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D5 THE COMMERCIAL APPEAL MEMPHIS THURSDAY JUNE 18 1992 Devine returns to Missouri as interim AD for year firom Our Pran Services COLLEGES I I 'i 1 I i In other developments Southern Mississippi football sig-nee Aaron Hightower of Opp Ala says the Toronto Blue Jays didn't offer him enough money to sign a professional baseball contract of today (Wednesday) I'm going to play football and baseball at Southern Hightower said The 6-3 215-pound Hightower passed for 1910 yards and 25 touchdowns as a senior He has met NCAA freshman eligibility requirements Hightower a second baseman helped the South All-Stars win the Alabama All-Star game last weekend by $2 million happy to be going Devine said I'm better at showing my emotions in the locker room but I'm excited and looking forward to returning I had 13 very happy years in He left Notre Dame in 1980 to become executive director of Arizona State's Sun Angel Foundation in Phoenix Devine had records of 27-3-1 in three seasons at Arizona State 93-37-7 in 13 years at Missouri 25-274 in four seasons with Green Bay and 53-16-1 in six seasons at Notre Dame His 1977 Notre Dame team won the national title tor from 1967 to 1970 and football coach from 1958 to 1970 He then went to the Green Bay Packers and in 1974 to Notre Dame Devine brings commitment respect and overwhelming support to the university and the athletic department" Brouder said in a written statement is a proven leader with an impressive record of accomplishments ana Brouder said Devine's primary responsibility will be to establish a five-year plan for athletics at Missouri He also will start a fund-raising effort to increase gifts to the athletic department diately disclosed The announcement of Devine's appointment comes when the athletic department is embroiled in controversy Head basketball coach Norm Stewart is rumored to be looking elsewhere for a job after 25 years at Missouri and former basketball standout Anthony Peeler was sentenced to five years probation Tuesday after pleading guilty to a felony weapons charge andtwo related misdemeanors Devine was Missouri's athletic direc Dan Devine is coming back as athletic director at Missouri a Job he held 20 years ago The 67-year-old Devine will take over for a year while Missouri looks for a permanent athletic director interim chancellor Gerald Brooder said Wednesday in Columbia Mo He replaces Dick Tamburo 62 who announced in February he would take early retirement Devine will take over the Job Aug 1 Details of the contract were not lmme- By Dave Darnell From Page D1 4 1 Mail Ex-Memphian off undercard a Vv4 i Eli hi II i i i i 4 I i' a it s- Tho Associated PraM f-: 4 i1 -4 i 1 3- iapi year Trampler said McKinney I failed to notify his trainer after any of the recent absences we finally found him he told us he mimed the first workout because he spent the night in jail on traffic war-1 Trampler said checked out but he have an explanation for the other two" Zavala is an unbeaten sup bantamweight from Costa 1 Calif at 160-1 He has stopped 13 of 15 opponents grabbing a draw against Johnny Vasquez in Phoenix in February but beating him in April Decima 29-3 knocked out Paul Banke in 1990 for the World Boxing Council championship He lost the title in his first defense to Japan's Kiyoshi Hatanaka 1 ftti v- i 1 bjr' LAS VEGAS Rudy Zavala will replace 1988 Olympic gold medalist Kennedy McKinney in a bout against former champion Pedro Decima of Argentina on the undercard of the Evander Holyfleld-Larry Holmes heavyweight title fight Friday night McKinney a former Memphian was pulled from the card this week after skipping three training sessions Matchmaker Bruce Tr ampler said McKinney missed one workout last week then skipped workouts Saturday and Monday the bantamweight gold medalist at Seoul underwent a year-long rehabilitation program for drug abuse last fl fcr-' swim suit who is tanning and sipping a plna colada Memphis new football slogan for the 1992 season is Time The Big Time" What were some of the rejected slogans? Mr EOE Fbotball Alliance Fever Catch Gonna Pass On First I I Swear I'm Not What Else Are You Going to Do on a Football Saturday in go to the flea Before this season what were the career accomplishments of the i National League's leading hitter 5-10 230-pound John Kruk of the 1 Philadelphia Phillies? Mr