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19 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22, 1995 More drug abuse allegations dampen Lewis honor 1 .7 MIKE BABCOCK Sports BOSTON (AP) The Boston Celtics prepared to retire Reggie Lewis' number tonight amid allegations that the late player admitted to at least one doctor that he used cocaine before every home game as a "performance enhancer." I The Boston Herald today quoted an u'niden- after being drafted by Boston. In interviews with The Wall Street Journal and The Boston Globe, Derrick Lewis had said he had used cocaine with Reggie Lewis five days before the Celtics captain collapsed during a playoff game in April 1993. He also said he used cocaine Vftt, -mi i in i n.A tified medical source close to the case as say under the cloak of an unnamed source and an obvious violation of medical ethics." 1 have absolutely no knowledge of the conduct suggested," Volk said. The Herald's source also said Gilbert Mudge, the cardiologist at Brigham andWom-en's Hospital who treated Lewis after his first collapse, and after Lewis left the care of a group of team doctors, knew of Lewis' drug involvement "right of the bat" Mudge has cited patient confidentiality in refusing to comment on the case. The Celtics and Lewis' former teammates remained focused on his accomplishments, Please see LEWIS on page 22 1 never got high with Reggie, no more than drinking beers," he told WCVB in a telephone interview.

The Globe and all these reporters are coming down here bugging me, just to try to get some dirt on Reggie." The Herald's source said Reggie Lewis told the doctor a number of Celtics teammates used cocaine at the time. The newspaper also said the former head of the state police Narcotics Unit Detective Lt Robert Long, said reports of drug use by certain players were "common knowledge" among some investigators. Jan Volk, Celtics executive vice president and general manager, said the Herald account was "an incredibly bold statement to be made ing Lewis would not or could not stop using co-' caine even after collapsing during a game and being warned that continued use would kill him, Meanwhile, a college teammate and friend of Lewis on Tuesday night recanted statements that he used cocaine with Lewis and Len Bias, who died of a cocaine overdose days Reggie Lewia th Lewis and Bias during a summer basketball camp in 1985. But Tuesday night he told WCVB-TV he had never seen Lewis or Bias do cocaine. PULQRZll i mm tjw5 1 over As always, NU lacks consistency The Nebraska men's basketball team could have won Tuesday night's second-round National Invitation Tournament game.

The Cornhuskers probably should have won, in fact, which made the 65-59 loss to Penn State a fitting conclusion to a season that wasn't what it could have been, or should have been. Nebraska was undone by a frustrating inconsistency evident in the second game of the season and never corrected. The Cornhuskers had an 11-point halftime lead, which they maintained into the second half of that second game against Virginia Tech in the San Juan Shootout They squandered the lead and lost by six, 87-81. Sound familiar? After 30 games, little had changed. However prosperous Nebraska might seem, poverty has never been more than a few possessions away, which was the case at the Devaney Sports Center Tuesday night.

The Cornhuskers built a 12-point lead early in the second half against a Penn State team of modest means. Then they watched it erode by allowing the Nittany Lions to dictate how the remainder of the game was to be played. Instead of continuing to force the 'Lions slip past NU BY CURT MCKEEVER Lincoln Journal' Penn St 65, Nebraska 59 PENN STATE (65) It-fg pi HI (p RahuanCalton 7-10 2-3 2 4 27 19 1-6 0-0 3 2 18 2 John Aimed 4-7 4-7 10 2 39 12 DanEart 4-7 2-2 4 0 34 14 DonovanWttara 0-2 00 0 3 14 0 GregBartrem 3-7 3 1 18 9 PeteUcfcy 2-11 1-2 4 3 24 7 MchaelJosaph. 0 11 0 PMVWams 1-2 8 3 25 2 Teamrebouidi Total 23-S2 9-14 39 19200 65 NEBRASKA (59) g-lga O-tta it pi I Tatranca Badgett 1-3 2-4 2 2 23 4 MeMnBroolu 3-5 1-3 5 0 25 8 MkKiMoor 7-10 1-2 8 3 28 IS Enok Slnckland 3-10 34 7 3 32 9 Jaron Boont 6-12 1-2 1 1 35 11 CneaterSuilea 0-1 00 0 0 7 0 TomWaW 1-5 00 1 1 23 3 ChhsSatoe 1-1 34 3 4 13 5 Jason Go 2-3 00 2 0 14 4 Team redounds 2 Total 23-5011-21 29 14200 89 PenrtSt 36 29 65 Nebraska 36 23 59 ThrM-poM goal Penn SI. 12-28 (Cartton 3-5, Sekunda 0-4.

