Defense upsets Kins
By Paul Domeier
Senior Editor
LAWRENCE, Kan. — Rich
King scored 25 points Wednesday,
19 in the first half, but all he wanted
to talk about was defense.
“Our defense wasn’t very good
in the first half,’’ he said. “It wasn’t
very good for the whole game.”
It was bad enough, at least, to let
the Jayhawks beat Nebraska 85
77.
He was asked about the offense.
“It wasn’t the offensive end. It
was the defensive end the whole
game,” he said.
But it was King’s offense that
kept Nebraska in the game in the
first half. With a4- to 7-inch height
advantage over any Jayhawk guard
ing him, King hit 8 of 10 shots in
the half.
King dominated the last half of
the period. He scored 14 points in
the half s final 9:05, including a
dunk on a Keith Moody lob for
Nebraska’s final basket of the half.
In the second half, King didn’t
get the ball as much, hitting 3 of 5
attempts.
King said it wasn’t anything the
Jayhawks were doing to him in
side.
“They turned up the pressure on
the perimeter, making it tough for
those guys to even see around it,”
he said.
With the win, Kansas put the
pressure on Nebraska’s hopes for a
Big Eight regular-season champi
onship.
“The way it looks right now, it’s
a two-team race with OSU and
KU,” King said matter-of-factly.
But King refused to count the
Huskers out of the race. He said
Nebraska’s recent schedule, play
ing at Oklahoma, Missouri, Okla
homa State and at Kansas probably
was the team’s toughest stretch of
the season. The pressure will sub
side Saturday afternoon, when the
Huskers take on Colorado at the
Bob Devaney Sports Center.
The Huskers won’t see Kansas
again until March 3 in the final
game of the regular season.
“When they come to Lincoln,
it’s going to be the same type of
game,” King said.
And he wasn’t taking comfort
in the eight-point loss.
“It’s better to lose by a little
than by a bunch,” King said. “Other
than that, I don’t think we gained
anything.”__
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Too bad you can’t get any news
around here on anything but men’s
basketball. Pretty soon, we’ll start
getting letters telling us we should
cover those sports that always get
ignored, like swimming, golf and
football.
But seriously, some worthwhile
ne ws has been hidden by the euphoria
enveloping the 15th-ranked Husker
men.
• Some of the luster seems to have
gone off the football team’s recruit
ing this year.
Signing day was a huge event when
Nebraska obviously was going to
challenge for the national champion
ship in the fall. The high school stars
signing letters-of-inicnt were embraced
as future Cornhuskcr All-Americans,
destined to star in the Nebraska foot
ball machine.
This year, the Nebraska football
machine is rusty, and the program has
questions that must be answered.
Will the Huskcrs be able to defend
against the pass, especially after los
ing most of the defensive backfield?
Is the offensive line ever going to be
great again? Can a quarterback estab
lish himself fastenough to beat Wash
ington in September?
The 1991 recruits won’t answer
those questions. Those answers must
come from spring football, from the
coaches and from the season itself.
• Angela Beck and Danny Nee
need to work on their timing.
Last year, the coaches of the Ne
braska men’s and women’s basket
ball teams each suffered through dis
mal 10-18 seasons. This year, each
program has turned itself around.
Nee would have been better off
last year if Beck’s team had won 22
games and gone to the NCAA to
' divert attention.
And the women’s team is lost in
the shuffle this season as the men’s
team lives its dream season.
I Paul
Domeier
The Husker women are as good
any team in the conference. Nebraska
still has a chance to win 20 games and
make the NCAA tournament. Any
advance past the first round is un
likely, but even one NCAA game
would be great experience for the
young Huskers.
Nebraska will return a ton of tal
ent, especially sophomore Karen
Jennings and freshman Meggan
Yedsena. Yedsena is the likely Big
Eight newcomer of the year and Jen
nings will battle Liz Brown of Okla
homa State and Diana Miller of Kan
sas State for conference player of the
year.
• Le Andre Anderson’s presence
on the Nebraska wrestling team, in
addition to giving the team some extra
rKmilH lirrht a firr» iinH/*r
heavyweight Sonny Manley.
