Show nrurrr If ®be yrnrir°ffT)ri°“taflMBl°rayiry ' m gait Jake tribune Section C Monday Morning—August 3 Pur Rrcurileil N'orc l 1387 Page 1 ocal 2l7-20- Call By Dick Rosetta Tribune Sports Writer San Diego State University rose from consistent finishes of the 1981-8- 5 Doug Scovil era to the Western Athletic Conference title In 1987 middle-of-the-pa- under Coach first-yea- r Denny Stolz The bigger challenge for Stolz is keeping the Aztecs in the hunt in 1987 by fending off rankled back Todd Santos they were Just fourth in passing offense Six of the seven Aztec WAC wins were by a touchdown or less The '86 Aztecs were a team There will be 14 new starters (including place kicker) in 1987 The outlook (from tho outside) on Montezuma Mesa Invites pessimism especially since the Aztecs must go on the road to play the four teams picked with them in the top five of the WAC — BYU Air Force Wyoming and Hawaii “We bridged a lot of gaps with a good junior college recruiting season” Stolz reasoned “We have a good nucleus from our championship team and they're still hungry They know what being on top is like and they sort of like senior-dominat- Brigham Young University as the Cougars attempt to get back in the WAC title room Stolz who turned a Aztec team into last year’s 4 WAC champs and put SDS in a bowl game for the first time since 1969 says the league will have to Denny Stoltz “take it the title away from us because I know we’ll be as good as last year” Last year Therein lies some mighty intriguing statistics about just whether the Aztecs have arrived as a WAC “power” “The records are not a concern” said Sane tos who could become Division I’s leader — surpassing Fresno State's Kevin Sweeney who topped out at 10623 yards last beating BYU year “The championship again That’s our No 1 goal” lock on the title the Aztecs were only eighth out of nine teams in total offense seventh in scoring offense and candidate quarter even with Stolz said he wouldn’t be surprised if Santos breaks the record an obvious reference to the fact SDS will throw more since Santos needs 500 more yards than his sensational 2877- - - -1 8-- In derailing BYU’s 10-ye-ar it” One guy who likes it is Santos "You have to be around this team to appreciate the dedication to another title We know it and that's the main thing” said the Aztec QB who will be out to suprpass 10000 career passing yards in his senior season all-tim- yard junior season to surpass Sweeney "It's the record sort of a low priority It'll build as the season goes on My job is to make sure it doesn't get bigger than the team goal” Stolz said Who Santos will throw to is the question — at tight end wide receiver flanker and out of the backfield The Aztecs lost tight end Robert Await fullback Chris Hardy and the league's fifth leading receiver halfback Corey Gillmore “Our running back situation is totally suspect” Stolz said Proof of that statement is reflected in the fact sophomore tailback Ron Slack and senior fullback Troy Reed have just 15 collegiate carries between them By contrast Hardy carried 237 times a year ago Receiving is hardly a lynchpin either on this Aztec team Sophomore split end Alfred Jackson is a converted cornerback who along with sophomore flanker Monty Galbreath will be trying to ride their Holiday Bowl accomplishments (14 catches for 157 yards between them) into the '87 season Seniors Kevin Wells (center) Reggie Blaylock (guard) and Dave Des Rochers (tackle) will have to protect Santos while inexperiofenced people man the other two fensive spots Defensively the Aztecs have tackles Mike Hooper and Craig Skaggs back but Stolz admits “we don’t have any linebacker names "Our secondary is the strength of our team We’ve got three NFL draftees there in senior Harold Hicks senior Clarence Nunn and junior Mario Mitchell” Still the Aztecs lost C C up-fro- nt corner Steve Lauter off the league's third best pass defense Kicking-wis- e Wayne Ross is back as punter (403 per kick) and Stolz has who he describes as “the greatest place kicker I've ever seen in Junior college transfer Tyler Ackerson Southwestern College in Chula vista He just has to get it through the goalposts" That's the kicker on this Aztec team — getting things through the goalposts (kicks) and around the goalposts (touchdowns) They might be overrated Then again they were underrated in 1986 Aztec Glance: Last year: 4 (7--1 in WAC first place loser to Iowa in Holiday 8-- 