European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 31, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse Fonday cctober31, 1993 sports the stars and stripes Paga 27 College basketball cards hire Mccallum by the associated pres Muncie ind. Ray Mccallum Ball state s career scoring Leader called himself the Hap Piest Man in the world Friday after being named basketball coach at his Alma mater. Mccallum 32, succeeds Dick Hunsaker who resigned oct. 12 amid a scandal involving Mcaa rules violations. This is a dream come True said Mccallum who scored 2,109 Points from 1979 through 1983. Mccallum had been an assistant at Michigan under a contract allowing him to leave if the Ball state Job came open. Hunsaker the Ball state coach for four years resigned after a University investigation found four players had received illegal inducements extra benefits and unauthorized financial Aid. 10,000 watch heels open practice Chapel Hill . Imagine this Nort Carolina s 7-foot Center Eric Montross grabs a rebound dribbles up court through a Maze of players and wishes a 3-Pointer. The crowd of some 10,000 goes wild it happened Early very Early saturday morning during the defending Mcaa Champion tar heels Midnight madness practice practice began at 12 01 first Day the Mcaa allows teams to practice provided a first look at several of the tar heels highly recruited newcomers Jerry Stackhouse Rasheed Wallace and Jeff Mclnnis. Kentucky turns away 2,600 Lexington by. Kentucky basketball coach Rick Pitino led the cheers As thousands of fans filled memorial coliseum to watch the wildcats first basketball practice at the annual Midnight madness. Attendance swelled to 9,400 just 35 minutes after the doors were opened and the fans counted Down the official Start of basketball fire marshal turned away an estimated 2,600 people police said. The wildcats open their season nov. 27 Trupp Arena against archrival Louisville. 15,700 turn out to see new Jay Hawks Lawrence Kan. Kansas which lost four starters from last season s final four basketball team showed off the new look Jay Hawks Early saturday before an enthusiastic Allen fieldhouse crowd of about 15,700.the latest edition of the annual late night with Roy Williams held right after Midnight on the first Day the Mcaa allows College basketball teams to begin practice featured the usual skits and tomfoolery As Well As a scrimmage in which the Crimson team beat the Blue 44-43. Jets Kris King lunges for a Loose puck As Kings Alex Zhitnik comes up from the rear during Friday s game. Kings end skid with of win. ,. hockey writer the los Angeles Kings finally found a Way to Edmonton oilers and Anaheim mighty ducks Are still looking while the Kings broke a four game losing Streak with4-3 overtime Victory in Winnipeg on Friday night the oilers and ducks continued their non winning ways. The oilers lost 6-3 to Buffalo extending their cur rent losing Streak to seven games and non winning Streak to a club record 10 0-9-1. The ducks mean while lost their fifth straight 5-2 to Washington. In the Friday s Only other nil game the new Yor islanders beat Tampa Bay 4-2. Kings 4, jets 3, of defens Eman Rob Blake scored at 3 07 of overtime to lift los Angeles Over Winnipeg. The Kings overcame a two goal deficit to Force Over time and capped it with Blake s blast from the Point. Sabres 6, oilers 3 Craig Simpson scored twice against his old team in National hockey league eluding the game winning goal to Lead Buffalo Over Edmonton. Brad May also had two goals As the sabres won their second game in a Row and had their first Victory in Edmonton since nov. 1,1985. Capitals 5, mighty ducks 2 Randy Burridge and Dimitri Khristie each score twice As Washington won in Anaheim. The capitals who entered the game with the nil third worst defense became the seventh team to hold the league s most anaemic offence to fewer than three goals As they won for the fifth time in six games after an 0-6 Start. Don Beaupre won for the fourth time in arow stopping 25 shots. Islanders 4, lightning 2 Derek King scored twice and Pierre Turgon a Jadeda pair of assists As new York Defeated the Tampa Bay. The Victory was the first in the Atlantic division forthe islanders 3-7-1. Schott finishing High profile suspension by Joe Kay Cincinnati a it sound strange to talk about Marge Schott re Turing from her suspension. To the aver be fan she was never gone. Virtually every Home game the Cincin Nati reds suspended owner would pull to a reserved parking space at River ont stadium get on a restricted elevator in her dog in Tow and head for Hewner s Booth. Midway through the game she woul dad Down to a front Row seat behind the gout flanked by red employees to in autographs for fans and Root for Hernde achieving team. When it rained an employee held an umbrella Over her and she flouted her punishment. She and a videotaped message to fans played the scoreboard on opening Day. S. J it a note to manager Davey Johnson luring one game violating her suspend on in front of 30,000 people. As the suspension ends this weekend her critics wonder this was punishment i think maybe the slap on the wrist really was just i Little Pinch said Sharon Jones a former Oakland a s executive assistant who claims she overheard Schott use the word Nigger in a Confer ence Tail. I Don t know if she Felt shews being penalized in any Way. She took advantage of every that was the least they could have done without doing nothing said Michael Rapp one of the Community Lead ers who met with Schott after her slurs were monday she can do the Only thing that was off limits for the last eight months walk into her office at the stadium and Start issuing orders. Schott s one year suspension for using racial slurs was automatically reduced when she attended diversity training Over the summer. She docs have probation for the next four months said Milwaukee Brewer owner Bud Selig chairman of the ruling executive Council. I Don t really want to comment. I think All interests Are served by having an orderly process and by hav ing peace and whatever she suffered in the last eight months she suffered silently. But general manager Jim Bowden who ran the club in her absence said it s wrong to think Schott was t Hurt just because she remained the club s most visible fan. It affected her dramatically Bowden said. She s a hands on Type of owner. She comes into the office every Day when not suspended. She not Only operates the entire business end but signs every Check that goes out and makes All the key decisions from All instead she was allowed Only to con sult Bowden on major financial decisions. The Day to Day ones were left up to him. Plenty of decisions await Schott who has to decide on a local television con tract fill out the coaching staff and put together a budget for next year. And civic leaders will be watching to see if she fulfils promises to bring More minorities into the organization. That will answer the question of whether the suspension has changed Schott and he team. It will be interesting to see if is going to pursue anything said Frank Allison head of the local a act. In the first three months after Schott were made Public the reds hired a Black front office employee giving them two minorities out of 46 employees and three Black minor league reds also had a minority manager Tony Perez but he was fired in May. There have been no Job openings Dur ing Schott s suspension Bowden said. Two front office employees were Laid off and no one else was wed. In january Bowden met with Community leaders and presented details of a minority hiring program. Bowden said there s been Progress. We have made sure that minority Ven Dors had the Opportunity to bid for serv ices he said. We had an internship program that minorities participated minority Bat boy was hired. We improved in a lot of
