Sports
Six in double figures lead Huskers to win
By Paul Domeier
Staff Reporter
Ann Halsne and her Nebraska
basketball teammates got rolling in
the second half Tuesday night as the
Comhuskers crushed Oral Roberts,
110-61, before 383 spectators at the
Bob Devaney Sports Center.
Six players scored in double fig
ures for the 3-3 Huskers. Kim Yancey
led Nebraska with 16 points. Halsne,
Kristi Dahn and LeeAnna Hiestand
scored 15 apiece, with Sarah Muller
adding 12 and Karen Jennings con
tributing 10.
Halsne said she was happy with
her production.
“I haven’t been playing that
well,” Halsne said. “I’m glad Coach
(Angela) Beck left me in, and I
started doing my thing.”
Her thing included 11 second-half
points as the Huskers pulled away
after leading 44-36 at halftime.
Halsne entered the game averag
ing 6.6points and 3.6 rebounds, down
from 9.9 and 5.0 she averaged last
season. Beck said she wanted to get
some production from her junior co
captain.
‘ ‘We needed to get a couple play
ers on track. We did that,” she said.
‘‘One was Halsne and one was Sara
Offringa. I thought they did a nice
job.”
Offringa had four points and two
rebounds before fouling out, and all
12 Huskers in uniform played five
minutes or more.
Oral Roberts, 1-14, had a 27-26
lead with 6:13 left in the first half, but
the National Association of Intercol
legiate Athletics team was only in the
game because of 21 first-half points
from Stacy Williams. Williams’ total
included five three-point shots.
‘‘We were thinking, ‘She’s got to
get cold pretty soon,”’ Halsne said.
Williams could only add five
more points in the second period as
the Huskers came within one point of
the record for points in a half.
Beck said she was pleased her
team’s intensity stayed high despite
the big lead.
‘‘It was a solid victory,” she said.
‘‘We finally got our offense moving
in the right direction.”
The only dark spot for Nebraska
came when Kelly Hubert collapsed in
the first half.
“I went up for the rebound and
that’s the last thing I remember,”
Hubert said.
Beck said Hubert tore a ligament
in her ankle and will be out six to
eight weeks. Her starting forward left
with six points and nine rebounds, yet
Beck saw good points after the injury.
‘‘For her to go and for us to still
have a complete game and not really
miss her, I was real pleased,” Beck
said.
The Huskers kept up a pressure
man-to-man defense that resulted in
23 field goals on 35 attempts from
inside the lane in the second half.
Beck said she wants to keep up the
tempo.
“I want more production,” she
said. “ I want 80 points a game.”
Beck said smashing the Titans
showed what her squad can do.
‘‘I have been calling all my coach
ing friends, all my good buddies that
have done this before and they’ve
given me some solid advice,” she
said. ‘‘They said be patient and try
not to bail out on what you’re doing.”
Tuesday night, patience worked.
Nebraska guard helps lead Huskers
to fast-break win over Oral Roberts
isy Chris Hopfensperger
Stiff Repotter
Nebraska guard Kristin Dahn
came alive Tuesday night and helped
the Comhusker women’s basketball
team post a 110-61 victory against
Oral Roberts.
Dahn, a transfer from Central Ari
zona Junior College in Coolidgc,
Ariz., broke out of a season-long
slump by scoring 15 points at the Bob
Dcvaney Sports Center. She said her
performance was a confidence
builder because she entered the con
test averaging 5.2 points per game.
Dahn said her game is getting
belter.
“It’s coming along,” Dahn said.
‘T’vc fell more comfortable these
last two games.”
Nebraska women’s basketball
coach Angela Beck agreed that
Dahn’s game is improving. She said
it showed vast improvement against
Oral Robert, which is a member of
the National Association of Intercol
legiate Athletics.
“If what her shooting tonight is
any indication I think she’s going to
be back on track,’’ Beck said.
Beck said she was particularly
pleased with Dahn’s performance
‘She (Dahn) really
got after it on de
fense. She’s a
good shooter.
She’s kind of a
streak shooter and
before she was in
kind of a slump. ’
-Beck
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because the 5-foot-11 guard scored
only seven points during last week
end’s Dial Classic in Minneapolis.
“She really got after it on de
fense,” Beck said. “She’s a good
shooter. She’s kind of a streak shooter
and before she was in a little slump.
“I thought she had a pretty com
plete game tonight,” Beck said.
Dahn said the Oral Roberts game
was her type of contest
‘‘ 1 was used to the fast break,” she
said. “We’re trying to fast break
more. That is kind of what we’re
concentrating on.
“Wc were getting inside as much
as wc wanted to.”
Dahn said she hopes the game will
help the Huskersasalcamasmuchas
it did her personally.
“It gives you confidence,” Dahn
said, ‘ ‘a lot more confidence in shoot
ing.
“Wc aren’t used to each other yet.
This kind of a game really helps.”
Dahn is expected to be a big help
to Nebraska this season, as she earned
first-team junior college All-Amer
ica honors last season. She led the
Vaqueras to the 1988 junior college
national title by averaging 13 points,
seven rebounds and three steals.
