Banner Graphic, Volume 18, Number 142, Greencastle, Putnam County, 23 February 1988 — Page 8

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THE BANNERGRAPHiC February 23 1938

Johncock owed sl.l million settlement

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) A Battle Creek man who reneged on his promise to sponsor two-time Indianapolis 500 winner Gordon Johncock during the 1986 racing season must pay the race car driver sl.l million in damages, according to Johncock’s attorney. Johncock filed a federal lawsuit in 1986 against Paul Stafford Sr., claiming that Stafford did not provide any of the $5 million he had promised to sponsor Johncock’s racing team for the 1986 CART-PPG Indy car season. Left without a sponsor, Johncock missed not only the Indianapolis 500 race but the entire driving season and lost money, time and his “goodwill and business reputation,” the suit claimed. Johncock, who won the annual race in 1973 and 1982, is a Hastings native who lives outside Phoenix, Ariz. Last September, an arbitrator

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agreed with Johncock’s complaint and awarded him sl.l million in damages. Stafford did not attend the hearing and failed to ask the judge to set aside the award and set a trial date within the mandatory 30 days, so, according to Johncock’s attorney James Brady, the arbitrator’s award is binding.

Poll backs Pennsylvania as

By The Associated Press Kentucky, North Carolina and Indiana come to mind when people talk about good states for college basketball. But this season, look out for Pennsylvania.

Poll in scoreboard

Temple maintained its No. 1 ranking this week in The Associated Press basketball poll and Pittsburgh moved up to No. 6. The top-ranked Owls, who on Sunday beat then-No. 5 North Carolina, 83-66, in the Dean Smith Center, got 44 first-place votes and 1,231 points from the nationwide panel of sports writers and broadcasters. The Owls, 22-1, are No. 1 for the third straight week and have begun to impress those who derided the quality of their schedule. “We don’t really concern ourselves with the rankings,” Temple forward Mike Vreeswyk said after beating the Tar Heels. “I guess this will make people take notice of us.” North Carolina guard Ranzino Smith agreed. “Temple proved they deserved to be number one,” he said. Pittsburgh, 19-4, jumped two places to sixth with 930 points after

U.S. District Judge Robert Holmes Bell, who handed down the judgment Feb. 11, also refused to throw out a $3,325 default judgment he ordered Stafford to give Johncock and the racer’s business agent in October after Stafford didn’t show up for the arbitration or scheduled interviews with

Big East Conference victories over Providence and then-No. 18 Georgetown. But the Panthers were upset, 89-72, Monday night by Seton Hall. “This was a case of Seton Hall out-hustling and outworking us and wanting it more,” Pittsburgh coach Paul Evans said. “Our intensity was very poor. We may have been drained emotionally after the Georgetown game, but we shouldn’t have been.” Purdue, 22-2, remained in second with 10 first-place votes and 1,185 points after Big Ten victories over then-No. 13 lowa and Indiana. Arizona, 25-2, remained third with three first-place votes and 1,114 points. Next was No. 4 Oklahoma, 24-2, with five first-place votes and 1,110 points. Duke, which received the final first-place vote, improved one place to fifth with 1,001 points. The Blue Devils, 20-3, beat Virginia and Kansas last week. Michigan, Nevada-Las Vegas, North Carolina and Syracuse completed the Top Ten for the week. The Wolverines, 22-4, were 10th last week, but jumped to seventh with 831 points. They beat Michigan State 77-67 Monday night. Nevada-Las Vegas, 23-3, also

Johncock’s attorneys. No telephone number is listed for Stafford in the Battle Creek area, and attempts to reach him for comment were unsuccessful. Stafford could appeal to the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals, but Brady said Monday he had not been notified of any such appeal.

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improved three places with 754 points, six more than North Carolina, 204, which beat Maryland and Wake Forest before losing to Temple. Syracuse, 20-6, was 10th with 671 points.