Last year Kruk was the only major league player to 1 eat for the cycle in each NL city hitting and Kentucky Fried Chicken all on the first day What will be the salary dpmand on the Orlando Magic by Louisiana State star basketball center Shaquille Mr EOE Half of the gate receipts from Disney World and clause to skip the waiting line at Magic Mountain Will drug testing catch all guilty athletes using steroids at the Olympic track and field trials in New Orleans? Mr EOE Probably not But the Olympic committee has a backup method It is borrowing the trumpter from the New Orleans Fairgrounds horse race track play the post parade notes that usually call horses to the starting gate If any sprinter throws his need back and paws at the starting blocks a disqualification George Foreman comes out of retirement to box and now After heartbreak in the 1988 Olympic Triale Team Stevene has been dominant in 1992 From Page D1 From Page D1 Fight Stevens The comparison to Tyson may always be a monkey on Holy-field's back even though it's pos- ape convicl Holmes vs Holyfield WHAK A 12-round haovy-waight boxing champlonaMp bout matching champion Evandar Holy-fMd and former champion Larry Hatmae WHEN WHEHfc Friday undar- card atartlng at pm COT Caeears Palace In Laa Vegaa OTHER BOUTS: NABF welterweight champtorwhip bout between Roger Turner and Lula Yoryboy Jr unior featherweight fight matching Rudy Zavala and Pedro Decima heavyweight fight matching Memphian Michael Grear and Jorga Lula Qoraftcz TELEVISION: WE be shown on Viewer's Choice Memphis Cablevl-aion Channel 43 coat la In advance and S4095 on the day of tho fights to order cal 365-8770 customers with touchtono phones a and event number (9076) may cal 365-1010 Fight aiao wW bo shown at Naw Daley Thoatrs 330 Boole cal 5263981 for reservations and Information 12 for the Memphis Recreation Department coached by Tony Wakefield and proved to be one of the best 800-meter runners for her age group in the nation At Melrose she won state titles in the 400- and 209-meter dashes in 1984 under coach Mike Webb She ended up at Morgan State University in Baltimore where she won the 1988 NCAA 400-meter outdoor championship After the honor into the Olympic tired but graduating on the honor Ust sheuew trials mentally tire Rochelle Stevene et glance RmMmim: MwnpNa Event 400 metara Haight Watght S-7 120 c25 Morgan 8tat Unt-(1988) Mairoaa High (1984) Currant ranking: No 1 In USA No 3 In world Caraar accompSahmanta: Mamationafc Ranked No 4 In world In 1989 and No In world In 1990 Ran lead-off lag for U8 4x400 alfver-nwdal winning relay team In the 1991 World Cham-pionahlpe In Tokyo fMahed third In the 400 at the 1990 QoodwHI Qamee flnlahed fourth at the 1989 Work! Cup National: Ranked No 1 1n the USA for 1990 and 1989 In U8 Outdoor championahlpe won the 400 In 1989 flnlahed aecond In 1990 and flnlahed fifth In 1991 won the 400 In the 1988 NCAA Outdoor championahlpe hile Holyfield proudly wears the crown once worn by Tyson he has not caught the public imagination as Iron Mike did In the battle of personalities that are part of any big fight Holyfield often is the loser James Douglas's upset of Tyson dominated prefight coverage of his defense against Holyfield Then Douglass exwaistline became big Holyfield knocked out Douglas in the third round on Oct 25 1990 he wasn't praised Douglas was ridiculed for being out of shape George Foreman didn't come close to beating Holyfield but the former champion became the Choice because he lasted 12 rounds people thought he was the greatest thing at 42" Holy-fieldsald Substitute Cooper was stopped in the seventh round Holvfleld fight? Mr Joe Louis Oddsmaker Danny Sheridan has laprohit made Louis Stevens divorced herself from track She didn't watch a minute of the Seoul Games When the opening music to Olympic TV telecasts started she would change the station She didn't even read newspaper accounts Stevens went to work and became a manager of a Memphis portrait studio before her mother and others gently persuaded her to return to her first love track Year by year she has progressed on file road back to this point the threshold of the July 25-Aug 9 Barcelona Games She was ranked No 1 in her event in the United States in 1989 and 1990 She has risen to the top with virtually no corporate sponsorships and financially survives on appearance fees she receives for