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CoraHBOicNdBMO jgSi m | MAX TAN West MAX TAN South West “0” Street 40th & Old Cheney Nee: NBA penalty too stiff ByMikeKluck Staff Reporter As the Latrell Sprewell arbitration case resumed in New York on Monday, many Nebraska basketball coaches and players were thinking about Sprewell’s inci dent and the state ofbaskelball. Sprewell, a former Golden State player, attacked his coach, P.J. Carlesimo, on N*© Dec. 1. The Warriors terminated the remaining three years and $25 million of his contract after the attack, and the NBA suspended Sprewell for a year because of the incident The suspension was the largest non drug suspension in the NBA. But Sprewell has filed grievances against the NBA. “Punish him, but don’t take away a guy’s livelihood,” Nebraska Coach Danny Nee said in protest to Sprewell’s suspension. Sprewell heari^ testimony from Wi NEW YORK (AP) - Four days and roughly 3,000 miles removed from when he first expected to testi fy, Golden State general manager Garry St. Jean finally got to talk Monday as the Latrell Sprewell arbi tration case resumed. St Jean, who waited in Portland, Ore., for two days last week but was never called to testify, was among the first to arrive for tire hearing - a short walk from NBA headquarters. Robin Baggett, Golden State deputy counsel, also was scheduled to give testimony Monday. NBA Commissioner David Stern and Warriors Coach P.J. Carlesimo are expected to testify this week at the hearing, which goes at least until Thursday. - “Have a nice day,” was St Jean’s only comment as he waited for an elevator to take him to the 25th floor, where arbitrator John Feerick, dean of Fordham Law School, is running die hearing. His ruling, which is binding under the collective bargaining^ agreement, is expected by mid March at die latest Sprewell arrived a few.minutes before the scheduled 3 pjn. start of die hearing. “I’m fine. I’m doing good. I’m holding up,” a smiling Sprewell said as he waited for an elevator with his \ % resumes with irriors’ front office « I’m fine. I’m doing good. I’m holding up.” Latrell Sprewell suspended NBA player lawyers. Sprewell said be returned to Oakland, Calif., over the weekend after attending all four days of the tearing last week. Sprewell plans to remain in New York through All-Star weekend, although he wtm’t be at the game because his one-year suspension prohibits him from attending NBA events. Sprewell had the remaining three years and $25 million of Ins contract terminated after he attacked Carlesimo at practice Dec. 1. The suspension was the longest non-drug penalty in league history. Sprewell has filed grievances against the NBA and the Warriors. St. Jean was expected to testify about the events on the day of the attack, as well as what happened in the ensuing days. i>cuioaftia supmmtuic guaiu v^uoiue Belcher also said he felt die punishment for Sprewell was too harsh. Sprewell was accused of choking Carlesimo during practice and then returning to the gym and punching Carlesimo. But Nee said Sprewell’s incident isn’t an indication of the direction the NBA or even college basketball is head ing. “It’s bad for the league and an embarrassment,” Nee said. “But I don’t think it is an indication of where it’s going. Now it’s over, let’s move on.” ~ Nee, who has worked with Carlesimo at different camps, said he believes building communication and trust as well as teaching and listening to players helps to eliminateproblems such as the Sprewell incident - Nebraska sophomore guard Tyronn Lue said he could see how Sprewell snapped, but doesn’t believe he could snap like that himself. “Sometimes people get frustrated,” Lue said “Frustration starts to set in and i person can click at anytime.” Belcher said during his senior year in high school he had problems with his :oach. At the time, a new coach had :ome to the school and changed the sys :em Belcher was used to diving his first three years. “He tried to change everything, and I wasn’t going to have it,” Belcher said ‘We had been successful, and I couldn’t see why we had to change. I guess it did n’t matter because we went to state any way.” Nee said the one thing the Sprewell incident does highlight is the difFcutty a coach has dealing with today’s athletes with kids who have different maturity levels as well as different cultural back grounds. “The main thing is our kids know we care about them.” Gymnasts'gutsy efforts equals season-best mark GYM from page 7_ // Uppinghouse ties game for selectteam ] From Staff Reports Supported by a goal from former Nebraska All-America midfielder Kari Uppinghouse, the Women’s NCAA Elite-16 team posted a 1-1 tie against the Women’s W-League Select at the NSCAA/Umbro All Star Classic in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Jan. 30. Uppinghouse earned a spot on the select squad after posting 39 points on 16 goals and seven assists during her senior season at NU last fall. The team features the nation’s best graduating seniors from NCAA Division I. Playing on the ^-League team were 1996 U.S. Olympic Team mem bers Michelle Akers, Brandi Chastain, Julie Foudy and Thori Staples. A first-team All-American in ; 1996, Uppinghouse was a two-time ! All-Big Conference midfielder. She is also Nebraska’s all-time leading scorer with 104 points on 42 goals and 20 assists. Uppinghouse led the Huskers to back-to-back NCAA Tournament appearances in 1996 and 1997. Minus Uppinghouse, Nebraska remove a bone spur in her foot before the season and had beat lim ited to the vault and uneven bars before this meet Wilkinson gutted out a 38.700 and finished third in die all-around. Coach Dan Kendig said Wilkinson played a key role in the Huskers’ improvement and her pres ence adds another solid gymnast to NU*s arsenal. • “We had been struggling with one on the floor,” Kendig said. “When you put someone who is in the top (part of the lineup) back in the lineup, it helps with your scores.” Oxford, who fractured her little finger at practice Thursday, scored a career-best 39.225 in the all-around. With her little finger taped to her ring finger, she was able to post team bests of 9.9 on the floor exer cise and 9.825 on die balance beam. Brink, last week’s Big 12 gym nast of the week, scored a personal best 9.875 on die floor exercise. Hot score was helped by the addition of a double layout to ter floor-exercise routine. Blink’s floor score along with a team best 9.9 in the uneven bars helped ter tie Oxford for first place in die all-around. Two weeks of practice helped the team work on the the events. I guess it is better to be surprised than disappointed.” Heather Brink NU gymnast “We thought we would improve, but not that much,” Brink said. “I guess it is better to be surprised than disappointed.” NU showed the most improve ment in the uneven bars. The Huskers scored 1.275 more points than their previous best of47.850. All six ofNU* competitors tied or scored better than Missouri’s top gymnast, Chandra Hariow. Jess Swift recorded a career-best 9.775 in the uneven bars, and Laura Ohlendorf and Oxford tied career bests. Laura McLaughlin also post ed a 9.825. The Huskers’ lowest score of die day came on the vault where they scored a48.050. But Kendig said none of the Huskers performed the routines they will be performing at the end of the season. “This isn’t a sprint,” Kendig said. “This is a marathon.”