sports Now playing: of the junk sports Summertime at a college campus brings out some weird things. Weird fashions, weird people, weird fads, weird music, weird hair cuts, you name it, if it’s weird, people will do it in the hot weather. Warm weather and education have that kind of intoxicating affect on people. Just like the tenth gin and tonic that convinces you it is alright to put the lampshade on your head in the mid dle of a party, summer leads you into a false sense of security. And people take full advantage of the opportunity to make fools of themselves. Guys with purple hair, girls with no hair, people chanting and singing for no apparent reason, musclemen flex ing, kids handing out religious material, drunks throwing up, it all happens right here in the summer months. Although seeing a five-year-old pass out information on some strange Indian religion and watching an ine briated person blow his oats both give me the same gut feeling, there are a few things that happen here in the summer that make me even more nauseous I’m talking about these so-called summer sports. Not baseball, even though it too has its weird side, I mean the kind of sports that aren’t really sports at all. You know skateboarding, frisbee throwing, hacky sack, rollerskating and all of those free-spirited kind of activities. In short, “Pepsi Genera tion” kind of stuff. I know, why in the world would anyone dislike young people doing their own thing and enjoying them selves? They could be out smoking dope or drinking beer so you should be glad they are enjoying themselves with some good, clean fun. Well I don’t buy that. For one thing, these people are only pretending to enjoy themselves. Sure they may have a little fun skateboarding down a hill, but what do you think they do when they have to go up hill. You’re damn right, they walk like the rest of us. Some fun, don’t you think? And it gets worse. Frisbees are alright until you throw one errantly and hit the weightlifter on Old Main lawn. Or worse yet, some bozo who trained his dog to catch frisbees in mid-flight unleashes his mut on your flying disk. Some fun when you are wiping Rover’s slobber off of your frisbee. Rollerskating looks great until you fall, and no matter how good you are, sooner or later you are going to fall. I don’t think hacky sack is very fun to begin with, even when you are kicking the sack. You spend more time picking the damn thing up than anything else, and how much fun is that? People who involve themselves in UNEMPLOYMENT $ $ these activities are not really having fun, they are only putting on a front. They are saying in their own sneaky way that they are better than you because you can’t possibly be as happy as they are. And take a look at the people who are into these activities. Granted, some skateboard enthu siasts are alright, but the majority need a good swift elbow in the jowls. You kmnv the people I’m talking about, the punks who come flying up from behind you and whiz by, scaring the living daylights out of you. People who throw frisbees always act like they are at the beach. With their Jams, shades, towels and sun tan oil these people transform the HUB lawn into Daytona Beach north. Rollerskaters have the same cocky attitudes of the skateboard people. Their sole concern is showing off and scaring people. But rollerskaters are worse because they have more con trol over their wheels, which could be dangerous. What kind of person plays hacky sack you ask? Well I’ll tell you. It is the kind of person who would spend five bucks on a small bean bag. Worse yet, it is the kind of guy (or girl), who enjoys standing in a circle with five other people jumping around. The last time I saw six grown humans standing in a circle jumping around was at a second-rate smut movie. Sure its easy to criticize anything, but the tough part is coming up with solutions. Well, here they are • Put a 350-cubic-inch big block motor with a four-barrel carburetor and a racing cam on all skatebaords. It may make skateboarding more expensive, but at least you won’t have to walk up hills. • Make all frisbees out of steel. They would take more muscle to throw and more skill to catch, but at least if you hit a weightlifter in the head, he won’t be able to get up to beat your face in. Als°) if Rover trys to grab it, Rover will be out of a few teeth. • Put everybody on rollerskates, that is the only way those things will work. Throw in a few motorcycles, helmets, armor and spiked gloves and you can have a real life game of Rollerball. o Hacky sack is easy. Put one