
both the Olympics and the NCAA,
joining California's Pete Newell and
North Carolina's Dean Smith. Knight
won the NCAA crown twice at Indiana,
1976 and 1981.
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