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D2 THE INDIANAPOLIS STAR WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31, 1993 Mallory seeking more running punch in IU spring football drills ninth," said Mallory. "We've definitely got to get better. We've got to get our line healed and back and get them better. We need to bring our depth on. We need to get more mature and stronger and more durable and get our technique better.

"We need our backs to come forth and grow some hair on their chests. They were Inconsistent. We'd think somebody was going to step to the forefront and do it and then they didn't. We just need somebody to give us good, consistent chunks (of yardage)." Mallory has been a college head football coach for 23 years, but he has never seen a run of Injuries like IU had last season. That The battle to replace three-year starter Trent Green at quarterback is between sophomore John Pad and freshman Chris Dittoe.

Pad completed 33 of 60 passes (.550) last season for 327 yards and one touchdown with three Interceptions. Dittoe redshirted. The defense, like the offense, has eight starters returning. lU's all-star candidates include Beauchamp, defensive end Bernard Whlttlngton, defensive tackle Hurvln McCormack, tight end Ross Hales, wide receiver Thomas Lewis and punter Jim DiGuilio. The Hoosiers will conclude spring work April 24 with the annual Cream Crimson game.

By Phil Richards STAR STAFF WRITER Bloomlngton, Ind. Coach Bill Mallory makes no secret of Indiana University's spring football priority. After moving to 5-3 last fall and putting Itself in position to do something with their season, injuries piled up faster than rushing yards for the Hoosiers (5-6). They averaged 1.7 yards a carry, rushed for only 61 yards a game and scored a total of 20 points during an 0-3 finish. "No question about it.

We went from right up there at No. 1 rushing (in the Big Ten in 1991) to doesn't make him feel any better about the Hoosiers' finish and there will be no lack of commitment to improve this spring. Candidates are plentiful. Tackles Chris Smith, Jason Boyd, Clay Williams and Tom McKlnnon; guards Todd Smith and Andrew Green and centers Rod Carey and Josh Dewitt all played extensively last season. Mallory is very high on a pair of redshirt freshmen centers, Tom Lukawskl and Jay Selb, who has moved from guard.

The running game won't be the only point of emphasis with the line. Indiana yielded 44 sacks last season, nearly double the year before. Carey, 1991 second-team All-Big Ten, defensive end Charles Beauchamp, linebacker Saute Dean and guard Frank Ambrose will miss spring practice. Carey and Beauchamp are rehabilitating after reconstructive knee surgery. Dean is coming back from shoulder surgery.

Ambrose has an ankle problem that may necessitate surgery. Competing at tailback are Brett Law, Michael Batts and Kenyetta Williams. Jermaine Chaney Is sprinting for the track team. Arnold Mickens (converted from outside linebacker) and Sean Glover are at fullback and Shane Thomas is working at both backfield positions. Law, Batts, Chaney and Glover, like so many of the linemen, played a lot last season.

That doesn't carry much weight with Mallory. He wants production. "We've got a lot of people returning, but you can't say that's going to make us good," said Mallory. "We've got to get ourselves better." Indiana operated a lot from a one-back sei last season and in 1991, when Vaughn Dunbar ran for 1,805 yards and was college football's No. 2 rusher.

Mallory anticipates a lot more two-back offense this season. He has too many talented backs to let them sit. MILLER Continued from Page 1 Briefly Sports Compiled By Mark Schneider BASKETBALL Pleasant Run Children's Home and Haseley will be absent from Conseco Thursday and Friday. They'll pile In a couple of vans and go hoop It up. "We used to be able to practice once or twice a week," said McRoberts, employed at the Rough Notes Co.

"But guys got married, we've got families and time is becoming precious. "I still think I've got a few years left I hope." The 32-year-old Franz sounded more like management. "We try to make sure every body plays half the game, but I may Just give my Jersey to Chris Reynolds. His legs might be a little fresher than mine." game schedule for fame and fortune. "We take a couple of vans to most places and Jim gives us $25 a day for meals," said McRoberts.

"Obviously, you can't make a living doing this, but It's a lot of fun. "We've played Purdue, Ohio State, DePaul, Evansville, Loyola-Marymount, the Mexican and Puerto Rico national teams and the Canadian Olympic teams. And we go out to win, not to be cannon fodder." Roach, an original Hustler who played at Stetson, will leave his farm, former Manual star Johnson will take a couple days off from Bank One, ex-Anderson ace Teague won't be at the peka and you've got to win five games In four days to win it all. There's some really good competition and It draws 3,000 to 4,000 people." If this season's rumors would have come true, the AAU would have needed to move to Kemper Arena. "Somebody started the rumor that Flint had signed up Magic Johnson and that we were getting Larry Bird," said Franz, laughing at the thought.