pointy metal spike on the bag and change the object of the game from keeping the sack in the air to kicking it at a choice spot on one of your opponent’s bodies. If it sticks to them, you win, If it sticks to you, you lose. The activities may not be as safe with the above mentioned changes, but at least they might wipe a few of those “Pepsi Generation” smiles off some smug faces. I probably stepped on a few toes out there in poking a little good natured fun at these so-called summer sports, but I don’t care. Just don’t send any letters challenging me to any of these activities. Even though it is considered a winter sport, I’ll stick to basketball this summer. Mark Brennan is a senior majoring in journalism and assistant sports editor of The Daily Collegian. Invasion Lloyd just gets by at Wimbledon By 808 GREENE AP Tennis Writer WIMBLEDON, England (AP) - Second-seeded Chris Evert Lloyd, along with Mats Wilander and Ste fan Edberg of Sweden, were pushed to the limit yesterday before win ning their second-round matches in the Wimbledon tennis championship. One seeded player, No. 6 Zina Garrison of the United States, was ousted on the hot, humid day as Britain’s Anne Hobbs posted a 6-4, 0-6, 6-4 victory. Defending champion Boris Beck er of West Germany had his second round match against American Tom Gullikson halted by darkness. Becker was leading 6-4, 6-3, 2-2. Lloyd, who has won the title at the All England Club three times, downed fellow American Pam Ca sale 6-0, 5-7, 6-1. “I think I played great for the first set and a half,” Lloyd said. “Then.. . her game lifted to anoth er level and she played very well. It took me by surprise a little bit and I played a few sloppy games there for me. “But in the third set I settled down and I was never really threat ened.” Second-seeded Wilander struggled before. outlasting Brit ain’s Andrew Castle 4-6,7-6, 6-7,6-4, 6-0; and fifth-seeded Edberg even tually defeated American Paul An nacone 6-4, 6-7, 4-6, 7-5, 6-0. “I didn’t expect the match to be so tough,” Wilander said after his three and three-quarter hour strug gle against Castle, who was playing in only his third Nabisco Grand Prix tournament. “But I don’t count bn anything here. I just play them.” Other seeded players to advance to the third round were No. 7 Henri Leconte of France, No. 12 Brad Gilbert of the United States and No. 13 Mikael Pernfors of Sweden. In the women’s singles, yester day’s winners included No. 3 Hana Mandlikova and No. 7 Helena Suko va, both of Czechoslovakia; No. 11 Carling Bassett of Canada, and No. 16 Kathy Jordan of the United States Betsy Nagelsen, who upset fifth seeded Pam Shriver in the opening NFL kicks off defense in antitrust suit NEW YORK (AP) A USFL owner, maintain ing “we have sighted the enemy and they are us” warned more than two years ago that the league would fail unless limits on salaries were adhered to, according to a memo introduced yesterday at the USFL-NFL antitrust trial. The letter, written on Nov. 9,1983 by Tad Taube, owner of the now-dormant Oakland Invaders, was one of a spate of documents introduced as the NFL opened its defense in the $1.69 billion antitrust suit filed by the fledgling league The USFL, which is scheduled to start fall play in September after three seasons in the spring, finished 20 days of testimony Wednesday during which it attempted to blame most of its problems on “anticompetitive actions” by the NFL. Princi pal among these, the USFL charges, was pressure by the NFL on the three major television networks to deny it a contract for fall play. The NFL’s defense, on the other hand, is built around its contention that the USFL caused its own Chris Evert Lloyd slams a serve to Pam Casale during their match on Centre Court at Wimbledon yesterday. Lloyd overcame a mid-match slump to beat Casale, 6-0; 5-7; 6-1. round, defeated another American, Lisa Spain-Short, 6-1, 7-6, while “lucky loser” Ronni Reis, who got into the main draw when 13th-seed ed Barbara Potter withdrew with a back injury, lost her second-round match to Elise Burgin 6-1, 7-5. Las.t year, Wilander, who has won four-Grand Slam titles, was upset in the first round at Wimbledon. This year, he said, he got help from Castle’s inexperience. It was the Briton’s first five-set match. “I think he definitely was tired” in the fifth set, Wilander said. “But he has shown that he is a great tennis player, that he can do every thing. “I was struggling. I always felt I had a good chance in his service games, but I couldn’t go through the wall. He was always getting to everything. “There’s