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The Sioux City Journal, Thursday, November 21, 1991 3 Depth in line makes for good competition Barnes wins spot in Hawkeye lineup 1 1 "It'll make us even better friends when we leave here." Nebraska, currently 8-1-1 and tied from page D1 wi(h Colorado for the Big Eight Con-Zyzda became the starting right of- ference lead, entertains arch-rival fensive guard on the junior varsity Oklahoma next Friday (Nov. 29). A team by mid-season, helping Coach victory over the Sooners would send Shane ThorelPs club post a 5-0 re- the Huskers to the Orange Bowl op-cord, posite top-ranked Miami of Florida. He sat out the next season as a red- Zyzda traveled with the team to shirt, then earned his first letter last the 1989 Orange Bowl, but didn't see fall, playing in four games as a any action against the Hurricanes of reserve behind All-Big Eight guard Miami. Therefore, he would like the Will Shields, Erik Weigert and Dave chance to return, this time as an ac-Jensen.

live participant. Zyzda opened the current cam- "A lot of the younger guys who paign as the No. 3 left guard before haven't been to the Orange Bowl be-playing his way into a back-up role, fore would like an opportunity to However, he was sick the week be- play Miami," said Zyzda. "So the fore last Saturday's game with Iowa feeling now is we have to beat State and missed several practices, Oklahoma to win the Big Eight ti-which pushed him back to No. 3.

tie." "It was kind of disappointing A lot will depend on how Zyzda because we were playing Iowa and his mates match up against State," commented Zyzda, now on Oklahoma's defense, one of the top IOWA CITY (A?) Junior Val Barnes will be Iowa's starting point guard when the Hawkeyes open the basketball season Saturday night at home against Maryland-Eastern Shore. Barnes will join guard James Moses, 'center Acie Earl and forwards Rodell Davis and Chris Street in the starting lineup, Coach Tom Davis said Wednesday. Barnes replaces senior Troy Skinner in the starting lineup. "The team played better with Val at the point in those two exhibition games," Davis said. "That was my main reason." Davis said one of the reasons Iowa recruited Barnes was for his ability to play both point and off-guard.

With point guard Kevin Smith busy working out academic matters, the Hawkeyes look to Barnes more at point guard. Iowa beat the Ukrainian National team 85-81 and defeated High Five America 105-67 in exhibition earnes. Davis said it was Barnes' success rather than Skinner's failure that caused the change. "Clearly, he was the better point guard," Davis said. "You hope it works well for both people that he plays better and that Troy plays better coming off the bench.

"We need them both. I don't thing there's any question about that. Val is very stong defensively. He's probably our best defensive guard." "I just want to come in and prove I belong," Barnes said. "I don't really feel any pressure.

It's just like coming off the bench. I still have the same responsibilities and duties on the court. think I need to concentrate more on doing what I need to do than getting all mixed up in starting or not starting. I think that will be best for the team and for me." Davis said he feels better about his team than he did at the same time last year. But he expects more from this year's Hawkeyes.

"Your goals go up," he said. "We'd like to try to be a better ballclub than we were a year ago and more consistent. So you're not as happy with some of the levels of performance that you might have been happy with a year ago. You raise your expectations from day to day." Iowa plays Western Illinois on Tuesday and Drake on Dec. 3.

They also play in the Amana Hawkeye Classic and travel to Northern Iowa and Iowa State and the South Florida Tournament in non-conference games. Davis said the pre-Big Ten schedule could be challenging for his 21st-ranked team. "I don't think we're going to have the kind of ballclub that we'll just walk out and walk over these teams unless we're ready to play," Davis said. "Anyone on there is going to give us a tough game if we're not ready." He said the goal when making out the schedule is to achieve a good balance. "You need enough tough games in there to get yourself ready," he said.

"But you need to do some teaching and try to get well-grounded. If you try to win too early, it hurts you in February and March because you've tried to win and sacrificed some fundamental things." Davis said he has been pushing his team hard in practice. "We've worked harder and we've pushed harder," he said. "Because we've got more experience, we can be more demanding this year. We're not quite as young and we've really been leaning on them hard.