"That might have drawn a few more people." Of course, nobody Is In this 45- CHEAHEY Continued from Page 1 Izzo likely will succeed Heathcote Jud Heathcote, who has guided Michigan State to a national championship and three Big Ten titles, will receive a one-year extention on his contract. His contract, scheduled to expire In June 1994, will be extended until June 1995, under a proposal to be presented to the school's governing board. Michigan State's athletic director. Merrily Dean Baker, Tuesday said she also would recommend to the board of trustees next week that Tom Izzo, an assistant under Heathcote for 10 years, be named to succeed Heathcote when he retires. However, Heathcote, Izzo and Baker said there was no timetable for Heathcote to step down.

Joel Ferguson, the chairman of the school's board, said the recommendations would be approved. "It's a done deal," Ferguson said. Boys' Hall of Fame field set East Noble, New Castle, Paoli and Vincennes were named Tuesday as participants in the 17th Hall of Fame Classic high school boys basketball tournament. Paoli, a Sweet Sixteen participant the past two years, will meet the host Trojans in the early game at 11 a.m., followed by Vincennes-East Noble. The teams will play Dec.

29 at New Castle's Chrysler Fieldhouse. Top 40 Workout set for Brebeuf Standouts from all four 1993 state finalist teams B.J. Flynn and Sherron Wilkerson of state champion Jeffersonville, Scott George and Damon Parks of runner-up Ben Davis, Chris Quinn of South Bend St. St. Joseph's and Greg Pickett of Carmel will participate in the annual Hoosler Basketball magazine's Top 40 Workout.

don 3-6, 6-0, 6-2, while lOth-seeded Julie Halard lost 6-3, 7-5 to Ines, Gorrochategui. Both were second-round matches. Ninth seed Natalia Zvereva, a Family Circle finalist In 1989, retired because of an injured back. She was losing 6-3, 3-0 to unseeded Nadine Ercegovic in the second set of their first-round match. There was no possibility of an upset with Gabriela Sabatini, who began her second straight Family Circle tournament title defense by crushing Beverly Bowes 6-0, 6-0.

Top-seeded Steffi Graf made her first appearance at the tournament since winning It in 1989, defeating unseeded Federica Bosignori 6-4, 6-4. BOXING Morrison wins tune-up bout Heavyweight Tommy Morrison, In a tune-up for his June bout with George Foreman, Tuesday night knocked out Dan Murphy at 1:10 of the third round at Kansas City, Mo. Morrison, a Kansas City fighter who played boxer Tommy Gunn in Rocky pressed his 30-year-old opponent from the outset. Murphy crumbled Into the ropes from a smashing left hook, and a white towel came flying from the New Yorker's corner. On the undercard, actor Mickey Rourke improved to 4-0-1 with a first-round technical knockout over Tom Bentley of New York.

Local gridders in Golden Gloves A pair of former Indiana high school football players Roncalli's Ray Shelburn and Muncle Central's Lemont Lankfort will work toward Golden Gloves championships when the annual amateur boxing tournament continues at Tyndall Armory Thursday night. Shelburn, a novice division middleweight who lost a narrow decision in last year's title bout, will meet Jimmy Spivey of the Sarge Johnson Boxing Club. Shelburn. who boxes for the Indianapolis PAL Club, now plays football at Hanover. Lankfort, only 5-4 and affiliated with the Muncie PAL Club, was the hit of last week's opening session with his swarming, all-out style.

He is slated to take on Jay County's Billy Hickledier In a junior open division welterweight clash. Twelve bouts are scheduled. Action in the open division, to qualify for the national tournament team, will begin next week. The first bout starts at 7:30 p.m. Tickets, priced at $7 ringside and $4 general admission, are on sale at central Indiana TicketMasters.

the difficult double of law school and the National Basketball Association. He hasn't thought about the riches the draft will bring June 30. He hasn't hired an agent. He hasn't bought a car. He's never had a car.

"I asked my mother (Gwendolyn Crawley) for a car in high school," Cheaney recalled. "She said no. 'I had to earn mine and you're going to have to earn In the shorter term, Cheaney will be In New Orleans (where the Rupp Award will be presented Friday) for the NABC 3-point Shootout Sunday. That Isn't how Cheaney wanted to go to the NCAA Final Four, but Alan Henderson's knee injury and the 83-77 loss to Kansas last week in St. Louis that ended IU's 31-4 season made It the only way.

"I don't know If I'll go to the games, but I'll be there," said Cheaney. "God didn't see fit for It to happen for us. Alan's Injury was Just one of those things, a freak accident. "It's v.eird. Yesterday, I got done 'ith class and thought, 2 for I honestly thought that.

I said, 'Wake up Cal. It's It's a weird feeling." So was the knowledge that the technical fouls he drew against Illinois and Louisville doubled his coach's total. It hadn't dawned on Cheaney. He grinned in embarrassment. "Never in my wildest dreams did I think that would happen," he said.

