CAPITAL TIMES, January 24, 1990
Woman's
Hank Rappold
Capital Times Sports
Editor
For the past few weekends
the Penn State-Harrisburg
Athletic Association has been
sponsoring a slew of
volleyball tournaments in the
CUB. These tournaments are
used to raise money' for the
Association and attract many
volleyball teams from all over
the area.
The most recent
tournament weekend was Jan.
20-21 and was split into men
on Saturday and women on
Sunday. Saturday brought in
15 gung-ho male volleyball
teams, while Sunday saw 16
determined female squads
take the court in over 12
hours of non-stop volleyball
action.
Quick Skiing tricks
Chritopher Burns
Capital Times Staff
Bend those knees. Keep
that presure on the front of
your boots.
Most of us who ski have
heard those famous words at
least once in our lives. The
problem is, if your shins hurt
like hell, what do you do?
I have spent a good bit of
time finding little tricks that
made skiing painless. The
one trick I found to work for
sore, burised shins was to rap
an Ace Bandage around your
shins for extra padding.
First start with a three foot
peice of Ace bandage and
begin rapping from the
ankle up. This way the bulk
of the bandage will be at the
point where your ski boots
rub against your shin. You
should keep the rap as smooth
as possible. Any wrinkles
will cause discomfort as the
day goes on.
Equipment is becoming
very sophisticated and the
lack of keeping your
bindings clean is the leading
Photo By. Sue Hoover
volleyball
Teams came armed with
beach chairs, blankets, books
and coolers for camping out
in the CUB's lobby awaiting
their turn in the action. The
Association was ready to feed
these volleyball fanatics. A
concession stand manned by
campus athletes was set-up
and cold soda, hot dogs and
candy was sold to help
replenish the players.
The Association uses the
money raised in these events
to fund projects and activities
they have planned to help out
PSH's athletic teams. Things
like the Spring Athletic
banquet or purchasing an ice
machine are paid for through
fundraisers like this.
cause of most injuries.
If you consider all the dirt
and road grime your
equipment collects when
traveling on the top of your
car, it's surprising bindings
work at all.
Fear not , there are some
simple preventitive measures
you can do at home to keep
your bindings working
properly.
Before getting your skis
out for the day take a quick
look to see if . Ihere are not
any little rocks or sand
wedged in between the
moving peices. If there is,
clean those out with some
water and a tooth brush.
Then spray some sort of
spray lubricant onto all
moving parts to help reduce
friction. This will assure
your bindings will function
properly when you need
them to.
Untill next time, keep those
ski tips up.
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Hank's pen rambles
Hank Rappold
Capital Times Sports
Editor
With this column it has
become my custom to ramble
on about recent happenings
in sports. That is not going to
change, not even with all the
New Year's resolutions I made
this year. So let's go and take
a trip with my magical per...
Penn State football is no
longer an orphan among
major college football. The
program, along with the rest
of the athletic department,
will be joining the Big-10
conference. Making it the
Big-10 plus 1 More
conference.
Penn State football by the
end of the decade will be
playing the likes of
Michigan, Ohio State,
Michigan State and for the
rights to play in the Rose
Bowl. Will Joe-Pa stay around
along enough to play in this
conference? Or will he retire
in a few years like he said he
will?
The joining of this
conference means that the
basketball team will be
leaving the Atlantic-10 and
heading west to play some of
the major powerhouses in
college basketball. This comes
at time when the basketball
program is growing out from
beneath the shadows of
football at Penn State. Will
the roundball program
suffer? At first it might but
after awhile Penn State
basketball will bounce back.
The new conference should
help Penn State in recruiting
some of the top players in the
conference. What does this
all mean to athletics at Penn
State-Harrisburg? Absolutly
nothing! But it will give Penn
State fans more reasons and
chances to cheer...
More on Penn State and its
football team. How about that
Holiday Bowl? Who were
those guys in the PSU
uniforms? Aliens from
outerspace perhaps? It had to
be. 50. points from Penn
State? This year? The same
year when all they could do
against Maryland was a tie. It
probaly was a fluke, yeah
that's it, a fluke...
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old things never die but just
fade away. Well that used to
be true. Now it still might be
true except in the world of
sports. With sporting events
such as: the Cooney-
Foreman(cough, YAWN)
fight; or the Senior Baseball
Leauge; or even the PSH
alumni basketball game, one
might believe that old age
doesn't mean a thing in
sports. Recently, the Cooney-
Foreman fight took place in
grand old Atlantic City. These
2 guys have a combined age
of 74 years and an average
age of 37 years. Did that stop
them? No! Should it have stop
them? Yes! Still they fought
on for 2 rounds. Foreman
stopped Cooney in the second
round before age put an end
to them both,which was only
a matter of time. Next on the
hit parade might be Larry
Holmes and George Foreman.
That is if the price is right.
Senior Baseball's only
requirement is that you are
over 35. Catchers can be 31 to
apply. Now I like this idea.
These guys can still play ball.
Have you ever seen the
Cracker Jack Classic? Now for
3 months of the year these
heroes from the past are able
to put on their spikes and
once again spit into their
mitts. These guys - are playing
for fun and that is what
baseball •is all about. Baseball
isn't about $3.2 million a year
nor is it about charging a
hero worshipping-wide eyed
little boy $l5 for your
signature. Just having fun,
what a concept!
More guys who were
playing for fun were the PSH
alumni basketball players on
Jan.- 13. For the eleventh
straight year alumni
basketball players returned
to Capital campus and took the
floor. This year 29 players
returned and played odd year
graduates against the even
year grads. Cheering the
players on were their wives
and children and the current
PSH cheerleading squad.
The fans were not to be let
down and were given an
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