The Kansas City Star from Kansas City, Missouri • 33

I ''-T? Jt I 'X -r-v VwwWKANSASaTYCOM VI EXTRA2 mondaynovember ii 20P8 'V KANSAS CITY StASU CHARLES BARKLEY NBAEWTTY IMAGES i Ami Ferrin encouraged Moses Malon (abov) to go pro out of high school i 7 Drafting Moses Om Fan Inductee Ami PerrinY claims to fan darii as general manager of th ABAVUtah Stars in 1974when hS drafted Moses Malone who became the fW player to jump from high schooi tpthe pros TTh NBA had a prohibition against under-: classmen" Ferrin recalled "A krtof them were ready and wanted to and I caied Moses and ashed Do you wantto go to school? I dont -thinkyouwaftftar: "if you want to beaprofesslonal basketball player Fm going to offer you atontract He said 1wanttopl-': RICH SUGG HE KANSAS CITY STAR Chart Barkley (center) posed for a photo with Mlnnasota coach Tubby Smith (left) and fellow Hall of Feme Inductee Dick Vitale 0fD Former Auburn star's basketball latent somatbnas was ovtrshadowed by his flamboyant parsonality Soudieastem Conference player-of-the-year honors while leading Auburn to its first NCAA Kids will be kjds Members ofthe four' teams participating in the CBE Clank Kansas Washington Syracuse and toured the College Basketball Experience on Sunday night and had fun playing in the interactive Several Jay hawks in- Vctuding ShmonColGns and Conner Teahan were taking their best shots at theSmk the Junjperactiy- ity V-' "there hasn't been anything lijce this in Kan- ir-rf City and for us to have Talwn sontethinglijcethis not anywhere else is reallygreal for our city" said Teahan a Rockhuitf High graduatfc "When you see the District and the Spript Center If you take pride in dut there's not much you can take pride in" nmnftbrtem'eveiy'ltob'i-Wt' hppend)nrtwlifeH Am lsUrprtsklT: Ws snu a ran qi me game ano wamnee as By CANDACE BUCKNER -v Yes Amfshocl YdkAmlBmazed? 1 much as be can despite The trend in today's 71 Kansas ty Star Yts IV Wd an amadnfl amazing We NCAA whert the best and brirfitest leave be- Ibumamemappearance -HeS Still 4 qf the game aid watcher as not better Barkley said comparing todays stars to his peers in the T980s think dumber For the simple fectyoulearnhowto play basketball incollege we tookthe time togotocollegeand wim a lot of yui eaaw- wm swui vvo Jp as weU-known for his tuev am ir' Baiideyof eoun greatest as well-known for his Barideyofeourse wasqhosen as one of the and if there was the most outspoken men that of the man personality as hfe was as "People ask me'Have (Thomas)? Is he all'iigM! all right! He tried to kDl himselC Barkley said delivering it like' a punch line and Iqilghfpr foe public-relation types in form as a atudio host on the Emmy winning shmv "Inside the Shofrpre jCoachJim Phelan who spent 49 saasonsat'-r Mount St Marft ColaM had a briefNBA career write thePhlactehHlterion hi theeerty 1950: signed with the warriors for thprin-: cely rom of $A500t andhb Job was to gst th bal to stars Paul Artzin and Ncl Johnston "Thn(owner)EddteGottMto(dineligota' guy to do that for $500 less" V- And teaft how a coaching career began -sj? foe-- ttrinr nirhinlmn' 'V just try todo my job aid be honest" Bar- room' 'V'ViV' Vy' kley said think the Na 1 thing that people Baridey now gets prnd sol that peopfociui get VV-VVV me is that I nevetlie a kick out of him saying brutally honest things nate that people believe everything they See on all the time but the strangest thing happened commercials and redentlyallowed cameras to television or read in the newspapei they don't when he was first presoiteri as one of foe pewi show his rear on television all in foe name of realize a lot of these people on television or in est members of the National Collegiate Basket- colon cancer awareness is that he was a fine the newspaper are full of (it)" ball HaUof Fame Baridey stood fobont of his' basketball player to the Hall of Fame presentation where audience and was humbled" were a struggling: lricetban pnram'his celebrity shined bridltHiS eyes wrinkled "This is a really cool honor lVe had a mag- We Wereperennial feera and rd justtaknttbe when he smiled but somehow he still looked nlficertt magnificent life this is just icing on former Auburn coach Sonny Smith said childlike and treated everyone who came up to the cake" Barkley said This is just an awe- get Charles and he tums us into an imme- shake his hand the sanie Then taking seat someopportunityjall I caiidois thankthe diate winner" next to Mow honoree Jim Phelan he became Barkley was undersized as a collegiate center deep- in conversation when -Vitale Baridey startedoutas a pudgy listed at 6 feet brushed past and cuppedhis hand undefBar-gian later becoming a reluctant role model and weighh be claims to have tqpped 290 pounds kkys chm For the moment Barkley hadbeen NBA loudmouth then TNT loudmouth lousy The nickname Round Mound of Reboimd fol- shut up golfer prospective Alabama governor and now lowed Barkley during the threC years he led the TO roach Candac Buckner sports reporter at a collegiate hall of famer Sometimes lost in NCAA ifl rebounding The Kansas City Star