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fc -i a GEOFF BODINE Gains pole spot for Hanes 500 Page 2C High schools 3C BasebalUC Scoreboard 5C SPORTS SAtXJRDAY, APRIL 24, 1993 Fogler's contract Brey believed high on VU list t.i Woody COUM3M, S.C.(AP)- Former vanderbilt basketball coach EdcBe Footer Is set to earn more than $500,000 a year In his five-year deal at South Carolina Hs base sal ri Duke; and Cornell Coach Jan van Breda Kolff, the Commodores' SEC Player of the Year in 1974. Both Brey and van Breda Kolff reportedly have talked with Hoolahan, but the Vanderbilt athletic director is not commenting on the specifics of his nationwide search. A third possible candidate, SMU's John Shumate, yesterday would not comment on whether he has been contacted and referred all inquiries to the university. Earlier, Shumate had indicated an interest in the job and yesterday appeared anxious to know more about the Vandy situation, particularly some of the issues brought up in the wake of Fogler's departure. Not believed to be on the short list: Evansville's Jim Crews, New Mexico's Dave Bliss, David Lipscomb's Don Meyer, Tennessee State's Frankie Allen, Notre Dame assistant Jimmy Black, North Carolina assistant Phil Ford and former Virginia coach Terry Holland.

Hoolahan yesterday said he hoped to conduct interviews with the leading candidates, probably next week, and get imput from Vanderbilt Chancellor Joe B. Wyatt Hoolahan yesterday said he is determined to pick a coach "that will be the best fit for Vanderbilt" He said "integrity and loyalty" are high on his list of qualifications, along with the ability to recruit. Van Breda Kolff would appear to By LARRY WOODY Sports Writer Vanderbilt Athletic Director Paul Hoolahan yesterday would not rule out hiring an assistant for the Vanderbilt basketball vacancy and immediate speculation focused on Duke assistant coach Mike Brey. Brey, with strong recruiting credentials, is believed to be one of the finalists if not the leading contender for the job. "It's wide open," said Hoolahan, who on Thursday announced that he had narrowed the field of candidates to six undisclosed finalists.

The replacement for national coach of the year Eddie Fogler may be coming down to Brey, 33, who recently completed his sixth season at best fit the loyalty criteria. Earlier this week he termed Vanderbilt "a special place," and said his fondest basketball memories are of his days at Vandy. But Brey might have the best recruiting credentials. Duke Coach Mike Krzyzewski, here for Tuesday's Vanderbilt awards banquet, credited Brey for much of the Blue Devils' success, pointing out that Duke had gone to the Final Four ever year Brey had been on the staff, until this season. Krzyzewski declined to speculate on Brey's candidacy at Vanderbilt but said it was "only a matter of time" until he takes a head coaching job.

ary is $105,000 a FOGLER year. He will receive a supplemental payment of $15,000 a year, plus the school will loan him two cars and pay the premiums for $600,000 of life insurance. The remainder of Fogler's financial package will come from television and radto deals, an agreement with a shoe company and revenue from summer camps, Should the school Are Fdgler without cause, he would receive $250,000 a year. Get back; it's a Shaq attack! Sounds win 9-4, halt skid City baseball youth league needs a save By TOM WOOD Sports Writer A widely publicized inner-city youth baseball program at the Preston Taylor Homes still hasn't gotten off first base. The Worth RIF League for disadvantaged youth ages 8-10 was slated to begin play this spring but has has been slowed by organizational setbacks, said Jess Heald, chairman of Worth in Tullahoma, Tenn.

Heald says there has been trouble finding coaches and administrators for the program, but that Worth remains committed to the $50,000 project that came to life because of a series of articles in The Tennessean last summer about declining inner-city baseball. But Barry Black, who coaches a similar program at Rose Park, says there are adults willing to give their time to the project but that Worth has been slow to act "I went to a coaches clinic in January at Tennessee State and that's the last I've heard about it" Black said. Worth will hold a 5 p.m. coaches meeting Wednesday at the Clifton Avenue community center, hoping for more adult participation. "I hope we're real close to getting some action going this year.

I see no reason why we can't" Heald said. Joyce Harris, president of the Preston Taylor Homes Residents Association, is also anxious for the program to get going. "We've got about all the children signed up, but we need more dedicated coaches," Harris said. "We've only got four right now." Booker White of the Metro Parks and Recreation Department agrees finding coaches has been difficult "They're trying to secure coaches who will take charge of the teams," White said. "We were trying to get younger teenagers involved as coaches.