39-3- 8 Bowl) 1987 Schedule: Sept 5 at UCLA Sept 12 Utah Sept 19 at Air Force Sept 26 at Oregon Oct 3 at Wyoming: Oct 10 UTEP Oct 17 Stanford Oct 24 at Long Beach State Oct 31 at Hawaii Nov 7 at BYU Nov 24 Colorado State Nov 21 New Mexico Returning Starters (8): Offense (3) Todd Santos quarterback Reggie Blaylock guard Dave Des Rochers (tackle) Defense (5) Mike Hooper tackle Craig Skaggs tackle Mario Mitchell Harold Hicks Clarence Nunn secondary Lettermen: (Back) 30 (Lost) 28 Strengths: Quarterback offensive guard punting defensive tackle secondary Weaknesses: Running backs receiving offensive tackle defensive ends linebackers place kicking Conference rank: Second Trappers Journey To Montana Face Billings Helena Special to The Tribune BILLINGS Mont — Fresh off their three-gam- e sweep of the Butte Copper Kings at Derks Field the Salt Lake Trappers take their act on the road this week for a seven-gam- e swing through Billings and Helena The Southern Division-leadin- g Traps who dropped two of three to the Mustangs here set last week are in Billings for a three-gam- e that begins Monday at 7:30 pm Right-handMike Humphrey will go on the mound for Salt Lake In his last start he pitched the Trap- pers to a 1 victory over the Mustangs From Billings the Trappers will move on j to Helena for four games with the Brewers in the first meeting between the two clubs this ' season Helena despite having the youngest team in the league was just 1ft games behind the first-plac- e Mustangs going into Sunday night’s games The Trappers who got the day off Sunday for travel routed the Copper Kings 1 Saturday as Yasuhiro Hiyama scattered six hits and struck out five in seven innings and Mike g ninth Malinak crashed his ' homer of the season The victory boosted Salt Lake’s record to 36-- 5 on the year and it boosted the Traps’ Derks Field record this summer to an unblemished 20-- 0 The Trappers return home August 10 to homestand against the open a seven-gam- e Mustangs and Brewers That kicks off a sea-- J stretch in which Salt Lake will play 15 of its final 21 games at home Lou Whitaker makes a textbook hook slide but Yankee catcher Mark Salas must not have been son-endi- J i i I ’ I By Dave Raffo UPI Sports Writer ' LAS VEGAS Nev — Mike Tyson owns all three official heavyweight championships aqd says he will defend against all legitamite contenders — except perhaps the most worthy decision Tyson won a unanimous over Tony Tucker Saturday night adding Tucker’s International Boxing Federation ti- tip to his collection Tyson already held the World Boxing Council and World Boxing As- sociation championships “I’m the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world I’ll fight any man who wants to fight” Tyson said after defeating Tucker at the Las Vegas Hilton Apparently that doesn’t include Michael Spinks whose 31-- 0 record matches Tyson’s and who also claims to be the true heavy- weight champion “He’s not on our agenda” said Tyson who will probably next meet Tyrell Biggs Oct 16 Jim Jacobs was more Tyson’s emphatic By Bob Rubin ' Knight-Ridd- er The controversies Newspapers stirred recently by the Lawrence Taylor and Joe Theismann books are just the beginning There are a whole gang of shockers coming including: Robbie Boron by Miami Dolphins’ Owner Joe Robbie With a hearty chuckle the author talks about the night he tore up slips of paper hnd threw them into the air to determine seat location in Joe Robbie Stadium He also re-- ’ veals how he resisted the idea of having the stadium named after him for a full 15 seconds until his children finally wore him - - down The Power of Bosltive Thinking by Brian Bosworth The author lists NFL uniform colors he will not wear hotels where he will not stay and warmup drills in which he will not participate I t i — ' Seattle 5 California 4 Texas 5 Baltimore 2 National League Cincinnati 5 San Francisco 4 (11) 2 (10) 3 Philadelphia Chicago New York 7 Montreal 4 Atlanta 10 Los Angeles 5 St Louis 9 Pittsburgh 1 Houston 6 San Diego 0 TV Sports tSPN 2 pm — Women’s Bowling Lady Fair Lanes Open 1 I won 5:30 Pirates pm — Baseball Cubs at 1 6 pm — Powerboat Racing Pop eye’s Offshore Grand Prlx ( tSPN Witt K's Four in ARLINGTON Rangers right-hand- 1 Texas (UPI) Bobby J Inning! - Texas Witt tied a ! ! record Sunday night by t ! striking out four consecutive batters in the second inning against the Baltimore Orioles Nineteen pitchers share the record foif strikeouts