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Lisicky 1), Nebraska 10 (Badgett, Strickland 4). OMdala Paul Janasen, Terry Davis, David Wariel. A 10,661. teammate Andre Woolridge in the quarterfinal round. But he contended Nebraska wasn't looking past the Nittany Lions, who will play the Hawk-eyes Thursday.

Early in the second half Tuesday, it looked like Boone would get his wish. After playing to a 36-38 first-half tie, Nebraska scored 12 straight points to take a 48-36 lead with 16:26 to play. During the spurt, NU hit six of eight shots, while Penn State was 0 for and committed six turnovers. That was the best we'd come out all year," said forward Terrance Badgett Unfortunately for the Cornhuskers, they got away from the up-tempo pace that keyed their surge, and lost their shooting touch. NU made just four of its last 20 attempts.

"I thought we should've kept running," Badgett Said. "But a lot of people were getting tired." Center Mikki Moore, who scored the first eight points during the run, admitted he was fatigued, and the Nittany Lions were glad to see the 6-11 sophomore take a breather. As he sat for a few minutes, Penn State began a 19-5 spurt that left the Cornhuskers gasping. While Nebraska did an admirable job defending All-Big Ten center John Amaechi, who was held to 12 points, No Iowa. No anybody.

At least not until next year. The Nebraska basketball team's 1994-95 season was brought to a screeching halt Tuesday night when the Cornhuskers, who started the second half by building a 12-point lead, went cold and fell to Penn State 65-59 in the second round of the National Invitation Tournament A Devaney Sports Center crowd of 10,661 watched Nebraska come up short for the first time in 11 NIT games held in the building. They also witnessed just the second Nebraska loss to a non-Big Eight Conference team in its last 48 games there. "This is a very big win for us, to come here and beat them on their court," said Penn State junior forward Rahsaan Carlton, who scored eight of his team's final 10 points en route to recording a season-high 19. "I was motivated by the papers this morning that said Nebraska was looking forward to playing Iowa in the next round.

We know we're not good enough to look forward to playing anyone." Cornhusker guard Jaron Boone had said he hoped Nebraska and Iowa both would win so he could get to play against his former roommate and NU action, the method by which it built a 48-36 lead, Nebraska backed off and accepted Penn State's terms, agreeing to a more deliberate, half- i (: i- -J A V. r-V nr the Nittany Lions made NU pay on the perimeter. By the end, they had made a dozen three-point shots, most against the Cornhuskers this season. Guards Dan Earl and Pete Lisicky each hit a pair of treys during the swing that left Penn State ahead for the first time 55-53 with 6:38 to go. Moore answered with a jam, got Please see HUSKERS on page 22 court game.

The Cornhuskers have played best in transition this season. Their half-court offense has left something to be desired. That something has been scoring, if you want to get technical about it When forced into a half-court game, Nebraska often seemed as if it were in suspended animation. Oklahoma State exploited that bet-; ter than any team, holding the Cornhuskers to their lowest point totals of the season 48 and S3. Tuesday's 59 was the third-lowest Penn State was no match for the Cornhuskers' quickness.

But for an untypical 8-for-16 performance Time on Iowa's side in NTT win from three-point range in the first half, it might have been buried in KIT stead of tied at intermission. WHEN NEBRASKA slowed down, however, it was no match for the more physical Nittany Lions. "I thought the game was the last 11 outings despite scoring only 23 second-half points, including hitting just one field goal in the final 7Vi minutes and sinking only six of 11 foul shots during that span. "Sometimes a win doesnt go exactly the way you programmed it" Iowa coach Tom Davis said. "We struggled early in the Big Ten season in close games, but we've been playing better under pressure.

