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1987 FOOTBALL PREVIEW/USO Three of last year's starters won't be with Toreros again .. By Chris Clarey ~-----------, tackle Pete Browne (6·1, 230); Jumor Staff Writer 1987 SCHEDULE guard Mike Cassady (6-0, 225); and The off-season had a couple of sur- D•t• Opponent Time 26-year-old junior center Mike Child- prises for the Division III University Sep. 12 at Occ,dental 7 30 p.m. ers (5-11, 220). Childers took time off of San Diego program. Sep. 19 at Redlands 7:30 pm. from college after a foot injury inter- The first was uplifting. Azusa Pa- rupted his football career. cific, a team that beat USQ 49,19, Fogarty is counting on sophomores last season, was forced to forfeit all ----~-- ----- Mark Garcia, a 6-1, 235-pounder from its 1986 games because of an eligibil- -.-·~- Lakeside, and Jeff Carpenter (5-9, ity violation. ~ -------~------ 230) to fill the openings at tackle and That improved USD's 1986 record -'--- guard. from 3-7 to 4-6 - hardly cause for Oct 31 The linebackers will lead USD's 3- wild celebration, but an ego boost Nov. 7 at St Mary"s 4 defense. nonetheless. Nov 14 Menlo College All four starters return: 6-0, 210- The second revelation hasn't done Home games in gray. pound junior Chuck Royer (118 tac- much for morale. Three of last year's kles, three interceptions) and 5-11, underclassmen starters elected not 205-pound junior Shawn Rezaian (105 to play this season. leader, academic All-American wide tackles) on the inside; and 6-2, 187- Senior quarterback Pat Dixon, a receiver Jeff Mansukhani (49 recep- pound junior Jeff Merlino (46 tackles, two-year starter, got married this lions, 813 yards, and eight touch- six sacks) and 6-2, 190-pound sopho- summer and wants to spend time downs), i bac f hi enior season. more Rob Skinner (30 tackles) on the with his wife. Senior Eric Nasland, a Six-foot-2, 225-pound senior tight outside. two-year, 245-pound fixture at right end Lionel DeMorst, a Kearny High Last season's leading tackler, 5-11, tackle, plans to de\•ote all hts ener- graduate, never recovered from an 200-pound senior John Gutsmiedl (131 gies to pre-med studies, and junior early season knee strain last year stops - 45 unassisted) and 5-11, 185 guard Patrick DeBlase has trans- but had a team-I ading 33 catches pound junior Bryan Day (61 tackles) ferred to UCLA. for 379 yard in 1985. are the only experienced defensive Sophomore Leroy Hughes, a pro- Junior Ken Zami,ese (seven recep- backs returning. jected starter on defensive line, also tions, 108 yards), Nill start at the \:11 not play. He must work outside other receiver spot. of cla. s this fall to afford the high The Torero · offensive success de- cost of being a USD student - $3,920 pends on whether 6-1, 195-pound traight tuition per semester community-college transfer Braulio The other two secondary spots are up for grabs, although 6-1, 180-pound enior safety Jim Mead figures to fit in somewhere.

