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I I 17' Rpohant Afentett SPOR'IS SEPT. 2.1986 i A9aedrpees en Bay sends Dickey packing Hawks deal running back Ethan Horton. game of the 1984 season, was a obinson Dickey, who arrived in Green starter that season and throughout Bay in 1976 from Houston in a the 1985 season. trade, and Coffman, 30, said their Huff, 33, started 15 games last Detrol release came as no surprise. The season after signing as a free agent two are good friends and work out with the Redskins in the summer of Associated Press in the off-season near their subur- 1983.

But he apparently was dis- ban Kansas City homes. pensable when Raleigh McKenzie, SEATTLE (AP) Linebackei "Nothing really surprises me in a 1985 I lth-round draft choice, be- Shelton Robinson has been tradet this business," Dickey said. "I had came the team's sixth lineman. to the Detroit Lions by the Seattlt some great times here, a lot of fun. McKenzie has the added advantage Seahawks, who also signed fret It seems like I made this same that he also can play center and agent safety Greggory Johnson.

speech in the spring." guard. The trade was made on Monday, The Raiders released Van Pelt The Redskins also waived two said Gary Wright, team spokesman, and Jack Squirek, another lineback- other veterans defensive end In exchange for Robinson, the er who was one of the heroes of Tom Beasley and strong safety Ra- Seahawks will get an undisclosed Super Bowl XVIII. In reaching phel Cherry and rookie Ron Til- future draft choice, he said. their 45-man limit, the Raiders also ton, a 250-pound guard. The team reportedly waived run cut reserve offensive lineman Miami axed lineman Kim ning back Rick Parros and veterar Dwight Wheeler and rookie wide Bokamper and safety Lyle Black- linemen Jon Borchardt and Will receiver Mark Pattison.

wood, fixtures in a defense that Grant, while rookie defensive line. Van Pelt, acquired in a trade man Alonzo Mitz was placed on in-with Minnesota prior to the seventh Please see NFL: PAGE 3 lured reserve. Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) Linebacker Shelton Robinson has been traded to the Detroit Lions by the Seattle Seahawks, who also signed free agent safety Greggory Johnson. The trade was made on Monday, said Gary Wright, team spokesman. In exchange for Robinson, the Seahawks will get an undisclosed future draft choice, he said.

The team reportedly waived running back Rick Parros and veteran linemen Jon Borchardt and Will Grant, while rookie defensive lineman Alonzo Mitz was placed on injured reserve. State alumni who formed a potent passing combination after becoming Green Bay teammates in 1978. They were among four cuts announced by the Packers, who also released rookie wide receiver Curtis Pardridge and rookie center Billy Kidd. Dickey and Coffman weren't the only veterans cut Monday as NFL teams got down to the required 45- player limit for opening day. Also among those released were 14-year veteran linebacker Brad Van Pelt of the Los Angeles Raiders, offensive lineman Ken Huff of the Washington Redskins and two original members of Miami's "Killer B's." Another veteran, San Francisco running back Wendell Tyler, was placed on injured reserve and Kansas City cut its top pick of last year, If any team in the NFL reflects change this year, it's the Green Bay Packers.

"What I'm trying to do with this football team is get a fresh start," Coach Forrest Gregg said Monday after cutting quarterback Lynn Dickey and tight end Paul Coffman, bringing to 21 the number of players gone from last year's roster. "This team has been sitting on high center for a long time," Gregg added. "We are taking a risk. I'm willing to take the gamble because I believe in the people we have" The Packers finished 8-8 in each of the last two seasons. Gregg's 1986 overhaul includes a new pass-game strategy of short passes, compared with Dickey's long tosses.

Dickey and Coffman are Kansas pr 'r 0 TUESDAY SPORTS NOTES Spur digs his teeth into something solid Alvin Robertson, the San Antonio Spurs' all-star guard, who ended last season with a new six-year contract and the selection as the league's best defensive player and most improved one, has spent the last six weeks I .44 with Ms jaw I wired. Robert- son underwent twi reconstructive "1,7 'ezr surgery in which both vi il sides of his jaw were first bro, ken, then I realigned. Af- ter the wiring Robertson was removed rast week, Robertson got his first taste of solid food. "I went out and had my favorite food, a steak with broccoli and cheese," said Robertson. "It felt good.

