European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 6, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday March 6, 1987 the stars and stripes Page 23 commentary Cut the pretence olympics Are pro Good news the olympics arc  to the fact that olympians play for Money. Hey you Edwin Moses the Guy with the sin figure income from running the hurdles. Gel ready Tor your third olympics this one at Seoul in 1988, you Wayne oct zloty the million Dollar Oiler. You might hate Calgary in the Stanley cup but gel ready to skate there in 88, especially you John Mcenroe. Wake up Hose koreans with your Racket. That s Racket As in noise. Why do you think you re being paid pull on your Usa Jersey magic Johnson. You re not going to let a Mere College Guy like . Reid beat you out Are you As Cor you Low income javelin throwers and swim mers and All you purely Amateur russians you re invited too. You need not hide your Cash in that  debate s Over. Should pro athletes be allowed inthe olympics that has already been answered yes. That word comes from Horst Dassler. He s the bit Leonaire Boss of Adidas Germany s huge sports outfit. When he Speaks people jump including the president of the International olympic committee Juan Antonio Sam ranch. At least hats what sports illustrated re ported recently while noting that dossier is sometimes called the most powerful Man in  read about the olympics shift toward big Money 1 asked Dassler if the games were really open to pros. Anybody who goes to the olympics is no Amateur. Everyone knows this he said. Since three olympics there have been no amateurs they re basically already open. The Only sport where you could t have professionals la olympics is  Sticky Fox there you have it the dark Ages of pretending thai olympians train with two Bucks in their socks Are Over. Who pays these runners and swimmers and skat ers according to dossier National olympic commit tees raise Money to pay them. Then Here arc Compa Nies like Adidas that sponsor athletes. Reams of companies As Dassler spoke sunday he sat in the Adidas Hallat the International sports equipment fair Short ened to Vispo in Munich Adidas took up an entire Hall. So did Germany Sother sportswear monster. Puma. In the 23 other Halls sat More than 300 sports companies. Sports store owners shopped for Curling Stone covers lounging socks ice skate Sharp ening machines you name it you d have recognized shoe names like Convene. Reebok and ican Garvos. And blizzard Elan and k2skfs. Yet for every Nike there were 20 kappas. This so was packed with Hudora roller skates Benger fogging suits and Snauwaert Tennis rackets. If you had a serious sports store you checked out Huck Tennis nets and Swenor roller skis. I never heard of any of those. Everyone has heard of Adidas and no wonder. It s the no. 1 sporting goods company in the world Mak ing $ 1.9 billion a year. Adidas appropriately occupied Hall no. I. A Siler naturally wore a Blue pinstriped suit. He tooled Sharp. At so he sounded current. His subjects Range from baseball bats to rap music. Every athlete who is serious about the olympics sacrifices Eig fit to ii years of his life for sports. Every athlete deserves to make Money out of it Dassler listed Moses Jim Mcmahon Pat Ewing and Kareem Abdul jabber As the top americans endorsing Adidas. I asked How he reacted to the nil s juror Over Mcmahon s Adidas headband. Ii was Good for us Good p.r.," said Dassler. He added thai after having dinner with Mcmahon he found the Chicago quarterback to be it  did Dassler find he nil s eruption Over Mcmahon n headband silly rules Are handed Down and have to be respected. We have rules Here too. But it s mainly a to prob Lem in the states. They re not Happy with product placement on  has Adidas tried making a safer football helmet with the liability situation we would t do it. The Legal base is to dangerous said Danler refer ring to injury related court cases. Whoever gets into the helmet business is taking a big  Why does t Adidas sponsor Mit Ilary events when cism simmered Down military sports did t have a real push behind them la used to be where in cism there could be world records Bro Ken. Now cism is not on the same kind of inter National level of Competition  certainly Noi on the level of Dassler s Adidas Good to know pan of his Money s on the Mark helping bulge the pro olympics. Southern Florida is his territory Kite s Golf Mastery is a mystery by Bob Green Coral Springs a. A Tom Kite s Mastery of the Southern Florida tournaments is Well documented. But the nuts Tery is a mystery. I Don t know. 1 Don t understand it. I can t explain it. But i sure do enjoy it Kile said before a practice round for the $600,000 Honda classic Hal was to begin thursday on the tournament players club course at Eagle  recent years. Kite has accounted for one third of his nine career victories with wins at Inverrary the forerunner to Honda Oral and Bay Hill. And