"We showed good toughness com- Please see IOWA on page 22 IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) Ohio University coach Larry Hunter says the Bobcats missed the quarterfinals of the NIT tournament by only a few minutes. "I would have liked to have had another minute or two. I felt they felt us coming. We were getting control of the game, if we just could have gotten a lead," Hunter said after Iowa held off his Bobcats 66-62 Tuesday to advance to Thursday's quarterfinals. The Hawkeyes (21-11) somehow managed to win their eighth game in Second round Tuesday's result Penn State 65, Nebraska 59 Iowa 66.

Ohio U. 62 Quarterfinal. Wednesday' game New Mexico State (25-9) at Virginia Tech (22-10), 6:30 p.m. South Florida (18-11) at Marquette (19-11), 8:30 p.m. Thursday' game Washington State (18-11) at Canisius (20-12), 6:30 p.m.

Penn State (19-10) at Iowa (21-11), 8:30 p.m. Cornhusker Coach Danny Nee said. And so it was. But only because Ne braska allowed it V.J"!,' a W- -IM ROBERT BECKERLINCOLN JOURNAL limn wuaeviu, reiiu ouai.es o- foot-10, 270-pound All-Big Ten cen Penn State's John Amaechi lets fly under defensive pressure by Nebraska's Mikki Moore in Tuesday night's second-round NIT game. U.S.

has a fighting chance ter, accounted for 10 rebounds, the difference between the Nittany Lions' total and Nebraska's. Amaechi was effective, though not overly aggressive on defense, allowing Mikki Moore to go unchallenged on a handful of dunks with which the 12-point lead was built Moore was 62 pounds lighter and quicker than Amaechi, which is probably why he didn't attempt to stop Moore's dunks. One time when he did, he drew a foul Tarver breaks eight-year drought against Cubans -P -v y. MAR DEL PLATA Argentina (AP) It was eight years and 20 fights in coming, and Antonio Tarver was in a mood to celebrate. So was the rest of the U.S.

boxing team, Moore might have set some sort of slam dunk record during the sec which now may have a fighting chance in these Pan Am ond half if Penn State hadn ad Games. justed its defense, going from man- to-man to zone. "They were concen- i A ,1 iraung un me, sain moore. mi i could do (then) was rebound and try to put it back it" Amaechi had help underneath. Reserve Phil Williams, a less mobile qualification that took two hours to be overturned after a U.S.

protest In a strong tailwind, the 1984 and '88 Olympic champion finished in 13.39 seconds, matching his best time of last year. Emilio Valle of Cuba was second, 0.01 seconds back, and Courtney Hawkins of Houston was third. But the official results showed he had been disqualified when a judge said the two-time Pan Am champion deliberately knocked down the ninth hurdle. Preposterous, said Kingdom, 32, of Monroesville, Pa. "You got a wind at your back, and it pushed us up," he said.

"We're aggressive hurdlers. We're big." Connie Price-Smith of Bloomington, Ind, led a 1-2 finish in the shot put The reigning U.S. champion in the shot put and discus won at 62 feet 10H inches. Ramona Pagel of San Diego was second. After close defeats to unbeaten Argentina and Brazil, the U.S.

basketball team played well throughout to defeat Puerto Rico 97-78. "Getting the first win was important, but we still have two games to go and we cant be thinking everything's OK because we won one," coach Mike Thi-baultsaid. 6-8 and 265 pounds, pulled down-' eight rebounds. Tarver became the first American to beat a Cuban boxer in the Pan Ams since Kelcie Banks turned the trick in 1987, capping a strong day Tuesday for the U.S. boxing team with a razor-thin win over Cuba's Diosvany Vega.