mak it look like a pace-age honcy- comb, with eight green-gla ed towers pokmg into the downtown sky The h tel-office complex is plann d for the northern side of Broadway between S ate and Colum- bia streets. Nothing nearby even remotely looks like hapery' project. Of course, h doesn't 1mmedialely pring crystals on what he call the "con ervative, button-down ty~" h 's hoping to lure mto his bu1ldmg. Fir t he throw financial figur at th m. Then h mentions crystals "At fir t people loo a I ttle surprised but anybody .,,.ho can appr c1ate excellence 1s impressed," Shapery said. Shapery's own theta waves run m overdrive. Durmg a recent interview he juggled questions in the middle of a dozen phone calls from investors and a flurry of documents bemg shoved under his nose. He quickly kissed his on, 7-month- old Sage The infant had stopped by with his mother, Anne Hyatt Sha- pery, who wa · switching the Rolls car keys for the Ferrari keys. Mean- while, a secretary was hoverrng ner- vously, worried that 12 minutes• wasn t enough time for Shapery to catch a plane to Hawaii. Ignoring her, he eagerly displayed anoth r proJcct, a remodeling of hi La Jolla Cove Pl za shopping center. I tw n he freely rattled off hd- b1 ul has turgid hfe, includmg car er that bounced from auto m bamc to lawyer to developer; his castle, his lawsuit against me- galawyer Melvin Belli while he was a summer-Intern law student in Belh's office and his stint before the U.S. Supreme Court only two years out of law school. Then there are the numbers he throws out - his IQ of 156, his alge- bra test results from sixth grade (he till has the papers to prove 1t), his four homes, six cars and millions of dollars he has accumulated. He credits his parents with helping him gather his wealth, which he puts Please see SHAPERY, C-3 local d.~c Jockey to refer to the ses- 1ons as "sex orgies" and Del Mar went berserk. Th City Council called an emergency sessaon. Sha- pery canceled the event after he got dozens of angry phone calls. He laughs about it now. He then slashed the pnce to $1.5 million and sold the castle in 1984 to Tony Robbins, best kn ,,..n tor walk- ing through fire as p.trt ut nis human potential-building busme:.:.. Shapery now livl'S 111 a modest La Jolla bungalow one ot his four home~ He's planning to exchange that for an oceanfront home in La Jolla as soon as he can. The developer calls his free-wheel- ing style "lateral thinking," a phrase lifted from the latest business jargon. "I take different areas that appear to be unconnected and I find connec- tions," he said Take Japanese yen and crystals, for example. His downtown skys- craper includes the 497-ruom Bmer- ald Hotel, owned by a :,ubs1d1ary of the huge Japanese conglomerate Tokyu Corp. "Emerald ... green glass .. . crys- tals," Shapery said slowly, savoring the words. "It seems like almost a mystical connection, almost like it was fate." The Japanese got involved after hapery stayed in Emerald·s first U.S. hotel m Anaheim. So impressed with the staff, he wrote Emerald's president, Yoshiyu Tanaka, in Ha- wau. He also enclosed a rendenng of hi downtown building project. Tanaka was intrigued. So wa:, Em- erald's parent company. Tokyu Corp., which offered a joint venture partnership and an mitial investment of $100 million. That happened only after a six-man team from Japan spent two weeks investigating Sha- pery's background as well as San Diego's economy and toumt indus- try, nght down to the annual ramfall. Shapery knows the crystals have little to do with the deal, but he 1s tickled about his partne1 ~- And he's

Defensive line is the big question

Castillo can fill th~ quarterback gap

"What's happened thJS year is not uncommon," said fifth-year Toreros coach Brian Fogarty. "This year it's been key players, though. "We have student-athletes here, and they have priorities other than football. Sometimes, when they get into their J nior and senior years, their other pr;orities take over. ''What makes it frustrating is that these are things beyond our pro- gram's control. If we had a scholar- ship situation, we'd have something to hold people with. It's much easier when it's not a financial decision as Despite his personnel losses, Fo- garty still has 13 starters coming back, which tells you how young the Toreros were in 1986 when they Jost their last six games after a 3-1 start. The receivers should be USD's of- fensive strength. Last year's scoring well."

left by Dixon loss and whether he can mark, Fogarty said.

get the ball to the receivers. Castillo started fer San Diego City College (1-9 in 1986) until midseason lasl year, when he was idled by a knee injury. He completed 80 of 132 passes for 883 yards and five touch- downs, with five interceptions. At running back, USD has last year's top two ground-gainers: 5-9, 170-pound junior tailback Virgil En- riquez (112 carries, 442 yards), a Uni- versity High product; and 5-10, 200- pound 'Sophomore fullback Todd Jackson (47 carries, 150 yards). Also playmg will be 5-10, 185-

Senior Erik Peterson (5-11, 215), who had 58 tackles last season, will start at one of the three front-line positions. Transplanted junior line- backer Mark Webber (6-3, 210) and former offensive lineman David Gil- more (6-3, 220) are preseason favor- ites at the other two spots. Kicking, one of Fogarty's main concerns coming into camp, looks better than anticipated with the em- ergence of two solid freshman punters: John Gillis, who averaged 39 yards per kick at Hoover High School in Glendale, and Kevin Williamson. Mark Fenick of San Diego, a for- mer USD soccer player without any football experience, is the probable place-kicker.