the quiet Little Veteran has been a title contender in those three events More than a dozen times. Last week s doral tournament was a Case in Point coming from five shots off the Pace in the of Leaf round he tied for second. He missed three putts of about 3feet in length during the last round and fell three shots Short. Kite collected $74,667 for the Effort and became Only the fifth Man in Catour history to go past $3 million in career earnings. His career total of $3,013,297 put him on a plateau reached previously Only by Jack Nicklaus Tom a photo Tom Kite. Consistent performer Watson Lee Trevino and Ray Floyd. Appropriately his earlier Money mile stones also were achieved in the Southern Florida tournaments. He went past $1million with his 1981 Victory at Inver Rary and he passed $2 million with bis1984 Triumph at doral. It was t always like that said Kite one of the tour s most consistent formers. He has won at least once each of the last six years and in 1981 led the tour in Money winnings i did t play particularly Well Down Here for a Long time he said. Something got me started. I Don t know what it is maybe it s the time of the year. I usually come Ralo South Florida swing ing pretty Well i Don t mind playing in the wind. And it s Bermuda grass like i grew up on. Maybe it s All those things. I Don t know i just enjoy it said Kite who ranked among the chief challengers for the $108,000 first prize. Other major figures include masters Champion Jack Nicklaus British opening Greg Norman of Australia , open titleholder Ray Floyd and defend ing Champion Kenny Knox. Texas tech officials say Mcaa penalty is fair Lubbock Texas a Texas tech breathed a collective sigh of Relief wednesday after the Mcaa made the school s punishment slight compared to what it did to Southern methodist for violating recruiting standards. When the Mcaa last week banned football for a year at sum the chill was fell at Texas tech where punishment was pending. But on tuesday the Mcaa put tech s football program on probation for one year and limited the red raiders 10 22 football scholarships instead of the usual 2s, for 1988-89, tech became the third Southwest conference team on probation for recruiting violations. Last wednesday sum was stripped of its 1987 season an  of its 1988 season because of repeated violations while it was already an pro Bation. Texas Christian s probation ends next year. Everybody was scared to death that the Mcaa was in the Groove and were going to Start Xing people off said Sophomore quarterback Billy Joe Tolliver adding Tut he though the school might lose a bawl game. Head coach Spike Dykes said the loss of three scholarships would Hurt but it s a fair and just  tech officials expressed Relief that then Caa did not take Slemer slips such As a ban on television games or bowl appearances. School president Lauro Cava Zos said tech s cooperative Altitude May have helped Avert Stiller punishment the Mcaa report acknowledged tech s cooperative non defensive Atti tude and that the school had never be fore been punished for rules violations. Bob Swaynie tech s Mcaa faculty representative said the school would not Appeal the Mcaa findings or decision. Blue tested positive for cocaine while playing for giants san Francisco up Vid Blue the former american league by Young award Winner tested positive for cocaine three times last season while playing for the san Francisco giants court documents disclosed Hen. Blue is on probation alter spending 81days in jail on a 1983 drug Possession conviction. Documents from . District court in san Francisco disclosed that Blue was charged with violating parole lost year when he tested positive for cocaine on july 11, aug. 6 Ana sept. 3. According to court records . Mag Istrate Wayne Brazil ruled on nov. 19 hat Blue violated parole and ordered him to Complete a 90-Day program at Oakland s Mcrritt Peralta Hospital. A that time the court also ordered that Blue s probation be ended once he completed the program. "1 have not received any notice of his completion of such a program said Robert Ward head of the criminal Divi Sion of the . Attorney s office in Sanfrancisco. I would think ii Hasa l been completed  Brazil aver the objections of the .attorney s office ordered the Case re Cord sealed on nov. 2s, 1986. The Oakland a s signed Blue on jan.21, resuming the left hander to the team with which he Brake into the , Blue quit unexpectedly feb. 19, releasing a statement through the learn to announce his retirement. Re has not been available for Public comment since. Frank Vasque supervisor of the , probation office in san Francisco said. Federal Law prevented his office from notifying either baseball commissioner Peter Ueberroth or Blue s employer atthe time the giants about the Posi Tive test results. Blue won the by Young award As the Al s of Pitcher in 1971 when he had a 24-8 record struck out 301 batters and posted an Era of 1.82