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B-2 MONDAY, JUNE 24, 1991 -THE INDIANAPOLIS STAK- Sidles RE51178J Min F(3- FT' A PF TP I Mullin 22 7-9 0- 0 6 6 2 16 JLJtU. Wilkins 22 8-12 2- 2 5 2 0 18 Kemp 22 11-19 0- 0 8 1 1 22 Chapman 26 11-22 2- 4 10 4 0 24 Continued from Patfe 1 Hardaway 22 5-13 0- 0 4 8 1 12 lonunuea irom rage i Harper 22 4 10 0- 0 3 7 0 8 they would have said, 'Trade SMes 26 11-19 0-1 6 10 2 26 I irrv InstP-iH nfKfttlnt? him Slir- Garland 26 3- 9 0- 0 9 3 1 6 Larry instead 01 guunj, nun sur RAn()erson 26 14-19 1.3 6 2 3 30, gery and bring him back another Anderson 26 7.12 2-2 14 3 0 16 vp-ir anrlli't him retire 81-144 70x 10178 year ana it mm rt ure. unhtei 5 team rebounds. "If I had guarded him, he WHITE (170) wouldn't have got anything. So I let some other guys guard him so Person 24 8-16 1 7 8 0 17 he could have a good series, then Duckworth 25 9-19 2- 3 8 3 0 21 he could come back and help out ZZZZZZ 26 In VI 1 the league another year, maybe Scott 22 4-16 0- 0 0 6 0 12 get another contract.

jj 3 5 1 10 'I'm going to send him out 5 the right way when he comes Thompson 16 5-1 1 0- 2 10 4 1 10 back. I'll give him his going 7:15 67" 49 9 170 1 x-lncludes 11 team rebounds, away party: 41 points in about Red 42 45 45 46-178 three quarters. He's probably In wmtt 39 41 48 42-170 f- Three-point shooting: Red 9-35 (Skiles 4-6, the top two lor worst defenders Mulhn 2.3K Hardawa Wll. In the NBA. Charles Barkley is kins 0-1, Kemp 0-1, Garland Anderson 0-1, the other.

It's like a game of H- O-R-S-E. Duckworth 1-3, Person 0-5, Thompson 0-1 Steals: Red 16 (Hardaway 5), White 21 (Brown Naturally, Barkley was also a 5). wllllnit nirtlrlnanl In the talk Red 2 Mulhn' An()ersonl; Willing partKipani in me IdlK, White 2 (Duckworth, Allord). nailing Person and Bird, In talk- Turnovers: Red 26 (Kemp 4, Garland 4); White in about his career, Barkley 2ifSLTM said, 'I have only one goal, well, officials: Mike Mathis. Hugh Evans, Jake two, No.

1, punch Chuck, No. 2, O'Donneii. Attendance 13,018. win a championship. thing I said at the beginning of last season, I knew II was the last year of my contract, It was pretty much do-or-dle, and I said to myself I'm gonna play the way I wanla play, the way I can play.

And if they like It, they like it: If they don't, they don't. "I found out they liked It. The security Is there and It means a lot to my family, particularly because I have a young son 12-year-old Scott) and now we can buy a home In Orlando, which we've done. "That's nice, but we're not the kind of people that live a high lifestyle anyway. Bought a new car, that's basically It." What kind? "A BMW." OK, so allow him that.

Now that he's getting the minutes, he's making the millions. "My first couple of years In the league," said Skiles, "I never lacked confidence, but I was Just sort of apprehensive because I didn't have a lot of experience. That's what this league Is all about, "And now, I've done a total turnaround, and I sort of feel like the guys playing against me should be apprehensive. "It was Just a great year. But I'm not the kind of guy who says, 'Well It was a great year, I made it now, I've got my money now and 1 can but really all It does in training camp people are going to be looking at me to lead the team to more than 31 wins Continued from Page 1 nildeourl, breaking up a pass and almost ending up In the seals.

"That's the only way I know how to play," said Skiles. "If you're in a game like this and you're screwln' around, that's Just the way you could get hurt or hurt someone else. I Just always play the same way. "I certainly wasn't as serious as I would be during the regular season." It was hard to tell. These days, the bottom line wilh Skiles, a former Pacer who struggled early In his NBA career, Is he signed a four-year, $1.4 mllllon-pcr-year deal with the Orlando Magic last season.