"I'm pleased with the way they're working. They're not practicing 'as well as I'd like to see them practice but they're really trying. This is really a ballclub that's got a pretty good mind set' about how good they'd like to be." scnoiarsnip. "But you either practice or you don't, and you're graded from turns in practice every day. Zyzda, though, did see action against the Cyclones.

He said he's usually on the field in every quarter of every game, and hasn't thought twice about coming to Nebraska. "I'm happy with the friends and contacts I've made here," he said. "I'm glad I made this decision." The Huskers will graduate only one guard, so the junior from Sergeant Bluff will be among five or six players fighting for a starting spot next season. Barring injury, he's sure to get an ample amount of playing time. "We're all really close and the depth we have in the line makes for good competition," he commented.

'r'; (- 3- jf'K Holyfield, Cooper seek legitimacy Terry Pendleton of Atlanta, named Most Valuable Player in the National League Wednesday, watches flight of his home run in Game 4 of the World Series last month. (AP Laserphoto) Braves GM calls Pendleton 'anchor' Strawberry says LA should dump Daniels ATLANTA (AP) Evander Holyfield and Bert Cooper sought Wednesday to legitimize their Saturday fight in wake of criticism from sports writers, fans and most recently Mike Tyson that the match is a sham. "I was going to fight him, but he went and pulled out," Holyfield retorted when asked about Tyson's ridicule. Tyson and promoter Don King, in Atlanta Tuesday to help a local Feed the Hungry program, charged that the heavyweight champion was pulling a fast one on the public by facing an unranked boxer. "This kind of stuff is no good for boxing," King said.

"They got Razor Ruddock, Lennox Lewis, George Foreman. You got all those other guys ranked, and he's not fighting them." Tyson, the former heavyweight champion, missed a chance to reclaim his title from Holyfield because of injured ribs. Holyfield's next opponent, Italian boxer Francesco Damiani, withdrew Sunday after twisting his ankle during practice last Thursday. Cooper had previously asked to fight Holyfield in November, so Holyfield scheduled him. The International Boxing Federation and World Boxing Association on Tuesday sanctioned the fight.

Holvfield will earn about $6 million and Cooper $750,000. "We didn't ask Damiani to pull out. We got the first person available," Holyfield said at a news conference Wednesday. "Bert Cooper was the only man that stepped up to take the opportunity. In life, if you're ever going to be the best, you have to step up to the plate and take the op from page D1 button that will spark me again next year.

Maybe this is message from God: I didn't work hard enough this year. I just don't understand it." Bonds said he wasn't sure if his sometimes uncooperative relationship with reporters hurt him in the voting. "Maybe, but I would hope people are more professional than that," he said. Bonds' teammate, Bobby Bonilla, finished third in the voting with 191 points. Will Clark of the San Francisco Giants was fourth with 118 and Howard Johnson of the New York Mets was fifth with 1 12.

Pendleton became only the second Atlanta player to win the MVP award. Dale Murphy won it twice, in 1982 and 1983. Bob Elliott won the MVP in 1947 when the Braves were in Boston and Hank Aaron won it in 1957, when they were in Milwaukee. Pendleton was bothered by a left hamstring pull in 1990 and his average slumped to .230 with six homers and 58 RBIs in 121 games. After spending his first six-plus seasons with the Cardinals, he signed LOS ANGELES (AP) Darryl Strawberry, who fled controversy in New York for a more tranquil baseball life, made it through his first season with the Los Angeles Dodgers without causing any ripples.

He waited for the offseason. Mincing no words, Strawberry says the Dodgers should dump Daniels. "I don't want to deal with what we dealt with last year, a guy like Kal, a player who doesn't want to play," Strawberry said. "Trade Kal. If he doesn't want to play, get him out of here.

And you can quote me on that." Daniels countered by questioning Strawberry's state of mind. "I love the guy like a brother, but if he is going to back-stab me like that, evidently he has a mental problem," Daniels said. "Darryl signed the big contract, and he thinks he's all-world. "Well, he's not. The first half of the season he was invisible.

If he doesn't want to play with me, well, the feeling is mutual." The two players made their remarks in interviews with the Los Angeles Times published Wednesday. Daniels played in 137 games in 1991, hitting .249, 49 points below his career average, with 17 homes units in the country. It's quite an experience playing in a Nebraska-Oklahoma game," he said. "It's a big thrill for everyone involved." One of the biggest differences he has noticed between high school and college football is how quickly the offensive backs get to the hole. The latest to occupy the I-back spot at Nebraska are Derek Brown and Calvin Jones, two fleet-footed performers.

