The Daily Collegian Tuesday, May 11,1976
The mouth that roared
He's not your ordinary, run-of-the-mill sports com
mentator.
Howard Cosall would get down on his grandmother if
he had the opportunity. Chances are, if a person or thing
comes up in conversation, Howard has something bad to
say about him or it. He displayed this ability Saturday
night in Rec Hall, much to the delight t. f the 3,000 in
attendance.
Here is a random sampling of some Cosellisms from
his Colloquy speech:
—on baseball commissioner Bowie Kuhn: "He is owner
manipulated and dumb. Bowie Kuhn is more interested
in if Billy Martin is using the right pinch-hitter. Me, I'd
rather know where Jimmy Carter stands." (The former
would likely be easier to find.)
—on Ohio State football coach Woody Hayes: "I think
the man is a public disgrace. Winning at every cost, he,
epitomizes what's wrong with big-time sports "
(Nobody's perfect, Howard.)
—on playboy quarterback Joe Namath: "Joe Namath,
in point of fact, never stood up for anything but his own
betterment." ( Okay, Howard, name me one man who
doesn't stand up for his own betterment.)
—on President Ford: "He was playing the center
position and viewing the world upside down between his
legs." ( Right, Howard. And you would' have given
anything to play along side of him, wouldn't you? ) _
—on the builders of Yankee Stadium: "Yankee
Stadium was rebuilt at a cost of $55 million at a time
when New Yorkers need housing and schools. How do
you justify that?"( Tell me, Howard, how do you justify
earning half a million a year talking about overspending
in sports? )
—on Little League baseball: "There's too much
physical, mental and emotional imposition on those kids.
And the parents, many of them are immature." (Gee,
Howard, didn't you, in your day as a lawyer, incorporate
Little League baseball in the state of New York? )
—on crazed fans: "The obsession of being number one
has corrupted the morals of society. So what if the Soviet
Union gets more gold medals in the Olympics. The
standard of life in America won't change." (Then why,
Howard, are you always the first to complain when
someone isn't performing up to par? )
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Sports roundup:
CLEVELAND (AP) In
the face of denials by
Cleveland Coach Bill Fitch
and Los Angeles Lakers
owner Jack Kent Cooke,
Cavaliers owner Nick Mileti
maintained yesterday that
Fitch sought release from his
contract in order to coach the
Lakers.
Meanwhile, Fitch went
, ahead with an afternoon
workout in an attempt to end
the on-court woes that left the
Cavaliers on the wrong side of
2-0 margin in their National
Basketball Association
playoffs with Boston for the
Eastern Conference title.
The Mileti-Fitch clash that
had been something of an
open secret for months
-became public during the
'„,Wekend. The Cleveland Plain
~Dealer, quoting unidentified
,sources, said Sunday Fitch's
lieparture from the dual post
.of coach and general
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University-wide Convocation, with addresses by President Oswald and Senate
Chairman Sally Small, 4 p.m., University Auditorium.
"Minorities and the Mass Media: A Review of Career Opportunities," 8 p.m., Paul
Robeson Cultural Center. Informal discussion sponsored by WPSX-TV with guest
• speaker Lionel Mona gas, of the FCC.
ARL, 10:45 a.m., Eric A. Walker Conference Room, Applied Science Bldg. C. Putnam
on "Mechanical Anti-Vibration Filter Deisgned after Electronic Network Syn
thesis."
Analytical Chemistry, 12:45 p.m., room 445 Davey. Mrs. V. A. Spendal on "Electro
chemical Studies in DMF-Water Mixtures."
Solid State Physics, 1 p.m., Room 339 Davey. Dr.'W. B. White, Materials Research
Lab., on "Raman Gathering from Ordered and Disordered Crystals."
Solid Waste, 2:20 p.m., Room 140 Fenske. Louis A. Ravina, consultant, Thomas M.
Riddick & Assoc., New York, on "How PL 92-500 Affects Wastewater Design and
Solids Handling Systems." _
Engineering Mecha.iics, 4 p.m., Room 232 Hammond. Ganta Reddy on "Computer
Automated Minimum Weight Design of Structures."
Biochemistry and Biophysics, 4 p.m., Room 101 Althouse. Richard E. Dickerson,
California Institute of Technology, on "The Cytochrome Fold and the Origin of
Bacterial Energy Metabolism."
Inter-Science, 4 p.m., Room 333 Whitmore. Herbert Tabor, biochemistry, phar
mocology, metabolism and Digestive Division, NIH.
Inorganic Chemistry, 4 p.m., Room 333 Whitmore. Ron Epstein.
Psychology, 3:45 p.m., Room 640 Moore. Dr. Robert Seibel on "Hypothesis
Exploration ( HE), Hypothesis Testing ( HT), Serendipity and AACWOT (Almost
a Complete Waste of Time)"
GSA Council, 7 p.m., Room 101 Kern
Free U, 7 p.m., Room 319 HUB.