in an inning but only 10 have ' recorded them in order The latest was ! Mike Scott of Houston Sept 3 1986 Ray Knight struck out to open the in- -i ! ning Terry Kennedy then swung at the ball j third strike but reached when the popped out of catcher Mike Stanley’s glove Mike Young and Ken Gerhart fol-- j lowed with strikeouts “I don’t know who rubbed the baseballs up tonight but they were really dark” Witt said "It was almost like throwing a black ball It must have beep hard for the hitters to see” Witt struck out the last man he faced in the first inning for five straight leavj ' ing him one shy of the club record major-leagu- e I I 1 I 1 I I I i I impressed — he tags the Tiger out at the plate Sunday A wrapup of the day in baseball is on 2 too C-- 1 break his little body in two But mostly I’m just frustrated to the max I haven’t hit anybody since Nov 23” — Brian Bosworth “Yeah I swing the clubs pretty good ! I’m getting better Where’s Danny Ainge? He’s always saying what a great golfer he is I want to take him on I want his butt out here” — Larry Bird “With all due respect to Mark McGwire I don’t think I'!l see a man in my lifetime I wouldn’t say ‘ever’ or ‘never’ I just don’t think I’ll see it with my eyes When players get close things get different Mare atten- - ' tion More hurdles More pressure The opposing teams treat them more seriously than they used to They pitch them a little tougher It 60 home runs just doesn’t look possible” — Mike Schmidt I “We have no plans to fight Michael Spinks and you can write that with an exclamation point” Jacobs said The Tyson camp says Spinks gave up his title rather than fight Tyson Butch Lewis the promoter for Spinks says Tyson’s camp is trying to punish Spinks for pulling out of the HBO unification series that concluded Saturday night Lewis said promoter Don King and HBO officials are pressuring Bill Cayton to avoid Jacobs and Spinks If Spinks stayed in the series he would have met Tyson May 30 on HBO If they fight in the television future it will be on closed-circu- it and worth more money to the fighters Spinks’s brother Leon was the last undisputed champion holding the WBC and WBA crowns in 1978 Michael Spinks was stripped of his IBF title for refusing to fight the Tucker He instead met Gerry Cooney d and scored a knockout June 15 Spinks says he is champion because he has not lost in the ring after winning the IBF title from Larry Holmes in September 1985 top-rank- ed fifth-roun- Many boxing people feel a Tyson-Spink- s bout will come about because it is the fight the people want “It’s actually in pubic demand” said Ray world champion in his Leonard three-tim- e post-figanalysis on HBO “The public wants to see Mike Tyson fight Michael Spinks It’s an inevitable confrontation” Tyson plans to fight in December or January and again March 21 in Tokyo No opponents have been named “What bodies are they going to dig up now?” Holmes asked Tyson who has 27 knockouts was disappointed to go the distance against Tucker but he won by a wide margin Tucker 35-- 1 with 30 knockouts did hurt Tyson in the opening seconds with a left hook that lifted Tyson’s legs “I want a rematch bad” said Tucker who was an 11-- 1 underdog “Maybe me and Michael Spinks can get it on and the winner can fight Tyson” Tucker said his right index finger was injured in training a week before the bout and it bothered him after the second round "He was very game he took some shots” Tyson said “He threw fast punches and he punches well” Afterward Tyson was crowned at a garish hour-lon- g coronation ceremony orchestrated by King Celebrities Eddie Murphy Dennis Hopper and Heather Thomas were part of the proceedings and the crown was placed on Tyson’s head by Muhammad Ali “Does this mean I’m going to get paid bigger purses now?” Tyson asked King Tyson who received 825 million for the bout appeared uncomfortable strutting in the crown a chinchilla robe and IBF title belt while holding a jeweled scepter “I feel like a freak” he said after the ceremony Earlier Saturday Spinks called a news conference and held a mock coronation ceremony He wore a cardboard Burger King crown draped a bath towel over his shoulders and talked about Tyson “It would be stupid on their part to let a fight like this pass us by” Spinks said “This is g THE fight it’s a fight” death-defyin- I i i — UPI Photo Mike Tyson Boxing’s New King You Want Controversial Books by Sports Figures? Try These