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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
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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.
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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.
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Len Bias? A born-again Chris
tian, anti-drug all the way athlete
dead of substance abuse? Not in
this reality.
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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
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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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