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Coaches grab wins at NCAA convention
DALLAS (AP) — Coaches in vir-
ually every NCAA sport — with bas-
I cetball one notable exception — won
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ies of bitterly contested cut-back
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Major football schools came out
he best as the special cost-cutting
:onvention wound down, defeating
woposals to reduce overall schol-
irship and coaching limits and wa-
lering down a move to curtail spring
iractice.
But women’s administrators and
fficials of the U.S. Olympic Com-
nittee also won, fighting off a Com-
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imits in most men’s and women’s Di-
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"Bote on whether to restore basketball
■cholarship cuts enacted last Jan-
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I Many of the most significant items
ISgBere acted upon in Tuesday’s morn-
sess i° n an( d the convention was
lo conclude with a three-hour af-
■ernoon meeting. As they broke for
lunch, many delegates openly ques-
fHoned the wisdom of even calling
tis two-day meeting.
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“Our people figure it cost about
$1.8 million to put on this cost-cut
ting convention,” said Dave Gavitt,
commissioner of the Big East Con
ference. “How many baseball schol
arships would that pay for?”
One question in the delegates’
minds was how the powerful Presi
dents Commission would react to its
first legislative defeat. Since it was
formeo in 1984, the Commission
had been undefeated in its moves to
push through reform legislation.
Chancellor John Slaughter of
Maryland, chairman of the 44-mem
ber Commission, promised it would
re-double its efforts.
“Naturally, we’re disappointed
that some of the legislation we pro
posed has not been adopted,”
Slaughter said. “But it points out the
significance of what we said yester
day — that there are significant
areas of disagreement, and that’s not
going to change until people begin
to identify some better understand
ing of these issues.
“I think also the Presidents Com
mission failed to do a good enough
job of working with other presidents
and chief executive officers to get
them to understand why we felt it
was important that they support our
proposals. To a large extent, presi
dents and chancellors around the
country have not followed our lead.
And that’s probably our fault.”
The Commmission will not relin
quish its new position of leadership
in college sports, Slaughter said
“By all means. We were estab
lished to make sure that presidents
had a voice in what happens in inter
collegiate athletics. Now, that’s more
important than ever.”
Coaches Joe Paterno of Penn
State and Tom Osborne of Nebraska
were among those speaking against a
Pac-10 proposal to trim overall foot
ball scholarships at Division I-A
schools from 95 to 90.
The proposition failed 69-39. A
short time later, the convention
passed a motion to indefinitely post
pone consideration of a Commission
measure to cut scholarships in 12
men’s Division I sports and 10 wom
en’s Division I sports.
Women’s groups had protested
the cuts would affect women’s pro
grams disproportionately. Olympic
officials had also opposed it.
In moving that it be suspended,
delegates referred to the failure to
cut football grants.
“To take away awards from a
large segment of women’s sports will
be seen, whether intended or not, as
clearly sexist in effect and a major
setback in our commitment to an ex
citing NCAA sports program,” said
Paul Olum, President of Oregon
University.
“To refuse to cut football by a
small amount and then to go ahead
and reduce non-revenue and wom
en’s sports is disgraceful,” Olum
said.
“We want to get away from a
band-aid approach to solving our
problems and give ourselves an op
portunity to study this more care
fully,” Paterno said in arguing
against the football reductions. “Es
pecially with the possibility several
years down the road of eliminating
freshman eligibility again, which we
would support.”
Delegates to last January’s con
vention voted to reduce the number
of scholarships a football program
can give in one year from 30 to 25.
“Football is a developmental sport
more than most others,” said Os
borne, who rarely attends NCAA
conventions. “You may have a fresh
man lineman, 6-foot-6 and 210
pounds. You hope in a year he
might be 230 or 240 pounds, so of
those 95, you may be lucky to have
60 that can play.”
Division 1-AA schools voted 49-42
to reduce the assistant football
coaching staff from seven to six. An
amendment to cut scholarships from
30 to 25 passed 56-34 but a proposal
that would shave total scholarships
from 70 to 65 failed 47-44.
Washington President William
Gerberding argued that cutting
football scholarships would would
produce a very important “symbol,”
and drew a sharp rebuke from Os
borne.
“I do not believe we should be too
worried about symbols at this time.
Football coaches live in the real
world,” Osborne said.
Barnes picks
Olympics
over A&M
Texas A&M track star Randy
Barnes has decided to forego his
junior year of eligibilty to pursue
a spot on the 1988 U.S. Olympic
team.
Barnes, who is the No. 3-
ranked shot putter in the U.S.,
battled a recurring hand injury
the past year at A&M, and thus,
underwent minor surgery earlier
in June to repair an inflamed ten
don in his right hand.
