USC Is Having Trouble With Prep Schools, Too

Sports agent Howard Slusher, whose son John plays tailback for Chadwick’s eight-man football team, hired the USC band to play Friday for the game with Flintridge Prep.

Chadwick won the game, 28-7, but lost the halftime. After the USC band performed at intermission, the Flintridge Prep bagpipers took the field and stopped the show.

They played, “When Irish Eyes are Smiling.”

Add Slusher: One of his clients is Chicago Bears defensive back Todd Bell, who still hasn’t signed. Bell, a Pro Bowler, must be wondering if he hasn’t overplayed his hand, since the Bears are 8-0 without him.

Slusher is known for advising clients to sit out for a full season, but he claims it’s always their decision.

He told Will McDonough of College & Pro Newsweekly Football: “When they come to me, I explain the options. I ask them to tell me what they think they should get paid, and what they will accept. We generally put down on paper five options. From the low side to the high side. Some players say they will take nothing but the best, will not play unless they get it.”

Add Bears: In the Southwest, they have gone William (The Refrigerator) Perry one better.

In Texas Arlington’s 27-13 win over Northeast Louisiana, it used 280-pound nose guard Tracy Baysinger and 290-pound tackle Greg (Truck) Roberson in the backfield to clear the way for fullback Tony Brown on a fourth-and-one conversion.

Texas Arlington Coach Chuck Curtis told the Dallas Morning News: “We stole it from the Bears, and I really like it. We call it our Double-Refrigerator crew. Both doors open, and you can get what you need.”

Trivia Time: Among active NBA players, who has the most career technical fouls? (Answer below.)

A story in Saturday’s New York Times on University of Pittsburgh graduate Eric Schubert might have left some readers wondering if society has its priorities straight.

Schubert is a substitute teacher at Lakeland Regional High School in Wanaque, N.J. As such, he is required to teach such subjects as mathematics, Latin and French.

He also is a placekicker, and Saturday, the New York Giants signed him as a temporary replacement for the injured Ali Haji-Shieikh in today’s game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

As a substitute teacher, Schubert is paid $42 a day. Today, as a substitute kicker, he will be paid $4,000.

The difference between the NFL and the USFL? Says Buccaneer quarterback Steve Young, formerly of the Express: “Now we don’t have to chip in to pay the bus driver to get us to the airport.”

Ed Sapir, agent for Billy Martin, says: “I’ve talked to some Japanese businessmen with ties to baseball, and they want to know if Billy would consider managing in Japan. I discussed it with Billy, and certainly we would consider it if things were really right.”

Billy Martin in Japan? World War III?

Wait a Minute: Said Patrick Ewing in a radio interview: “I don’t see any difference between college and pro basketball, except the pros are bigger and better.”

Trivia Answer: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar with 77. Ricky Sobers of the Seattle SuperSonics is next with 75, followed by Maurice Lucas of the Lakers with 74.

Quotebook

Michigan football Coach Bo Schembechler, on why he worries about his 16-year-old son, Shemy: “The poor kid’s got a warped mind. He wants to be a sportswriter.”