Students for Penn PIRG, 7:30 p.m., Room 208 Willard
Phi Sigma, 7:30 p.m., Room 8 Life Sciences.
Artists Series film, "Amarcord," 8:30 p.m., University Auditorium
manager was imminent
unless a rift was resolved.
Then yesterday the paper
quoted Mileti as having said
on Saturday, "There is no rift
on this side. I know of no rift."
ATLANTA (AP) "These
are the times that try men's
souls," said stout-hearted
Atlanta Manager Dave
Bristol of the current two
week stretch in which his
Braves - have lost 13 con
secutive games.
"You just have to stay
tough and stay with it. You
have to stand up and be a
man. I can stand it and so can
my players," said Bristol
before tonight's game with
the New York Mets, the club
that started the Atlanta skid
by taking a four-game series
beginning April 26.
"Don't shed any tears for
us," said Bristol. "I believe
we'll get it turned around.
UNIVERSITY CALENDAR
Tuesday, May 11, 1976
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MEETINGS
See, Howard Cosell gets down on everybody and
everything. Except, of course, Howard Cosell. The proof
is in the pudding (or tape recorder as the case may be):
—after a speech-opening ovation: "I really deserve
more." ( Did Carly Simon happen to write a song about
you?)
—describing Howard Cosell: "I'm still the same damn
Jew from Brooklyn who lugged a 45-lb. recorder from
clubhouse to clubhouse, trying to make my mark, trying
to put some journalism in sports broadcasting." (Keep
trying kid. Maybe someday you'll be famous. Oh yeah,
but a cassette recorder it's lighter.)
—after almost everything he said: "I tell it like it is "
( Better read on, Howie.)
Howard Cosell tells it like it is supposedly. If that's
the case, then why did he say a journalist should tell the
truth and use no gimmicks, only to turn around and use a
staged argument with a former Penn State football
player to make himself look good. It's true, and it's been
confirmed by several Colloquy members and a friend of
the player, Charlie Janerette. Makes you wonder what
else he's staged during his career, doesn't it.
It is true that Cosell has done a lot of good for sports
and sports coverage. He's stepped where no one else
would, stuck up singularly for Muhammad Ali 'after he
was stripped of his crown and his right to earn a living,
and lost more.
But you'd thin .: a man who debunks hypocrisy in big
time sports wot i come across a little cleaner. See
Howard, you can't play games and tell it like it REALLY
is at the same time.
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We're just trying to do the
best we can. It's just a thing
where the whole club went
into a hitting slump."
During the 13-game streak
the Braves have scored 27
runs while falling from first
place in the National League
West to last at 8-18,7 1 / 2 games
behind Cincinnati.
"Sure you get disappointed.
You hate to see anybody not
do well," said Bristol. "But I
can stand it. I just hate it
most for the fans and the
players. I've never seen
anything like in in my 26
years in baseball."
INDIANAPOLIS (AP)
Janet Guthrie, after being
sidelined two days with a bad
clutch hub, broken oil line and
burned piston in her
Vollstedt-Offy, made history
yesterday by becoming the
first woman to drive a race
car in practice at the
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But there was no jubilation
Another problem in a
seemingly endless series of
setbacks halted her historic
ride after just six laps. And
the race car, with the
frustrated rookie clutching
the tow rope, was hauled back
to gasoline alley with another
burned cylinder.
"It felt just fine while it
lasted," the 38-year-old
brunette said back at the
garage, where she changed
from her blue and white
racing outfit into some work
over-ails.
"I didn't get a chance to get
the tires warmed up. I only
had that one lap at 152 miles
per hour, so it was mainly a
warmup ride."
Guthrie pulled back into the
pits briefly after theiirst tWo
laps, then went out again for
four more.
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Batsmen rally to beat Juniata
What looked like an easy
game on the schedule almost
resulted in Penn State's fifth
baseball loss of the season,
but a three-run rally in the
ninth inning enabled the Lions
to squeeze by Juniata 9-8 and
keep their post-season
tournament hopes alive.
Frank Deutsch started on
the hill for the Lions and gave
up eight runs in six innings.
When he was replaced in the
seventh by Steve Correll, the
Lions trailed 8-5.
Correll ''then stifled the
Juniata bats and coach Chuck
Medlar's offense got itself in
gear. Penn State scored once
in the eighth to close in, then
Shero wants
more aggression
MONTREAL (AP)
Montreal Coach Scotty
Bowman expressed no special
confidence and Philadelphia
Coach Fred Shero expressed
no great concern over the fact
that the Canadiens had
beaten the Flyers 4-3 in the
opener of their National
Hockey league playoff final
series.
