European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 14, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Dallas apr the Dallas maven icks with the worst record in the Aba and on As 12-Gamc losing Streak fired coach Richie Adubato on wednesday. Assistant coach Gar heard will run the team on an interim basis. Quot with the direction we chose to go a becoming the youngest most inexperienced team in the Teague we knew it would be a difficult season a said Rick Sund vice president of operations who went to Detroit late tuesday and gave Adubato of the news wednesday morning. The Mavericks have won Only two of their 29 games this season. Some of the woes have been traced to the mavs inability to sign first round draft Choice Jim Jackson. Quot we re also very aware of the ramifications of Jim Jackson not being Here Quot Sund said. At the end of december Jackson turned Down a six year contract once considered the key stumbling Block that led to a stalemate in negotiations. Jackson also told reporters that he would never play for the Mavericks even if it meant sitting out the year and re entering the draft. The Mavericks losing Streak is the longest Active skid in the Aba. Adubato 55, leaves Dallas with a 94170 record As coach. His career Aba coaching record including stint with the 1979-80 Detroit pistons is 106-228. The stars and stripes january 14,1993 b Pago 32cancer strikes. By Alan Robinson Pittsburgh apr Mario Lemieux a career has been part Triumph and part tragedy Replete with scoring titles and Stanley cup championships but also with repeated medical setbacks. Still neither the Pittsburgh penguins nor the nil were prepared for this stunning news Lemieux hockey a predominate and highest paid Star has cancer. Lemieux the no la a leading scorer already May have started four to five weeks of radiation treatment for Hodgkin a disease a usually treatable form of cancer that attacks the Lymph nodes. Lemieux 27, was diagnosed in the Early stages of the disease after a Large Lymph Node was removed from his neck according to a statement approved tuesday by team physician or. Charles Burke. The disease is confined to the abnormal Lym Jih Node and subsequent tests have shown no evidence of any other problems the doctor said. The penguins said Lemieux could resume playing in four to six weeks though doctors said those projections seem Overly optimistic. Hodgkin s disease named for Thomas Hodgkin the English physician who discovered it is a disease characterized by the progressive enlargement of the Lymph nodes and inflammation of organs such As the spleen and liver. Lemieux has spoken publicly of several family members who died of cancer but there were never any hints Lemieux himself would develop the disease. It was the second such shocker for the penguins in less than 18 months. Coach Bob Johnson died Lemieux of brain cancer in november 1991, just six months after coaching the penguins to the a. First of their two Stanley cup championships. Of Hodgkin a diagnosed in Lei Quot its a pretty scary situation. We just can to afford to favourable a May be misleading lose people or his Caliper in our game a said Wayne a it is a cancer and All Typ tints f a Minn a talc m Fth i. Aft it cd fornia reportedly meeting with team owner Howard Baldwin but is scheduled to return for a news conference Friday that Lemieux will also attend. Hodgkin a disease is marked by a chronic enlargement of the Lymph nodes the Small compact structures that line the blood vessels and manufacture infection fighting antibodies. Anion the Side effects of the disease Are anaemia and continuous fever. #. A typical treatment for Hodgkin a consists of five to 10 minutes of radiation five times a week for four to five weeks a a a the fact that Lemieux will undergo radiation therapy is an indication that doctors found the cancer in its Early stages said or. Dennis Meisner an oncologist at Shadyside Hospital in Pittsburgh. Meisner said the penguins Contention that the Type in Lemieux Scase is the Quot most Gretzky hockey a unquestioned Star until Lemieux came into the league in 1985. Quot he is too important he is too talented. It Lias got to be frustrating not Only for him and the penguins but the whole  Penguin general manager Craig Patrick was in Cali it is a cancer and All types of cancer Are very serious a Meisner said. Quot As a cancer it can become  if the disease is limited to one Lymph Node that was removed it is classified As stage one Hodgkin a which has a cure rate of 95 percent he said. Indiana a Calburt Cheaney and Alan Henderson 44 Sandwich Michigan s Juwan Howard by Harry Atkins Ann Arbor Mich. A it was exactly the kind of game you a expect from two final four teams. Indiana s Alan Henderson made what proved to be the winning Basket and then blocked Michigan a final shot As the sixth ranked hoosiers snapped the second ranked wolverines 11-game winning Streak with a 76-75 Victory tuesday night. Henderson who made the games final Basket on a jumper from the right Side with 1 36 remaining had 22 Points for in Diana 14-2 Overall 3-0 big ten Calbert Cheaney added 20 for the hoosiers. A the main thing for us tonight is that we stuck together Henderson said. A we played As hard As we could. And this time we came out on  Jalen Rose who had 19 Points for Michigan 12-2, 2-1put the wolverines ahead 75-74 with 2 30 to play. But the wolverines never scored again although they had plenty of chances a James Voskuil who had eight Points for Michigan drove across the Lane for a Layup that was blocked by Henderson with 1 13 left. A Rose had a steal and raced the length of the court for another Layup but missed it with 43 seconds left. A Michigan was forced to foul Todd More College basketball on p. 30 Leary with 14 seconds left. But before Leary a 90 percent free throw shooter could take the foul shot Cheaney left his spot in the Lane and the wolverines were Given the Ball out of Bounds. A Rose brought the Ball up court and led it to Voskuil who missed a 3-Point rom the left Comer. The rebound was Flippy try in it try tipped by Rose to Chris Webber who got the Ball for one last shot which was blocked by Henderson just before the Horn sounded. A i saw Voskuil shoot and i saw it would be Short a Henderson said a so i tried to hold my position. When Webber got the Ball i just tried to take a swipe at it and i got a piece of it a Rose said he wanted to take the shot but the Indiana defense forced him to pass the Ball instead a it was a clearcut really for me a Rose said. A but they forced me to kick it out to the Wing. We did really what we wanted to do. James will make that shot next  Voskuil said he had a Good look at the Basket and Felt confident he would make the shot