I was tired of eating all my food out of a soup bowl." Last week, former heavyweight champion Larry Holmes and 1,500 other fans at Lakeland Community College in Mentor, Ohio, watched Lady Debbie Kennedy and Sharon (Honey Girl) Harrington battled to a four-round draw in the first fight between women ever staged in the state. Kennedy, a 27-year-old Army sergeant with secretarial duties, and Harrington, a 33-year-old welder for General Motors, were paid $200 each, and they suggested later that they'd do it again, since there were tougher ways to make a living. "The toughest thing," Harrington said, "is trying to survive welding on the assembly line." p- TUI SPORTS Spur into Sc Alvin I tonio Spu ended las year cont as the 1( player ar 1 I'l Pt 'i 1 Roberts, rast week, taste of sc "I went ite food, and chees, felt good. all my foo Last weight ch: and 1,500 1 Communit Ohio, watc nedy and Harringtoi round dral tween wor state. Kenned3 sergeant and Harri welder for paid $200 gested lat again, sine ways to I toughest til "is trying the assemt the assembly line." Robinson, who missed only one game out of 57 while playing for Seattle from 1982 through the 1985 season, was signed in 1982.

He also started in 35 of those games. Johnson played in 41 games from 1981 to 1983 for Seattle before going to the United States Football League's New Jersey Generals for the 1984 and 1985 seasons. The 6- foot-1, 195-pounder was orginally signed as a free agent after the 1981 draft. Bo makes the show Heisrnan winner takes cuts in KG The team planned to seek a two-week roster exemption for Johnson and was scheduled to announce its latest round of cuts later today to bring the roster to 45 going into the regular season. The Seahawks had 51 players on the roster going into Monday, Wright said.

Because of an exemption for John Harris and the expected exemption for Johnson, Seattle still had to cut four players. However, unlike most NFL teams, the Seahawks did not officially announce their cuts on Monday. Wright said the players cut could eventually rejoin the team, but only after going through waivers with other teams. The other NFL clubs were notified of the cuts Monday, he added. "This is not etched in stone," said Coach Chuck Knox of the roster after Monday's waiver actions.

"We need to look at some things and see what happens on the (waiver) wire," he said. WHAT THEY'RE SAYING Trading a player not only answer "When a player doesn't play the way you think he can, there are two ways to deal with it. Making a trade is always one answer. But, it isn't my answer. You hope they'll come back the following year.

If they do, you sure don't want them to come back for somebody else." Detroit Tigers general manager Bill Lajoie on the concept of late-season trading. IN "When you play every day, you get times when you get tired, you're dragging. Four hits Is a cure for anything. I wish I could get four hits every day." Minnesota's Kirby Puckett. WHAT TH Tradinc not ont "Wher the way y( are two Making a swer.

But, You hope 1 following sure don't back for so Deb manager cept of late IN "When you get tired, you'r is a cure could get 1 Minneso WHAT THEY'RE SAYING b. i i I' .1, i ,) ,4,..0,, 4k, 4 (,,,,,, 1 ,4 i ''s ,,41, 1, 4f i' I 0., f' 1 0 Lit, tk i 1 Brown's action angers Giants By George Shirk T. i 1 1 i By Charles Bricker Knight-Ridder KANSAS CITY, Mo. If this were New York, it would have been different. There would have been enough klieg lights focused on Bo Jackson's dressing stall at Royals Stadium to illuminate the dark side of the moon.

One hundred reporters and cameramen would have been elbowing each other fiercely for the right to stick a microphone under his nose. But this isn't New York. It's KC, which is something less than the communications capital of North America, and the Welcome Bo Committee consisted of 10 media people and a handful of apparently disinterested Kansas City teammates. For 15 minutes before Chicago's 4-0 win over the Royals on Monday, the sports writers quizzed the most famous Memphis Chick of them all, then followed him out to the field, where he took three rounds of batting practice in front of about two dozen spectators. One of the oglers was Chicago White Sox outfielder Harold Baines, who turned away after a few minutes and shrugged, "You can't tell nothin' about the guy from BY." Let history record that, on Sept.

1, the first day major league teams could expand their rosters to 40 players, the Royals officially made Bo Jackson a big leaguer. Jackson didn't play because of a hamstring pull in his right leg, but he talked a lot and slugged a little In the batting cage before the game. He might play tonight. He said he was gratified to be called up and wasn't a bit nervous. And he still doesn't feel comfortable among crowds of reporters, though he acknowledged that "it comes with the territory." "There will be days when I don't feel like talking to the media," he said.

"The way I see it, if I can give you due respect, I expect the same in It's easy to respect Jackson for turning down Hugh Culverhouse's millions to play for Tampa Bay in the NFL and instead play the sport of his dreams. "I love (baseball)," he said. "I love just getting up every day and competing with no pressure." There were still reporters intent on grilling him about his decision to forgo professional football for km gi OUVUL illa to forgo professional football for AP photo Heisman Trophy winner Bo Jackson loosens up during batting practice. Knight-Ridder NEW YORK San Francisco Giants third baseman Chris Brown, who throughout his baseball career has been accused of being unwilling to play through the kind of pain that other ballplayers willingly endure, Monday afternoon pulled his biggest shocker to date. 7 One hour before a game between the New York Mets and the Giants at Shea Stadium, Brown at .321, the team's leading hitter pulled himself out of the starting lineup.