"Let's Just say It was all for the better: We won both games." Press International, Scripps Howard News Service and the Newspaper Enterprise Association. Cheaney's a good bet to make It a sweep with the Associated Press' Rupp Award, the Wooden Award and the U.S. Basketball Writers Association honor. Heady stuff, "Considering up until my sophomore year in high school 1 never thought I'd be playing college ball or at least be at a small" School," said the unpretentious AU-Amerlcan from Evansville. Cheaney Is on schedule to graduate In May with a degree in criminal justice.

He hopes to manage Two workout sessions will be April 10 at Brebeuf High School. 'Twenty boys primarily from northern and southern Indiana will participate in the first session from 1-3 p.m. The remaining 20 boys, mostly Indianapolis Indians RMAtenilffl Tg Join from central Indiana, will work out from All the boys invited to the workout are listed on Page D6. Notes: Valvano to receive award Jim Valvano, the former North Carolina State' basketball coach who is battling cancer, Tuesday was named recipient of the 1993 Most Courageous Award by the United States Basketball Writers Association. Vanderbilt coach Eddie Fogler toured the South Carolina campus as the Gamecocks continued their unexpected search for a new basketball coach.

Sports Information Director Kerry Tharp confirmed Fogler's visit but had no. other comment. Vanderbilt athletic director Paul Hoolahan said Monday he gave permission for South Carolina to talk with Fogler; Hoolahan had no other comment. Georgia Tech coach Bobby Cremlns accepted the job last Wednesday but backed out on Saturday, saying he couldn't abandon his players at Tech. Fogler's visit came one day after a campus trip by Western Kentucky's Ralph Willard and his wife.

Bob Spencer, the second-winnlngest women's basketball coach in NCAA Division I history, retired as Fresno State coach. Spencer compiled a 578-261 career record. Rick Barry has resigned as coach of the Fort Wayne Fury of the Continental Basketball THE PEPSI INDIANS KNOT HOLE CLUB AUTO RACING '500' entries increase to 60 The Indianapolis Motor Speedway received entries Tuesday of cars for veteran Indy drivers Mario An-drettl, Dominic Dobson, Scott Goodyear, Hiro Matsushita and Tony Bettenhausen. Nigel Mansell, who won last year's Formula One title, also has entered the race, along with rookie Stefan Johansson. The entries bring to 60 the total number of cars entered for the May 30 Indianapolis 500.

The entry deadline is midnight Friday. FOOTBALL Notes: Buccaneers sign Mayhew The Tampa Bay Buccaneers Tuesday signed unrestricted free-agent cornerback Martin Mayhew to a reported four-year, $5.3 million contract. Mayhew. 27, a Tallahassee native and former Florida State star who played for the Redskins the past three years, is the second free agent brought in to bolster a Bucs defense that allowed more than 324 yards per game last season. The Detroit Lions signed unrestricted free agent guard David Lutz, who played for the Kansas City Chiefs the last 10 seasons.

The New England Patriots traded fullback John Stephens to the Green Bay Packers for an undisclosed draft choice. Razor Shines KIDS 14 UNDER RECEIVE: YES, Season Past Includes Fireworks, Autograph and Photograph Night, Indians' Card Set ONLY Bat Nights, The Famous Chicken and Souvenir Sundays (Unilorm T-Shirts, Team rr-iir-ii Pictures, Baseball Caps) wUVCIi An Indians' T-Shirt Indians Newsletters 269-3545 TO BECOME A Send check to INDIANS, 1501 W. 16th MEMBER: IN 46202 (Price is $7 per club member) INDIANAPOLIS INDIANS TENNIS Three Family Circle seeds fall Three of the top 10 seeds, including eighth-seeded Zina Garrison-Jackson, were upset Tuesday in the Family Circle tennis tournament at Hilton Head Island. S.C. Garrison-Jackson was ousted by Angelica Gaval- CLIP COMPARE 0 CLIP COMPARE EJ I gun fa 1.

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And Thur-man Thomas, who is In the final year of his contract, is expected to demand a new deal worth better than $3 million annually. A conservative estimate would have Buffalo actually paying Wolford $8.7 million over the next three years if it matched the current offer sheet. It's on that premise Butler points to an uneven playing field. "Who knows what's uneven?" asked Irsay. That's what Buffalo wants the league office to determine.

The Bills have contacted the Management Council which in turn will check with the Players Association. "They know the urgency and I'm sure they will get back with us as quickly as possible," said Butler. If the league finds no fault with the offer sheet, Buffalo must match it by 11:59 p.m. EST Monday or lose Wolford to the Colts without compensation, There Is recent precedent for the NFL to rule against creative clauses. Atlanta signed San Francisco defensive lineman Pierce FHplt to a OGLENIIVETM? 1M6" COURVOISIER COGNAC The incentive is actually double-edged.

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