Skiles sit back and count It? Forget It. "Just because you sign a contract doesn't necessarily mean you're gonna be In that place," reminded Skiles. "This Is a very uncertain business. Draft time's coming and I could get the phone call tomorrow saying I was traded." After being named the NBA's Most Improved Player, that's doubtful. "Yeah, It's going well for me finally," Skiles allowed.

"I'm at a place where they let me play my game and like my game. One STAR STAFF PHOTO KELLY WILKINSON Dee Brown obliges autograph-seeking fans. honors with Boston's Dee Brown and Golden State's Tyrone Hill. Person, playing with his old Auburn teammate, scored 17 points, had eight assists and seven rebounds "I'm trying to elevate my game to another level," said Person. "What I felt and tasted In the playoffs, I want to continue and help the Pacers continue." The Red team got 26 points and 10 assists from former Pacer Scott Skiles and 24 points from Charlotte's Rex Chapman.

delphla All-Star sporting his "summer look" of extra weight, courtesy of a golfbeer regimen. In two of his first three dunk attempts, Barkley missed badly. "The altitude didn't materialize and my motivational forces coming up from the floor through my legs weren't there," Barkley explained. "In moron's terms, I Just didn't Jump high enough." He did get up enough to score 22 points, which shared team BRIEFLY Replied Bird, "There's nobody that could tell them what to do and Charles wouldn't listen anyway." In Bird's added defense, he and co-coach Bob Hill of the Pacers probably knew they were In trouble when he saw the Phila- As for Bird. Barkley played on the: losing White team and offered, "I don't care what anybody says, you can't win with bad coaching.

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VISAMCDIS. 257-8883 Cincinnati to host IU next season The University of Cincinnati will play host to the Indiana Hooslers for a basketball game Jan. 4 to start a two-year, home-and-home series. The game, scheduled In Cincinnati's Shoemaker Center arena, will be the first meeting of the two schools since 1955-56, Indiana holds a 10-3 lead In the series. Under the arrangement, Cincinnati will play at Indiana during the 1992-93 season.

FROM STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS AUTO RACING Allison races to Miller 400 win There was no controversy this time as Davey Allison walked all over the field on the way to a record-setting NASCAR victory in Sunday's Miller Genuine Draft 400 at Michigan International SOFTBALL Summer Sign-Up $340 10 Games Sign-Up Deadline June 26 Season Begins July 1 MenC.C.D.E Women Co-ed Rec Comp Men's Fast Pitch By MARK AMBROGI STAR STAFF WRITER Jimmy Oliver won't be glued to the TV set Wednesday. "Too many guys have draft parties and get their hopes up too high," the former Purdue forward said. "Then they're embarrassed or crushed when they don't get drafted or go by a certain time. "I'm not going to sit and wait. I'll be playing ball at Mackey (Arena), working on bettering myself.

I'll find out in the paper or from someone if I get drafted." The consensus is he will be. Speedway In Brooklyn, Mich. Allison was awarded his second win of the year two weeks ago on the road course at Sonoma, when Ricky Rudd was penalized for bumping him aside two laps from the end. This time, though, he left no doubt In anybody's mind by leading for 104 of the 200 laps on the 2-mile, high-banked oval. It took the second-generation Winston Cup star little time CALL 898-2233 4002 N.

Franklin Rd. (A CAR PHONES Inside Sports rates Oliver as the 27th best player In the NBA draft, which would make him the final pick in the first round. He's listed as the No. 2 player at off guard MOTOROLA With Hands Free RENT-TO-OWN AAAP 0 Finance yUvv Chare .1 per FREE MO. INSTALLATION Must be new subscriber minimum air time contract required Call lor detain BASEBALL Fuming Reds manager rips team Cincinnati Reds manager Lou Plniella lost patience Sunday with his players, suggesting In an profanity-flllcd tirade that they stop worrying about themselves and start thinking more about the team.

