News Scrapbook 1989

San Diego, CA. (S.m Diego Co.) S.m D1 go Union (Cir. D. 217,089) (Cir, S. 341,8401 DEC 8 1989

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Jlllai ,. C. B .....E•U 888.... After a junior-college odyssey, Shawn Jamison's next stop is ... 6MFORT ZONE By Chris Clarey Starr Writer T he odyssey was unplanned. One place Shawn Jam1S011 never had heard of simply led to another. The only common thread was basketball. said. Example No. I With Monday's game against Texas Tech banging in the balance, Jamison caught a pass from guard Michael Best under the basket. Trapped, he attempted a blind, two-handed reverse layup that bounced off the bottom of the rim. Example No. 2: With SOSU

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VITALE'$ DANDIES OF THE DECADE [);ck Vitale, who celebrated his 10th annlsersary as ESPN basketball analyst during thi8 week's Atlantic Coast-Big East Challenge series, oHers his all-1980s team. the ·oan<11es ot the Decade" C•l!SIO!Y "Dendlfl" T u,,rde Mlchffl Jordan, North Caro!lna; lelah Thomae, Indiana torwerd•c____ _:Danny Manning, Kansas; Chrle Mullin. St John's Pl•~ of 11,. decade Petrick Ewing. Geor_~gecc.t""own-'-"--------- Coach of 111• decade Danny Crum, Louis.Hie TNm of Iha daceda •lorth Carolina, 1982

10 a.m. NBC's A-Team, Dick Enberg and Bill Walsh, are the announcers . .. Channel 8 is carrymg the CBS double-header, Cowboys-Eagles (Verne Lundquist-Terry Bradshaw) and Giants-Broncos (Pat Summerall- John fadden) starting at 10 a.m. ... E.5PN's prime-time game is Patri- ots-Dolphins . . Ratings update· Up at CBS (two percent), ABC (eight per- cent) and E.5PN (13 percent) and down at NBC (two percent) . Brent Musburger and the gang at "The NFL Today" did a dandy job of botching Sunday's postgame how, breathlessly convincing viewers that the Packers had lost to the Buc- caneers Why didn't CBS j:ist put the game on the air with Green Bay un• dertakmg its last-minute, game-win- ning drive? . .. HBO's "Inside tbe NFL," once an enjoyable hour of highlights, is now a weakly - er, weekly show that has run out of steam. The :'.FL Films footage was always the star of the show; now only 12 mmutes or so run. As for the for- mat It i hard to tell if the buffoon- ery by Len Dawson and Nick Buoni- cont1 is called for m the scnpt or comes naturally. P • y-per-P • drea - The San Diego Cable Sports Network and the Padres, expected to 1gn a new three- year contract today, priced a 50- game pay-per-view package at $187 SO, or $3. 75 per telecast. Last year's 40-game package cost $140, $3.50 per. Single games cost $6.96 Note • and • t • tic - About 25,000 households signed to watch last night's Leonard-Duran fight on pay-

per-view, according to Cox Cable •. XTRA-AM, which put the word out that it might broadcast this week's CIF-San Diego Section high school football championships and the re- mainder of USO's basketball sched- ule, has withdrawn its good inten- tions. The new word: Both would have lost money . .. Prime Ticket will televise tomorrow's USO-UCLA 1 (Geoff Witcher-Quinn Buckner) and USC-San Diego State (Tom Kelly- ' Paul Sunderland) basketball games You know acquiring big-time sports programming has become habit-forming when TNT, the day it paid $650 million for cable rights to the NBA, admits that it can't turn a profit because of rising rights fees ... Deposed NBC Sports boss Michael Weisman. returned to work Monday as executive producer of the sagging 'The Pat Sajak Show" on CBS ... Va- rie~y reported that a merger of Pnme Ticket (3.8 million sub- scribers) and SportsCbannel of Los Angeles (90,000 and dropping) is in the works. But a) SportsChannel's rights to Dodgers and Angels pro- grammmg goes on tbe auction block again in 1991 anyway and b) if ~portsChannel were to fold, wouldn't it_ be easy for Prime Ticket to just pick up the pieces?

First came a community college 1n Casper, Wyo. "Driving down the road, there was just land and snow," Jamison said. "I used to wonder what the heck I was doing up there. So cold. So cold " Then came another in Pratt, Kan "Nice people but flat, flat, flat," Jamison said. Now after a two-year course m l'.S geography, basketball has brought him home: to Southern Ca iforrua. to family, to the comfort zone 'It feels good to be back in the sun, feels nght, saJd Jamison, a 6- f oo -8 235-pound Jumor forward at n Diego State. This is what I wanted And what Coach Jim Brandenburg had hoped for. Through six games and four victories, Jam1S00 is leading the Aztecs m scoring at 15 pomts per game, rebounding at 6.2 per game and spectacular dunks, of which he has several. Tonight at 7:30 in the Sports na against SC he wlll attempt to lead his new team to a fifth consecutive victory "Im not at th top of my game r:itd but Im on my way up," he Jamison' comment was full of confidence, yet appropnate. Up, after all, is his favorite direction. Point guards dnbble and dnve Centers huffle and box out. Jamison jumps - high enoogh to grm at a rim; high enough to d•aw all eyes his direction. ' He really gets off the ground," said U Ocoach Hank Egan, whose team lost. 8 - , to the Aztecs on Wednesday "He's 6-8, but he plays a lot bigger than that because of the length of his arms and his ;,.--!- • &a