"Being up or down doesn't
make a difference for the next
game," Bowman said
yesterday after his Canadiens
had practiced at the Forum
for tonight's second game in
the best-of-seven series.
DALLAS (AP) Mike
Davies, executive director of
the World Championship of
Tennis, announced yesterday
a record 49,482 fans for the
five-day show that ended
Sunday with Sweden's Bjorn
Borg taking the $50,000 first
place prize.
Davies also said the WCT
had no intentions of changing
from the slow "Supreme
Court" surface that produced
marathon rallies and ex
tended the length of the
matches.
One rally in the finals had
the ball crossing the net
80 times and the point con
sumed over three minutes.
Sunday's crowd was the
second largest for a tennis
match in Texas, surpassed
, only by the Billy Jean King
: Bobby Riggs promotion in
Houston's Astrodome several
years ago.
put it away in the final frame,
giving the win to John
Carroll, who pitched the last
two inning's.
The rally started when
Gary Koch and Dave
Delenick both walked on 3-1
pitches. Shortstop Mick
Kolwicz then bunted to move
up the runners but was safe
when Indian pitcher Jeff
Flannery, the eventual loser,
threw too late to third. With
the bases loaded, outfielder
George Weigel delivered a
clutch two-run single to tie the
game. Tim Searer then
followed with a sacrifice fly
and the Lions had their 15th
victory of the year. . .
Shero, somewhat
displeased over certain
aspects of his team's play
Sunday night, agreed. "I
don't want my players to
waste any energy worrying
about last night," he said.
"It's history now.
"But we have to close off
the side boards and force the
play into the middle. Mon
treal's wings like to freelance
along the boards and we've
been letting them do it.
"You have no right to win
the Stanley Cup unless you
forecheck aggressively, and
we're not coming up with the
puck enough in their zone."
The Flyers, defending their
NHL championship for the
second consecutive season,
still have a powerful weapon
in the line of left wing Bill
Barber, center Bobby Clarke
and the red-hot Reggie Leach
at right wing. It was that
high-powered trio that drew
most of Montreal's attention
Squires become 4th to fold
NEW YORK (AP) The Virginia Squires
became the fourth American Basketball
Association team to fold this season when the
league announced yesterday that the team
had "failed to cure its obligations to the
league and to the players and thus the
franchise is terminated."
The league also said a decision on the
dispersal of the Squires players would be
made "in a few days."
The Squires had hoped to use a $lOO,OOO
letter of credit to pay off their debts and
regain admission to the ABA, but apparently
that bid failed.
According to sources close to the team, 10
letters of credit amounting to $1 million were
being held by a New York bank, one from
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STOLEN BASES Penn
State had nine runs on eight
hits and three Indian
errors . . . Juniata had eight
runs on ten hits and two Lion
Juniata had eight
runs on ten hits and two Lion
errors
Flyers
in Sunday night's opener.
"You have to focus your
attention on the whole line,"
explained Montreal goalie
Ken Dryden. "You've got to
realize they're a really out
standing line. You have
Leach, a natural goal scorer
with a big shot; you have
Clarke, who passes so well
and creates mistakes, and
you have Barber, who does a
little bit of both. They are just
a very talented, effective line.
To stop Leach, you have to
stop the three of them."
The Canadiens did that
rather well after Leach
opened the scoring just 21
seconds into the game. After
Leach became playoff
history's leading single
seasbn goal-scorer with his
16th in post-season play,
Montreal's checking line held
the volatile Flyers'
threesome to just six other
shots on Dryden.
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errors . . . Larry Kramer and
Bob Miller each homered for
Penn State in the fifth ... Penn
State gets today off, then faces
Indiana, Pa. in a twinbill at
Beaver Field tomorrow. That
will make five games in four
days for the team.
to show
Game Two
checking Clarke's line was
given to left wing Bob Gainey,
center Doug Jarvis and right
wing Jim Roberts.
"I think they try to get the
puck to Reggie because he
can shoot so well," said
Gainey. "He ( Leach) still had
a few chances, and I'm going
to have to pay him closer
attention. We have to work as
a line against them. If
somebody gets out of position,
somebody else has got to
cover up.
"You have to look at them
as a line." he added.
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each of the 10 ABA franchises which existed
before the start of the 1975-76 season.
Those letters of credit apparently were the
only hope the Squires had of meeting
yesterday's deadline for paying off $85,000 in
overdue payrolls and $20,000 in. dolinquent
ABA assessments.
Last Thursday, Commissioner Dave
Deßusschere said Virginia had been tossed
out of the league by the ABA's board of
trustees after it failed to meet its debts. But
the team was given until yesterday to find a
way to pay them and regain entrance o the
league. It couldn't.
The ABA lost three franchises earlier this
season the Baltimore Claws, San Diego
Sails and Utah Stars.
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