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Coaches bring attention to Miami ■ FAME Two big-name coaches. Pal Riley and Jimmy Johnson, have pu? Miami on the block m the world of sports Ml AMI (API — This i* « place plagued with oimi' and drugs, ethnic tension and traffic grid lock. humidity, hurricane* and NCAA violation* But a* a home to coaching mkibritim. Miami thrive* Jimmy Johnson and Pat Riley represent what the image-obsessed city holds must dear — change. chain piomthipt and charisma Even their hair ia famous "All of a sudden we're getting superstar type* moving into town." said Charlie Cinnamon, a longtime public relations con sultant in Miami. "We now become certtflably hot ** Such heat is difficult to gener ate. even in the subtropics. Not long ago. Sylvester Stallone was the city’s lone heavyweight But now Miami can boast the best paid. best-known coaches in the NFL and NBA And boast Miami will. "Jimmy Johnson and Pat Riley portray the image of well-to-do people who can live anywhere and coach anywhere," former Mayor Xavier Suarez said. "They choose Miami in great part because of the kind of city it Is. "They fit the image They're intense, innovative, young-think ing people They're winners.’* Suarez said Although that's the image Mia mi strives to project, the city is widely regarded as a paradise lost rather than the home of winners Amid all the prcblems. the glit ter of South Beach ami Biscayne Bay casts only a superficial sheen. But Riley and Johnson like it her*. Riley, a former resident of Lo* Angeles and New York, became coach of the Miami Heat in Sep tember His attar hineut to Miami i* now Much (Hat he complained la«t Mrwk at the proa pact of hit t*»m moving 20 mllm north to Broward County Johnson* fondness for South Florida date* back to the UMMa. when ho coot hod at the IHiim ally of Miami Even after mining the Dellas Cowboy*. fohrMon Foot a homo in Kay Largo and made no *« rat of hi* desire to work for tha Miami Dolphin* That with cam# tru# la«t month whan tly> Dolphin* hired lohnson to raptac* tha be lea guered Don Shu la Although tha team'* »•« record wa* Shula's biggest prohiam. a recoding hair lino may have contributed to tha maion that ha was [»*t hi* pnnw Johnson and Rilay *pon full head* of hair that suggest youth ful vigor and xttmulat# specula tion about thair styling strategy Thair 'do* are different, yet sim ilar. "You can have a tornado, and thair hair won't mov*." «aid internationally known hair dresser loan Eber "They're prob ably control freak*, right? Their hair i* controlled Obviously lt'» pari of their personality " Riley recently revealed to Esquire magaxine that he u*«« Sebastian gel to attain hi* slicked back European look Johnson, whose girlfriend wa* once a licensed cosmetologist. is believed to favor a blow-dryer and spray on his helmet hard hair Their fob title fit* head coach ‘’You've very lucky in Miami." said Stephen Moody of the Vidal Sassoon Academy in l4» Ange les "You have two cuechos who have some of the finest quality of hair in their leagues “ The pride Miamians take in their coaches' coiffures is tem pered only by recent slovenly performanc es from the Heat and Dolphin*. Ironically, the city’* most successful coach of late it also the moat obscure Doug Mac Lean's surprising Florida Panther* own one of the best records in the NHL. yet the i»«m is losing money and may move When II corns* |o image. Mo 1 *n out only laugh off com parisons with Johnson and Rile* "I'm «ot in their category," Mac Dean wid ’i don't know what my Knags is. I'm more con cerned about trying to wtn and what rnv kids snd wife think a I roe, They think I'm a hell of a guy '* In Miami. Johnson'* wlsbnty eclipses *v*n the president Whan last month's naw* con far w»« to announce Johnson's hir ing began, total television sta tions covered the event, preempting the end of s news conference by President Clinton "JJ owns this town." mdio talk «how host jell DaPorraat said “I was in a restaurant last night when ha walked in. and you needed chiropractic emergenc y help with all the necks that were snapping That’s the kind of attention ha commands.” If there’s a bigger figure in coaching, it’s Riley After all. ha takes a limousine to work John son merely drives a (imratte "Riley ha* one thing Johnson may not have, and that’s ses appeal." Snare* said "Most of the secretaries in mv law firm would marry him right now ” So it matter* not that Riley's Heal are below SOD. or that John son s Dolphins have yet to play a game Miami believes its image is improving And a* another sports talebrity oru* said, image is everything “This might change the par caption of how people around tha country view South Honda,” Da Forrest said I think Johnson will end up being a poster child for tha tourism board You tain t find a better spokesman lie's a guy who wants to put on a pair of shorts and head out on his boat. "Riley’s the city slicker His decision to play mil a mage part of bis life here changes the par caption that Miami is a lousy place to live " Tartarian is no Hall of Fame sure thing ■ COACH: Despite having the best winning percentage m college coaching history, the former UNIV coach has several strikes agamst him SPRINGFIELD, Maw (API The votes are in And the mm ond-gueoung 1* about to begin loo as the Basketball Hal! of Kamo announce* tni* year * inductees Monday. On* of the mom closely watched name* to tome mil of the nominating committee is that of ferry Tariutntan. who ha* the best winning pen outage of any college coach in the hiilory of the game and a record of run-in* with the NCAA almost a* long Tarkanian i* one of five coach**, 14 player* and one contributor considered by the Honors Com mittee election requires 14 votes from the 24-mem ber committee Also nominated as coaches were bun Haskins of Texas-EI Paso, Coy Lewis of Houston. Ten Win ter. who coached in both the pro leagues and col lege and Antonio Dias-Miguel. who guided Spain's National Team for 27 years Proposed as player* were Dick Harnett, Roger Brown. George Gervin. David Thompson. Jo Jo White, Dennis Johnson. Larry Costello, Artis Gilmore. Gail Goodrich. Jamas! Wilkes. Amie Risen. George Yard ley, Nancy Lieberman-Clin* and the late Kresimir Conic. Carol Eckman. who started the first women's national collegiate tournament in turn}, was nom inated as a contributor. Election requires 14 vote* from the 24 member committee Some of the candidates, including Thompson and Gervin. have had Iheir share of problems off the court. ‘Not all inductees to any sport* Hsll of Faroe are angels, said Basketball Hall of Fame president |oe O'Brien Hut. he said. there t< a big difference between having "warts on your character" and “totally besmirching the game " Garvin, one of the game's most prolific scorers, turned pro after losing his college scholarship for slugging an opponent in an NCAA tournament game later, when h» starred with the San Antonio Spurs, he entered a drug rehabilitation program The acrobatic Thompson, who led North C ar oiina State over UCLA and Bill Walton en route to the 1974 NCAA championship and then starred m boah the ABA and NBA with the Denver Nuggets, also fell prey to cocaine At the height of his drug problems, he did a brief stint at a prison camp for beating his wife Both Garvin and Thompson now run programs aimed at helping disadvantaged youngsters. Garvin in San Antonio and Thompson in North Carolina Tarkanian, who returned to coaching this season at his alma mater Fresno Stale, continues his win ning way* on the court. With Saturday s 74-?© victory over Wyoming boosting the Bulldog* to 14-7. Tarkanian still main tains a record-winning percentage of more than 83 percent established over 24 season* at Lung Bea< h State and UNLV Tarkanian’* battles with the NCAA tn the I9?0s when be was at f-ong Beach State followed him to UNLV The NCAA placed both schools on probe lion and in an unprecedented move, ordered Tarkanian suspended for two years He fought the suspension in the courts and con tinued coaching at UNLV where his 1990 squad won the NCAA championship. 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