If Manley starts winning consis
tently, the Huskers might be the na
tion’s best team.
That’s been hard to tell recently
with the team’s four injuries, but the
Huskers may spring out of their train
ing-room hiding place and shock
second-ranked Oklahoma State at the
the NCAA tournament.
• The elimination of the junior
varsity football team should have been
no surprise.
Gary Fouraker, the assistant ath
letic director who watches the Com
husker bank account, kind of tipped it
off last week when he told Daily
Nebraskan senior reporter Chuck Grccn
that he thought an easier way to save
money woufd be to reduce the num
oer 01 pmycis uui
basically means cutting down the
football walk-ons.
The loss of the J V team is kind of
sad. The JV team, the weight pro
gram, the training table and the walk
ons were the extra cogs that made the
Huskers a machine, not a team, some
thing I’ve bragged about from Ne
vada to North Carolina.
“No, you haven’t seen football
obsession until you’ve seen Nebraska
football,” I used to say, “with a maga
zine devoted to the team, 20,000 people
at the final spring scrimmage, sell
outs since before I was born — even
a few thousand people watching fresh
men walk-ons play a junior college
team on a Monday afternoon.”
Losing the program makes Ne
braska football more normal, some
thing no Busker fan wants.
• The Baseball Hall of Fame ef
fectively has banned Pete Rose from
the Hall.
Fine. If you think his permanent
suspension from the game should
exclude him from the Hall, you won.
If you are like me and think that the
key wordsarc “Baseball” and “Fame”
and that should be the only criteria for
acceptance into the “Hall,” we lost.
But why do so many people act
like this has any importance?
In 2091, kids all acioss the country
will know who Pete Rose was.
“Sure, I know Pete Rose. He’s
second on the all-time hits list behind
Wade Boggs. His nickname was
Charlie Hustle, and he played on some
great Cincinnati Reds championship
teams.
“And he got kicked out of the
game for gambling.”
Those kids will know Pete Rose
whether he is given a plaque in Coop
erstown or not.
Domeier is a senior news-editorial major
and the Daily Nebraskan sports editor.
Officials: Steinbrenner in left field again
NEW YORK (AP) — Baseball
apparently is turning a deaf ear to
ward George Stcinbrenner’s latest foul
claim.
On Wednesday, it was learned that
Steinbrenner’s attorneys filed a 135
page petition with baseball’s execu
tive council four months ago, criticiz
ing the investigation that resulted in
Steinbrenner’s banishment from the
New York Yankees.
“I think it’s probably long since
been filed in the circular file,” deputy
commissioner of baseball, Steve
Greenberg, said.
The petition accuses commissioner
Fay Vincent of orchestrating and
overseeing “a totally biased and un
fair investigation” in order to “gather
damning, negative, and one-sided
information” against Steinbrenncr.
Boston Red Sox general partner
Haywood Sullivan, an executive
council member, said baseball’s
ownership stood behind Vincent and
the investigation.
“1 think it’s time that some of us
stand up and be counted,” Sullivan
said from his Boston office. “There
are reports that some people say there
has been a vendetta to get George. I
think the majority of ownership thinks
that Fay Vincent has done an excel
lent job.”
Paul Curran, a Steinbrenncr attor
ney who helped draft liic petition,
said he had not spoken to any member
of the executive council since the
document was sent out on Oct. 9.
“But my understanding is that they
arc looking into it,” Curran said.
“Certainly, we have not been told by
anyone that they are not considering
it or that they have rejected it.”
The council is made up of four
owners from each league and the two
league presidents. “Its role is solely
as an advisory body,” Greenberg said.
“It has no jurisdiction over this matter
or any other disciplinary matter.”
Greenberg said the circulation of
the petition, along with another 400
or so pages of substantiating docu
ments, served only two purposes. “One,
to help deforest the Pacific Northwest
... and, two, and more seriously, to
perpetuate the fictionali/cd version
of the George Steinbrenner story.”
Curran said the petition, which
was accompanied by “fairly volumi
nous” substantiating documents, “docs
not seek” Stembrenner’s reinstatement.
Instead, its purpose was to point out
the “unfair, improper and in some
instances illegal actions” taken dur
ing the investigation. And, to help
baseball “take appropriate action to
review its rules and procedures to
assure this doesn’t occur again.”
