1990_04 Insight April 1990

              Coaches share sports blunders
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DARRIN JONES
STAFF WRITER
Although sports are a form of
entertainment, coaches and fans
alike would agree their genre isn't
comedy.
People automatically associate
'humor' and 'sports' with bloopers or blunders. And the humor is
not just limited to on-the-field
incidents.
Humor in sports is inevitable
as long as humans participate in
them. Here arejust a few examples
as related by CSUF coaches;
NOTEXACTLYA'CRUNCH-
JNG' TACKLE
Football coach Jim Sweeney
tells this story about former Bulldog running back and current
graduate assistant Kelly Skipper.
TCelly'sbuiltlikeabowlingball
and hasa low centerof gravity. He
had the ability to be able to run
inside or outside.
He was hard togeta hold of;he
would just juke tacklers, not allowing them to hit him head on.
'Against Western Illinois on a
run inside, a big, strong tackier
missed Kelly, and grabbed him
around the waist. His hand went
down Kelly's pants and he got the
back of his jock strap.
The jock started to expand [as
Skipper continued forward]. Kelly
went the full five yards with this
guy hanging onto his jock strap.
God only knows what was going
on underneath those pants.
'It looked like a tug boat pulling the Queen Mary.'
THE WRONG-WAY RUNNER
Track and field coach Red Estes
tells a story of a runner with a bad
sense of direction and of the time
FSU's pole vault mats wound up
on Ashlan Avenue.
The first story occurred during
a training camp for the track team
inthefallofl9o7.
'We have a run called the Music
Mountain Run. It is 93 miles and
we have run it every year for 25
yeans.
1 tell everybody "that it is impossible to get lost on this run. But
Karen Rotherham not only proved
me wrong once, but she came back
the next year and got lost again a
different way.
There's only two forks in the
entire road. She wound up going
up the top of Music Mountain,
which is a horrendous run —
straight up to a look-out station.
'Wehad forestrangersout looking for her and every thing. She
has been the brunt of every corn-
looked like a pop-up snake.
'We're out in the middle of the
street at one in the morning, with
cars going around us. It took abou t
40 minutes to load them, just me
and him.
'My son wasn't very big and
wasn t much help. But if the child
labor laws would have been
around, I would have been shot.'
THE ONE THAT DIDN'T
GETAWAY
Most everyone has heard the
old tale about the big fish who got
away. But women's basketball
coach Bob Spencer tells about the
time in 1962 he kept a big-time
recruit from transfering while he
was athletic director at John F.
People automatically associate 'humor' and
'sports' with bloopers or blunders. And the
humor is not just limited to on-the-field incidents.
pass joke. We gave her an award.
Wrong Way Rotherham.'
TROUBLE IN THE STREETS
Also, Estes remembers the time
when he and his 6-year-old son
were coming home from the West
Coast Relays in 1971.
'I had an old Chevy 1949 flatbed truck that we used to take our
pole vault pits down there [to
Ratcliffe Stadium) for the high
school pole vault. The mats are
bigand heavy and it took about 10
guys to load them.
'We had to bring them back the
night after the meet. We had them
all loaded on this truck. Just big
old bundles tied down with ropes.
The mats are real spongy, just
like a big rubber band. We were at
the intersection of Fresnoand Ashlan. And the rope broke. Pop!
Those things went everywhere. It
Kennedy College in Nebraska.
'I had called to schedule a game
wi th Simpson Collegein Iowa.The
men'sbasketball coach, DickStarr,
was also the athletic director at
Simpson.
'When I called, his wife answered the phone and said 'Is this
Keith Rasmussen (Rasmussen was
a 6-foot, 9-inch highly touted recruit for JFK] calling?'Well,Ididn't
say anything.
Thewifesaid, 'Coach isn'there
now, but he'll get back to you
shortly with regard to you transfering from JFK to Simpson. I
didnt say anything, so I didn't lie.
I just didn't answer.
'So, I just went ahead and said
'OK, thank you' and hung up. I
got right on the phone to our men's
basketball coach, Bob Serve,
and said, Tou get down here and
talk to Keith if you want him to
stay.'
'Our coach talked to him, and
he stayed.'
WHAT, ME WORRY?
Spencer relates this story about
Serve, who had played major
league baseball for the New York
Yankees, Kansas City Athletics
and the Houston Astros.
Serve played under legendary
manager Casey Stengel while with
the Yankees. One day, Stengel
walked into the dugout and said,
Tomorrow, one of youse guys is
going to be traded to Kansas City.'
Serve looked to his right and
then looked to his left, only to find
out that he was the only one in the
dugout.
GIVE THE COACH AN ERROR
Baseball coach Bob Bennett has
coached long enough to know tha t
even coaches make mistakes.
Once during a practice, Bennett recalls being upset about the
way one of his players was bunting.
Uo, I said, 'Here, let me show
you how.' So, I took and bunted
the first pitch and it hit me in the
nose.'
Bennett, while coaching at Bullard High, remembers being out-
staged by his infant son while
delivering a post-game lecture.
Bennett was carrying on a very
serious discussion, but his players
didn't appear to be getting the
message, as they were snickering
and giggling. Behind him, to his
surprise, was his 3-year-old son
doing an impersonation of him.
Also, Bennett recalled the time
his high school team left the field
after only two were out.
Running into the dugout to
help his players memories,
Bennett slippea on the steps only
to land flat On his back, still talking.
Paull recently sent out a questionnaire to all deans of schools,
asking if professors were implementing AIDS education into their
curriculum.
"Peopledon'trealize,butAIDS
isn't just a health issue," said
Gitchel. "It's an educational issue,
a social issue and a personnel issue," he said.
The latter issue affects virtually
all people in the workforce, he
said. Gitchel gave the example of
the employee who has contracted
the HIV virus. Whether or not coworkers should know and how to
deal with a fellow employee with
the virus are two topics of controversy, he said.
Paull said he's received more
than 50 percent of the questionnaires back. Of those received, he
said a surprisingly high number
of professors, from business to
social work, have already made
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AIDS education a regular part of
the curriculum..
Once all the information is in,
the committee will store it for future reference, he said.
One of the more active roles the
committee has played came last
semester when they sponsored a
telecommunication conference
last semester.
The three-hour telecommunication conference pooled a number of legal and medical experts
weD-versed on the AIDS issue, said
Wetzel. The problem was the information reached only 20 pairs of
ears, less than the 60 the committee had hoped for.
The committee will also soon
receive about $600 from a percentage of campus condom machine
sales,said Wetzel. Themoney will
most likely go toward AIDS-re-
lated literatureora guest speaker,
he said.
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Pomona, Beiden Field, 7 p.m.
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