competing in European meets She declined to disclose her income Along the way Stevens finally settled on her mother as coach because they believed she wasn't improving under the guidance of others my mom was my coach she took me back to the track when she felt the coaches run me hard Stevens said make me run at 7 am She knows when to motivate me and what makes me upset Because she's my mama she can say things to me that another person couldn't say to me She knows when in shape and when I'm not in Holloway who totals $400 to 5500 in monthly phone bills talk- ing to her daughter at overseas meets will be in the stands in New Orleans going to be sitting near the finish line" Holloway said where race ends and her dream of an Olympic medal begins charged by the electricity of the moment Stevens's mother who wasn't her coach at the time charged that Morgan State coach Leonard Braxton did a poor Job of formulating race strategy at the trials advised her each day to run just hard enough to said Holloway now a pastor at the Word of Life Church 1615 Roosevelt out of college Rochelle didn't have good enough times to run just hard enough to barely qualify When she didn't run hard the first three heats it just didn't kick in for her in the final" Braxton said he never told Stevens to do anything but her best told her to make sure to qualify for each Braxton said couldn't understand why she was cruising not doing what she was supposed to be doing' I was shocked because this was the Olympic trials At this point field By the how Olympic bandwagon own coach disowned Stevens said was like I let him down He stayed away from me not even concerned about talking to him He reads about me in the papers He can call me if he wants to Braxton said he called Stevens on Sunday and wished her well He watched her victory in an Indianapolis meet last week on a tape-delayed telecast Saturday the 1988 trials the Rochelle I saw run wasn't the same Rochelle I had seen all year Ions when she didn't lose a race happy with who I am and when over 111 go on in my life without missing a beat" he said Holyfield's highly successful and lucrative career was launched on a wave of public sympathy following a controversial disqualification in a light heavyweight semifinal bout at the 1984 Olympics It made Holyfield an crowned always a ular role for a fighter to play I had my way I'd have won a gold he said If he had his way Holyfield would not be fighting Holmes although getting $185 million to do so That urill push his purse total to more than $50 million for winning the heavyweight title and defending it three times While he says not bothered with not having the public stature enjoyed by some previous champions he does seem rankled by being put into another no-win situation "It wasn't my intention to fight Larry Holyfield said favorite I understand that in order to get Michael Jordan to play for the USA Olympic basketball team there was a certain stipulation made What was it? Mr EOE Yes his Airness will get the second half off from each game to go work on his golf game He gets paid green fees and the use of Christian Laettner as a caddy At several pro golf tournaments that watched on TV heard spectators shout at Fred Couples "You da man FredT Where did this phrase originate? Mr Mr crack research team has determined that the phrase came from a golf episode of The Flintstones in which Barney tells Fred "Heyyyy Fred you da Fred replies Barn Mr Slate is da Pm going to Spain for the Olympics What can you tell me I ever many in the crowd in the champions hometown of Atlanta were cheering for Cooper who had knocked Holyfield down in the third round "If I can bring out the best in someone it shows a lot about Holfyield said I brought too much out in Cooper" Holyfield said before his scheduled defense against Tyson which was called off when Tyson suffered a rib injury last October that playing second fiddle to an opponent doesn't bother him Being the undisputed champion is enough Being himself is just fine When I talked to Rochelle on Sunday I told her ready for words All he could say to Stevens was still young be ready in four Stevens took- relative silence as an abandonment that he was jumping off her be surprised to see her run in the 49s" the months following her 1988 Olympic trials failure about the country? 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