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Ann Bowden Will Leave Recruiting to Bobby, D2 Theismann's Injury Could Be Career Ending, D4 i 2 4 AomiittArl n( To Cuaeinn Pharnoc VA 0 Islanders End Flyers' Winning Streak at 13, D5 King The Post SECTION 11,11111 -1 WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 20, 1985 ports Jets' QB O'Brien No Longer 'Ken 'He's more confident each game. And we all have just as much confidence in him Jets' tight end Mickey Schuler Post Wirt Services HEMPSTEAD, Y. Yes, they have Freeman McNeil, the AFC's best runner this season. And they have a strong and fast corps of receivers, from Wesley Walker and Al Toon to Kurt Sohn and Mickey Shuler.

The offensive line, featuring steady center Joe Fields and the flashier Marvin Powell at tackle, also has been a major factor in the revitalized attack of the New York Jets. But the main reason for the team's surprising 8-3 record and No. 3 ranking offensely in the conference is quarterback Ken O'Brien, who is now the league's leading passer. O'Brien placed an emphatic punctuation mark on his development as an NFL quarterback Sunday with a 367-yard, five-touchdown performance against Tampa Bay! Granted that the Bucs aren't the Chicago Bears on defense, but Neil Lomax the more heralded quarterback of the St. Louis Cardinals couldn't score points against the Bucs the previous week.

Clearly, O'Brien has evolved from the "Ken which was the general reaction of fans when he was drafted on the first round of the 1983 draft, the fifth and One reason for O'Brien's success is Shuler, the tight end who has a knack for getting open on crucial plays. Shuler leads the Jets with 47 receptions for 566 yards and four touchdowns. "Kenny has gotten better because everything isn't new to him," says Shuler. "There are times now when I run a pattern and I know what he's thinking back there and how he will react. I know we're on the same wavelength.

"He's more confident each game. And we all have just as much confidence in him." O'Brien never has lacked self-assurance. But, while Marino who was the last quarterback selected in that opening round in '83 quickly assumed control of the Miami offense, and Elway started in Denver, O'Brien waited his turn. Now, with the Jets 8-3 and tied with the Patriots atop the AFC East entering Sunday's showdown with New England, O'Brien is rewarding those who run the Jets for their willingness to gamble a top pick on a kid from Cal-Davis. "I believe I can complete any pass I throw and that I can always improve," he says.

least known of six college quarterbacks to go in the opening round that year. O'Brien did not play as a rookie while Miami was led to the playoffs by Dan Marino. Others who were picked in that round Denver's John Elway, Tony Eason of New England, Jim Kelly of the USFL's Houston Gamblers also had established themselves while O'Brien sat. O'Brien sits no longer. He has gone from "Ken Who?" to, perhaps, "Ken All-Pro." "Times change," says O'Brien, who became the Jets' starting quarterback a year ago this weekend when Pat Ryan was injured and could not.

"This season has been a matter of gaining experience, seeing the plays develop and going with what we think will work best." i lmv. an i.i iiimii iiwmuw) i mm '8 -nmnw fc 1 1 iiiiiu.MU inuinuiiii immnnM 2 v- 4 kf If i fer THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Ken O'Brien is passing all tests league's leading QB has led Jets to 8-3 Hughes To Start For Hurricanes In Season Opener By Brian Biggane Stall Writer Bryan Hughes, a point guard from Suncoast High School in Riviera Beach, is one of four freshmen named by coach Bill Foster yesterday to start the University of Miami's basketball season opener Friday night against The Citadel at the Knight Center in Miami. The 6-foot-1 Hughes will team with 5-11 Kevin Presto, a redshirt freshman from Kinnewick, in the backcourt. Two more freshman, Eric Brown (6-6) from the Bronx, N.Y., and Dennis Burns (6-5) from Sicklerville, N.Y., will start at forward. The team's only experience could be at center, where Foster still hasn't decided between junior Tim Harvey of Miami and freshman Mark Richardson of Rocky Mount, N.C.

Both are 6-10. Harvey will start if he has everything squared away," said Foster. "We'll find out about that Thursday." Harvey's status as a starter hinges on academic and weight requirements he agreed to prior to the preseason workouts. Two weeks ago he was two pounds above his specified weight, so he didn't start in the exhibition against A touring team from Australia. Foster added that his two centers will play nearly equal amounts regardless of who starts.

