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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP)
Fifth-ranked Alabama and No. 9
[Ohio State, who get the college foot
ball season under way Wednesday
night in the fourth annual Kickoff
Classic, are remarkably similar teams
and nowhere more so than at
quarterback.
Ohio State’s Jim Karsatos, a curly-
haired Gene Wilder lookalike, is a 6-
foot-3, 224-pound senior from Ful
lerton, Calif., who set school records
last year by completing 61.2 percent
of his passes (158 of 254 for 2,1 15
yards) and throwing for 19 touch
downs. He finished fourth nation
ally in passing efficiency.
Alabama’s Mike Simla is a 6-2,
198-pound senior from Miami who
set school records last year by com
pleting 60.3 percent of his passes
(138 of 229 for 2,009 yards) and
threw for 16 touchdowns. He was
fifth in passing efficiency.
About the only difference is that
Shula is left-handed and the son of a
famous football father. Each was in
tercepted eight times. And neither
quarterback expects to put many
points on the scoreboard.
“I think it will be a defensive
game, playing against the type of de
fense we’re going to play against,”
Shula said Tuesday.
Karsatos could tell Shula all about
the Buckeyes’ defense, which Coach
Earle Bruce expects to be the best in
his eight years at Ohio State.
“I’ve got to play against our de
fense every day,” Karsatos said. “I
could probably tell Mike what to
look for . . . but I won’t.
Although Shula ranks ahead of
such luminaries as Ken Stabler,
Steve Sloan, Bart Starr and Richard
Todd on Alabama’s passing chart
and is closing in on Joe Namath, he
doesn’t consider himself a pro pros
pect of their stature.
“Everybody’s dream is to play pro
football,” he said. “But my chances
are not as realistic as some of those
other guys. I’m not worried about
that right now. It’s something you’ve
got to put in the back of your mind.
Some guys get to thinking about it
and their senior year isn’t as good as
theirjunior.”
Alabama coach Ray Perkins de
scribed Shula as “a combination of
(former Alabama quarterbacks)
Steve Sloan and Pat Trammell.
From a competitive standpoint he
reminds me of (the San Diego
Chargers’) Dan Fouts, whom I
coached in 1978.
“He has to improve his arm
strength to be a pro quarterback, but
mentally he could play in the NFL
right now.”
Karsatos, who grew up as “a
Southern Cal kid,” knows all about
the dream.
“You always watch the Monday
night football games and say, ‘Am I
going to make it?,”’ he said. “But Tm
not a complete passing guy. I don’t
want to go out and throw 60-70
passes. I think a good mix of run
and pass makes a quarterback better
and helps the team more.”
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PEORIA, Ill. (AP) — Former Chi
cago Bulls Coach Stan Albeck signed
a five-year contract Tuesday with
Bradley University, a basketball pro
gram on probation for two years,
and said no other college coaching
job could have lured him from pro
fessional basketball.
“I can’t think of a better place
than Bradley, where I started 31
years ago, to wind up my career,” Al
beck said at a news conference at his
alma mater.
“I’ve made a commitment to
Bradley. I’m not interested in an
NBA job,” Albeck said, adding that
his contract provided no “golden
parachute” clause that would guar
antee him a salary if he left Bradley
before Five years.
Other details of the contract were
not disclosed.
Albeck, 55, a native of Chenoa,
Ill., graduated from Bradley in
1955.
Bradley, which won the Missouri
Valley Conference last season and
finished the year with a 32-3 record,
is a private university with an enroll
ment of about 5,000 students and tu
ition of about $6,500 a year.
Albeck coached three National
Basketball Association teams in six
years before his most recent stint
with the Bulls, who Fired him in May
after one year of a three-year con
tract that guarantees him $250,000
this coming season.
On July 14, Dick Versace signed a
one-year contract for a ninth season
at Bradley, but was told it would be
his last because of NCAA sanctions
imposed against the school that same
day.
Bradley began looking for a suc
cessor to Versace two weeks before
he took an assistant coaching job
with the Detroit Pistons on Aug. 5.
