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DETROIT FREE PRESS Thursday, Dec. 17, IS37 BOXING NBANHL SCOREBOARD The heat of battle Grand Valley State's Tom Villemure has a fiery temper that rivals Bob Knight's. Steve Crowe tells why Ville's explosions are legend in western Michigan. Also inside Meet the Free Press' All-Metro team, its coach and other honorees Local hero: Jim Lucas Drew Sharp on prep wrestling's new structure Call with sports news: 222-6660 Icy logic: Ten reasons why MSU fans should go to Joe Louis Arena rather than the Rose Bowl, Page 2D. Sports Phone (scores): 1-976-1313 Complete report, Page 6D.

Ivil! zifnl 10.11 I LZJ in)) lit I Bo tells U-M staff: T- Moeller is ready to take responsibility 'Go do it without me' By TERRY FOSTER Free Press Sports Writer ANN ARBOR Bo Schembechler's thoughts returned to football less than 24 hours after seven-hour quadruple heart bypass surgery Tuesday at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital. Wednesday morning, while some of his coaching staff visited, he scribbled, "Go do it without me" on a sheet of paper. "There is no doubt where his mind is," said Schembechler's wife, Millie. Schembechler's condition was upgraded from fair to satisfactory Wednesday, although he remained in intensive care.

The surgery might have averted a major heart attack within By TERRY FOSTER Free ress Sports Writer ANN ARBOR Wearing a shirt and tie, Gary Moeller walked into a room of reporters Wednesday, glanced at the television equipment and smiled. He shook hands as he walked toward the podium, showing not one bit of concern. This was Moeller's first day as Michigan's interim football coach after Bo Schembechler's heart bypass surgery Tuesday. Now it is Moeller's turn to fill in for one of the most visible coaches in America. When someone noted that Moeller appeared hours or days, doctors said.

Schembechler, 58, is expected to be taken off a respirator today and possibly allowed to sit up in bed. Until then, he cannot talk, but has communicated through sign language and notes. "Bo doesn't know a great deal, with how he is feeling," Millie Schembechler said during an afternoon press conference at the Catherine McAuley Health Center. "But the big thing is he is doing great. We are optimistic and he is past the critical stage at this point." For the first time since the operation, doctors said Schembechler won't coach the Jan.

2 Hall See BO SCHEMBECHLER, Page 7D fresh and ready to go Wednesday despite traveling much of the night from an Ohio recruiting trip, he smiled and said: "Well, I've had experience in this before. I look at this as a challenge." Moeller, U-M's assistant head coach and offensive co-ordinator, was head coach three seasons at Illinois and has spent 20 years in the college ranks. When Schembechler missed two practices this fall because of kidney stone discomfort, Moeller, 46, was left in charge. But more is expected of him now. Not only will he run practices for the next two weeks, he See GARY MOELLER, Page 7D JOHN STANODelroil Free Press Michigan interim coach Gary Moeller talks to reporters Wednesday.

Vikings' Carter wants to catch more passes fj mmammmmmmmmmmmmm it' Carter said he hasn't discussed his feelings with Burns or Vikings quarterbacks Tommy Kramer and Wade Wilson. "It's not my job to do," Carter said. "Our main concern around here is to win football games, something we haven't done in the last two games." And he has not asked to be traded to any other team, including the Lions. "I've got two more years left on my contract and I'll think of that (a trade) in two years," Carter said. The Vikings signed him to a five-year contract after getting him from Miami in a trade, a deal the Lions tried to make.

Although Carter is considered one of the most dangerous big-play receivers in the NFL, he never has ranked among the leaders in receptions. "Look, (once) every four times I touch the ball, I score," Carter said. "It's obvious someone doesn't care." It is believed he was referring to offensive co-ordinator Bob Schnelker, who calls the Vikings' plays. "We're not going to build our offense around one guy," Schnelker said. "That's not our game.

"We don't try to spread the wealth See ANTHONY CARTER, Page 7D By CURT SYLVESTER Free Press Sports Writer The Minnesota Vikings are happy with Anthony Carter's performance this season. So is Vikings coach Jerry Burns. The only person not happy with Carter's season, it seems, is Anthony Carter. "I sometimes wonder why did they (Vikings) trade for me," Carter said Wednesday. "Why am I here? Let me go to somebody else where I can catch some balls." Carter, a former Michigan All-America, has caught 34 passes for 844 yards and seven touchdowns entering Sunday's game against the Lions.

His 24.8-yards-per-catch average borders on phenomenal. It is anywhere from three to 10 yards better than any other player listed among the NFL's reception leaders. Carter ranks 17th in catches, but fourth in receiving yardage in the NFC. In that respect, Carter says this is the best of his three seasons with the Vikings. "I think as far as statistics and yards I have, yes," he said, "but as far as number of catches, no, I'm not happy with it.

