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6 THE TIT5DAV, JANUARY 13. 19T6 SPORTS BEAT DOWNTOWN Protest by Nets upheld; Grant sold; Tarkenton named league's MVP It eoh Ireoa'iwoy 587-1285 Open 7:30 till SM Stf.tilM:30 THE MAIL Compiled by STAN SITTO.V From AP in. Special Dispatch! 19 The score is Virginia 63, New York 43 SOOOSUIbyvilleRd. 893-3648 Open 130 till f.OO Set. till 3:00 SHIVELY Seuthiond TerrtKt 447-2505 Open Doily till f.OO Sat till 5:00 NEW ALBANY minutes, 5 seconds to go Play ball: That will be the situation Jan.

24 in Norfolk. when the Squires and Nets resume play of a game everybody thought Virginia won 112-89 on Jan. 7. But American Basketball Association commissioner Dave DeBusschere has upheld a protest by the Nets and ordered the game replayed from the point outlined above. He also fined officials Jess Kersey and Bob Serafin for not knowing the rules.

The disputed play involved an injury to Willi Wise of Virginia, who was forced to leave the game and could not participate in a jump ball. ABA rules prohibit a player from returning to the game when he has left the contest under these circumstances. But with remaining in the third quarter, the officials permitted Wise's return. "They (the referees) are supposed to know the rules," DeBusschere said, "and as a result of the circumstances surrounding the protest, I have ordered a replay from the point of the error and have levied fines on the two officials. This was a rule book mistake." The game had another highlight.

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448-8188 six technical fouls and later suspended for two games and fined $1,000 by DeBusschere. Travis Grant goes to Pacers The Kentucky Colonels have traded Travis Grant to the Indiana Pacers for a future draft pick. Grant, who scored over 4.000 career points at Kentucky State University, was purchased from the now-defunct San Diego Sails in September. The Pacers have been seeking scoring help since the-ir leading scorer, Billy Knight, was injured. Bellarmine plays at home tonight Bellarmine coach Joe Reibel, whose learn is sailing along with a 9-1 record, will not know until game time whether leading scorer Floyd Smith will play tonight.

Smith, bothered by a muscle pull in his lower back, has been taking whirlpool treatment. The opponent in tonight's 8 o'clock game at Knights Hall is Indiana State-Evansville. Smith's 18-point average leads Bellarmine but Jim Hall is close behind at 16.4 and Dewey Minton (13.9), Chris Renfroe (13.7) and Jim FenUer (10.5) also add balance. FOOTBALL Florida State hires Bowden Bobby Bowden. who has coached West Virginia to a 42-26 record over six seasons, will succeed fired Florida State coach Darrell Mudra.

A former Florida State assistant, Bowden received a four-year contract at 537,500 a season. Mudra, who had a 4-18 record in two seasons, was fired last week after dissatisfied alumni raised $97,000 to pay off his contract. Tarkenton is MVP in NFL Minnesota quarterback Fran Tarkenton, who broke two of Johnny I'nitas' records (career pass attempts and career completions) during 1975. has been named the National Football League's Most Valuable Player by the AP. Tarkenton, a 15-year veteran, outdistanced running backs O.

J. Simpson of Buffalo, Terry Met-calf of St. Louis and Chuck Foreman of the Vikings in the voting. Billy Kilmer of the Redskins and Ken Anderson of the Bengals also received votes. "I don't think there is any question that Francis is going to go down as the greatest quarterback ever to play this game, period," said Minnesota coach Bud Grant.

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"After we lost to DePaul, we started hustling and looking better," said junior guard Phillip Bond. "We were doing great until we lost to West Texas. Then we seemed to fall back to the level we were at the first of the year. We weren't hustling or executing." And that leads to little but costly mistakes. "A lot of times you feel like you're hustling but you're not," Bond said.

"Sometimes you let yourself relax like you're afraid to overdo something. When I'm on defense, in the back of mind I might be afraid my man will backdoor me and get the wide-open layup. "The better defense we play as a team, the more we can gamble. When you put pressure on, you are gambling but the rest of the team is there to help you out if we're playing good team defense. It's a lot easier to lay back and make sure your man doesn't go around you.

And when you lay back, you may not look bad but the team does because you've allowed your man to do what he wants." In spite of the lack of hustle, Louisville's worst loss was six points (84-78 in overtime to West Texas) and it puts a 7-4 record against Idaho State's 7-6. "This team," Crum said, "has enough ability that it can overcome mistakes and beat a lot of teams if it hustles." Expanded horse race coverage tif Beginning Thursday, January 15, The Courier- JSlTks Journal will expand its horse racing coverage by including entries and results from selected major tracks in the United States. This added bv zLT coverage will also be carried in the sports AiTKv section on Sundays in The Courier-Journal By PAUL BORDEN Ceuriar-Journal Tlmts Stsff Writer If there was one thing the current University of Louisville basketball team did not figure to do this year, it was send researchers delving into the record books to seek information about losing streaks. But as Louisville prepares for tonight's game at Pocatello, Idaho, against Idaho State (10 o'clock EST tipoff), the topic is more than timely. Louisville is on a three-game skid that matches the longest of coach Denny Crum's 4 12 years at of L.