Plniella erupted during a group Interview with reporters following an 8-4 victory over Montreal that left Cincinnati six games behind Los Angeles In the National League West. It marked the end of a tough week for the Reds, who lost starting pitchers Norm Charlton and Jose RiJo to Injury. Plniella was in a light-hearted mood Immediately after the game, but a question about reliever Randy Myers turned his mood sour. Myers said this weekend that he doesn't think the Reds will keep him as a setup man for Rob Dibble, now the No. 1 closer, and he predicted he'll be traded back to the New York Mets.

Myers got the victory Sunday by pitching out of a sixth-Inning threat. "I'm tired of hearing It (trade talk), 1 really am," an enraged Plniella said. "I'm sick and tired of it. This guy wants to go this place and this guy wants that place. Don't take the paycheck and go on home.

You don't want the paycheck, go home and do what you want to do and you'll see you miss the game of baseball and you miss the salary." Meanwhile, the Reds optioned pitcher Kip Gross to their Class AAA Nashville farm club, and said they'll probably call up left-hander Gino Mln-utelll to take his bullpen spot Tuesday. Giants' Mitchell off disabled list The San Francisco Giants activated outfielder Kevin Mitchell Sunday, and sent outfielder Rick Parker to the team's Class AAA franchise In Phoenix. Giants manager Roger Craig said Mitchell would be available only as a pinch-hitter during San Francisco's two-game scries with the Los Angeles Dodgers, but could return to the starting lineup Friday night In San Diego. Four. He scored 25 points on 9-of-13 shooting In leading the West to a 122-113 victory.

"They seemed to say 'Jimmy, where have you been Oliver said. "Well. I feel I did the same thing in that game that 1 did all season. So I didn't get my hopes up." A first-team All-Big Ten choice, the 6-6 smooth-shooting Oliver averaged 19.2 points for the Boilermakers last season. "Naturally.

I'd like to go In the first round, but all I want Is an opportunity," he said. "All I've wanted In life Is a chance to play, whether It was high school, college or now the NBA." A pair of 1987 Indiana All-Stars Warsaw's Rick Fox and Gary Wallace's Jerome Harmon appear certain to get an NBA opportunity, too. Fox's path appears more set. The 6-7 North Carolina small forward figures to go somewhere between the middle and the end of the first round. "He's had the numbers at North Carolina.

He's a bona fide first-rounder," Reynolds said. Harmon is more of an unknown quantity. The 6-4 guard played one season for Louisville (14.7 points per game in 1989-90) before being sidelined by academic problems. "I think it's a mistake that he's coming out." Blake said. "I'd be shocked If he gets drafted." Reynolds and Irvine would be shocked if he Isn't.

"I could see some team taking a flyer on him late In the first round," Irvine said. "I think he's as good an athlete as there is In the draft," Reynolds said. "His performance In Chicago really helped him." Ditto for former Hammond Gavit High School and University of Texas standout Joey Wright. "He played better in Chicago, but I think a lot of people were disappointed with his senior season," Irvine said. "I know some people felt he was better than (Texas teammates and first-round picks) Travis Mays and Lance Blanks as a unlor.

Wright, a 6-2 guard, averaged 21.2 points as a senior. He's the third-leading scorer In Texas history. to show the muscle in his Ford Allison Thunderblrd. dashing from fourth In the 41 -car field to first after 15 laps. Allison's speed of 160.91 mph smashed the track record of 1 57.704 for a 400-mile race, set In August 1989 by Rusty Wallace.

Hut Stricklln managed to hold off Mark Martin to finish second, with Dale Earnhardt padding his Winston Cup point lead with a fourth-place finish. Notes: Mazda wins Le Mans A Mazda became the first Japanese car to win the Le Mans 24 hours race Sunday, overtaking a Mercedes In the last three hours In Le Mans, France. Bertrand Gachot of Belgium. Johnny Herbert of Britain and Volkcr Weidler of Germany were the winning drivers of the rotary-powered Mazda. Jaguars were second, third and fourth, Belgium's Eric Bachelart won his third Firestone Indy Lights race this season at Portland International Raceway, boosting his championship points lead to 25 after five of 12 events.