He also said reserves Mike Noblet, Terrell Roberson and Joel Warren will see plenty of action. "We'll have 10 guys play quite a bit," he said. Of the eight players who saw 10 minutes or more of time in the Australia exhibition, Hughes, who was credited with eight points and six rebounds in just 11 minutes, played the least. But he and I'resto comprised the back-court down the stretch, when Miami Dulled out the 72-70 victory, and Foster became more impressed "The first seven to 10 days of practice he didn't open his mouth; maybe he was afraid to stick his foot in it," said Foster. "But as he gained more confidence and maturity he's gotten more and more communicative.

Now he comes over after practice and talks about what we want done and how we can do it better." Presto, who played 28 minutes against Australia, more than any other guard, will play point guard when Hughes goes out of the game. Burns, who started the Australia game at guard but whose 4-of-13 shooting from the field included a dunk at the beginning of each half, will be kept at forward. Foster revealed that he originally had hoped to open the season with a game against the University of San Francisco, another program returning to basketball after a long layoff, and have the game on national television. "All the way up to last February we were trying to interest one of the television networks in the idea," said Foster, "but it all boiled down to the fact that the football season wasn't over and there were just too many other commitments." Foster insisted he was never interested in an easy game to help his Hurricanes get off to a winning start. "I wasn't looking for a patsy," he said.

"A year or two from now I may be looking for a lot of 'em. But this game should be pretty much a toss-up." Sherman ZentTHE POSJ Scott Ricks, PBJC looked like they were going to fall early, but Pacers rallied to beat Palm Beach Atlantic 94-8' Pacers Start Slow, But Beat PBAC 94-82 i Summary, D6 By Chuck Otterson Stafl Writer LAKE WORTH It's getting to be as predictable as an episode of Love Lucy. And Palm Beach Junior College basketball coach Howard Reynolds knows he needs to do something about it in a hurry, even if it means a major script rewrite. For the fourth time in as many games, Reynolds' Pacers got off to a sluggish start last night at the PBJC gym, falling 10 points behind the Palm Beach Atlantic College Sailfish late in the first half before rallying to score 63 points in the second half for a 94-82 victory. "We opened the ballgame by going down the floor five straight times, got the ball inside every time and never got a shot off," said Reynolds, whose club is 2-2, including a 96-94 victory over the Sailfish four nights earlier.

"Each game we've played, we've been sluggish at the start. I've got to find a way to get 'em playing as soon as they hit the floor, not wait 'til 10 minutes later." On the 10th anniversary of the closest game in the series between the two teams (a 67-66 overtime victory for PBJC), the Pacers and Sailfish started off as if they planned to make this one just as close. The score was tied four times in the first 12 minutes and the lead changed hands 10 times in the same span before the Sailfish scored 12 unanswered points half of them by guard Craig Woodward for a 29-19 lead with 5:06 remaining in the first half. Palm Beach Atlantic still led 35-31 at halftime, but 6-foot-4 freshman Teddy Sanders and nonstarters Mario Riviero, Richard Meeks and Dexter Jones sparked a turnaround in the second half. "We were hanging pretty good for a while," said PBAC coach Ira Bryant, whose Sailfish dropped to 0-4, including three exhibition losses to junior-college opponents.

"Then we got a little sloppy and didn't take care of the ball." PBJC, which committed 20 turnovers in the first half, was guilty of only six in the second. Palm Beach Atlantic had 17 in the first half and 19 in the second. "The five I started the second half really did a good job," Reynolds said. "They hustled, created some turnovers and got us back in the ballgame. We figured if we put some pressure on their guards we could get them to turn the ball over.

We gave up a little bit on the boards to get mere out front and it paid off for us." Pat Perroni, PBJC's record-breaking 6-7 sophomore, got into foul trouble early, sitting out much of the first half with three fouls and going to the bench again with his fourth personal seconds after the second half started. He finished with only two points and two rebounds, but Sanders, Jones and Meeks helped the Pacers control the backboards 47-41. Sanders had 25 rebounds. "We continued the turnovers time and time again," Bryant said, "and they converted virtually every one of them. We tried to stay on the boards with them but in the second half we got out of position too many times and Sanders was there for an uncontested rebound.

"The kids really played hard. Quite a few of them have excellent skills and they got a chance to display them tonight. It's just a question of putting two halves back to back." Guard Dan Collier was the leading scorer for the Pacers with 25 points, followed by Meeks with 17, Riviero with 14 and Jones with 12. Dunks accounted for six of Sanders' nine points. Dan Neitz, a junior from Cardinal Newman High School, led the Sailfish with 21 points, followed by guard Chris Gryskiewicz with 16 and Woodward with 10.