i t — ‘King’ Tyson to Fight All Comers — Except Spinks i ! New York 8 Detroit 5 Toronto 11 Cleveland 5 Oakland 6 Minnesota 5 (11) Kansas City 13 Boston 5 Chicago 7 Milwaukee 3 “I wouldn't mind playing for the RaidI’ve always enjoyed playing with the best and against the best I’d like to play with Marcus Allen but I’d also like to team-leadin- ! American League ers 9-- I —Sports Capsulczz Quotable 5-- j 1 i er j 2:17-200- 2r :WAC Champ Aztecs May Be Overrated ' Editor'! Noto: Thl a onottwr In a Mrlo o( ortl-- d onalyilrtg tho 1917 WoOorn Athletic Confer-enc- e football propctv Today: San Dleao State Sport Information Cull I Quit (Again) by Sugar Ray Leonard The author analyzes and grades each of his ment speeches then picks his favorite The Future Belongs to Me by Kareem Abd- - and Tony Dorsett The authors vise athletes on how to invest wisely for their retirement years Their diversified portfolios include holdings in ESM “Ishtar” and DeLor-ea- n Motors ar ad- Cane Do by Jimmy Johnson The author Miami Hurricane football coach speaks frankly about the terrible effects of Miami’s humidity on hair and how it nearly persuaded him to take a job at Arizona Commentary plans to play in either the SEC WAC ACC CFL or NSC Life is a Disgrace by Howard Cosell The author calls for the abolition of all athletic activity and anything else that makes people smile because it’s all shallow and corrupt Nutty Buddy by Buddy Ryan The coach of the NFL Philadelphia Eagles reminisces fondly about the time he put his own son on waivers and how he gathers the entire family every Christmas to tell them they were overrated and worthless Stroke of Luck by Don Strock Think it’s easy to back up Dan Marino for a lousy 300 grand? The author talks about the pressures involved the tough decisions he faces every Sunday Should he wear the warmup jacket? Dare he bring out his Have Gun Will Travel by Jeff George the highly sought- - after prep quarterback who played at Purdue last season before transferring to Miami The author announces he will definitely play in the Big Ten this year either for Illinois Indiana Michigan State Ohio State Michigan Iowa Minnesota Northwestern or Wisconsin He reveals tentative ’88 David is Goliath by David Robinson The world's tallest ensign laughs and says he would play for Army before the San Antonio Spurs He tells of looking forward to a bidding war between the Lakers and Celtics and reveals that Red Auerbach already has offered to adopt him claiming Robinson is the seven-foblack son he has always waqted ot Book ’Em Horns by Ivan Boesky The author describes how he got his start in insider trading as a football recruiter in the Southwest Conference Linebacker Laffs by Hugh Green The author tells his 10 funniest stories barely controlling himself when describing how he can make children cry with just a glare If I Can Make It There by Ed Whitson The author lists his favorite New York hot spots and how to escape them and offers helpful tips on checking the car for unpleasant surprises before starting The Snorting News by Mercury Morris The author tells how to turn drug addiction and a jail term into a way of making a handsome living I Can’t Fight But I’m White by Gerry Cooney The big lug describes his plan to come back every five years to pick up a few million until or unless a legitimate Caucasian heavyweight comes along Give Me Some Five Daddio by Ivan Lendl a hidden side as a We learn the author has Jr swinger and party animal He reveals the time he once had three beers sang some bawdy Czech folk songs and threw up The Quest by Bowie Kuhn The title refers to the author’s lifelong worldwide search for a personality and his disappointment over failing They Call Me Stiff by Marc Wilson In this confession the Los Angeles Raiders’ quarterback agrees with his critics that he’s a rotten player He describes how his own teammates boo him and try to push him out of the huddle Draftnik by Howard Buchsbaum The author tells of his year-roun- d obsession with the annual NFL draft He recounts putting an entire ballroom full of people to sleep at his 20th high school reunion with an analysis of this year's offensive tackles Sports Cliches Nobody Believes (Including the Speaker) A collection that includes such favorites as “I don't care about my individual statistics” “We’re not contemplating a managerial change” “We don’t look at the score-board- ” and “I never got my wakeup call" i t i |