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DETROIT FREE PRESS r-1 fflflW Sunday, Feb. 7, 1ZZ3 PREPS 6 OUTDOORS 12 SCOREBOARD 13 GO 3 JP- Mill Call with sports news: 222-6660 The stadium Tiger Stadium: Save it or replace it? The debate heats up the cold winter days. Four Free Press members contribute to the debate on today's page. Also inside Adios, Gibby: Fans aren't sad you're leaving. Dick Mayer's Drawn to Sports, with, of course, a Tiger Stadium motif.

An Olympic contest. ft) ft i Bad luck foi Spartans: No. 13 Iowa brought Michigan State more bad news with a 101-72 win. College basketball is on Pages Sports Phone (scores): 1-976-1313 Complete report on Page 11H. .1 -i ft C3 1 i I atinee idols 7 Chariie II Vincent I Jordan, Bird, Legends make All-Star Saturday a thriller Coaches on the edge: Vitale is an expert "Gene Keady and Bill Freider make Bobby Knight look like Mother Theresa.

Dick Vitale Yzerman's 'hat' tips Habs, 5-4 by Keith Gave Free Press Sports Writer MONTREAL Red Wings captain Steve Yzerman took control Saturday night, scoring three straight goals that turned a two-goal deficit into a 5-4 victory over the Montreal Canadiens. Yzerman's second three-goal hat trick of the season and fourth of his five-year career gave him five goals in two nights, seven in his past four games and 43 for the season. The Wings have 26 regular-season games left, and Yzerman is 12 goals short of John Ogrodnick's club record of 55. The victory, the Wings' third straight, extends their unbeaten streak to five games. Montreal, which squandered three See RED WINGS, Page 7H ene Keady, the hyperkinetic coach of the Purdue Boilermakers; Bill Frieder, coach of the Michigan Wolverines and master of the stiff-arm to the camera; and Dick Vitale, the mouth that roars into our living rooms on home.

The judges gave it a perfect 50. Jordan was elated. I "I was just looking up into the crowd for inspiration for that last one," Jordan said. "Finally, I spotted the man who started it all, Dr. (Julius Erving).

He motioned to me to move back, to go back and take off from the line. That was the best advice I got all day." The dunk contest was the climax of a three-event day. Larry Bird won the long-distance shoot-out for the third straight year, and the East defeated the West, 47-45, in sudden-death over-See NBA CIRCUS, Page 6H Today's All-Star Game, 6H. by Clifton Brown Free Press Sports Writer CHICAGO If All-Star Saturday gets any more dramatic, it may upstage the game on Sunday. Sending a packed house of more than 18,000 at Chicago Stadium out into the streets celebrating, Michael Jordan of the Chicago Bulls won his second straight NBA slam dunk contest, defeating Dominique Wilkins of the Atlanta Hawks in the final.

It was decided on the final dunk, when Jordan needed a score of 49 out of 50 to win. With the crowd on its feet, rising to a deafening crescendo, Jordan took off from the foul line, held the ball high over his head and slammed it i vT rk M)Is UPI Air Jordan on final approach during Saturday's slam dunk contest in Chicago. ABC-TV and ESPN. They'll be under the same roof this afternoon in Ann Arbor, encircled by 13,000 basketball fans and curiosity seekers. The featured attraction is the nationally televised 4 p.m.

game (ABC, Channel 7 in Detroit) between the Big Ten co-leaders. But there is a subplot, too, developed by Frieder when he created a national mini-stir by doing something to a-cameracameraman as he left the Crisler Arena floor at halftime Wednesday. In New York they called it a major incident. Other places they did, too. Vitale, the former University of Detroit and Pistons coach, called Friday to ask about it as part of his preparation for his assignment as color man this afternoon.

Sorry, I said, I only know what I saw on TV. For sure, Frieder shoved something or somebody but I couldn't tell you if there was a guilty party. It was, Frieder contends, only the natural reaction to having a camera shoved in your face. "I was yelling at the official and I got hit by something. When I turned around there was the camera and I shoved it out of the way.

I didn't hit anybody. Period," he said. "I don't have second thoughts about it because I didn't do anything wrong." Maybe. Maybe not. Vitale Was One Of The Worst What I don't understand is why basketball coaches act more and more like featherweight replicas of Hulk Hogan.

They raise their arms in victory, they shout in anger and in triumph, and too often something intoxicates them maybe it is power, maybe it is adrenaline, maybe it is fear. Vitale can address the subject because in his days with U-D and the Pistons, he was one of the chief practitioners of coaching out of control. "I would have been at the head of the list," he admits when you talk of coaches going over the brink. "My wife, Lorraine, told me sometimes she wanted to hide, that she didn't want people to know she was married to me." In his two worst episodes, Vitale was dragged, I AGENTS: I 1 A A QUESTION OF yi. 1 RUST "y- frT 'stt it" y' Athletes face a confusing choice screaming, from the court once by his assistants at the University of Detroit, following a game against Michigan State at Cobo Arena, and later by a security guard at the Silverdome after being ejected by an NBA official.

"It is childish and immature," he said. "I know I was as guilty as anyone. But there's no excuse for putting your hands on a player, an official, a 4 cameraman or anybody." Frieder believes basketball coaches are no more emotional than football coaches. "It's just more visible," he said. "What about Woody Hayes and (Bo) Schembechler?" Vitale, though, believes basketball coaches are more vulnerable to anxiety because they are so close to the action.

