European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 3, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday june 3, 1937 the stars and stripes Page s3 commentary Don t count out Leonard is. Breland Over the paging Loudspeaker in inc Las vegas Hilton lobby the nasal voice announced Telephone Call for or. Leonard or. Sugar Ray  last wednesday in Washington he had abdicated the middleweight championship while re living from boxing again. But now he had arrived As a Home Box office analyst for saturday night s Mike Tyson Pink Lon Thomas heavyweight Mac bom. And when Tyson first saw Leonard Here he laughed. Two years Tyson said. You la be fighting Mark Ireland in two  Leonard smiled but did t reply. When asked at his wednesday news conference about eventually returning to fight Breland he had scoffed saying no c Mon As if Breland could t possibly motivate him into making another comeback. And per haps Leonard won t return again. But of All the Young boxers Breland the world boxing association welterweight Champion is the most Likely Stim ulus for Leonard to Wear boning trunks again. Stimulus is a euphemism for an opponent who can provoke enough millions to persuade Leonard to return again. Marvelous Marvin Hagler had provided thai stimulus when Leonard dethroned the middleweight Champion in a 2-round split decision on april 6 after having had Only one fight in the previous five years. But see a Leonard Breland fight happening maybe As Early As inc fall ofl9b8." Breland s manager Shelly Finkl was saying Leonard would be guaranteed Between $12.5 million and Sis million Mark would be guaranteed Between $5 million and s7-5 million. And Mark will beat him maybe Stop  Breland meanwhile was among the ringside spectators at saturday night s fight but he had t appeared to taunt Leonard into a comeback. Thai s not Breland s style. He was Here As Tyson s Friend. While putting on a boxing exhibition a a convention no Long ago while Tyson was training Here Breland renewed their Friendship which had developed eve before the two Brooklyn teen agers were at the olympic trials three years ago. I was pretty Well known then Breland recalled but Mike was t. Some people thought Mike was crazy but i liked him. We had t known each other As kids but i talked to him More than some of the other Guys did. We got  Tyson who did l make the 1984 United s a1 olympic boxing team has become inc youngest heavyweight Champion in history. Breland who won an olympic Gold medal has won the Aba welterweight Dave Anderson Mark Drand sugar Ray l title. But in his related manner Breland did t seem awed by the thought of opposing sugar Ray Leonard someday in what would be a match of olympic welterweight champions eight years apart "1 think ii d be a Good fight on styles Breland said. He d still be Quick but in another year or so i d be a harder puncher and i d still be taller and seven years younger. I just turned 24, he just turned 31, we re both 1  Breland expects to have a nun title bout in four or five weeks then defend his Aba title against Tommy Ayers on aug. 11 in Lake Tahoe. Nev. If Breland retains his title promoters will surely pursue a showdown with Lloyd Honyghan of England the world boxing Council Champion but 1 Don t think Honc Glian wants to fight Mark said Finkel. So Well then Challenge any of the Middle weights Hagler Hearns Donald Curry and Michael Ola Jittu and when Mark wins that s when Leonard will get the urge to Fig it  despite his 17-0 record with 12 knockouts Breland has t captured the boxing Public s imagination yet. To stir Leonard s competitive juice and to stir a promoter into Guara Muccing millions Breland mus emerge As a threat to Leonard s ego. He must also prove that his hands Aren t Brittle tic recently needed surgery on his lil l hand and Tiad surgery on his right hand five years ago. My hands Are much belter now Breland said. I m still just Corning up. I need big fights with hem Cughan or Curry or maybe Mike Mccallum but if i win those impressively i la be right there oddly enough Breland visited Leonard earlier this year at Hilton head s.c., where the former Junior middleweight and welterweight Champion was training for the hag for bout. In i hair conversations there Leonard alkyd about hoping to frustrate Hagl or which is exactly what he did in out pointing the middleweight Champion who had reigned for eight years and who had not lost since 1976, Hray told me if i can frustrate him 1 know he s mine " Breland recalled. Ray s plan was to throw his punches and then get out before Hagler punched him Back. Hagler lunges when he punches. By the Lime he lunged with a punch Ray was gone. Ray knew that he could t Hurt Hagler but Ray also knew that he did t have to Hurt him that he jus had to out Point him. That s what he  throughout their talks at Hilton head neither Leonard nor Breland mentioned the possibility of fighting each other. It never occurred to them. Then. At the time Leonard was thinking Only of the one fight with Hagler. And when Leonard retired again on wednesday he reiterated thai his comeback had been for Only the one fight with Hagler one of he Orosi remarkable in boxing history but in another year or so Mark Breland looms As the reason Why sugar Ray Leonard will have one More fight. To s. Tort to a co Ege football association wraps up meeting big time schools to fight Mcaa cuts from press dispatches Dallas Penn slate football coach Joe Paturno said sunday that reducing coaching staffs would further expose players to the vultures and bums who empt hem with Money and drugs. Paturno and other members of his profession will Lead what could be an impassioned debate at be special Mcaa convention this summer. One of the proposals before the convention scheduled for june 30-31 in Dallas would trim the number of full Lime assistant football coaches at a school from nine to eight we Don t have enough coaches As it is to fight off he vultures downtown or the bums who try to exploit the kids Palerno said. We need As much help As we can Geu Pat Emo s remarks came in the final Busi Ness session of the College football association which went on record As opposing most of the Cost cuiting measures thai will be introduced at the Mcaa convention the University of Maryland was publicly reprimanded by a grand jury for not knowing what was going on m their squad concerning the death of Basket Ball player Len Bias Palerno said we Are held accountable for our fool Ball players and now they arc saying they want to take one of he people away from us who look after those players. Cost is not an Issue Here but there was some Sharp Dis agreement Over a report from the athletic directors committee that favored eliminating the Volunteer coach and reducing the number of graduate assistants from five to four. Our concern is what is a Volunteer coach said notre Dame s athletic director. Gene Corrigan is it a Guy who runs the summer Camp for the head coach is he paid by the University 1 just want it to be consistent rather Man something that has us challenging each other. We need to lighten the  notre Dame coach Lou Holtz was known to be upset with Pitt s bringing in John Jenkins from the now do fungi Houston gamblers of the United Stales football league to help install a run and Skoot offence last season. In addition 10 the measure concerning staff size proposals before the Conven Tion would reduce he number of football scholarships and Cul Back the number of Days of Spring practice. The Cha coaches opposed cutting in total number of football scholarships from 95 to 90, but the athletic directors and faculty representatives supported the june legislation that would reduce Spring practice to 20 sessions in a 3