"Playing with guys like that makes blocking easy," said Zyzda, an education major who plans to teach and coach after graduation, specifically in elementary or special education. But first, there are more pressing issues to tend to. portunity." Holyfield promoter Dan Duva said the fight is legitimate because Cooper is considered the world's No. 11 boxer. And Cooper will move up when new rankings come out because last month he knocked out No.

9 Joe Hipp, Duva added. "Regardless of his rank, I call Bert Cooper a desperate man, and a desperate man is a dangerous man," Duva said. "Evander Holyfield has everything to lose and nothing Ito gain. Damiani might take 12 rounds, but he's not going to hurt you. Bert Cooper will take you out with one punch." Cooper promoter Rick Parker insisted the new rankings will rate his boxer No.

9. "I'm a little bit appalled that people say this is some kind of sham or put-on," Parker said. "King should relax because I am going to do everything to persuade Bert to fight Tyson after he gets done with Evander Holyfield." Cooper (26-7) wasn't as verbose. "I'll do all my talking after the fight," was his only comment during the news conference. But later, he said news of the fight excited him so much "I started sweating.

It was a rush." Parker predicted the fight will go five or six rounds, until Holyfield's "ego causes him to stand in the middle of the ring and punch Bert, and Bert Cooper will KO Evander Holyfield." Holyfield said he would have taken a big risk by not fighting Cooper. "If I don't fight, I don't get any better," he said. "I won't let one fighter dictate my program. Texas Rangers Manager Bobby Valentine and former players Jerry Grote and Salty Parker. The seven were inducted Tuesday in a ceremony in Arlington.

The Texas Hall of Fame is on the campus of Blinn College in Brenham. List $899.95 SALE All Units Setup, Test Run, and Adjusted 306 Wesley Way Ph. 255-3541 1I M'side opens season in NW Missouri meet Navratilova: If I had AIDS public reaction would differ Herzog among Texas Hall inductees with Atlanta as a free agent last Dec. 12 for $10.2 million over four years. With the Braves, he became a steadying influence and a clubhouse leader.

"He was the anchor of our team," Braves General Manager John Schuerholz said. "Day after day he went out there, not always completely healthy, and he always played well and showed leadership on and off the field. He was everything I hoped for and more. Clearly, he is our MVP." Schuerholz said he didn't expect to get an MVP when he signed Pendleton. "1 just thought we had signed a good defensive third baseman who had experience on a winning team and had leadership qualities," he said.

Pendleton said the award, coming after his disappointing 1990 season, is likely to spark owners' interest in other veteran free agents. "There are some guys who can still play this game if given the opportunity," he said. Pendleton earned a $100,000 bonus on top of his $1.5 million salary. Johnson got a $25,000 bonus added to his $2 million salary for finishing fifth. school letters and will participate in basketball and softball at Morningside.

"Amy is an excellent athlete, but is coming to us from the 6-on-6 game," commented Tudehope. "It usually takes them a year to adjust to the college game, so I look for her to help us out down the road." Another newcomer, 6-2 junior college transfer Dena Kelly, recently joined the team after playing for the Lady Chiefs vollevball team, which finished third 'in the NCC this fall. "Both Dena and Nikki Newberg (also a volleyball player) have a lot of catching up to do," said Tudehope. "We're excited about the season, but you never know until that first game. Practices have been going well and we're looking forward to the opening game." Morningside will take on both Missouri Western and Northwest Missouri in the Northwest Missouri State tournament, then take part in the Midland Lutheran tourney next weekend.

The Lady Chiefs open their home schedule Dec. 14 at Allee Gym against Northwest Missouri State. nlied for reinstatement. TAC gave no reason for cutting the suspension, but a sports boycott of the country is ending since the South African government announced changes in its racial separation policy. Wysocki, 35, won the U.S.

800-meter title in 1978. and 73 RBIs, 10 less homers and 21 less RBIs than the previous year. Strawberry, after a slow start, wound up with a team-high 28 homers and 99 RBIs, both close to his career average. Strawberry said Daniels complains too much about injuries. "Somebody has to finally say something about him, and I'll be the guy," Strawberry said.