not too many players you see get to every ball that he does. But, also you have to count in that he’s an Englishman, that’s he’s playing at Wimbledon, and I think Carlton walks a By RALPH BERNSTEIN AP Sports Writer PHILADELPHIA (AP) - In St. Louis, a young Steve Carlton was going nose-to-nose with one of the most successful businessmen of his day, August Busch. In Philadelphia, young Rick Wise was discovering first hand what it’s like to deal with a general manager who sent Richie Ashburn a contract for a $3,000 salary cut after Ashburn won the National League batting title. In both cases, contract negotiations reached a standstill and bitter words were exchanged. Carlton was adamant. Busch, one of the nation’s top brewery executives, was frustrated. Wise, who had pitched a no-hitter in which he also hit two home runs the year before, wasn’t bashful in refer ring to Phillies General Manager John Quinn as a skinf lint. The disputes were settled on Feb. 25,1971. Busch told his general manager to get rid of the “obstinate” Carlton. Busch refused to dignify Carlton’s demands. The master brewer wasn’t about to be intim idated by the “kid” pitcher, even if he had a 20-9 record the previous season and was a budding superstar. Quinn was getting nowhere with Wise. He contacted the Cardinals and suggested they trade “problems.” He offered Wise for Carlton. The deal was made that Feb. 25. It wasn’t popular in Philadelphia where Wise was one of the few bright lights on a pathetic team. The fans howled. In St. Louis, the reaction was equally negative. They were losing a 20-game winner, a pitcher with a 77-62 record over five full seasons and part of a sixth. The irony of this story is that the Phillies gave Carlton more than they would have given Wise. Wise was treated likewise by St. Louis. After all, both wanted happy pitchers. The rest is history. Carlton went on to become one of the best pitchers in the baseball. Wise had a successful stay in St. Louis, although he never approached the certain Hall of Fame status of Carlton. He played with six major league teams, posted a 188-181 record with a 3.69 ERA. problems, primarily by overspending and by switching to the fall. Attorneys for the established league spent yesterday introducing documents through their first witness, former USFL Commis sioner Chet Simmons. In addition to Taube’s letter, they included: • A memo from Dom Camera, the league’s marketing director, urging that the USFL stay in the spring through 1987 to encourage stability and turn league fans from “tepid to hot followers.” The memo, written two weeks before the August 1984 vote to move to the fall, also urged salary caps and warned: “player salaries have risen rapidly and more dangerously than originally planned.” • A report after the USFL’s first season by John Bassett, the late owner of the Tampa Bay Bandits and chairman of the league executive committee. “We’ve unleashed a bankroll to spend ourselves into a hole,” Bassett warned. “We have that can raise your game very much.” At one point on Court 1, a group of young girls began shouting in uni son, “We love Mats. We love Mats.” Another fan shouted: “Shut up,” as the pro-British crowd roared with approval. The consumate baseliner, Wi lander used his doubles experience at the net, where his volleys, if not crisp, were effective. Although he broke Castle in the seventh game of the second set, the Swede lost his own serve at 15 when Castle closed out the 10th game with a smash. Known for his quiet, unas suming way, Wilander, in disgust, threw his racket to the ground. It was a rare show of emotion, but he managed to do it quietly. Castle lost two points on his own serve in the ensuing tiebreak, both coming on double-faults. And when Wilander wrapped up the second set tiebreak 7-3, the match was even. Castle pulled ahead again by straight line out His career ended in 1982 when he was dropped by the San Diego Padres The events came to mind Wednesday when the Phillies gave Carlton his unconditional release because they felt the lefthander could not pitch and win anymore in the major leagues. It serves to illustrate the hard line approach even then developing in the strong-minded Carlton. He,walked a straight line, his line. He’s still walking that straight line. In the face of statistics that say he can’t pitch, can’t win, he declares: “I still can pitch and win.” The Philadelphia Daily News reached Wise Wednesday in Madison, Wis., where he is a pitching coach for the Madison Muskies of the Class A Midwest League. He recalled the day