News Scrapbook 1989

Tomght he will be in the starting lineup when USD-,opeefits 1989-90 season against Cal Lutheran (0-2) in the USOSports Center at 7:30. T~'s elevation is another indication that lhe Toreros expect to field a much stronger team this sea- son. "I am not going to be a major scorer, I'm not the type of player

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"I'm the USIU package a an inve tmenl in the rutu re !or the college and mys Ir," said Gross. "Basketball 1s the strongest thing I do it's what I enjoy the most. I'm t;ying to get some recognition, and the b st way is through basketball." ••• KF 18 DROPS TUE B LL - For th second time in three year . KFMB Radio (760) will skip San Diego talc's early b. sketball games. Becau e the games arc low-rated and late November and early December are a key ratings time, KFMB will bypass the first four Aztecs gamrs, picking up the season Dec . 6 when SDSU takes on cross-town rival USD. Th<' deal has San Dfego State offic_ials shaking their heads and looking at the fine print in their contract with KFMB that runs through next basketball sea on. ••• U D O THE AIR? - XTRA nnd officials a SD are still try- ing to get together a ackage to carry the chool's games. The Torcros have a good team and an'"'attrntive schedule but something better happen s~n. ••• BASKETBALL ONE PN•- The cable network has 236 games on its schedule - 190 regular- ca on live games. Starting Dec. 4, it's ACC-Big East Challenge Weck with teams from . the ACC and Big East squaring off. ESPN's chcdule also includes 11t least two games each Monday, looking at

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who mtroduced the game to the CBS production team as a way of break• ing the monotony of Saturday preproduction meetings. According to his play-by-play partner, Dick Stockton: "When he's about to score big points, he takes the domino in his hand, slams it down on the table, screams. 'Follow that cab,' and all the dominos scatter. To say that Dan is an intense competitor at the slight- est provocation is an under<3tate- ment." NCAA redux - CBS Sports boss cal Pilson, who spent $1 billion Tuesday to keep the NCAA Tourna• ment on his network, said to fully appreciate that sum you need to write it out, fonghand, and neatness counts. "I bad t.o do it myse f in the baseball contract," be said "You have to count the zeros to make sure you haven't made a mistake. One b'l· lion dollars is a benchmark, but we would never pay it if we didn't thin it was worth it." . . . Broadcaster Btlly Packer hopes the new contract will enrich the member schools, no their athletic departments. "It should be a windfall for education, not a windfall for athletics," be said. "If not, we're sending a very bad mes- sage."

on his 5 pm. Channel 8 sportscast Monday, narrating and analyzing video r om a Miami station that caught the Hurricanes in various states of showboating. Leitner isn't known as an apologist for the Aztecs, so there may be something to thls crusade. "I honestly believe that the coach (Dennis Erickson) can't control his team," he said. "I 's disgust10g. It's bad for college football." NFL - Channel 39 will show the Chargers-Colts game at 10 a.m. Sun· day. Joel Meyers and Paul Maguire, fair on NBC's telecast from Pitts- burgh last week, are the announcers ... Channel 8 airs a CBS double-head- er: Vikings-Packers (Verne Lund• quisl-Terry Bradshaw) at 10 a.m., Bears-Redskins (Pal Summerall• John Madden) at 1 p.m. . . . After three turkeys - Cowboys-Redskins, Raiders-Charger , Jets-Colts - E8PN gets an attractive Sunday night matchup, Rams-Saints . . Ralph Wiley of Sports Illustrated, one of ''The Insiders" on NBC's " :FL Live" i alwa s provocative. But ex• acUy what wa e saying when he said Mike Lyn t c 1kings' general manager, ·runs the team like Huey • Long ran the state of Lowsiana"? ... Dominos is a passion of Dan Fouts,