clinging to a five-point lead late in the game against USO, Jamison caught a pass inside and tried an 111-advised, off-balance turnaround Jumper a shot tbat never reached the hoop. 'We need a name for that one" Brandenburg said. 'That shot is' new to me." Of course, for every moment Jamison raises Brandenburg's blood pressure, there is another m which he transforms his coach into a believer. It was Jamison who scored the winning point from the free-throw line in the 51-50 victory over T xas Tech; Jamison who held U O's best player, John Jerome, to a handful of shots: Jam1SOn who took two long steps a d dunked over two~ That Jamison is playmg major- college basketball at all is a source of surprise and pride to those who have nown him Growing up In CE:mtos. he was c ns dered a problem child: an underachiever in the classroom who was difficult to reach and to in pire, even on a basketball court. Vern Stewart remembers. He was the coach at Gahr High when Jamison transferred there from Cerritos High after his sophomore year "Shawn had had discipline problems at the other school," Stewart said. "He was hard to get along with at first. He had a real chip on his shoulder. He had trouble following rules. But we finally developed a little trust between the two of us. I just think he needed someone to give him a chance and live through his rough edges. It was not an easy situation for either of us. but he improved and began to grow up." "We had a close relationship " Jam1Son said. "Coach Stewart ' helped me a lot - getting me on

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n_ am1son, a Junior-college transfer, leads the Aztecs n scormg, rebounding and spectacular slams.

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for USD_ ...___..---_-- Hank Egan . ~ ' SD's basketball coach, waited un~ I after the deluge last wee - a 50-18 first-half blisler- lllg by powerful St. John's and 74-li9 eventual defeat - to assert the obvi- ous to his young players. The message: They can run, but they cannot hide Or was it: They can run, but they'd better not stop? "I 1ust wanted them to under- stand." Egan said yesterday, "that no matter what's happening. whether it's going good for you or bad for you. whether it's on television or m Pau- ley Pavilion or the USO Sports Cen- ter, the one thing you have to bring is your competitiveness." It was not the most graceful of les- sons. The Toreros, now 2-4 after Wednesday's loss to San Diego State, not only were dominated by the St John's team, but were intimidated to boot - by the 15th-ranked Redmen's reputation, by the crowd, by the trip to Jamaica, N.Y The whole thing was a mess But was it a waste? The answer may come quickly today, when the Toreros travel to Westwood to play 13th-ranked UCLA (Prime Ticket, 1 p.m.). This marks the first time 10 Egan's recollection that one of his USO teams has played two Top 20 schools in a week. ''I'm not so sure it's a good idea, either," he added. Certainly, Pauley Pavilion is not the ideal place to salve one's psycho- logical wounds. Ten NCAA champi- onship banners hang from the rafteN, and the current UCLA edi- tion, while unlikely to prompt invo- cations of John Wooden's name, is creditable. Four starters return from a team that went 21-10 in 1988, Jim Harrick's first year as coach. The Bruins are 3- 0 this season. For USD, 1t could be t. John's all over again. Still, Harrick, who coached at Pepperdine prior to his ascension and thus is intimately ac- quainted with the West Coast Confer- ence, senses a method in the Toreros' scheduling madness. "I did that a lot at Pepperdine. I played a lot of games like that," Har- rick said. "It always worked out for

On the horizon. meanwhile, is a bluer sky: eight straight home games, beginning in a week and in- cluding USD's first three conference games, against Santa Clara, Pepper- dine and Loyola Marymount. 'This is a tough deal here, going on the road and playing all these games," Egan said. "I knew the early schedule was going to be hard. What I'm concerned about is that the kids grow as competitors as much as any- thing else." Until USD's 85-75 loss to San Diego State, Egan had been marking such growth. Even in the loss to St. John's, his players regrouped from the disas- trous first half to outscore the Red- men, 41-24, in the second. Against the Aztecs, however, the Toreros seemed lo regress. Five USO players scored in double figures, the team shot 51 percent from the field and out-rebounded SDSU, 38-34 - and still it lost, decisively "Not to take anything away from San Diego State, but I really thought we were going to play better than that," Egan said. "We didn't do a very good job defensively - tbey got a lot of cheap baskets. "We went through the game, and executed and tried and everything - never quit - but never, ever really went after it.'' Such an effort in Pauley Pavilion likely would dig the Toreros a grave. Though UCLA has not impressed its coach, the Bruins have a solid 1-2 offensive punch in forwards Don Ma- cLean (20 points a game) and Trevor Wilson (17.3 points and a team-high 9.3 rebounds). "We've been struggling to get some consistency," Harrick said. "We're young at the guard line (soph- omores Gerald Madkins and Darrick Martin start), and I've been playing a lot of guys, trying to get the combi- nation I want." ••• Notes - Egan was uncertain of his starting lineup. If he decides to go with a smaller, quicker group, then 6- foot-8 senior John Jerome will start at center. If not, Jerome, whose scor- ing and rebounding averages (18.3 and 8.0, respectively) lead the team, moves to forward - with &-8 fresh- man Br Barnhard or 6-8 juruor

"Their spirit still remains among us." Kathleen Dugan USO professor read the memonal for Ignatius Elacurta the Jeswt pre ident of the Umvers1ty of Central America H spoke about Elacuria's work at the University in San Salvador and h1 attempts to negotiate peace be- tween the government and the rebel forces in El Salvador. "Th!S isn't Just to memorialize those few killed recently. It's for the thousands slain in El Salvador durmg the past years, especially the four women and Archbishop Oscar Romero, ' Dugan said. Four women, three nuns and a laywoman, were intercepted and slain while driving from the airport to their mission station on Dec, 2, 1980, and Romero was slain while saying Mass in a hospital chapel on March 24 1980. The program was sponsored by the Social Services Committee and Campus Ministry.

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Korean student Sister Koh at~remony.