"I'm talking about us needing somebody who is determined to play with injuries, somebody who won't get kicked out of a game in the first inning in the pennant race, somebody who always wants to be there. "When it comes to winning, you can't have players who do some of the stuff that Kal did. Others agree with me. Of course they do." But Daniels, who has arthritis in both knees, said "nobody plays with injuries like I do. I'm in pain every day, but you never hear me complain.

Darryl complained the whole first half about his shoulder." The left-handed hitting Daniels may be trade bait for the Dodgers, who plan to acquire some right-handed hitters. The Dodgers wound up second to the Atlanta Braves in 1991 after leading the NL West by 9Vi games after the All-Star break. tion. "If it had happended to a heterosexual woman who had been with 100 or 200 men, they'd call her a whore and a slut and the corporations would drop her like a lead balloon," Navratilova said. "And she'd never get a job in her life.

It's a verg big-time double standard, and it's frightening because it's happening. I could give you some other examples, but I don't want to get anybody in trouble." But, she said, "when it comes to promiscuity, it's very much accepted" among men. "And women are banished. It's incredible, but it's alive and well." While Johnson has said he wants to preach sate sex to young people, Navratilova says his situation is full of wrong messages. "What I don't understand is that like, Magic says he was just trying to accommodate these women.

That is just terrible. Just think about the word. He's preaching the wrong message. He's saying it's OK to be promiscuous as long as you use a condom. That's not good," she said.

"It's sad. What does it say for you? Ayn Rand says in her writing, you are who you sleep with. Who you surround yourself with, your friends and your lovers. What does it say for these men who hop in bed with a woman every five minutes? It's sad that these women throw themselves in bed, but that doesn't mean he should do that. Be a gentleman.

Have some self respect." DALLAS (AP) Former St. Louis Cardinals Manager Whitey Herzog and former Texas Coach Tom Chandler were among seven inductees to the Texas Baseball Hall of Fame. The others were former Brooklyn Dodger outfielder Duke Snider, National League President Bill White, '21 "Cut 5 H.P. 4 vV Tecumseh i vt from page D1 Holland, for one, thinks the year of experience will help the Lady Chiefs. "We've matured a lot and plan on stepping it up a notch this year," said the Morningside point guard.

"We hope to be more competitive and be in every game until the end. "We were all so young last year, but this year we've definitely improved." Tuclehope plans to utilize a number of different combinations and has yet to decide on a starting lineup for the season opener Friday against Missouri Western in the Northwest Missouri Classic. Momingside's lone freshman recruit, Amy Schuver of Cherokee, Iowa, compiled an impressive prep resume, succeeding Newberg, the 1990 recipient, as The Journal's 1991 Siouxland Female Athlete of the Year. The 5-9 guard averaged 39 points per game and scored 2,535 career points at Cherokee, leading her team to the state tournament last spring. Schuver earned 15 high cycle plrirfl 1 Enaine YORK (AP) Martina avoided attention Wednesday, one day after telling a New York tabloid that if she had contracted AIDS, the public would say, "I had it coming." The New York Post quoted Navratilova in its Wednesday editions as saying the public's response would have been much different if it had been her instead of Magic Johnson who announced a positive 'test for the HIV virus.

Navratilova was in New York for the Virginia Slims Championships and told reporters, through Madison Square Garden, that she might make a further statement on Thursday but that she would remain silent until then. She did, however, confirm through the garden public relations department that the Post story accurately represented her feelings. The Post talked to her after a workout Tuesday. She was asked how people would respond if she had made such an announcement. "Like if I had the AIDS virus, if people would be understanding?" Navratilova asked.

"No, because they'd say I'm gay. That's why they're accepting it with him, because supposedly he got it through heterosexual contact. There have been other athletes who died from AIDS, and they were pushed aside because they either got it from drugs or they were gay." Johnson retired from the Los Angeles Lakers basketball team on. Nov- 7 after announcing his infec Two Stage Design 3 Forward 1 Reverse Speed Recoil Start 521 Toro (Model 38052) TAC reduces Wysocki suspension For the smaller TORO CCR-2000E A'h H.P, 2 cycle engine Electric start mfg. list $679.95 SCOQ95 SALt VCJ No Payment or Interest Till April, 1992.

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