Tarver. was carried to his dressing room by super heavyweight teammate Lance Whitaker, then mobbed by fellow American boxers who were beginning to wonder if they could ever get a decision against the powerful Cubans. "I anticipated a war and that's what it was," Tarver said. "It was a dream come true in there." The 11-10 win followed impressive first-round knockout wins by 139-pounder Fernando Vargas and welterweight David Reid, giving the suddenly resurgent VS. team seven boxers in the semifinals.

Roger Kingdom proved again he can compete with the hemisphere's best hurdlers. But he had to sweat out a dis Early on, it appeared Penn State would be plagued by foul trouble be-, cause of an inability to keep up with the Cornhuskers. ACC says eight wins make point ASSOCIATED PRESS The success of the Atlantic Coast Conference in this year's NCAA tournament has brought up an old argument a lu-day-old argument to be exact The four ACC teams Wake Forest North Carolina, Maryland and Virginia are 8-0 so far in the tournament and have won by an average of 17 points per game. "I think it makes a pointed case that (Georgia Tech) should have been there," Wake Forest coach Dave Odom said. "There is absolutely no question." The Yellow Jackets were one of the higher-profile schools to be snubbed by the NCAA tournament selection committee two Sundays ago.

Coach Bobby Cremins then refused an invitation to the NIT, and Georgia Tech's season came to an abrupt end. "I don't understand how they can look at the strength of our league and the RPI (Ratings Percentage Index), and we have four teams tie for first and not take our fifth-place team who is 8-8 in our league. To me that is a dangerous precedent" said Fred Barakat ACC associate commissioner. Wake Forest (26-5), the highest-rated ACC team, begins play Friday night at East Rutherford, against Oklahoma State (25-9). "I would think this game is one that Please see NCAA on page 22 FIVE MINUTES into the second half, Rahsaan Carlton, one of the ASSOCIATED PRESS Antonio Tarver celebrates win.

most athletic of the Nittany Lions, was charged with his fourth personal foul. Yet he never drew a fifth and was around to play a key role offensively in the closing minutes of Ruling strikes blow against players unions the game. Nebraska's season didn't end for NEW YORK (AP) In a setback lack of effort Erick Strickland went head over heels across the media and New York. "When federal labor policy collides with antitrust policy in a labor market organized around a collective bargaining relationship, antitrust policy must give way," Chief Judge Harry table and against the bleachers trying to save a loose ball from for organized labor, a federal appeals court ruled unions cant file antitrust suits against employers and reversed a $30.3 million judgment against the NFL. ii'U going out of bounds.

The Cornhuskers didn't go pas The 2-1 decision announced Tues sively. They just went and after day by the VS. Court of Appeals for wards lamented, with antitrust exemption, created by a 1922 VS. Supreme Court decision. But even if the exemption were removed, Tuesday's decision in Brown vs.

Pro Football Inc. would force the Major League Baseball Players Association to decertify before it could file suit "It's a really big win," acting baseball commissioner Bud Selig said. Tuesday's decision went beyond the 8th Circuit's holding in Powell vs. NFL and the 2nd Circuit's holding in NBA vs. Williams.

The court ruled that a unilaterally implemented term after an impasse in bargaining was I beyond challenge under the antitrust laws. v. The case decided Tuesday was filed after the NFL unilaterally implemented a rule in 1989 establishing developmental squads of six rookie or first-year players per team. The league fixed their salaries at $1,000 per week On May 9, 1990, Antony Brown of the Buffalo Bills filed a class-action suit on behalf of 235 developmental squad players against the league and its teams. 3 i the District of Columbia will have an what might have been Tuesday night as well as for the 18-14 season.

"I think we're better than what it Edwards wrote for the majonty. "Injecting antitrust liability into the system for resolving disputes between unions and employers would both subvert national labor policy and exaggerate federal antitrust concerns." Baseball players have asked gress to strip baseball owners of their tfO showed," Nee said. But they had a impact on both baseball and the NBA, which has operated without a collective bargaining agreement since last summer. It agrees with and in some I respects is broader than decisions by fatal flaw, which those who knew what to look for, might have seen in the second game. federal appeals courts in St Louis.