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IWo coaches get edge
to succeed Lewis at UH
Associated Press
HOUSTON — Lamar University coach Pat Foster
and University of Houston assistant Donnie Schverak
have received early endorsements to replace retiring
University of Houston basketball coach Guy Lewis.
Lewis announced his retirement Tuesday after 33
seasons at the Southwest Conference school and said
he would recommend Schverak, his longtime assistant,
for the position.
“Donnie’s been with me for 17 years as a coach and a
bunch of years as a player and I’m going to recom
mend him for the job,” Lewis said.
Former Arkansas coach Eddie Sutton, now at Ken
tucky, said he would choose Foster, his former assis
tant at Arkansas, for the job.
“I hope they consider me,” Schverak said. “I know
how to coach and I know how to recruit the kind of
player who doesn’t want to be bought.”
Foster, who built a successful program at Lamar
over the past five seasons, has been mentioned fre
quently in connection with recent coaching vacancies,
including Baylor and Arkansas in the SWC and Au
burn in the Southeastern Conference.
“I don’t think they could find a better man to re
place Guy than Pat Foster,” Sutton said. “He’s an out
standing coach. Certainly he helped me in developing
our program in Arkansas.”
Foster was an assistant to Sutton for eight seasons at
Arkansas.
‘With the situation coming up at this time, in the
middle of the season, no coach would want to com
ment,” Foster said. “We’ll have to wait and see what
happens.”
Sschverak, 45, has been with the Cougars 17 seasons
and like Lewis, played at Houston before joining the
coaching ranks.
It was Schverak’s recruiting violation last year that
led the NCAA to declare 7-foot center Tito Horford
ineligible to play at Houston. As a result, Schverak has
been prohibitea from off-campus recruiting until July.
Another candidate is former Houston All-American
Elvin Hayes, now a special assistant to Athletic Direc
tor Tom Ford.
Hayes, who retired from the Houston Rockets after
the 1984 season, said he has missed the game.
“The game is a part of me,” Hayes said. “It’s some
thing I did all my life. I would love to be a part of this
program.”
Ford said an eight-to-10 member search committee
would start a coaching search immediately.
After playing three years for the Cougars in the
1940s, Lewis returned as an assistant in 1953 and be
came head coach in 1956.
Over the past 30 years, he had only three losing sea
sons, the first three, and has a string of 26 consecutive
non-losing seasons still intact.
Lewis went into Wednesday night’s SWC game
against Texas A&M with 586 victories, second among
active coaches. Lewis teams have had 14 20-victory sea
sons and 29 of his players have been drafted by the
pros.
Pokes’ Dorsett to pay off outstanding loan
Associated Press
DALLAS — Dallas Cowboys run
ning back Tony Dorsett will pay
about $107,000 to a suburban bank
this week to satisfy a delinquent
loan, his attorney says.
Dorsett was ordered by a state dis
trict judge last month to pay First
City Bank of Richardson $85,000
borrowed in 1983, plus about $9,100
in interest and $12,750 in attorney
fees.
In a separate case last August,
Dorsett was ordered by another
judge to pay the bank $186,379 for
defaulting on a $ 175,000 promissory
note.
“I expect it will be paid before the
week is out,” said Dorsett's lawyer,
H. Allen Hill Jr. of Austin. “Tony
has been making arrangements for
the financing to get that paid.”
Hill said this week’s payment will
complete settlements of Dorsett’s
debt problems, which surfaced last
July when the Internal Revenue
Service temporarily seized his two
Dallas-area homes to force him to
pay $414,000 in income taxes.
Last fall, Dorsett signed a lucra
tive new contract with the National
Football League team, which report
edly paid him $450,000 this season.
It also includes millions of dollars in
deferred payments.
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PHOENIX — Winning, Jack
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continued participation on the PGA
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“If I can’t win, if I can’t compete, I
won’t play,” the Nicklaus said
Wednesday before beginning his
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Nicklaus, one day past his 46th
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“Having the ability to compete is a
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“Right now, my schedule has me
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all-time leading money-winner said.
“Don’t ask me why. It just worked
out that -way. That could be ad
justed, but that’s what I’m planning
right now.”
Nicklaus, who Won this tourna
ment in 1964 but hasn’t played here
in 18 years, opens his campaign
against the strongest field the old
event has ever had.
It includes Tom Watson, Lee Tre
vino and Tom Weiskopf, also mak
ing their first appearances of the
year, along with British Open champ
Sandy Lvle of Scotland, West Ger
man Bernhard Langer, the Masters
title holder, and PGA winner Hu
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Also on hand are last year’s lead
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opened his season with a run-away
victory two weeks ago in the Tourna
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The chase for a $90,000 first prize
begins Thursday on the 6,726-yard,
par 71 Phoenix Country Club
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