News Scrapbook 1989

C. 8 F,,___,_.__ After a jmior-coJlege odyssey, Shawn ; · 's ext stop is ... MFORT ----------- ZONE By Chris Clarey Starr Writer T he odyssey was unplanned. One place Shawn Jamison never had heard of simply led to another. The only common thread was basketball. said. Example No. l· With Monday's game against Texas Tech hanging in I.he 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 SDSU

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per-view, according to Cox Cable •, . XTRA-AM, which put the word out that it rrught broadcast this week's CIF-San Diego Section high school football championships and the re- mainder of USD's basketball sched- ule, has withdrawn its good inten- tions. The new word: Both would have lost money . . . Prime Ticket will televise tomorrow's USD-UCLA (Geoff Witcher-Quinn Buckner) and USC-San Diego State (Tom Kelly- Paul Sunderland) basketball games You know acqumng big-time sports programming has become habit-formin_g _when TNT, the day it paid $650 mllhon 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 a executive producer of the sagging he Pat Sajak Show" on CBS ... Va- r1e~y reported that a merger of Prime Ticket (3.8 million sub- scribers) and SportsChannel of Los Angel (90,000 and dropping) is in the works But a) SportsChannel's rights to Dodgers and Angels pro- gramrrung goes on the auction block again in 1991 anyway and b) if SportsChannel were to fold wouldn't it be easy for Prime Tick~t to just pick up the pieces?

10 a.m. BC's A-Team, Dick Enberg and Bill Walsh, are the announcers . . . Channel 8 i carrying the CBS double-header, Cowboys-Eagles (Vern Lundqui t-Terry Bradshaw) and Giants-Broncos (Pat Summerall- John Madden) starting at 10 a.m ... ESPN's prime-time game is Patri- ots-Dolphin ... Ratings update: Up at CBS (two percent), ABC (eight per- cent) and ESPN (13 percent) and down at NBC (two percent) .. Brent Musburger and the gang at "The NFL Today" did a 1 :landy job of botching Sunday's postgame show, breath! ly convincing viewers that the Packers had lost to the Bue- can rs. Why didn't CBS just put the game on the air with Green Bay un- d rtaklng its last-minute, game-win- ning drive' ... HBO's "Inside the FL," once an enjoyable hour of h1ghhghts, is now a weakly - er, weekly how that ha run out of steam. The FL Film footage was always the star of the how; now only 12 minutes or o run. As for the for- mat, 1t IS hard to tell If the buffoon- ery by Len Dawson and Nie Buonl- conti I called for In the script or comes naturally Pay-per-PadrH The San Diego Cable Sport etwork and ;he Padr ,expected to ign a new three-- year contract today, priced a 50- game pay-per-view package at $187.50, or $3.75 per teleca t. Last year's 40-game package cost $140, $3.50 per. Smgle gam~ cost $6.96. NolH nd 1tatic About 25,000 hou eholds signed to watch last night's Leonard-Duran fight on pay-

First came a community college mCasper, 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. ' ice people but flat, flat fla " Jamison said ow, after a two-year course m U.S geography, basketball has brought him home· to Southern California, to family, to the comfort zone 'It feels good to be back in the sun, feels nght," said Jarruson, a &- foot 8 235-pound Junior fo ard at D ego State. Thts IS what I anted." And what Co ch Jim Brandenburg had ho for. Through six games and four Victories, Jamison is leading the Aztecs m scoring at 15 points per game, rebounding at 6.2 per game and spectacular dunks, of whkh he has s veral. Tonight at 7·30 in the po rena against • C h will attempt to lead his new team to a fifth consecutive victory. "I'm not at the top of my game yet, but Im on my way up,' he said. Jamison's comment was full of confiden e, yet appropriate. Up after all, is his favorite direction. Point guards dribble and drive Centers shuffle and box out. Ja:nison j~mps - high enough to grm at a rm; high enough to draw all eyes his direction. "He really gets off the ground" said~ Hank Egan, wh~ team lost, 85-75, 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 jumping ability." For now, that ability will have to compensate for Jamison's lack of polish in other areas His outside jumpers do not yet go through baskets. Hi decisions do not always make good sense ''Shawn's a very talented athlete but he's still raw," Brandenburg '

clinging to a f1ve-pomt lead late in the game against USD, Jamison caught a pa s in ide and tried an ill-advised, off-balance turnaround Jumper - a shot that never reached the hoop. 'We need a name for that one" Brandenburg said. "That hot is' new to me." Of course, for everv moment Jamison raises Brandenburg's blood pressure, there 1s another in which he transforms his coach mto a behever. It was Jamison who scored the winning po nt from the free-throw Im in the 5Hi0 victory ver Texas Tech; Jamison who held U D' best player, John J romc, to a handful of hots; Jamison who took two long teps a d dunked over two~ That Jamison is playmg maior- college basketball at all is a source of surpr1 e and pride to those who have known him. Growing up in Cemto . he Vias c dered a problem child an underachiever in the classroom who was d1fflcult to reach and to inspir , 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 be an to grow up." "We had a close relationship," Jam1Son said. "Coach Stewart helped me a lot - getting me on See Jamiaon on Page D-2

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Hank Egan, ..,IJSD's basketball coach, waited unlil after the deluge a 50-18 first-half blister- rng by powerful St. John's and 74-59 eventual defeat - to assert the obv1- ous to his young players. The message· They can run, but they cannot hide. Or was 1t: They can un, but they d better not stop? "I just 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 in Pau- ley Pavilion or the USD Sports Cen- er, the one thing you have to bring is last week It was not the most graceful of Jes- sons_ The Toreros, now 2-4 after The whole thing was a mess. But 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 in Egan's recollection that one of his USD teams has played two Top 20 schools in a week. order for them to grow, so that wlieii ou ..,,_.,_..,..,,"~ mto your conference and you go mto San FranctsCo and anta Clara, your team is ready to Egan IS hoping for such a response from his own club, which IS complet- ing perhaps the most trying stretch on its calendar. After today, the Toreros will have played five straight games on the road; they've was it a waste? 1 'l'm "n • eon c:!nr&a it'C! p ay in that atmosphere." your competitiveness." 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.

On the horizon. meanwhile, is a bluer sky: eight straight home games, beginning in a week and in- eluding 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- Until USD's 85-75 loss to San Diego State, Egan had been marking such growth. Even in the los to St. John's, his players regrouped from the disas- trous first half to outscore the Red- Against the Aztecs, however, the Toreros seemed to regress. Five USD 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 - they got "We went through the game, and executed and tried and everything - thing else." a lot of cheap baskets.

read the memonal for Ignatius Elacurta, the Jesuit president of the Uruvers1ty of Central America He poke bout Elacuria's work at the Uruvers1ty in San Salvador and hlS attempts to negotiate peace be- tween the government and the rebel forces In El Salvador. ''Thi 1Sn'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, ere mtercepted and slam while dnvmg from the airport to their mi Ion station on Dec, 2, 1980, and Romero was slain while saymg Ma n a hospital chapel on ar h 24, 1980. The program was sponsored by the Social Sernces Committee and campus mtstry.

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