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raculty/Statt Night
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Sonics owner lauds labor deal
Seattle is looking to
reconnect with its fans by
using a new ‘Sonics
Madness ’program
By Jim Cour
The Associated Press
SEATTLE — Barry Ackerley
loves the NBA’s new labor agree
ment.
Making a rare appearance at a
news conference Tuesday, the
Seattle SuperSonics’ owner ap
plauded the agreement that was
reached last Wednesday to bring
an end to the lockout that threat
ened the season.
“I think it’s going to give us, the
owners, an opportunity to get a lit
tle bit better handle on our costs,”
Ackerley said.
“I think in the long term, speak
ing as a businessman, it’s impor
tant that you always have some
control or at least a way to estimate
how to control your costs, whatev
er business you’re running.”
Ackerley said it was important
for the owners to reign in escalat
ing costs that saw teams signing
players to $100 million contracts.
“I think this agreement is going
to be extremely helpful for the
game,” he said. “I think it will give
the owners an opportunity to get a
better handle on the costs of oper
ating a team.
“Salaries are related to
years played in the league
now, and there’s a rookie
scale.”
Ackerley, chairman and
CEO of The Ackerley Group, said
he didn’t know whether the NBA
was headed for $150 million or
$200 million contracts before the
new labor agreement was ham
mered out. And he didn’t think the
league was doomed because of its
huge contracts.
“I don’t think it would have
gone to Armageddon,” he said.
“Armageddon is a terrible thing.
My goodness gracious, I hope not. ”
Ackerley said he thinks the new
deal is a fair one for the players,
too. If it wasn’t, there probably
wouldn’t have been a season, he
said.
“I’m very delighted they have
been able to split the difference,”
he said. “Do I think that this will
hurt the game? I have absolutely no
idea. I know we’re working very
hard in Seattle to reconnect with
our fans.”
That’s what Tuesday’s news con
ference was all about. Ackerley sat
at a table at the Sonics’ practice fa
cility and faced the press with team
president and general manager
Wally Walker and new coach Paul
Westphal. He discussed the team’s
newprogram, “Sonics Madness.”
Ackerley announced the Sonics
will hold a scrimmage Jan. 27 at
the Key Arena with free admis
sion. In addition, the Sonics will
give their season ticket holders a
ticket for no charge to see the team
play the Vancouver Grizzlies Jan.
30 in an exhibition game at Key
Arena.
Jordan retirement in the offing
The announcement will
probably be made today,
say teammates, friends
By Jim Litke
The Associated Press
CHICAGO — For six months,
Michael Jordan teased, taunted
and tantalized a nation awaiting
his answer.
At last, he appears to have one.
The greatest player in NBA
history and the most popular ath
lete since Muhammad Ali is ex
pected to announce his retire
ment Wednesday, a source with
close ties to the NBA told the As
sociated Press on Monday night.
The Bulls scheduled a news con
ference for noon EST Wednes
day.
If so, it would be the second
time in five years that Jordan has
walked away from the game.
“I knew Michael wasn’t coming
back,” Bulls free agent Dickey
Simpkins said today at the team’s
training site in Deerfield. “He
dropped hints last season and last
summer that this would probably
be his last go-around.
“Ending on top was how he
wants to do it and that’s about the
best way you can do it.”
Just as with Jordan’s first retire
ment, a number of factors — his
age, a picture-perfect ending to
last season, a fractured beginning
for this one — appear to have in
fluenced his decision. And just
like last time, Jordan could
change his mind and return at
some point.
“We look forward to seeing him
sometime in late March when he
makes his return again in Market
Square Arena,” Pacers coach Lar
ry Bird said.
But for now, he is expected to
once again leave the game that
bears his indelible mark, leave it
when he’s at the top, the way he
said he would.
“This is a man who truly, as
far as I’m concerned, is the mod
ern day Babe Ruth,” former NBA
great and current Lakers vice
president Jerry West said recent
ly
Jordan did not return a message
left on his phone, and Bulls owner
Jerry Reinsdorf, reached at his
Arizona home, said: “I don’t have
any reaction. I don’t have any
comments.”
Buzz Peterson, the Appalachi
an State basketball coach who
was Jordan’s teammate and col
lege roommate at North Carolina,
said he believes Jordan made up
his mind a long time ago.
Erickson
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Oregon State athletic director
Mitch Barnhart, desperate to find a
big-name coach and save the re
cruiting season, crisscrossed the
country looking for a new coach,
flying aboard a private jet lent to
him by a university booster.
In two days, Barnhart also inter
viewed Idaho coach Chris
Tormey, Kansas State offensive co
ordinator Ron Hudson and Ne
braska linebackers coach Craig
Bohl. Colorado State coach Sonny
Lubick also was interviewed by
Barnhart last week, but turned
down the job, according to pub
lished reports.
Barnhart contacted Erickson on
Friday, and the two met Saturday
in Seattle. They talked again Mon
day to complete contract details.
Erickson toured the campus with
two members of his Seahawks
coaching staff: offensive line
coach Gregg Smith and offensive
quality control coach Eric Yarber.
Erickson has one year remaining
on his $1.3 million Seahawks con
tract for next season. He will re
ceive $1.15 million from the Sea
hawks — the difference between
his NFL contract and the OSU base
salary. Erickson also gets $150,000
a year from a radio and TV con
tract, but unlike Riley, will receive
no housing allowance.
Erickson was 113-40-1 record at
Miami, Washington State,
Wyoming and Idaho. His Miami
teams went 63-9 from 1989
through 1994. The Hurricanes
won national championships in
1989 and 1992.
Barnhart said he didn’t go after
Erickson because of his marquee
value, but said calls for season tick
ets already have come pouring in.
“It's a good day to be a Beaver,”
he said.
Former OSU athletic director
Dee Andros, who wanted to hire
Erickson in 1984 but had his rec
ommendation rejected, said today
that he’s thought all along that Er
ickson was the right coach for the
Beavers.
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