"Emotionally, coaches are exposed," he said. "You're right out there. And a turnaround can come so quick you're like a madman." A trait Of Good Coaches? Vitale says some coaches, like Michigan State's Jud Heathcote and Alabama's Wimp Sanderson, are so excitable that "you worry a little for them." But just as all wrestlers are not Hulk Hogan, all coaches are not Bobby Knight. Each has his own traits. Vitale assesses some of them: Jim Boeheim of Syracuse: "A whiner and a crier." Jerry Tarkanian of Nevada-Las Vegas: "A guy in his late 50s, chewing on a towel (who) tells you a lot about what can happen to a guy in this game." Lou Carnesecca of St.

John's: "Baryshnikov dancing on the sidelines." by eric kinkopf And Terry Foster Free Press Sports Writers teve Olschwanger is a football agent, not a stand-up comic. But he will resort to one-liners to get a recruit's attention. Says Olschwanger: "One of my wanting to represent them and, of course, the money they are about to command. "You have to be a nut," Elliott says, "to enjoy this." How bad is the blitz? Worse than being courted by college recruiters? There is, most athletes say, a dreadful sense of deja vu to it all. But sleazier.

According to some estimates, as many as 2,000 football agents or at least that many business-card-carrying drummers who identify themselves as such are vying to represent the 336 players in the See AGENTS, Page 10H the inside Story CASE STUDIES: How does an athlete choose an agent? Terry Foster takes an in-depth look at seven athletes. Page 8H. THE MEAT MARKET: The Senior Bowl is heaven for agents. Page 9H. THE PROMOTION: Meet a Texan who knows how to drop names.

Page 9H. POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS: Eric Kinkopf looks for ways to end agent problems. Page 10H. Complete report on BH, 9H and 10H and possible first-round NFL draft choice, isn't laughing. Quite the contrary.

"This is one big pain in the a-," Elliott says. Pardon Jumbo's momentary lack of decorum. He's had his fill of agents. Jokes or no jokes. Since last spring, Elliott and other collegiate football heroes with professional potential have been inundated with mail, bombarded with phone calls, surprised by all-hours visits, tempted with illicit offers of cars, money and women and, at the very least, pestered to the point of frustration sometimes surrender by agents favorite sayings is: just thought I'd be the 100th agent to call you The players get a kick out of that." Evidently, Olschwanger hasn't spoken to John Gumbo) Elliott.

Because Elliott, Michigan's All-America offensive tackle Calgary: Perfect setting for fun and Games XV The basics WHAT: XV Winter Olympics. WHERE: Various venues in and around Calgary, Alberta. WHEN: Saturday through Feb. 28. TV: ABC (Channel 7 in Detroit) and CTV (Channel 42 in Lions great Pietrosante dead at 50 cm? Sarnia).

FAVORITES: East Germany, followed by the Soviet Union. The United States will be fortunate to capture a handful of medals. Upcoming TUESDAY: The Free Press takes an in-depth look at the Michi-ganders who will compete in Calgary. A mini-look appears today on Page 2H. WEDNESDAY: The Free Press Jim Valvano of North Carolina State: "Very tiery, but you don't see the intensity where he's going to grab somebody." All of them, though, like Frieder and Keady and Knight, have been winners despite, or because of, their idiosyncrasies.

Frieder doesn't really much care what Vitale thinks. "He was a beauty," Frieder said, recalling Vitale's coaching years. As for being compared to Knight, Michigan's coach says: "I'd commit suicide before I'd act like him." Nevertheless, Frieder who is having this season chronicled in a bock to be published later this year believes any publicity is better than no publicity at all. "The more controversy," he said, "the better my book will sell." Tip it up and stand back. And whatever you do, keep the cameras out of the way.

1- armpit dancing. Cabarets abound in Calgary, prostitution is legal, and city government is headed by a rowdy three-term mayor named Ralph Klein. Klein, a former city hall TV reporter who won his last election with 93 percent of the vote, often holds court in a basement bar at the St. Louis Hotel. Still, Calgary isn't just another Alberta prairie town.

The modern skyline of this city of 650,000 the second biggest ever to host a Winter Olympics was used to represent Metropolis in the Superman films. Although Calgary's petroleum industry suffered See OLYMPIC Page 211 BY JOHNETTE HOWARD Free Press Sports Writer The XV Winter Olympic Games will provide their usual blend of excitement and drama beginning Saturday. But don't be surprised if Calgary, the rowdy Canadian outpost playing host to the world through Feb. 28, emerges as a peripheral star of the show if only for the city's insatiable lust for fun. In many ways, Calgary is a beguiling marriage of old and new.

The cowboys there aren't from central casting in Hollywood they're genuine from their Stetsons to their famous rodeo (the Calgary Stampede) to their affection fa something called black BY GEORGE PUSCAS Free Press Sports Writer Nick Pietrosante, the Lions' best runner of the 1960s, died Saturday at William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak after a long illness. He was 50. Pietrosante, a two-time All-America at Notre Dame, was the Lions' bullish fullback in the years when they were the strongest challengers to Vince Lombardi's Green Bay Packers. Three straight years, 1960, '61 and '62, the Lions finished second in the Western Division to the Packers, with See LIONS, Page 5H Olympic staff begins daily coverage from Calgary. FRIDAY: The Free Press will publish a special Olympic preview section with day-by-day events and TV schedules, analysis of every event and much, much more.

SATURDAY: XV Winter Games officially begin..