he was dumped by the Padres. “I didn’t expect trumpets to blare or sirens to go off. . . But I figured someone would at least want to talk to me.. . You can’t imagine what a horrible feeling that was. How lonely I was. “But now he knows how baseball is. So long. Good luck. Thanks for the memories. That’s about the way it goes.” The cases of Wise and Carlton are different in one respect. Nobody in the Padres’ front office even talked to him about his release. He was gone. Period. Carlton was begged by the Phillies to retire gracefully. But he strode that straight line. Maybe Carlton will sign with another team. Maybe the Phillies are wrong. Maybe he can pitch, win. It’s doubtful. He seems determined to follow in the footsteps of Robin Roberts, Willie Mays and Hank Aaron. Play too long. Tarnish his image. Phillies pitching coach Claude Osteen is one of the few in the game who think Carlton still might regain some semblance of his form and win some games. But even Osteen recognizes the one trait that stands out in Carl ton’s character. Osteen says that to succeed now Carlton has to change his approach to pitching, that he has to recognize he no longer can do the things that have greased his path to Cooperstown. But Carlton still walks that straight line. The Daily Collegian Friday, June 27, 1986 sweeping through the third-set tie break 7-0. But Wilander, who has won both the French and Australian opens twice, raced away with the match after Castle had a 2-1 lead in the fourth set. The Swede won 11 of the next 13 games to advance to the third round. The Lloyd-Casale match was one of contrasts. Lloyd breezed through the first set in 28 minutes and had a 4-1 lead in the second. But Casale broke Lloyd’s service in the seventh game as she won three straight games to pull even. She then broke Lloyd in the 11th, helped by three double-faults, dur ing another three-game streak to take the second set. If it was a threat, it was a brief one as Lloyd reeled off the last five games of the match. Garrison was the 12th seeded player to be upset in the first four days of this two-week tournament. a structure that is strangling us financially and taking our fate out of our own hands.” » Minutes of league meetings which indicated that the USFL’s major concerns were salary escalation and what the owners considered inade quate revenue from the league’s television con tracts with ABC and ESPN. In his testimony, Simmons blamed the problems on what the USFL considers its principal weapon in the trial, a study by a Harvard Business School professor on “How to Conquer the USFL” that was presented to NFL executives in February, 1984. He - also cited a memo from Jack Donlan, head of the NFL Management Council, entitled “How to Spend the USFL Dollar.” . “In the course of this trial I’ve become acquaint ed with the Harvard Study,” Simmons said. “I was wondering why some of these things were happen ing. Now I’ve found out,” said Simmons. The NFL says it disavowed that study and that many of its recommendations were ridiculous. Wise said he didn’t know how Carlton felt The Len Bias story: Remembering the best and learning from the worst A week ago, the suggestion that University of Maryland basketball sensation Len-Bias’ sudden death may in fact have been caused by a drug overdose would have sounded like the twist at the end of a Twi light Zone episode. V , Len Bias? A born-again Chris tian, anti-drug all the way athlete dead of substance abuse? Not in this reality. W. 4 If Bias could have beep accused of anything illegal it was criminal irony. His death last Thursday morning of a heart attack came only two days after a physical exam by the Boston Celtics who made him the No. 2 pick in the National Basketball Association draft showed him to be in flawless health. Then came the rumors. Traces of cocaine may have been discovered in Bias’ body according to unidenti fied sources rumored to be close to the medical examiner’s office. Maybe. Bias was then said to have been seen in drug dealing sections of Washington, D.C. From there we were left to draw our own conclu sions. Not that there was any doubt about what sort of conclusions we were supposed to draw. When the reality came, the circumstancial evidence had been piling up too high for it to come as a surprise. A white powdery substance was found in Bias’ car. I don’t think anyone held up any hope at that CLOSING FOR INVENTORY The Penn State Bookstore will be closed for inventory Friday, June 27 at 1:30 p.m. The Bookstore will reopen at 12 noon on Saturday, June 28, 1986. ‘Penn