Scot Paul Lawrie made major golf history with a ten-stroke comeback on the final day of the British Open. Page 14. SI!oORTSu Monday July 19, 1999 Come home to touch football By David Den Herder Daily Sports Writer Yes, I'll remember where I was. A muggy, messy Ann Arbor apart- ment with a television three sizes too small for the room and its remote con- trol nowhere to be found. The couch was coarse and uncom- *rtable, and the fan rattled as though it would break apart at any moment. Even so, I was willing to sit and SPORTS stare as CNN told me that my hero's commentary son - the only liv- ----------- ing link to a mentor before my birth - was gone. No shock, no disbelief-just intrigue. I But as I watched the various news encies air melodramatic pieces on the Kennedy legacy - from Joseph and Rose to all their children and grandchil- dren - one sidenote kept catching my ear, and forced me into reflection. In their retrospective stories, the press were always inclined to mention a game of touch football as a staple of every Kennedy gathering at the old house on Martha's-Vineyard. Some said it was symbolic of the *cho mystique-that was expected of ennedy males. Others mentioned it in connection with the thrill-seeking, enve- lope-pushing attitude that surrounded the boys and many times got them in trouble. But I think, more basic than any per- sonality trait, those roughhouse games symbolized family solidarity. No matter what was abuzz or what was amiss, the 'ennedys could always convene on the eyard and the boys could always haul out the pigskin. One of the last vivid memories I have of my mom's extended family together is on a back lawn in mid- Michigan duing a touch football game. I remember catching a pass from my ex-uncle, only to be touched down by my cousin. I guess she was faster than me. It was over Thanksgiving, and I sup- pose we were all together during dinner - in fact, I suppose we were together all *ekend - but it was the game of foot- ball that I can play back in my mind. I remember the faces, I remember the laughs, I even remember the sharp pain as I stomped, bare-footed onto art acon in the grass. Things weren't perfect in our lives, but at that moment, together, the most important thing on anyone's mind was getting the rubber football pa~st tire wsoodchrips, arnd ceebratirng Sh kin. Saturday, as I watched the btef footage of the Kennedy bos on home film, I saw the good times The way things used to be. If we could only go back go home to touch football - together. FORE A GREAT CAUSE By Chris Grandstaff Daily Spors Editort When Bo Schembechler took over as head coach of the Michigan football team in 1969 he asked his players to do one thing: beat OhioA State. They listened, handling the top-ranked Buckeyes 24-12 en route to a Rose Bowl birth. When Bo Schembechler coined the phrase "Those who stay will be Champions" his players listened - capturing 13 Big Ten titles and two Rose Bowl victories.. And last Monday when Bo Schembechler asked an array of celebrities and former players to play in tire seventh annual Millie Schembechler Classic at the University of Michigan Golf Course you better believed they lis- tened. "When Bo asks you something you don't turn him down," former shortstop and current Detroit Tigers hitting coach Alan Trammell said.' "We're all out here for a great cause and we all know that when he asks you to do something it's hard to turn him down." The event raised money for the Adrenal Cancer Research Fund at the University of Michigan Hospital in honor of Schembechler's late wife Millie, who died from adrenal cancer in August of 1992. Schembechler M has already raised $1.5 million in Former Piston Isiah Thomas tees off at the Millie Schembechler the first six years of the event and has received over $3 million in Celebrities from all walks of the Isiah Thomas, Red donations. entertainment, sports and political man Aaron Ward, for "Our goal is to make the worlds were on hand for the event Steeler and current University of Michigan Medical led by a large cast of former football reporter Center the adrenal cancer research Wolverines. Detroit Free Press co center for the world," Former Michigan football Albom, ESPN anal Schembechler said in a written heroes Anthony Carter, Bump Michigan football ra statement. "Still, there is no effec- Elliot, Pete Elliot, Jim Harbaugh, Jim Brandstatter tive treatment for patients with Rick Leach, Jim Mandich, Reggie Beckman and Go adrenal cancer. Hopefully, the McKenzie, John Wangler and Brian Engler. donations will help develop new Griese were on hand. But the event v treatment and better understanding They were joined by the likes of tribute of respect tC of this disease." Trammell, former Piston great S Icers face bumpy road slate By David Den Herder Daily Sports Writer When it's almost too hot to think, it's far too hot to think about hockey. But somewhere between 64 and 84 degrees on the mercury last Wednesday, the Michigan hockey team announced its upcoming sched- ule - conjuring up images of sweaters, tube socks and hot cocoa. And one tough road schedule to boot. The Wolverines will not have much time to prepare for important matchups. They jumpstart the 199t 2000 season at Notre Dame, in what should be the marquee series of the CCHA's opening weekend. "I'm excited to play that already," said junior Mark Kosick, who led Michigan through last year's postsea- son and was named CCHA Tournament MVP. 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