But what can I say?" Free Press File Photo Ex-Michigan Panthers and U-M receiver Anthony Carter has a 24.8-yard-a-catch average, but a small number of receptions. Another Greenberg in Tigers' future jf V. If' -1 4f AP he now shares with partner Am Tel-lem. Others include Mark Langston, Gary Lavelle, Eric Show and Gary Lucas. The agents also represent Indiana Pacers rookie Reggie Miller.

As for the current state of free agency, Greenberg says Tuesday's signing of Mike Davis by the Dodgers might be an indication that the market is loosening up a bit. "If what you read is true, it sounds like a minor bidding war took place between the Yankees and the Dodgers," Greenberg says. "That has to be an encouraging sign. But the world has changed. I don't think you'll see the See STEVE GREENBERG, Page 10D By ERIC KINKOPF Free Press Sports Writer Sometime soon, the Tigers must decide how much to pay rookie slugger Matt Nokes next season.

And sometime soon, some major league team is bound to get interested in Bill (Have Bat, Will Travel)Madlock. When those times come, team officials will contact agent Steve Greenberg, who has slugging in his genes and once played the game himself. "Playing is much tougher than what I am doing now," says Greenberg, 39, son of late Tigers slugger and Hall of Famer Hank Greenberg. "The pressure is both physical and mental when Five years later, Madlock, who went on to win four National League batting titles, asked Greenberg to represent him. Greenberg was out of baseball and enrolled at UCLA law school when an arbitrator established baseball free agency 12 years ago.

"All of a sudden, everyone needed an agent," Greenberg says. "Before that, only big stars needed agents." GREENBERG, now a managing partner of a Los Angeles law firm, negotiated two of Madlock's contracts while still in law school. Madlock and Nokes are two of the 30 baseball clients you're playing. I have a real appreciation for what the guys go through." People who criticize the money today's players make "don't take into account the struggling most players go through in the minors at a subsistence level," he says. Greenberg, an All-America soccer goalie and baseball captain at Yale, was drafted by the Washington Senators and played five seasons in the minors.

His first stop was Geneva, N.Y., in 1970. Madlock was his roommate. "He was skinny, and he could really run," says Greenberg, a first baseman. "But I outhit him, .277 to .269." 1983 Photo Former Tiger slugger and Hall of Famer Hank Greenberg. Steve Greenberg, lawyer, sports agent and Hank's son.

U.S. skiers fighting uphill battle III. I Mil llllllJ.LIJJiappjllllllNI -lj4 WBIllUIJimf IjUUI Jllllll.U CI 2 it This is the first of an occasional series of columns leading up to the Calgary and Seoul Olympic Games. By JOHNETTE HOWARD Free Press Sports Writer At the 1984 Sarajevo Olympics, Alpine skiers accounted for five of the United States' eight medals. But with the 1 988 EYE ON '88 IliJf 1 11111 "iimnn 1" Sunday in Val Badia, Italy.

The women's outlook is even dimmer. Debbie Armstrong, 1984 gold medalist in the grand slalom, left Europe last week and returned home to Seattle for more rehabilitation. Armstrong wasn't pleased with her recovery from a summer leg operation, or her recent results on a lower-rung European race circuit. Tamara McKinney, America's other top medal hope, suffered a hairline ankle fracture in November but is out of her cast and insists she will be on skis, by Christmas, then racing by January. Crash victims Tori Pillinger and Eva Twardoekns, one of the team's best all-around skiers, won't be so lucky.

Pillinger suffered a compound fracture of her left leg and a broken pelvis in a top-speed crash Saturday into a finish-line pole in Sion, Switzerland. Twardoekns will be out six months after surgery to repair serious cartilage damage she suffered in a fall in Sestriere, ItaTy, on Thanksgiving. Twardoekns, 22, has been a U.S. national team member the last seven years, but was passed over for the 1984 Games in Sarajevo. She had thought this would be her year.

"I'm pretty devastated," Twardoekns said. "For the last seven years, I have traveled with the team, attended every camp. I had never been injured before See OLYMPICS, Page 9D Winter Games in Calgary, Alberta, just two months away, the injury-riddled American Alpine team would be elated to win any medals. With the women's team missing four top performers and the men unsure of the health of Bill Johnson, a shutout seems likely. Johnson, 1984 gold medalist in the downhill, missed most of MARY SCHROEDERDetroit Free Press The 1987 All-Metro Girls Basketball Team The Free Press' All-Metro team: (clockwise from middle) LaTonya Tate of Detroit Cass Tech, Stacy Kraiza of Harper Woods Bishop Gallagher, Dena Head of Plymouth Salem, Marline Ferguson of Detroit King, Kathy Phillips of Birmingham Marian and coach Mary Lillie of Marian.

Meet the team on Page 6D. last season after December knee surgery and didn't rejoin the team this year until late September. Last week, he finished 73d in his first World Cup race this season. America's best male skier has been Felix McGrath, who took a career-best eighth place in a giant slalom World Cup race.