We were talking 16-17, but I think they want commitments from adults." Ns 7Ay. o-JMLi; Mf ft ViB Shoe deals, coaches not a good fit LSU's Dale Brown once called coaches who sell their soles to shoe companies "shoe ladies of the evening." Actually, Dale didn't say "ladies of the evening." He used a more earthy term. But you get the drift Dale deemed it cheap, tawdry and unseemly for a coach to seductively wiggle his toes at a shoe company and make it known he would be willing to rent his feet to the highest bidder. It's hard to understand why uni- versifies allow the coaches and shoe companies to get away with cutting their private deals. Someone recently' equated a coach taking money from a shoe company to plug its sneakers to a disc jockey accepting a payoff from a record company for plugging its song on the radio.

One is an "endorsement" The other is "payola." The lines are hazy. If a shoe company is going to shell out the cash to get a school's high-profile coach to use its product the money should go to the university and not to the coach. The NCAA, in its infinite goofi-ness, naturally exerts no control over shoe contracts. If a barefoot player accepts a pair of used sneakers, the NCAA will rain hellfire and brimstone on his head. In the meantime, the player's coach can rake in millions from that same sneaker company and its OK-dokey with the NCAA.

Duke Coach Mike Krzyzewski recently signed the Mother of All Shoe Contracts. Coach K's size D's are reportedly worth around $6 million in Nike endorsements. Krzyzewski, in town Tuesday for Vandy's basketball banquet said coaches "have nothing to apologize for," in terms of their giant salaries and sources of income. But if I'm the Duke athletic director and I'm paying Coach say, $250,000 to coach my basketball team and Nike is paying him $6 million to plug its shoes, I have to wonder who he's working for. Is Coach a basketball coach who moonlights as a shoe salesman, or vice versa? Krzyzewski said Duke approves all of his outside income.

What's its choice? Tell Coach he can't have a shoe contract worth millions? Krzyzewski would immediately take a hike in his Nikes. Personally, I wonder if the shoe companies get their money's worth. When I buy new sneakers, I never give a thought to whether Coack wears that particular brand. I look for a pair that fits and doesn't require a mortgage. All that aside, the fact is that the shoe companies' medding is creating some serious problems in intercollegiate athletics.

By giving certain coaches millions in endorsement fees, they have created a great inequity in coaches' total compensation packages. Former Vandy Coach Eddie Fogler, for example, received around $35,000 a year from Converse. Compare that to Krzyzewski's $6 million at Duke and Fogler appeared underpaid. But is Vanderbilt to blame for that disparity or is Converse and Nike? It's time for the NCAA and member schools to put their foot down on the shoe deals. And when the coaches start to howt let them make a simple career choice: sell shoes or coach basketball.

Larry Woody is a Tennessean sports writer and columnist. By LARRY TAFT Sports Writer With the way Nashville Sounds pitcher Jeff Carter began last night, he knew he was in trouble. A leadoff walk and two first-inning runs put the right-hander in an early hole. But unlike some games this season when the starting pitching has not recovered from early mistakes, Carter came back with seven strong innings to record his first win as the Sounds defeated the New Orleans Zephyrs, 9-4. Nashville not only halted its two-game losing streak, it evened its record at 6-6 and regained sole possession of first place in the American Association East "This was the best game Jeff has pitched for us in two seasons," Sounds pitching coach Rick Peterson said of Carter, who gave up just three earned runs on five hits while striking out six in eightinnings.

"He did a lot of things well." Carter, aided by home runs from Chris Cron, Scott Cepicky and Joe Hall, started poorly, and he knew it "I felt good, but I've got to get out of that first inning with no damage. I've had two starts, walked the lead-off hitter in each game and each time it's led to a run," said Carter, who had New Orleans leadoff hitter Mark Davis 0-2 before the walk. "I've got to go out there and shut them down. With that start! you have to think about what you did, try to learn something from it but not dwell on it start anew in the second, get ahead of hitters and put them away." The Sounds came from behind twice to secure last night's win. After the Zephyrs had taken the 2-0 first-inning lead, Cron's solo homer and a two-out two-run shot by Cepicky, his fifth home run, put Nashville in front 3-2.

A leadoff single, followed by Troy O'Leary's second RBI double of the night keyed a two-run New Orleans' sixth and gave it a 4-3 lead. The Sounds retaliated with Joe Hall's three-run homer in the sixth and added three insurance runs in the eighth. Schmittou' league While the Worth league has had lagged, the Nashville Sounds' Babe Ruth League have had no trouble starting an inner-city program for 1 3-1 5-year-olds. Play begins this weekend. "After age 12, there was nowhere for the kids to to continue playing, so that's the need we tried to fill," Sounds President Larry Schmittou said.

