'ire I f ftanc The World Cup final is just a week away, with France, Croatia, Brazil and Holland vying for the title. Read about Croatia's historic Cup run on page 18. SPO--RTS Monday e July G, 1998,A Stars flock Itoto tourney By Stephanie Offen Daily Sports Writer A golden golf club engraved with the signature of I mer president and Michigan football great Gerald F was only one of many items the volunteers were boxing and getting ready to auction off at today's Mi Schembechler Memorial Golf Classic. The golf outing is a fundraiser for the Mi Schembechler Adrenal Cancer Research Fund at University of Michigan Hospital. Millie, wife of I endary Michigan football coach Bo Schembechler, d from adrenal cancer in August of 1992. The event, 4 sixth year now, has been raising money for that cause e since. The money helps the University do research on the r disease, and the golf tournament was the way Bo wan to raise this money. "When asked about raising money for the disease, said he wanted to do it the right way," said Peter Peller a volunteer and one of the founders of the Golf Clas "The celebrity golf tournament was what he came with." The tournament has brought in $1.3 million so fa4 the charity and is expected to bring in about $300,t more this year. The auction, which includes items like the golf cl tickets for trips to Europe and a jersey signed by the ent Red Wings team, is expected to bring in about $25,000 Red Wings alone brought in $10,000 last year and the j sey is expected to go for the same amount this year. But the bulk of the money for the charity will proba come from sponsors and people paying to play in the to nament with some of their favorite Michigan athletes. "There is a variety of celebrities that come in for tournament, but they all have connections to Bo ani Michigan community," Pellerito said. "Bobby Kni obviously has a different connection to the commur than former Michigan star Dan Dierdorf, but they all people who know Bo or knew Millie and want to h out." Knight and Dierdorf are only two of the many celel ties who are planning to play in the tournament. Rt See CELEBS, Page Anthony Carter a MARGARET MYERS/Daily Elvis Grbac Former Detroit Tigers manager Sparky Anderson, a Schembechler regular, admires one of his shots at the 1996 Schembechler Classic. Anderson is one of the many celebrities playing in the Classic today. In-house sports camps could mean more cash for coaches By Rick Freeman Daily Sports Editor A sweet deal for Michigan coaches might get a little sweeter in the next two or three years. The athletic department wants to con- solidate all the coaches' individual sports- camps and bring them "in-house," said Senior Associate Athletic Director Peg Bradley-Doppes. In addition to thicken- ing coaches' wallets, the new system would provide the athletic department e with better oversight. "We really are out of the loop," Bradley-Doppes said. Currently, - the sweaty hordes of teenagers that descend upon Ann Arbor attend camps run only by the Michigan coach for that particular sport. For exam- = ple, high school baseball players come to the Geoff Zahn Michigan Baseball Camp, not the Michigan Baseball Camp. When current head wrestling coach Dale Bahr takes his new job in the ath- letic department following the 1998-99 season, high schoolers might not noticea difference. But the coaches and the ath- letic department definitely will. Bahr has run a successful camp for over 20 years, Bradley-Doppes said, which makes him "a perfect fit" Not that there's anything wrong with the camps as they are. Coaches now run their camps as inde- pendent corporations -albeit ones run from their offices in Weidenbach Hall -- and once all expenses (including their employees' salaries and the fees to use the University's athletic facilities) are paid, they get to pocket the rest. But Bradley-Doppes said bringing the programs in house will not only make the single, unified program "one of the best sports camp programs in the coun- try," but it will make life a lot easier for the coaches. As the programs stand now, coaches form their own corporations to run their camps. But if coaches can be freed of orga- nizing camps, the logic goes, they will be free to get back to coaching - what they do best, along with, of course, recruiting. The purpose of the sports camps, Bradley-Doppes said, is to show off Michigan's facilities, attracting potential athletes to the school. The camps are a better recruiting tool for some sports See CAMPS, Page 17 Camper Ryan Shead, 14, watches a game during the Michigan basketball camp last Thursday. The athletic department plans to eventually consolidate the summer cam