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Emerald WEDNESDAY October 16,1996 UCLA coach cleared in recruitment violation ■ VIOLATION: An NCAA investigation finds basketball coach Jim Harrick innocent of any wrongdoing The Associated Press LOS ANGELES — UCLA basketball coach Jim Harrick has reportedly been cleared of violating NCAA rules in the sale of a car he owned to the sis ter of a top recruit. Neither the Pacific-10 nor UCLA would com ment Tuesday on reports that a conference investi gation had not turned up any wrongdoing by the Bruins coach. Both the conference and the university have been looking into the sale of a car by Harrick’s son, Glenn, to Lisa Hodoh on Sept. 20. The sale came two days after Baron Davis, the woman’s younger brother, verbally committed to play for the Bruins. Davis is a highly recruited 6 foot-1 point guard who began his senior year at Santa Monica Crossroads High last month. Jim Muldoon, the Pac-lO’s assistant commis sioner, said from his Walnut Creek, Calif., office he could neither confirm nor deny the reports in Tues day’s editions of the Los Angeles Daily News and South Bay Daily Breeze. “We expect the investigation to be concluded by the end of the week, that’s the only comment 1 can make at this time,” Muldoon said. “The process is not quite completed.” UCLA Sports Information Director Marc Dell ins said the school would not comment until it hears from the Pac-10. Both newspapers quoted sources as saying noth ing serious had been uncovered by the investiga tion into allegations that UCLA violated NCAA rules against providing extra benefits to recruits. The Daily News said Harrick might be repri manded by athletic director Peter Dalis for failing to report the sale after finding out about it. If the reports are correct, Davis will be eligible to play for the Bruins as a freshman in the 1997-98 season. “We feel good, really good,” an unidentified UCLA official was quoted as saying by the Daily News. On Monday, Harrick talked about everything re garding the upcoming college basketball season ex cept the investigation. Asked if the investigation had been a distraction on the eve of the official start of practice Tuesday, Harrick replied, “Not to me.” Harrick and others connected with the university are not allowed to comment on orders of Dalis, who attended Monday’s basketball media day. Though the 1991 Chevy Blazer, bought in 1990, was always registered in his father’s name, Glenn Harrick said it was his car “from the day it was bought,” and that he got his father’s signature on the title when he recently began thinking of selling it. According to DMV procedures, the registered owner must sign over title. Glenn Harrick has said he “didn’t even think (the transaction) could be an NCAA violation, didn’t think twice. I had no idea.” Glenn Harrick received $5,000 for the vehicle, which has more than 112,000 miles and, according to sources, has been in four wrecks. Sources also said the vehicle was appraised last week for $4,500. Added depth means higher goals for Runge ■ BASKETBALL: Oregon’s women’s team has hopes of taking Pac-10 title away from Stanford By Mark McTyre Sports Editor “You play like you practice, so practice like champi ons.” The words spoken by Oregon women’s assistant bas ketball coach Fred Litzenberger at the beginning of the Ducks first practice tells it all. This year, the coaches and players alike believe that they have the chemistry to make a run at perennial Pacific-10 Conference cham pions Stanford. “Since I’ve been here, I think we do have the best chance [to beat Stanford],” senior Arianne Boyer said at Oregon’s first practice on Tuesday. “It will depend on how the newcomers fit into the system in the first cou ple of weeks.” As always, that is the question. With five seniors and five newcomers making up much of the roster, head coach Jody Runge has the job of finding a spot for every one. “I think realistically we really have challenges at every position,” Runge said. “I think there is no one’s job who is sitting there thinking there job is really safe. I think that is a good thing because our returning players have always had to deal with the stress of performing every night.” Two of the new players expected to relieve the pres sures off some of the Ducks will be 6-foot-5 freshman Jenny Mowe and junior transfer Natalie Hughes. Mowe averaged nearly 25 points, 13 rebounds and five blocks a game during her high school career while earning Ore Turn to BASKETBALL, Page 12 MARK McTYRE/Emerald Oregon women’s assistant basketball coach Fred Litzenberger demostrates to his players the correct way to make an over head pass during the Ducks’ first practice of the season. The Ducks have five new players this season. Football is a strange game through the viewfinder of a camera They say you learn something new everyday. Over the weekend, 1 learned what it takes to photo graph a football game. The Emerald sports staff decided to make a road trip out of the Stanford game. Four of us piled into a car and drove to the Bay Area to report on the game. With Stanford giving us only two re porter passes and two photography pass es, I was the odd man out and picked up a camera to shoot the Ducks game against the Cardinal. The good part was that I didn’t have to get dressed up for the game. Reporters are usually in their Sunday best when they sit in the press box, but photographers ba sically wear anything they wish to, so I ditched the skirt and wore jeans. I still must not have looked like a pho tographer because the Stanford field secu rity guys seemed to question my credentials every time I turned around. One particular guy must have woken up on the wrong side of the bed that morning and he was less than pleasant when he said to me, “Where’s your armband?” OPINION I had put it around my leg and told him so. “It's an armband, not a legband,” he said. I tried to tell him that it would not fit on the arm of my sweater because it wouldn’t stay put. “No excuses,” he said. “It’s an arm band, not a legband.” So I tugged it off my leg and put it around my arm. A few minutes later he was asking me again about my creden tials, as if 1 were some random person on the field with a very expensive camera and without a pass. So after the guy finally left me alone, I could concentrate on the game. One thing I hadn’t realized is that photographers have a very different view of the game than anybody in the stands. Although it feels like you’re part of the action, I missed a iot of what was happening be cause I had to watch it through a tiny viewfinder. My camera was put on autofocus, so in essence I didn’t have to do much. But I re ally wish that Oregon head coach Mike Bellotti would have given me the signals for the plays so I would have had some idea where to shoot on each play. And unlike the Ducks’ previous games, I couldn’t rely on every play being a pass. Oregon not only ran the ball more, but Tony Graziani scrambled, making it more difficult to guess what was going to hap pen. That may be good in order to confuse the opponent’s defense, but it makes it tough to shoot. I also had to make it look like I knew what I was doing so I wouldn’t make a fool out of myself. It worked for most of Turn to DEYOUNG, Page 12