Notre Dame beats Creighton

SOUTH BEND (AP) Notre Dame wasn’t surprised by Creighton’s aggressive play, Irish coach Digger Phelps said. “We expected Creighton to play pretty much the way they did. They always play hard,” Phelps said after Notre Dame’s 66-54 victory Monday night. “I dont think we took them very seriously with their record (13-15) as it is,” Phelps added. “They came ready to play and did a good job.” The game was won at the freethrow line as Creighton scored only three points on four attempts, compared with a 24-of-34 performance by Notre Dame. The Irish also led 43-20 in rebounds with Gary Voce pulling down 13. Phelps said, “Our foul shooting was herendous in the first half. We were consistent in the second half, and that’s the way it should have been the entire game.” David Rivers scored 12 of his 13 points in the second half as Notre Dame, 17-7, broke a halftime tie, but Phelps gave the credit for the victory to reserve Tim Singleton.

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JERRY TARKANIAN Case heats up

“I think the MVP of this game was Singleton. He played with confidence in the first and second halves, and he did the things we needed to get done. He helped us get the lead and kept it there so they couldn’t get it back,” Phelps said. Rivers, who went nearly 29 minutes before recording his first field goal, made a free throw to put the Irish ahead to stay, 40-39. The Bluejays pulled to within two at 47-45 on a Chad Gallagher turnaround jumper, but then went more than three minutes without scoring as the Irish put together a decisive nine-point spurt. Singleton, who played only six minutes, sparked the streak by making two free throws, a steal and layup and passing to Scott Paddock for a dunk shot that became a 3pointer when he successfully made a free throw. “Singleton did a great job. He took the ball to the paint. I underestimated his quickness,” Creighton coach Tony Barone said.

11 years later, i Tarkanian case goes to court = i WASHINGTON (AP) Mori? than a decade after the NCAA first; tried to suspend Jerry Tarkanian as; basketball coach at the University: of Nevada-Las Vegas, the case will; go before the Supreme Court. ;•; The court on Monday agreed to: hear an NCAA appeal of a Nevada: decision barring the NCAA from! suspending Tarkanian for alleged iK legal recruiting and other! violations. Tarkanian declined comment on the court’s action, but Sam Lionel, his attorney, said “I’m not concerned. ... I’m confident our position is right.” Lionel said the case will likely! be heard sometime after October,! possibly early next year. He said a! decision was possible sometime! next year. The NCAA ordered UNLV to* suspend Tarkanian in 1977 for two! years and put the school on proba-* tion. Tarkanian won a court order* blocking the suspension, however/ “We are pleased that the; Supreme Court has agreed to; review the decisions of the Nevada; courts,” NCAA spokesman Jim; Marchiony said. “We expect the; Supreme Court to focus on the; general question of whether the; members of the NCAA can adopt; rules governing themselves, the; student-athetles and coaches with; respect to intercollegiate athletic; matters. “The NCAA maintains that; regulation of student-athlete; recruitment, admission, financial; aid matters and the conduct of institutions, students and coaches in; these areas should be left to the NCAA membership, and not be; deemed to be govememental ac-; tions. We look forward to a full; discussion of these issues in the; U.S. Supreme Court.” NCAA officials said Tarkanian \ arranged for a student to get a “B” grade without attending class,! provided free air fare to a studentathlete, encouraged individuals to give the NCAA false information to impede its probe, falsely certified UNLV’s program as being in compliance with NCAA rules and failed to comport with high ethical standards. The Nevada Supreme Court ruled last August that the NCAA violated Tarkanian’s constitutional rights by failing to afford him due process in its 2 X A- year investigation. In the appeal acted on Monday in NCAA vs. Tarkanian, NCAA officials said Tarkanian was treated fairly. They also argued that Tarkanian, a 30-year coaching veteran who has been at UNLV since 1973, got a; “home court” advantage by taking ; his case to a Nevada state judge; who overruled the findings of the; NCAA investigators. The judge ruled “in favor of a; popular, local personality” sub-; stituting his views “for that of 2l J independent teachers and ad-; ministrators who heard all of die | evidence,” the NCAA’s appeal! said. * ! In the earlier decision, the state ! court said the investigation was ! based largely on recollections by \ investigators of interviews with! their sources. Notes of the inter- \ views sometimes were dictated as-! ter the fact, the state court said. ; I It also said Tarkanian and UNLV I officials presented signed affidavits ! by those the NCAA interviewed ;in ! which the witnesses contradicted ! the NCAA’s evidence.

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