Al Schaben Daily Nebraskan
Nebraska’s Kim Yancey (20) is overpowered while battling
fora rebound against Amy Beth Williams (50) of Oral Roberts
University Tuesday night. Yancey, 5-foot-6, didn’t let her
height affect her performance. She led the Huskers with 16
points.
Cocaine abuse clouds football hero s career
If heroes are a reflection of soci
ety, let’s hope Dexter Manley isn’t a
hero to anyone.
Chances are, though, Manley was
a hero to someone - was, but proba
bly isn’t anymore.
Manley, an All-Pro defensive end
who is the National Football League
Washington Redskins’ career leader
in sacks, no longer plays football -
because of himself.
Manley was banished from the
league after his third violation of the
league’s substance abuse policy less
than two weeks ago.
In September, Manley was a hero.
People Magazine chronicled in
their Sept. 25 issue, in Manley’s own
words, how he had overcome his illit
eracy.
Manley came forward to testify in
May in front of a Senate hearing on
illiteracy to tell of the disability, poor
auditory memory, which until re
cently had left him unable to read
above a second-grade level.
The article went on to tell the story
of “perhaps his gutsiest move on or
off the field” when he went for help
with his reading, secretly, to the Lab
School in Washington, D.C., a school
for the learning disabled.
Manley, 31, was kept in special
education programs through his sev
enth grade year, unable to read, write,
or spell.
“Other kids would call us re
tards,” Manley told People. “I was
called so many negative things that
after a while I began to believe them.
And I began to hate myself.”
Isolated, angry and frustrated,
Manley often lashed out uncontrolla
bly at the cruel world around him. He
once lit a stack of newspapers on fire
for no reason and was punished cru
elly by his father, who made Dexter
live in a closet when not in school for
seven straight days, he said.
Once Manley had advanced to
junior high in his boyhood home of
Houston, Texas, people began to
notice his talent on the football field
and his self-esteem improved.
In the classroom, Dexter did not
improve.
“In school I could spell ‘dog,’
‘cat’ and write my name, but not
much more,” Manley said. “I could
count my money and get the right
change, but I didn’t know any other
math.
* ‘I guess the reason no one flunked
me — I got mostly C’s and D’s -- was
because I could be a nice kid.”
Manley was offered 37 football
scholarships to various schools, and
eventually chose Oklahoma State
because it had courses in hotel man
agement, and Manley said he figured
he could do that.
Manley never graduated, but
managed to stay eligible to play foot
ball and was drafted by the Redskins
in 1981.
On the gridiron, Manley became a
fixture with Washington’s defensive
line, a menacing machine wreaking
havoc on NFL quarterbacks around
the league.
Manley’s off-the-field problems
remained. In 1987, he underwent
U'eatmcnt at the Hazelden Founda
tion for alcohol and drug abuse.
Then, in July of 1988, he received a
30-day suspension by former com
missioner Pete Rozelle after testing
positive for cocaine.
Manley refused to admit on either
occasion that he had a problem with
cocaine, but did claim he had come to
terms with his alcoholism.
After coming forward about his
illiteracy, Manley said he began re
ceiving all sorts of fan mail.
‘‘I’ve been getting stacks of let
ters,” he said in September. “Every
body’s been writing to me from all
over the country, especially kids. 1
cry when I read their letters.
“Every lime I get a sack this sea
son, I’m going to donate money to the
literacy program in Washington.”
But there will be no more sacks, at
least this season.
Manley again tested positive for
cocame and admitted to the public
Nov. 25 that the test results were
indeed correct. That’s right. The man
who once told a national television
audience that he would submit to a
urine test “right now” had fallen
back into his old ways.
One has to wonder what the chil
dren who sent Manley all those letters
think of their hero now, watching him
admit to the media he would not dis
pute the charges that give him an
indefinite suspension.
For the second time this year,
Manley read a prepared statement, as
he did before the Senate, under pres
sure.
“I have made a grave mistake and
showed extremely poor judgment by
slipping up and using drugs,” he said.
“Like so many unfortunate people in
the world, 1 underestimated the tricky
and insidious nature of the disease.
‘ ‘The tests were not wrong — I was
... I am sorry - I’m very sorry.”
Manley has not made any public
appearances since then. He report
edly has checked into a drug rehabili
tation center, which is assisted by
John Lucas, in his hometown of
Houston.
Lucas, who currently plays guard
for the Houston Rockets, returned to
playing after overcoming his own
chemical dependency.
Manley hopes to do the same
thing. He said he plans to apply for
acceptance into the NFL in the fall of
1990.
“1 believe that I have begun the
process of coming to terms with
myself,” he told People, “and I ex
pect to be back as a strong contribut
ing member of the community and a
proud member of the Washington
Red. ins.”
Manley, who has faced drugs, illit
eracy, and child abuse, three prob
lems often more conveniently swept
under the carpel in the 1980s, has a
chance to be a sort of positive symbol
of the 90s.
He has failed his fans and himself;
but, if he can overcome his own mis
takes the way he dealt valiantly with
his reading problem, Dexter Manley
might help others, and become a hero
again.
Golden is a freshman news-editorial major
and is a Dally Nebraskan sports reporter and
columnist.