State tßooKfetore on campus Owned and Operated by The Pennsylvania State University t' i ! V point that it was granulated suger. By the time the coroner got around to releasing his findings that Bias’ heart attack was indeed caused by cocaine intoxication the conclusion seemed as inevitable as the period at the end of a sen tence. . Since early last Thursday, the rumors had been flying left and right; not just about Bias’ drug use, that was practically a given after a while, but about academics as well. And not just about Bias himself, but the entire Maryland team. No, Len Bias apparently wasn’t the all-American we thought he was, off the court at least. He was failing all of his last semester classes and was 20 credits short of getting his degree. Meanwhile in classic National Enquirer fashion, a homicide inves tigation was begun to find the indi vidual who may have administered the cocaine to Bias (which report edly interrupted the electrical ac tivity in his brain and stopped his heart within minutes). Who’ll be the winner in the 1986 Cathy Evellyn Smith sweepstakes? My money’s on Elvis’ ghost. That’s not a joke. The level to which the media have stooped in exploiting Bias over the course of the past week is the stuff of super market tabloids. You could tell it was going to get ugly when the cocaine rumors started pouring out of respectable newspapers hours after Bias’ death, even though it would be a week before the results were in. Bias reportedly tested positive for cocaine, which is where the drug rumors started. It didn’t come out until later that the results could have been altered by the heart stimulating drugs Bias was given by doctors when he first arrived at the hospital still alive. Many of his friends have said that as far as they knew, it may have been the first time he ever tried cocaine. In the high-pressure, high reward game of Division I college athletics, that kind of self-control was probably more than anyone could ask for anymore. Especially at Maryland. But the speculation • proved too difficult to resist. Right now it’s carrying over into the rest of the Maryland athletic program, where basketball coach Lefty Driesell will face a grand jury investigation con cerning questions of drug abuse on his team. Such scandals are nothing new for Maryland. In 1983 Driesell was reprimanded by the universi ty’s administration for calling up a Maryland coed and allegedly telling her not to press charges against one of his players accused of raping her. If he can walk away from that with a wrist slap, I shudder to think what sort of activity has been slid ing under his nose since then. In fact, he has already been accused of instructing players on how to re spond to questions about Bias’ death. As for Bias, the fact remains that he had no history of drug use. By all accounts he was as clean as anyone could possibly be, with last Thurs day being the only exception. Many of his friends have said that as far as they knew, it may have been the first time he ever tried cocaine. In the high-pressure, high-reward game of Division I college athletics, that kind of self-control was proba bly more than anyone could ask for anymore. Especially at Maryland. Which may be one of the reasons why so many people are now con cerned about Bias being remem- bered for his awesome athletic ability, rather than the one time in his life he didn’t live up to his exalted standards. I don’t think that’s possible anymore. For all the good that he did in his life, the irony of its end is all too irresistible. The image of his white-sheeted body being removed from Leland Memo rial Hospital is just too indelible and the slow trickle of evidence is just too shocking to ever forget. Like it or not, he will remain the great lost Celtic. And yet, in a strange unintentio nal way, Bias did do something positive for those that might follow in his footsteps. There has to be some way of stopping the spread of drugs in sports, and there can be no more graphic reminder of the dev astation they can cause. In a matter of minutes, Bias set into motion a trip-hammer chain of events that may well end up expos ing a trail of human wreckage that' drugs have strewn in their wake not just at Maryland but on cam puses across the country. Maybe in his death Bias made the most effec tive anti-drug public service an nouncement of all time. But what a stupid, tragic way to put the point across. Matt Herb is a senior majoring in journalism and sports editor of The Daily Collegian. 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