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_ Sports NETV to televise Notre Dame-NU volleyball game By Mark Derowitsch Senior Reporter The Nebraska Educational Televi sion Network announced Monday that it will televise the Nebraska volley ball match against Notre Dame live on Oct. 22. Steve Alvis, senior producer of sports and special events at NETV, said the match will be televised be cause NETV tries to show a Nebraska women’s sporting _ event every year. I The match, which begins at 7:30 p.m. at the Nebraska Coliseum, will be announced by Jim Kelter, a former Omaha sportscaster, and University of Nebraska-Omaha volleyball coach Janice Kruger. “We try to do Nebraska women’s sports as much as possible,” Alvis said. “Basically, we feel this is a good time to do it and we have the financial support right now.” Nebraska volleyball coach Terry Pettit said the television coverage will benefit the Comhuskers. “Anything that promotes Univer sity of Nebraska volleyball is good,” Pettit said. “ETV has a very profes sional staff and they have done a good job doing our games over the past few years. I think they’re one of the best public stations in the country.” Pettit said the televised match could help Nebraska recruit in the future. “Down the road it might help us,” Pettit said. “If a freshman in high school sees the show, it gives her a chance to see Nebraska volleyball. It will help plant the idea about volley ball at an early age.” The Huskers will face Kansas State in a non-televised match at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Nebraska Coliseum. Pettit said Kansas State is a better team than Missouri, which the Husk ers defeated 15-5, 15-1, 15-12 last Saturday in Columbia, Mo. “Kansas State is much stronger at every position than the Tigers are,” Pettit said. “I think that this is the strongest team Kansas State has had since I’ve been here.” Despite Kansas State’s 11-4 rec ord, Pettit said, Nebraska should give the Wildcats problems. “They’re a very balanced team and they have an experienced left side,” Pettit said. “But I think we can do things to cause them problems.” Pettit said the Huskers’ middle attack will be tough for Kansas State to defend. Kansas State coach Scott Nelson said the Wildcats will have to worry about their game, not Nebraska’s. “We have to play solid both on offense and on defense,” Nelson said. “We have to try to play our game. I’m a little more concerned with that than with Nebraska.” The Wildcats are led by hitter Shawney Call. Call, a junior, has broken five school attack and hitting records while averaging 4.47 kills per match this season. “Shawney is one of the best hitters in this region,” Nelson said. “She is similar to what (Nebraska outside hitter) Kathi DeBoer does for Ne braska. When we need a big kill, we go to Shawney. When they need one, they turn to DeBoer.” —-1 Agent Trope blasts Osborne on radio show By Kyle Schurman .Staff Reporter Former sports agent Mike Trope continued his assault on the Nebraska football program and Comhusker coach Tom Osborne during a national radio program Sunday night. Trope spoke on the “Costas Coast-to-Coast” radio show to promote his new book, “Necessary Roughness.” The show was aired in Lincoln by KLIN, 1400 AM. Trope said Osborne offered ille gal plane trips to former USC foot ball player Booker Brown’s mother when Osborne recruited him 13 years ago. Osborne, who was Nebraska’s offensive coordinator at the time of the alleged incident, denied the allegations on Monday. “I have never offered anything illegal to anybody,” Osborne said. “We talked to her (Brown’s mother) about joining the Califor nians for Nebraska and she liked that idea. They have to join the organization, they have to pay for the tickets, I told her that. She liked that idea. “You know Booker, that was 15 years ago. He was probably re cruited by 10 or 15 schools and all he remembers is we talked about some trips and we did. I know his mother was interested in that “But as far as ever telling any body they’d get free trips or their parents get free trips or money or cash, I took a lie dec tor test that covered that whole thing.” When Trope was asked if he “takes Osborne on,” he said he didn’t think that is what he’sdoing. “Bui I lake him to task in terms of some of the things that he did when he was the offensive coordi nator,” Trope said. Trope said Brown staled in a documentary that Osborne had il legally recruited him. Trope said he didn ’ t produce the documentary to get at Osborne. “The puiposc of the documen tary was to illustrate that the rules are violated even by those who claim that they are sacrosanct and that they have been delivered to college football directly from God, and that the NCAA rules are some divine inspiration from God that everyone follows in college foot ball, which is a bunch of baloney,” Trope said. Trope said he respects Osborne and thinks he is “probably one of the most ethical coaches in Amer ica.” Trope said he respects Osborne as a coach and a human being, but talked about him in his book “be cause the rules were broken.” Trope has represented such National Football League players as Tony Dorsett, Earl Campbell, Chuck Muncie, Lawrence Taylor, and former Comhuskcrs Mike Ro/ier and Johnny Rodgers. Rodgers was Trope’s first client. He said he decided to talk to* the Heisman Trophy winner on a dare. Trope said he and some friends were watching the 1971 Okla homa-Nebraska game, in which Rodgers relumed a punt 72 yards for a touchdown. He jokingly told his friends he’d like to be Rodgers’ agent and they dared him to try it, he said. Trope was a junior history ma jorat USC when he Hew to Lincoln to talk with Rodgers. “On the way off the practice field, I walked up to Johnny Rodg ers and I said, ‘Hi, my name is Mike Trope and I’m here from Los Angeles and I’d like to be your agent,”’ Trope said. “When I met Johnny Rodgers, he lived in a fancy apartment, he had a fancy stereo system... and he didn’t pay for the dinner. It was (paid for) by die owner of the res taurant,” Trope said. “He had a full-length mink coat, and how he got it is speculation.” Mike Kluck contributed to this story. I Two great ways to cruise through the semester. 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