Despite the injury, Barnes was
able to win the Soutnwest Confer
ence outdoor shot put title in May
along with his second consecutive
SWC championship in the discus.
A&M assistant coach Ted Nel
son said Barnes’ departure from
the Aggie track team will allow
him better time to prepare for the
U.S. Olympic trials next summer
in Indianapolis.
“It’s really tough to lose an out
standing competitor like Randy
Barnes, but we think this will en
hance his chances of making the
Olympic team,” Nelson said.
Connors fights off 2-set deficit to snare victory
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wd fin ainimy Connors, America’s final
Bope for the men’s singles title,
ath fotBought back from the brink of elimi-
ntil latBation Tuesday to defeat Sweden’s
le arro elikael Pernfors and advance to the
IWarll quarterfinals at Wimbledon.
GomB After battling for more than 3‘/2
Bndfi » ours on the scarred grass, Connors
rtofduBmerged with a 1-6, 1-6, 7-5, 6-4, 6-2
e Ri\c fictory and a berth in the quarterfl-
Hals against Slobodan Zivojinovic of
the Nr; Jugoslavia.
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194W; *' ere three Swedes — third-seeded
matte Slats Wilander, No. 4 Stef an Edberg
isantMiJpd Anders Jart yd — along with No.
jftenik iseed Ivan Lendl of Czechoslovakia,
isionthi jp 0 - 9 Henri Leconte of France and
Bio. 11 Pat Cash of Australia.
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Defending champion and No. 1
seed Martina Navratilova led the ad
vance to the women’s quarterfinals
by defeating Gigi Fernandez of
Puerto Rico 6-3, 6-1.
It took five sets for the 34-year-
old Connors to win his 77th singles
match in the world’s premier grass-
court tournament. But win it he did,
enthralling the Centre Court crowd
as he rallied from two sets down and
1-4 in the third.
“I don’t think I’ve been that far
down here and won before,” Con
nors said. “I didn’t have time to be
embarrassed. I was out there being
kicked.”
With defeat in sight, Connors
found the game that has twice car
ried him to the Wimbledon title. He
began taking the ball earlier, his
groundstrokes were deep and accu
rate, his volleys precise and sharp.
And gone was the spate of unforced
errors that had put him in such a
deep hole.
“I can still play,” Connors said. “I
feel that the best thing I did out
there was grind and fight.”
It was vintage Connors, the man
who has won a men’s record 105
tournaments in his career and who
now has reached the Wimbledon
quarterfinals 12 times.
For Zivojinovic, Tuesday’s 6-2, 6-
4, 7-6 victory over Australian Peter
Doohan had a tinge of revenge. In
the second round, Doohan upset de
fending champion Boris Becker of
West Germany, the Yugoslav’s
friend and frequent doubles part
ner.
Besides the Connors-Zivojinovic
match, other pairings Wednesday
will pit Wilander against Cash, Jar-
ryd against Edberg and Leconte
against Lendl.
In the women’s fourth round, in
addition to Navratilova, the winners
were No. 2 Steffi Graf of West Ger
many, No. 3 Chris Evert of the
United States, No. 4 Helena Sukova
of Czechoslovakia, No. 5 Pam
Shriver of the U.S., No. 6 Gabriela
Sabatini of Argentina, No. 8 Claudia
Kohde-Kilsch of West Germany and
unseeded Dianne Balestrat of Aus
tralia.
Evert and Shriver almost didn’t
make it.
“I’ve had one struggle,” Evert said
after defeating South Africa’s Rosa-
lyn Fairbank 6-2, 2-6, 7-5. It was her
first of the tournament that was not
in straight sets. “It’s not as though
I’ve gone three sets every match. It’s
not that I’m not pleased with the way
I’m play, I’m just not pleased with
my concentration level as far as clos
ing out a match.”
Shriver was down 1-4 in the final
set and fought off two match points
before outlasting No. 16 Sylvia Ha-
nika of West Germany 6-7, 7-5,10-8.
Livingstone
chosen as
All-American
Texas A&M standout third base-
man Scott Livingstone has been
named to the Sporting News All-
America team.
Livingstone, who was named as
the designated hitter to the squad,
led the Aggies with a .403 batting av
erage, with 19 home runs and 76
RBI.
The junior is currently playing for
the USA team which will represent
this country in the Pan American
games in Indianapolis at the end of
the summer.
Livinstone is hitting a .333 clip for
the USA team and leads the 9-0
team in doubles with four. He also
has been selected the Plymouth Most
Valuable Player of the Game twice in
the nine games so far.
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