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DALLAS (AP) —Johnny Moore,
the San Antonio Spurs’ guard whose
season was cut short last year by a
rare form of meningitis, says his
main challenge now is overcoming
the effects of his layoff.
Moore, in Dallas during the week
end to play in the NBA Pro-Am
Summer Texas Shootout, said he
still suffers from headaches — but
he now know when they are coming
and how long they will last.
“The day I get my medication I
get the headaches again and it puts
me out for about a day and a half,”
Moore said. “But it is caused by the
medication. They have to inject it
through this tube up here.”
Moore has a small tube implanted
into his head through which he re
ceives medication once a week. In
two weeks, he will get a spinal tap to
determine whether the frequency of
the treatments can be reduced.
He has been running three miles a
day and lifting weights three times a
week. Moore, who played in all five
Pro-Am games recently in Dallas, is
using the NBA Pro-Am Summer
League to get his game back in
shape. On Sunday, he scored 38
points in one game.
“I just need to work,” he said.
“Playing at this level of competition
has been real good for me. I really
helps. A lot of people have different
reasons to play here. It is a little bit
more crucial for me to play on this
level or organized ball.”
Moore, whose NBA season ended
in December, didn’t start working
out again until mid-June. He says his
disease won’t be as big an obstacle as
overcoming the effects of the layoff.
“I’m not in the shape I want to be
in yet,” he said. “I’m still working on
it. My quickness and jumping ability
are the two things that aren’t back to
normal yet, but I think they will
come back byjust getting in shape.”
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You get to be a freak'
Pohl remembers problems
of being long distance golfer
AKRON, Ohio (AP) — Dan
Pohl has some advice for Davis
Love III, that extra-long rookie
who’s drawing “oh’s” and “ah’s”
from PGA Tour galleries around
the country.
“I think he’d better put an
other wood in his bag,” said Pohl,
the winner of last weekend’s ex
clusive World Series of Golf.
Love is the 22-year-old rookie
who has captured the imagina
tion of golf galleries with his pro
digious drives and the incredible
distances he hits his irons — 180
yards occasionally with a 9-iron.
He currently leads the Tour in
average driving distance, 284.5
yards.
He carries only one wood in his
bag: a driver.
“It’s a burden, a problem,”
Pohl said. “You get to be a freak.’
He knows. He’s been there.
The First two years official sta
tistics were compiled on the
Tour, Pohl led in driving dis
tance: 274.3 in 1980 and 280.1 in
1981.
He may have been even longer
the two previous years, his first
two on the Tour, Pohl suggested.
The only problem was, during
those First two years, Pohl didn’t
make enough money to retain his
playing rights. He had to return
to the Tour’s Qualifying School
and regain his place among golFs
touring pros.
“You know, it’s fun. You go out
there and everybody expects you
to hit it out of sight,” Pohl said.
“You know you can do it, and
you let go. You hammer it.
“It’s fun. They’re yelling ‘put it
in orbit,’ and ‘don’t let me see it
come down,’ and all that. But you
keep shooting bad numbers and
you’re going back to the Q
School,” he said.
So, as he learned, as he ma
tured, as he became more profes
sional, Pohl changed. He cut
down on his swing — his backsw-
ing now is among the shortest on
the Tour.
And his scores improved. In
the next Five years, he did not win
the driving distance title. (Most of
those who did, incidentally, lost
their playing rights and either re
turned to the Qualifying School
or sought their livelihood else
where). But his scores improved.
Over the following five years, as
he cut back, he averaged
$116,000 a year in earnings.
This year, he does not rank
among the top 10 in driving dis
tance. And he’s won two tourna
ments, the First two of his life, and
$440,563.
“People come out to see you
because you‘re a freak. They
want to see you hit it long, hit it
out of sight. It takes a while to
learn, you’re better off not being
a freak, not giving in to them, cut
ting back just a little and trying to
play the game.
“It takes some experience,
some maturity,” said Pohl, now
31 and in his ninth season as a
touring pro.
“Love is now the longest guy
out here. Nobody else is even
close. And he is going to Find that
it’s problem, a burden.”
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