If it loses tonight, it will ue the first time since 1964, when of lost its last three regular season games and then dropped its NCAA tourney opener, that a Louisville team has lost four in a row. It also lost four in a row in the 1961-62 and 1962-63 seasons but since it began its national record of 31 consecutive winning seasons, no Louisville team has lost five in a row. The school record of 17 was set in the 1939-40 season when of was 1-18. The question is, why is this Louisville team, a club that Crum has said will be better in time than last year's 28-3 club, losing? The answer is that the Louisville players, with the exception of Wesley Cox, who has averaged more than 21 points and 10 rebounds the last five games, simply haven't hustled and tried to make things happen. And nobody seems to know the answer to that puzzler.

"It's strictly a mental thing," Crum said the day after his club lost 63-60 to Providence on national television. "We're just not I don't know. I don't know why we're not hustling." This is the second time the problem has come up. The first, was when Louisville lost to DePaul 78-76 in December, its first loss in Freedom Hall in 25 games. Then Louisville ran off four straight vic- College basketball tonight METRO SIX -U of 4t Idaho State 10 p.m.

EST, East Tenn. at Ga. Tech. OTHER KENTUCKY Ind. State-EvansviHe it Bel-larmma 8 p.m., Btrea at Campbellsville, David Lipscomb at Transvlvama.

OTHER MAJORS Drexel at La Salla an Princeton vs. St. Joseph's (Pa.) at Philadelphia, Kansas Sidta at Creiihton, Davidson at Furman. High school basketball tonight Boys' games Dasales vs. Bishso David at Doss, Eminence at Keniucky Cauntry Dav, Portland Christian at Beth Haven; Feirdaja Fern Creek, 7 p.m.; Seneca at Tr'mty, 7 p.m.

Other Top State games AndrSjn County at Bullitt Central; Boyd County at Ashlanc; Carroll County at Shelby County; Elkhorn City at Laxmeton Henry Clav at ton Catholic; Lexmjton Letevette at Woodford Cnyntv; Oh County at Owensboro, Whitesburi at Knott County Central. Timp Fnr ci imcrrlntirtn intnrmniinn rttonco phone 582-4752. The Courier-Journal College basketball Litratings THI TOP TWENTY 1. Indian 10. UCU 77.1 2.

Michigan 84.8 12. Rutgers 77.5 3. Las Vegas 84.3 13. Alabama .....77.3 4. Maryland 82.t 14.

Ariiana 74.1 5. ....82.4 14. Woke rarest ...74.1 4. Washington ...82.3 14. Tennessee 74.2 7.

Notre Dame ...81.0 17. Cincinnati 74.1 8. N. Carolina ...79.2 18. 9.

Va. Tech 79.0 19. 10. Arkansas 77.8 20. Ore.

State N.C. State Arii. State KENTUCKY TEAMS 1. Kentucky 72.4 11. Murray 2.

Louisville 70.1 1J. Berea 3. Western ti 13. Campbellsvllte 4. Ky.

State .61. 4 14. Wesievan Eastern 60.1 15. Transylvania t. Morehead .57.2 14.

T. More 7. Pikevilla 49 1 17. Cumberland Northern 43 II. union .30 i l.

centre Bellarmine .41.7 Geertetown 47.1 INDIANA TEAMS ei.l 14. Ind. .11.0 15. Ind. Central 70.9 la.

Waoesh 54.1 17. DePauw i. Indiana 2 Notre Dame 3. Purdue 4. Butler S.

Evansvl .57 14. IU Southeast Ind. Stale M.i 7. Ball state .51.5 1. Earlham 35.S 20.

Hanover .31.1 21. Anderson 25. 1 .47.1 a. p-ranunn 4. St.

Jesenh's 11, mo. lecn .7.1 10. Valoaraise 11. Tayler 46 a 44 4 41.7 40 33 23. Hose-Muiman 24.

Huntlnaton 25. Oak City 12. Manchester 13. Tri-stata Girls' games Figure kaling winners U.S. Figure Skatlnn Chamoionshlps at Colorado Sorinis Men's chamoloi Terry Kubicke.

Cyroess, Caiil, women's champion Dorothy Hamill. New York Sacred. Heart at Western, p.m.; Fairdale at Fern CrePk. 3 MID-REGION JEFFERSON COUNTY TOURNEY First Round At Southern Moore vs. Eastern, a p.m.; Southern vs.

Manual, Inn. 1 ATHBRTON INVITATIONAL First Round 5 m. Central vs. Male; 2:30 WeSteort va. Atherton.

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