Forward Jay McCormick, a junior from Boynton beach, grabbed nine rebounds. "Riviero, Meeks and Jones did a good job off the bench," Reynolds said. "We have to do that every game." Swiss To Extradite Paul Sr. for Trial Forster Gets Serious About Losing Weight k-' mx, "1 rvr III it fi Cox News Service LA COSTA, Calif. Atlanta Braves' pitcher Terry Forster was up at 6 a.m.

Monday, beating the sun by a half hour. He did a little stretching and flexing, then jogged a couple of miles around La Costa's championship golf course. At 7:45, he had a breakfast: a omelet of three egg whites, a cup of oatmeal with skim milk (no salt, no butter), a Granola bar and a bran muffin. At 9:15, he and his discussion group heard a lecture on "Stress and Your Coronary-Prone Behavior Patterns." Then it was off to the gymnasium for more stretching, followed by a few minutes each on a lifecycle, rebound-er and treadmill, leaving his hair and sun-tanned skin glistening with sweat. Following a shower, there was lunch by the pool.

Pickled cucumbers, a fruit plate topped with cottage cheese, broccoli with lemon and, for desert, a whipped banana pudding (sans sugar, of course) with crisp, thin melba-like toast. Another lecture on "Stress Management, Living Well Every Day" got him to 2:30, at which time he could either spend the next four hours in the spa, on the championship golf course, playing racquetball or doing nothing. Forster chose to spend the time with newspaper columnist Rick Talley, who is doing a book on him. Dinner was at 6:30, and the list of entrees was dominated by fish and chicken. No red meat, no pork, mi beer.

It was, in the words of Forster, the first day of the rest of his life, a routine that he believes will not only make him live longer but extend a' baseball career some critics contend already is over, citing the fact he pitched only 4V3 innings in the final 41 games of the season. (The high point of his season was his ance on the David Letterman Show after being called a "tub of goo" dur ing one of Letterman's monologues.) For the next two weeks, there will be more of the same at the La Costa Lifestyle and Longevity Center; where the rich and famous plunk down $4,200 ir, hopes of restoring some order to their lives, whether the problem be stress, smoking, drinking or, in Forster's case, weight control. He checked into this luxurious setting of walking trails, golf courses, spas and comfortable furnishings weighing 275 pounds. When he reports to spring training in just over three months, he says the Braves will need a uniform to fit his new 210-pound frame. "This isn't a fat farm," Forster said after lunch.

"I'm not going to lose all that here. This isn't a quick fix, I didn't want that. I'm after a change in my lifestyle, learn how and what to eat, get into a regular exercise program, everything that will make my professional and personal life much better." Turn to FORSTER, D4 The Associated Press JACKSONVILLE The Swiss government has ordered the extradition of race-car driver John L. Paul Sr. to the United States to stand trial on multiple drug counts, but his return may be delayed because of charges filed against him in Switzerland, a federal prosecutor said yesterday.

Assistant U.S. Atty. Tom Morris said the Swiss government had approved the extradition of Paul, who was arrested Jan. 11 in Geneva, about two weeks ago. "I understand he faces some type of bank fraud charges," said Morris, adding that those will further delay his return to Florida.

John Paul 25, like his father a race driver, is still awaiting sentencing after pleading guilty in August to charges to a January 1985 indictment issued in Jacksonville in which his father also is charged. Paul Jr. could be sentenced up to five years in prison on his pleas to federal charges of racketeering and possession of a false passport. In exchange for the guilty pleas, the goverment dropped four other drug-related charges against Paul Jr. Morris said no sentencing date has been set for Paul but said he expected that he will be sentenced in December or January.

The plea agreement also calls for up to five years probation on the false passport charge. Paul and his father are originally from Lawrenceville, Ga. The Pauls and six other people were charged in a federal indictment in January with conspiracy to import marijuana into the United States. An estimated 200,000 pounds of marijuana was allegedly smuggled into this country from Colombia from 1975 to 1983. As part of the agreement, Paul Jr.

will not be asked to testify against his father in the case. He may, however, be asked to testify against others charged in the indictment, said Morris. Paul Sr. is accused of being one of the leaders of the marijuana smuggling ring, along with David J. Cassorla of Gainesville.

The Jacksonville indictment charges Paul Sr. and Cassorla with conducting a continuing criminal enterprise, which carries a maximum sentence of life imprisonment and a $100,000 fine. Morris said Cassorla has been missing since 1983. State charges of attempted murder and kidnapping also have been filed against Paul Sr. He is charged in St.

Johns County with shooting federal drug witness Stephen Carson on April 19, 1983. Paul Sr. forfeited $500,000 bond when he failed to appear for trial on thse charges in December 1983. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Braves' pitcher Terry Forster works off weight he's determined to shake his image as a 'fat tub of goo'.