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. The rose went to
the U S Supreme Court, which in a 5-4 ruling said
the NCAA was a private group and didn’t have to
provide the due process Tarkanian had sought
Tarkanian resigned in J991 after publication of
photos showing former UNLV’ player* in a hot tub
with convicted gambler Richard Perry
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