tees basketball opener won't be on local radio, because KFMB-AM (760) plans to join the season in progress. The station's first broadcast is Game 6, Dec. 6 aga~t USD . . . ABC will televise the Arizona-Micmgan Tip- Off Classic the first network college basketball telecast of the seasc, ... CBS' Packer was named top college analyst m Tbe Sporting News poll of TV writers, followed by Bill Raftery (ESPN/CBS), Dick Vitale (ESPN/ABC), Bucky Wate!'.S (NBC) and Al icGuire (NBC). Vitale was named top analyst by the American Sportscaster ~ociation ..• Harry Cooper ho operates the Sports Arena and proposes to build a new indoor sports stadium, s the guest on "San Diego Headliners" Sun- day at 1 p.m. on Channel 39 ... Skip Caray will be jomed at the micro- phone by his father Harry and son Chip for Tuesday night's Miami-Or- lando NBA telecast on TNT It fig- ures to be the first time that three generations of broadcasters v;ill call a game. Holy cow! . . The Bulls play the Warriors tomorrow as the NBA makes its regular-season return in its farewell season on CBS. Stockton and Hubie Brown are lhe announcers.

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...A&,.~ ,. C. B Esr. 1888 ~oreros'openeris a benchmark win ~J/.=b etball coach Hank E~an ~as asked the other day to name his startmg lineup for last night's season-opener ag~inst Cal Lutheran. Egan began something like this: . . "(Center) Dondi Bell bas been playing well conung off the bench so we'll keep bringing him off the bench. "(Forw~rd) Craig Cottrell seems ~or_e co~fortable coming off the bench, so we'll keep brmging him off the be?.(~~ard) Gylan Dottin doesn't mind coming of~ the bench, so we'll keep bringing him off the ~nch.,; •• . Finally, someone interrupted Egan, saying, Hank, IS anybody starting1" Egan replied: "Maybe we could start o~e two guys for the tipoff and sub the others in real qwck. He wasn't too far off, as it turned out. Onl one Toreros starter - sophomore guard Wayman StricJand - took the floor last night. USJD's other four Please see TOREROS: C-9, Col. l By Kirk Kenney Tribune Sportswriter D

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Ohlmeyer pointed to the Senior Tour, which will receive a late-after- noon time slot from ESP · next year, as evidence of the sport's popularity on the tube. "We're moving closer to pnme time," be said. That's good television? H rricane-lorc• diat • -t• - The most ballyhooed matchup of the col- lege football season - top-ranked ·otre Dame at No. 7Miami - plays tomorrow In prime time on CBS (5 p.m., Channel 8). And you won't catch Ted Leitner root, root, rooting for the borne team. Leitner, who broadcasts San Diego State football with Tom Bass on KFMB-AM, watched the Aztecs lose to the Hurricanes, 42-6, and returned home Sunday with a bad taste in nis mouth. "I've never seen a team cele- brate, taunt, whatever after every play," he aid of Miami. "Every sin- gle play. It's ridiculous." He went public with his umbrage

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starting lineup but will be coming off the bench t~nigbt because of a disa- greement with Egan in the first half of the Toreros' 85-84 exhibition victo- ry.~ver Athletes in Action. In a moment of frustration John and I h_ad a conflict," Egan said. "It's not a big deal now. But I told John he wouldn't be starting our opener. He's a mature guy and one of our key players. We both know this is some- thm~ I had to do, and it's behind us " With the 6-8 Jerome normally : the starling lineup, returning scori~; leaders Cottrell and Dottin could be employed by Egan off the bench ''Both seem more at ease co~ing off the bench," said Egan.

Bell earned the right to start In the ope~e~ .with _two strong show- ings 10 exhibition victories over AIA and East.side Melbourne of Australia. . Other players expected to see con- siderable time are transfer guards Pat Holbert and Anthony Thomas bo th fro~ ~esa (Ariz.) Communit ' College; Jumor center Keith ColviJ and freshmen Joe Temple (Lincol~ ~rep) and Brooks Barnhard (&con dido). • Sophomore guard Jeff deLaveaga scored 56 points in the first two games for Cal Lutheran, which dropped a 90-64 decision here last year.

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bigger and stronger." A team better suited to take ad- vantage of the little thmgs Randy T~?mpson brings to the lineup. " ' I play the court," said Thompson. 1 m ~ot non-existent offensively. r can hit the open jumper. But my game is playing defense, moving the ~II on offense . . . doing a lot of thmgs to help everyone else " Although Thompson had ;tarted in 24 of 47 games in his first two sea- sons at USO, his playmg time last ye_ar was_ limited by a bad back. He m~ mne games and averaged 19 mmutes m the games he did play,

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