call (816)234-4389 or celebrity the man shootsT-Mobile In 1984 Baridey received All-American and sndemaHtocbucki'Mff4Kstar-com Attention for the undenated Dkk Vitale is never shy about giving his opinkui But when asked to nafne foe best player participating in the four-team CBE Classic today and tomorrow at the Sprint -Centet DicldeV drew a blank He did however heap praise upon one player can tell you Vk4Je said of the most underrated players in the country is here Jon Brockmanfrom Washington He's ail inside force a terrific player" When told about praise Brockman a 6-foot-7 260-pound power forward who averaged 178 points and 116 riounds last season simply grinned "It means a said Brockman senior been watching Dick Vitale ever since I can remendsen It gete you kind of pumped up" i ARNIE PERRIN A glft for gabbing Apparently former Arkansas coach Nolan Richardson and Vital go way back Richardson usad to recruit th Detroit ana back in th 1970s badt when Vital OMchad at thehniversity of Detroit And based on what he saw back then Rich ardson was not surprised at Vitale success in the booth "He was taking a lot even back said Richardson who added that Vitale picked up on the lingo the players used So it was natural for him to on TV and have a style the rest of the country wouldn't Ha was chosan most outstanding playar of tha 1944 NCAA Toumamant whan ha was Just a freshman ByRANDY COVITZ -The Kansas Ofy Star Arnie Ferrin know what the big deal is about being one of three freshmen ever to be selected most outstanding player of the NCAA basketball tournament Ferrin who led Utah to' the national cham- pionship had good reason for receiving the nonw: 1944 we started five Ferrin sajdof his Utah feam during the World War II years the only team that started five fresh- men and won the championship So we had to have a fireshman MVP because they have any ofoer choice" Ferrin followed that performance by leading the Utes to the NIT champfonship in 1947 at a time when that tournament had as much if not more prestige than the stiU fleding NCAA Krrin inducted into fob National Colleate Basketball Hall of Fame on Sundayriiit had a unique twphahded jump shot he launched fonn behind bis head war an unusual shbt but it worked for said Ferrin 83 "Even when I played with the lakers it must have been a funny shot be-Vcause nobody else did it" Ferrin played three seasons with the Minneapolis Lakers helping the Club win NBA cham? pionships in 1949 md 19S0 He later became general manager of the ABA's Utah Stars before general manager of the ABAS Utah Si -returning to his alma mater as athletic director: Ferrin served as chairman of the NCAA Basketball Committee in 1988 when Kan- sas wop the national championship at Kemper Arena in the stirring 50th anniversary game City is my fovorite town he said years ago we came to Kansas City when I was a freshman at Utah we won bur gamp the fust roundin foe old (Municipal) Tn 1988 I got to come back to Kansas CitY and direct the championship and got to present the trophy to (follow inductee) Danny Manning andtheKansasteam" And on Siplay riiit he completed the cycle of Kansas City arenas with his induction at the -yeapold Sprint Cettet The hotwr left him neariy speechless "AH of myfriends asked IVliat are you going to folk about looking at the professionals (broadcasters Billy Packer and Dick Vitale) who are going in with Ferrin Said "I thoughtabout that for a long time V- watchedfoe Olympics when they were-: asked Tfow do you tel about winning a goto medal? I listened to what they would say and most of them answered 1 krkow how to V'1 -v "When Iwatched the Ryder Cup they rtuck a microphone in' the Captain's face aid they asked how does it feel to' win the Ryder Cup and he said know if words can express bow I howl tel about being here" 2 To reach Randy Covib sports reportar for The Star sarid e-mail to rcoritzigtestarxom RICH SUGQ THf KANSAS CITY STAR v' Former Utah star Amle Ferrfn -'1 received his Hall of Fame medal tea caramony on Sunday big Impact Former Auburn coach Sonny Smith revealed Sunday niight that the legend of Charles Barkley's rotund waistline was npthing more than the universi way to jump in the media spotlight LovaWe and large Barkley was the perfect publicity stunt overweight butnottothe point where people made him out to be" -V Smith "We used we hurt Charles in the fact that we osed hls wCigt to get publkntyiand we talked out it We made -i -up posters and talked about the amount- that he ate We used Charles in that regard to help recmit other players He never was as heavy as tbey said tnit we made him to be heavier than he was" 1 candac Buckner cbucknargkcstancofn Randy Covltz rcovttzkcstarcorm and Thz A Payiortpayiorfccstarxom A HI SAID IT "Untest you can llve it anid how it impacts all tha things you have dona hard to express what this meara nlc to remembefod" V-- I- I tela Fairin' )' -U 'hitYiAiDiT'' Y' Ferrin Is someone who epitomizes what this game is ail about v- as a player as a gentleman and as an athletic I Reggie MWon deputy astetlvadhectec oftheNABC I- yi -i.