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The absence of Nasland and DeB- lase will hurt, but three other start- ing offensive linemen return: senior

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Shapery and a model of the futuristic, crystalline-shaped office-hotel complex be plans to build downtown

Sandy Shapery at his de ·k, with paperwork and cry tal rock

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Cuntmuerl From C 1 G\;6 at som where between $15 million and $50 m1lhon, not becau e they gave tt to h m b because they didn't A a teen- ger his parents made him work for the hip clothing and greasy kid stuff hi peers sport- ed. lorn and Dad didn't thmk "nice Jewi h boy " should be dressing like tough ''So I started hu tling for jobs. I wa. very mon y-or1ented al a very early age," he aid At 15, he wa buymg and selling car p rt . It wa the beginning of a Jong career of wh 1mg and dealm to buymg for Jes and elhng for much more He calls it "creative fi- nancing." In 1978 he bought the La Jolla shoppmg center for $1.1 million. He old it two years later for $2.8 m1l- hon, .t h. He then bought 1t back two yea later, in 1982, for $3.5 milliofl and says it's now worth $5 million. Shapery did the same thing with the 10,000- quare-foot home known a the Del Mar Castle. He bought the Spamsh-style residence on a whim m 1978 for $575.000 After spending nearly that much in repair bills as well a~ entertaining constant visits from ''relatives I never knew I had," Shapery said, he d cided to sell for $2 million It wa ·n't that easy. ot many peo- ple wanted a home so big, he says, it took h If an hour to walk from the bedroom to th kitchen. "If you had a party with le s than 300 people in the living room, it looked like no one was there," Sha- pery said. In lead, he lea ed the castle and that tart d more trouble First J. David Domin lh tried to buy it, and end d up walking away from $85,000 in non-refundable deposits when his financial empire collapsed. Then came the Del Mar sex can- dal A tantric Yoga group booked the ra ti for a ncounter s 10n for coup! , who were promised a ''cos- m 1c· orga m" All 1t took was for a

punchy about his new crystal build- ing, with such features as vents that let fresh air into the offices and the water-cooled system that drastically reduces the need for air conditioning. He says studies show the resulting negatively ionized air is better for humans and can cut down on absen- teeis,n (as opposed to positively ion- ized air recirculated through air con- dllloumg). Hes also tickled that he beat out the Koll Corp., which he says trieo to horn m on his downtown lot and his partnership with Tokyu. "It was a David and Goliath kind of thing," he said, explaining how he was able to talk the city into giving him exclusive rights to the property.

The company is now b ·1Iding its $200 million mixed-use Koll Center across the street from Shapery on Broadway. The David and Goliath story would work for Shapery's experience as a summer law clerk for lawyer Belli. (He financed his U.n\versity of San DiITlia;o law studies by restoring and se mg wrecked Corvettes.) After writing an article for USD's "Law Review" on prisoners' nghts lor Belli, Shapery learned Belli had de- manded full credit. The law student responded by

serving papers - while Belli was giving a televised press conference on another case in ar. Diego. A law dean tried to get Shapery kicked out of school but couldn't. Instead, Sha- pery was dismissed from the Law Review board. He shrugs now at the injustice. "It's just a constant matter of edu- cating people. Those people just needed to learn," he said. He has learned things, too, he says. Especially since meeting Anne, Sage's mother, a year ago. She took his name although they're not mar-

ried. (Shapery also has a 14-year-old son, Steve, from his first marriage.)

"Anne has taught me about feel- ings, which is more important than anything else I have learned," he said. And that brings him back to crys- tals and the idea of positive thinking. "I try to act positively in the uni- verse so positive things happen to

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en in pipe bomb case ~~!Lid Ca~los honors student charged in Kevin Michael Ham while he and a pipe bomb explosion that killed two other teens were driving a classmate was. released from through the San Carlos area ear- custody after a Judge ruled he ly in the morning The boy would be tned as a juvenile. charged was driving the vehicle. t~e~~i?~ s~UOn~~l~til!••

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d---15 '5' Friday, Sep_tember 18 The Univ rsi!y ot SaA Diego will sponsor a eminar on "Tax Reform and Real Estate lnv0stment," by Dan Rivetti, D.B.A. and assistant profe.., or of finance from 7:30 to 9 a.m at the Manchester Ex~cutive Conference Center, USD. Fee is $15.

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district attorney's office petitioned Juvenile Court to have the boy tried as an adult in Su- perior Court, where a conviction could mean a IO-year maximum But McConnell found that the boy's part in Ham's death was "minimal." She set a Sept. 24 court con- ference, with trial to follow at least two weeks later. sentence in prison.

.The 17-year-old, whose name is withheld because he's a juvenile left Juvenile Hall on Monday Judith McConnell's ruling. He was expected to resume studies as a senior at Uni.versity of San jli~ High School to ay. The teen is charged with six felonies in connection with two pipe bomb explosions in July. afte_r Superior Court Judge