The attorney said there was a
“significant legal question as to
whether” the executive council could
overturn Vincent’s suspension “even
if it wanted to.”
Steinbrenner has accused Vincent
and baseball’s chief investigator, John
Dowd, of being biased against him. In
the petition, Dowd is said to have
called Steinbrenner “a career crimi
nal.”
An executive summary of the peti
tion reads: “Vincent’s personal bias
against Mr. Stcinbrenncr’s involve
ment with baseball is not just a matter
of compelling inference ... he has
expressly characterized Mr. Stcinbren
ncr as a ‘blight on baseball’ who docs
not belong in the game.”
Sullivan, from his office in Bos
ton, however, said he thought Vin
cent “and particularly his investiga
tors, have handled the situation with
the utmost care, and they’ve done an
efficient job It has been handled in a
correct way. The commissioner has
done a respec tful and creditable job.”
Steinbrenner signed an agreement
that he would give up any day-to-day
involvement in operating the Yan
kees after it was learned he had paid
Howie Spira, an admitted gambler,
$40,000, allegedly to supply him in
formation on player Dave Winfield.
Huskers
Continued from Page 15
after the game.
“I am pleased with how Nebraska
played in all phases of the game,” he
said.
Nee gave credit to the crowd that
coaxed Nebraska into 54-perccnt free
throw shooting, concluding a com
bined 0-for-5 for Reid and Jose Ramos,
each of whom normally shoot better
than 80 percent.
Nee also lauded the Jayhawks, who
remain tied with Oklahoma Stale for
the Big Eight lead.
“They play that way all the time,”
Nee said.
Nebraska. 39 38 — 77
At Kansas .... 45 40 — 85
Nebraska—Farmer 4-8 4-7 12, Hayes
2-80-04, King 11-153-4 25, Reid 3-50-2 7,
Scales 2-6 0-0 5, Piatkowski 5-9 3-4 15,
Ramos 0 00-3 0, Moody 2-4 1-2 5, Chubick
0-00-00,Owens 1-1 2-24 Totals30-56 13
24 77.
Kansas—lamison 2-12 2-5 6, Maddox
2-7 0-0 4, Randall 7-10 2-3 16, Brown 5-11
0-0 14, Jordan 2-4 3-6 8, Wagner 2-2 2-2 6
Tunstall 2-5 2-4 6, Richey 2-3 0-04, Scon 5
64-4 14, Woodberry 1-12-2 5, Johanning 1
2 0-0 2, Totals 31-63 17-26 85
3-polnt goals—Nebraska 4-11 (Farmer
0-1, Reid 1-3, Scales 1-1, Piatkowski 2 5,
Moody 0-1). Kansas 6-14 (Brown 4-7, Jor
dan 1-3, Tunstall 0-2, Richey 0-1, Woo
dberry 1-1), Rebounds—Nebraska 37
(Farmer, King 8), Kansas 32 (Jamison 10)
Assists—Nebraska 11 (King, Reid, Scales
31, Kansas 20 (Jordan 7). Turnovers—
Nebraska 22 (King 5), Kansas 15 (Randall
4) Total fouls—Nebraska 24, Kansas 18
A—15,800
Recruits
Continued from Page 15
ness for how big he is.”
• Robert Smith, OL, 6-3, 280,
East Chicago, Ind.: Smith was an All
State lineman in Indiana his senior
year. He chose Nebraska over Michi
gan, Michigan State and Illinois.
• Tom Steer, Athlete, 5-11, 185,
Crete: Osborne said Steer was the
fastest player to come through camp
this year. He is a good all-around
athlete and could possibly play wing
back or cornerback.
• Tony Veland, DB-QB, 6-1,180,
Omaha: Veland possesses good speed,
Osborne said, and could plry defen
sive backorquartcrback for the Husk
ers.
Osborne said Nebraska’s location
and population makes it difficult to
get really good players.
“The distance is often a great
hurdle,” he said. “The weather is
sometimes a problem, too. Heavily
populated areas have become very
attractive to players these days.
“One thing Nebraskans need to
realize is this is the best we can do."