Orlando's Shaquille O'Neal is hit by the backboard he downed on a dunk last night at New Jersey. The first-quarter mishap delayed the game 46 minutes. Story, 2C scHMrrrou Vols could use game as big springboard New-look TSU plays Blue-White A new football era begins at Tennessee State today as first-year Tigers coach Bill Davis previews the 1993 team with a Blue-White controlled scrimmage at 2 p.m. at Hale Stadium. "Our thing is to average 400 yards total offense.

If we can get 400 yards and 30 points a game, it's going to be an exciting offense, Davis said. Sizing up of -fwOf 3C. Austin Peay also is holding its annual Red-White spring game at 1 p.m. today at Municipal Stadium in Oarksville, Term. Coach Roy Gregory says his team's offense and defense have improved this spring.

Turf big By DAVID CUMER Sports Writer KNOXVILLE Twelve months ago, Heath Shuler was an unproven commodity trying to make the jump from heralded prospect to starting quarterback. The Orange White Game served as a launching pad. Shuler followed a sparkling performance In Tennessee's featured intrasquad scrimmagewith a splendid sophomore season. While Shuler's status as starting quarterback is secure, several of his teammates will be seeking a boost up the depth chart in the Orange White Game tonight must respond. Offensive line: Although Leslie Ratliffe and Richard Howard appear to have established themselves as starters at tackle, Rodney Riddick and James Warren could re-enter the picture with strong showings tonight Secondary: Quincy Prigmore has had a good spring at strong safety but depth remains a concern.

Several key players will not participate in the scrimmage due to injuries, including defensive end Steve White, linebacker Nick Jester, linebacker Jesse Sanders, cornerback Kendrick Jones and punter Tom Hutton. body's worked hard and it's always nice to get out there and play in front of a crowd." It won't be fun and games for the coaches. They look to find signs ofimprovement in several areas: Defensive line: The shift of Burton from tight end to defensive end has been one of the most positive developments of the spring. At the same time, UT coaches are seeking better play out of Cory Stone, Brent Gibson, David Bell, Chester Ford and John Sartelle. Wide receiver If Davis is forced to concentrate on corner-back, young Vol wideouts like Nilo Silvan, Lamar Brown and Joey Kent ORANGE WHITE 16:30 p.m., Neytand Stadium.

The Vols' squad has been divided on even terms. Shuler will direct a White unit that includes tailback Charlie Garner and wide receiver Cory Fleming as well as three offensive line starters. Jerry Colquitt will direct an Orange squad that includes double-duty Vols Ronald Davis and Shane Burton, who have split time between defense. "ItH be fun because we've had a good spring," Shuler said. "Every PREP BASKETBALL NFL, NBA AROUND THE DIAL Baseball today: National League Sam Howard, one of the area's hot- Will WoIfOfd is now an Indianapolis RESULTS AMERICAN LEAGUE Milwaukee 3, Texas 0 Chicago 5, Toronto 4 Detroit 12, Minnesota 4 K.Z.

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Louis at 7 p.m. on TBS. NBA action: San Antonio at Phoenix (230 if test prospects in several years, has applied to Goodpasture, joining stars Drew Maddux and Ron Mercer. One reason: The Mount Juiiet Junior High star wouldn't be able to play at Mount Juliet High as a freshman, by TSSAA rules. On 3C Colt after an arbitrator ruled against a Buffalo Bins protest of the Cotts' offer sheet to the Pro Bowl offensive lineman.

Wolford, a former Vanderbilt star, gets a three-year, $7.65 million contract MaQiC JohltSOn is part of a group hoping to obtain an expansion franchise in Toronto. The group plans to pay the NBA a non-refundable $100,000 for an application. '1 want to own a team, that's my whole goal," Johnson sail. OOO I SECTION EDITORS Jimmy Davy, Deputy Sports Editor, days, 2594X22 Tad Power, Assistant Sports Edtor, nights, 25WCTO To report iporti newc Z94Ct Sports tax machine: 259-3825 The Nashville Xpress defeated the Memphis Chicks 11-8 in 10 innings in Southern League play last night at Tim McCarver Stadium in Mernphis. Orf2C pm, Channel 4) and Charlotte at Milwaukee (8 pm.

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