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He's someone we may look at as a big guard with one of our lower picks." "I don't want to predict where he's going to go, but I think he'll get a chance to play in the league," said Marty Blake, NBA's scouting guru, "I'd be surprised If he Isn't In the league next year." George Irvine, the Indiana Pacers' vice president of basketball operations, figures Oliver will go somewhere In the second round. "The fact that he didn't go to Chicago didn't help him." he said. Oliver said he wasn't Invited to the NBA's pre-draft camp In Chicago, which took place earlier this month. Oliver's NBA stock reportedly began growing after his MVP performance in the National Association of Basketball Coaches All-America game at Market Square Arena prior to the Final COMPLETE REPAIRS MAINTENANCE ON CAR STEREO CASSETTES AND HOCKEY NHL mum on expansion teams The NHL is keeping a tight lid on the situation Involving Its two conditional expansion franchises, the Ottawa Senators and Tampa Bay Lightning. At a news conference Sunday In Buffalo, NHL president John Ziegler refused to answer questions about the reported shaky financial conditions of the franchises set to enter the league for the 1992-93 season.

CD PLAYERS MIELECTRONICS CO. TENNIS Seles may be fined for withdrawal If Monica Seles, the former top-seeded woman, fails to produce a clearer excuse for her late withdrawal from Wimbledon Friday, she could be fined up to 3,800 pounds, or about $6,200, tournament officials said. Conflicting reports on Seles' whereabouts and physical condition were still circulating, but last week, the player apparently visited the Vail, sports-medicine clinic of Dr. Richard Steadman, the orthopedist who performed Martina Navratllo-va's knee surgery. Weather willing rain is forecast through Thursday Wimbledon's Centre Court offers a strong opening day lineup including Stefan Ed-berg's opening match with Marc Rosset of Switzerland and Andre Agassi's duel with Canadian Grant Connell.

Agassi Is making his first appearance at Wimbledon in four years. Notes: McCallum loses in final David McCallum of Indianapolis lost to top-seeded Jeff Wolf of Cincinnati 6-3. 2-6, 6-3 In the final of the $5,000 TAP (Total Assets Planning) tournament at Mason, Ohio, Sunday. McCallum, a former North Central and Indiana University standout, beat second-seeded R.J. Dunkle in the semifinals 6-2.

6-7, 6-1. Carl Uwe Steeb of Germany defeated Jordl Arrese of Spain 6-3, 6-4 to win the Genoa ATP tournament at Genoa, Italy. Steeb capitalized on a solid serve-and-volley game en route to the $32,000 first prize. Andretti 5353 N. Keystone Indpls IN 46220 252-2747 ,.1973 COLLEGES Miami official admits wrongdoing A fired University of Miami official says he faked hundreds of financial-aid forms to help needy students for more than a decade, but only began charging kickbacks in the past two years to feed a cocaine habit.

Former associate academic coordinator Tony Russell said he charged $85 to Miami students, mostly football players, to falsify financial aid applications so he could support his addiction. "They (FBI) know I'm guilty," he said. "I deserve It for what I did for the last two years." before finding himself in a similar position behind Arle Luyen-dyk on the 92nd lap. This time, however, Luyendyk pulled out of the racing line and allowed Andretti to pass. Andretti, who led for all but three laps In winning at Portland a year ago.

had to switch to his backup car after his primary car was damaged during a practice-session wreck Saturday. It was the second time within' a year that he has driven a backup to victory. He did last season on the road course at Lexington, Ohio. Andretti's victory was the 16th of his Indy-car career. Fuel pump problems hampered his qualifying effort Saturday but the machine ran flawlessly Sunday.

There were no accidents and no full-course yellow flags In the 104-lap event. Eighteen of the 23 cars that started the race were running at the finish. Rahal, with 90 points, padded his lead In the season point standings. Mears, who was fifth Sunday, has 76 points, and Michael Andretll 74. Continued from Page 1 was no reason to be In that situation," Andretti said.

"If I was being lapped, I'd move over. I know Emerson would move over. I know all the top drivers would move over. I don't understand why he had to fight me the way he did." Pruett said he was locked In a battle with Eddie Cheever and didn't know Andretti was trying to pass. "I didn't even know he was putting me a lap down," Pruett said.

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