Then, In a meeting with Manager Roger Craig, trainer Mark Letendre and assistant general manager Ralph Nelson, Brown announced he wanted an arthrogram on his sore left shoulder, knowing that such a medical procedure would finish him for the season. Brown, whose season-ending action is said by teammates to have been heavily influenced by advice from injured teammate Jeffrey Leonard, thus infuriated a clubhouse that already is burdened by Injuries and a four-game losing streak. "He comes out here today for batting practice and swings like he's Willie Mays," said one Giants player who asked that his name not be used. "It's difficult to understand. The guy's got a chance for a batting title and for a pennant." Please see BROWN: PAGE 4 guy's got a chance for a batting title and for a pennant." Please see BROWN: PAGE 4 PEOPLE IN SPORTS Jets' coach holds school for players Players may wear the same uniforms and play by the same rules and in front of the same cheering fans, but there is a fundamental difference between exhibition football and real football in the National Football League.

During the season, the object is to win at virtually any cost. During the preseason the object Is to learn: to get as many players into the game as possible so the coaches can evaluate their progress and to use the offensive plays and defensive formations that have been worked on the previous week. To the Jets' coach, Joe Walton, this means taking things one step at a time. Like a school teacher working through a lesson plan, Walton likes to start with the simplest offenses and formations and add elements each week. Especially in the early preseason games, this can produce some fairly plain football devoid of the crowd-pleasing razzle-dazzle that would be more likely to razzle rookies still struggling to learn basic blocking assignments than to dazzle opponents.

"When we're playing a lot of people, it's hard to put too much In," Walton explained the other day. "That's why we try to take It in chunks. We try to work as we go along to make sure we cover everything before the season starts." II Yankees starting pitchers are falling down to get out of the way. So far this season, line drives back to the mound have hit Dennis Rasmussen on the shin and elbow, Tommy John on the toes and ankle, and Ron Guidry on his pitching hand. PEOPLE Es Jets' cc school 111 Player uniforms a rules and I cheering fa damental hibition fo( ball in Us League.

During tl is to win a During the is to learn: ers into the the coache: progress an plays and 1 that have previous we To the ton, this me step at a teacher wo son plan, with the si formations each week. Especiall son games some fairly of the crc dazzle that to razzle to to learn ba ments than "When people, it's 1 In," Walton day. "That's It in chunks we go alon cover every son starts." III Yankee are falling way. So far thi back to th Dennis Ras and elbow, toes and anl on his pitchil seven homers, nine doubles, three triples. But then there is the matter of his strikeouts, 81 of them, That's an average of one every 2.3 at bats.

Forty-five minutes before the game, the stadium was filling up. A couple of ushers stood in an aisle behind the Royals' dugout. "You should've been here earlier," one said to the other. "Bo hit one about 450 feet." It's true. It was a nice shot.

But, as Harold Baines says, "You can't tell nothin' about the guy from BT." BT." teti tan nin auout tne guy tru .277, though for a while he wasn't even hitting his weight 210 pounds. No one, he said, helped him out of his early slump. "I did it strictly on my own because I can't do what someone else says," Jackson explained. "If I do it wrong, no one but me has to suffer. "As far as I was concerned, it was all patience.

I Just got up there and saw the ball. I took my hacks and, when the time came, it was there." Jackson had 53 hits at Memphis, 19 of them for extra bases JoytKhseomn nfor a eDx.itrnal 1 bases aaste ms empnis, 19 the Great American Sport, but Jackson wasn't having any of it. "I'm a baseball player now," he snapped back. "I expect baseball questions, not football questions." His pregame workout was a pastiche of prodigious drives over the left-field fence and imperfectly hit groundballs around the infield. Jackson's muscular upper body looks impressive stuffed into a figure-hugging polyester jersey, but he still hasn't proved he is a big-league prospect.

In 53 games in the Double-A Southern Association, he batted in D4 games in tne 'inutile-A Southern Association, he batted 1 Regardless of finish, Walden's Cougs won't be dull ME En MO iimP MO ma over a bankrupt business." Two years years later he enlarged on that theme. "I'm not comparing us to two years ago because no one could be that bad," he said. "We were at the lowest starting point of any school in the league when I started." Too true. On fan support: "When a program goes bad we hear rumors that maybe the coach should get fired. When the program is going pretty well and we can't get any support, who do we get to fire? When do we get to start some rumors?" Good question.

Bizarre, but relevant. I know that come November we'll have printed exactly what Jim Walden said, or otherwise we will have found ways to make him mad. And I know he won't whimper but fire back. I never underestimate a man with something to say. SPORTS TRIVIA Frontier life Who has more wins than any other current Frontier League football coach? Answer in Scoreboard.

SPORTS TRI Frontier Who he any other League foot! Answer in bolted to Missouri after one year at WSU by buying out the remainder of his contract for 05,0000, Walden retorted with a question. "Where the hell would I get His homespun homilies are as regular as his wins over Washington. My dad, Walden once said, asked me to bring him some 10-penny nails. Young Jim Walden, apparently unable to tell a 10-penny nail from a carpet tack, brought a handful of all kinds of nails, hoping to hit on the right ones. "You'd better make it big in athletics," his dad said, "You can't do anything else." Not so.

Walden can make us pay attention. Jim likes coaching, he said, because his kids like it. "How many kids want to go out and watch dad sell life insurance?" he reasoned. THE POINT IS it is football season and I always think of the coaches who have called me at home and at the office, beefing that I printed what they said, Not that they were misquoted, but that I should have known what was off limits. Walden's hide is no thicker than theirs, but he has a mind that is a weapon he doesn't hesitate to use.

"They can take it and stuff it In the volcano!" he boomed when a publication criticized football coaches for shielding athletes with inadequate academic skills. People scratched their heads but we knew what he meant. It was the year Mount St. Helens had gone off. Walden likened his first year to "taking Walden likened his first year who once referred to Pullman, Spokane and the Inland Empire as Greenland, the Ukraine and Purgatory.

Walden read that and said it was a shame to think that anybody could exist without french fries. Interpretation: Mississippi ain't bad if you ain't used to much. We guessed that what the coach really meant was, clean air and rolling hills are better than the concrete problems of urban blight. It's like the difference between chicken wings and grapes, he once said. Some of us get the chicken wirgs.

Others have to settle for grapes. Huh "It's like a piece of pie," Walden expanded. "A lot of people love pecan pie but It you have to settle for apple, that ain't all that bad." The subject was recruiting and eventually his point came across. Walden's irreverent humor surfaced as early as 1977, when he was waiting for then Athletic Director Sam Jankovich and the Cougar Athletic Council to name a head coach WSU's fourth in four years. "I just go to the office each day and twiddle my thumbs," Walden said.

"They know more about this than I do. You might say tongue in cheek they've been through it before." Walden was asked if he'd take the Nebraska job if it were to suddenly open. 'Remembering that Warren had lieMembering Enat warren I owers naa litidIKE MOORE established a precedent for pitchers who haven't won 10 games by Labor Day. He isn't speaking to the 17.11 press, Mariner Moore wins a couple with the pressure off and he does a Steve 1. I Carlton, who said nothing for so long that he forgot to say goodbye.

Communication is A salesmanship and salesmanship is the life's DAN blood of sport. WEAVER So it is in the hinterlands, where Jim Walden keeps Staff writer Washington State in the pommenomonorne sports business by keeping it in the public eye. With his opening football game a week away, Walden was in a television studio, defending mandatory drug testing against a lawyer from the American Civil Liberties Union. That was news of a sort, particularly in the dog days of a dying August, Jim 'Walden is 0-0-1 at a critical time of the young season when most coaches only have eyes for film, Walden is, as he'd put it, really and truly and in my heart, one of a kind. Luckily for us, he's been here a long time, time being relative, An hour in Pullman can seem like eternity to a writer from Oakland seem IlKe eternity to a writer 'rota vaitiana, Elll SPORTS LIST Top-ranked Home countries with most top.rated boxers (includes champion and 12 con tenders in 16 divisions): SPORTS US Top-ran Home count boxers (includc tendert) in 16 When Dear Bryant died, Walden said Cod needed a good football coach up in heaven sd he got the best, Who else but Dizzy Dean could have gotten away with that? 'I don't make predictions like you guys do; on what a team did last year," Walden "I base it on what they've got this year." Jim Walden's Cougars defy prediction, This is the year they're supposed to ninth NO they won't finish ninth.

We do know one thing about this mystery of a football season that starts Satuday, Walden and the Cougars won't be dull. I. United States 112 (8 champs) 2 Korea 27 (4 champs) 3. Puerto Rico 9 (1 champ) 4, Columbia 8 (no champs) 5. Philippines 8 (1 champs) 6, Groat Britain 7 no champs) 7, Japan 6 no champs) 8.

Italy 5 (no champs) 9., Dom, Republic 5 (no champs) 10. Canada 4 (no champs) 11 Mexico 4 (no champs) SOURCE: Intornoilonot Boxing Fed, From Ito IT and wire reports 1, United State 2 Korea 3 Puerto Pico 4, Columbia 5 Philippines 6, Groat Britain 7, Japan Italy 9 Dom Recut 10 Canada 11 Mexico SOURC Ft )m stuff sod wire reports I j's.