sports
Booters host Delaware in must-win contest
By CHRISTINE BORN
Collegian Sports Writer
Riding a two game winning streak,
the soccer team hopes to extend its
winning ways tonight when it meets
Delaware at 7:15 at Jeffrey Field.
On Saturday, Penn State defeated
Hartwick 3-2 on a Steve Frantz goal
with 13 seconds remaining. The win
upped the Lions' record to 7-4-4.
Head Coach Walter Bahr said the
win was a great morale booster.
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“The ironic thing about this game
was that we didn’t play much better
than in some of the games we lost or
tied,” he said. “But we finally got the
breaks to even out.
“We also had a few things that went
our way. We took advatage of two
mistakes that they made and scored
goals off both of them. That is some
thing that'had been going against
us.”
Tide close in
on No. 1 spot
By HERSCHEL NISSENSON
AP Football Writer
Runner-up Alabama made up some
ground yesterday on No. 1-ranked
Miami as the top seven teams re
mained the same in The Associated
Press’ college football poll.
Miami’s 45-13 victory over Cincin
nati enabled the Hurricanes to re
main No. 1 for the fourth consecutive
week. They received 55 of 59 first
place votes and 1,174 of a possible 1,-
180 points from a nationwide panel of
sports Writers and sportscasters.
Meanwhile, Alabama crushed Ten
nessee 56-28 and received three first
place votes and 1,111 points. Last
week, Miami led 56-2 in first-place
votes and 1,175-1,099 in points.
Nebraska held onto third place with
1,024 points by trouncing Missouri 48-
17 and Michigan’s last-second 20-17
triumph over lowa enabled the Wol
verines to stay No. 4 with 997 points
while the Hawkeyes slipped from
eighth place to 11th.
Fifth-ranked Oklahoma blanked
Oklahoma State 19-0 and received 937
points. The other first-place vote
went to No. 6 Penn State, which
routed Syracuse 42-3 and received 902
points. Seventh-ranked Auburn
trimmed Georgia Tech 31-10 and
polled 861 points.
Washington swamped Bowling
Green 48-0 and climbed from ninth
place to eighth with 704 points, Arizo
na State jumped from 10th to ninth
with 695 points by downing Southern
California‘29-20 and Texas A&M rose
from 11th to 10th with 606 points by
edging Baylor 31-30.
The Second Ten consists of lowa,
LSU, •Mississippi State, Arkansas,
Arizona, Clemson, UCLA, Stanford,
Southern Methodist and North Caroli
na State.
Last week, it was Texas A&M, LSU,
Mississippi State, Arkansas, South
ern Cal, Arizona, Clemson, North
Carolina and UCLA with Baylor and
SMU tied for 20th.
The Top 20
Record Pis * Pvs
1. Miami, Fla. (55) 7-0-0 1,174 1
2. (3) 7-0-0 1,111 2
3. Nebraska 6-0-0 1,024 3
4. Michigan 6-0-0 997 4
s.oklahoma 5-1-0 937 • 5
6. State (1) 6-0-0 902 6
7. 6-o*o 661 7
5-1-0 704 9
9.Arizona St. 5-0-1 695 10
10-Texas A&M 5-1-0 606 11
11.1owa 5-1-0 601 8
4-1-0 561 12
13. Mississippi St. 6-1-0 411 13
5-1-0 388 14
l4.Arkansas
5-10 348 16
15. Arizona
5-10 335 17
16. Clemson
4-2-0 192 19
17. UCLA
18. SO. Methodist 5-1-0 175 T2O
5-1-0 93
19. Stanford
20.N.Carollna St.
Others receiving votes: Southern California
62, Ohio State 54, Baylor 24, Florida State 20,
Georgia 15, North Carolina 12, Colorado State
4, Fresno State 3, Brigham Young 3, Michigan
State 3, Air Force 2, Pitt 1, Temple 1.
Charges dismissed against Maryland basketball players
By DAVID GINSBURG
AP Sports Writer
UPPER MARLBORO, Md. A Prince
George’s County circuit judge yesterday
dismissed charges against two men and
scheduled trial for a third in connection with
the cocaine-induced death of University of
Maryland basketball star Len Bias.
Judge James Rea, at the request of state
attorney Arthur Marshall, dismissed pos
session of cocaine and obstruction of justice
charges against David Gregg and Terry
Long, who were with Bias when he died of
cocaine intoxication June 19.
But the judge refused to dismiss the case
against Brian Lee Tribble, who also was
with Bias the morning he collapsed in a
When Penn State beat Bucknell 4-0
last Tuesday, it was the first win for
the Lions since Sept. 21 when they
pounded West Chester 6-0.
But despite tallying a 0-3-3 record
between West Chester and Bucknell,
the Lions dominated their games and
often outshot their opponents. Penn
State’s only problem seemed to be in
scoring goals a situation Bahr
hopes to avoid tonight and for the
remainder of the season.
Assistant Coach Barry Gorman
said he thinks the Lions are up for the
Delaware game.
“They saw the results against Hart
wick and finally got the breaks which
had been going against them all sea
son,” he said.
With only six regular season games
left, Penn State is in a situation where
it has to sweep the rest of the sched
ule and hope for Philadelphia Textile,
Temple or Rutgers to lose at least one
game. >
New York can’t afford to
monkey around if it hopes to
climb back from a two
games-to-none deficit in the
World Series, which swings
into Boston tonight.
Bob Ojeda will start the Game 3 tonight for the
Mets.
Mets search
for offense
By HARRY ATKINS
AP Sports Writer
BOSTON It’s back to Plan B for the New
York Mets. That’s B as in bats.
The Mets figured their pitching would carry
them to a World Series championship over the
Boston Red Sox, but it isn’t working out that way.
After edging New York 1-0 in the first game,
the Red Sox pounded out 18 hits for a 9-3 triumph
in Game 2 at Shea Stadium Sunday night, and the
Mets suddenly find themselves in a deep hole.
The next three games, if the Series goes that
far, will be played in quaint, old Fenway Park
where 18-hit games are not rare, with Game 3
scheduled for tonight.
“We’ve faced some pretty good pitching,”
Mets’ pitching coach Mel Stottlemyre said yes
tefday. “I think maybe we under-evaluated the
Boston pitching staff. They have a fine club.
“I think maybe Bruce Hurst (the winner in
Game 1) surprised us most; his command more
than anything.
“He didn’t make any mistakes. He was up and
down. He changes speeds very well.”
The Mets, the best-hitting club in the National
League for average and runs during the regular
season, went virtually silent during the NL
playoffs (.189) and have remained dormant
through two World Series games.
“I think our bats have to be the key now,”
Stottlemyre said. “Especially now that we’re in
their ballpark. If we get some runs, we’ll be OK.
“I think it’s not so much a matter of Bob Ojeda
and Ron Darling (the Mets’ pitchers in the third
and fourth games) holding them down. We’re on
the road now, where we don’t have last crack at
them. I think that’s important that we get on the
board early.
“Hitting is contagious. It’s not unusual when
one guy gets hot that everybody gets hot, too.”
Stottlemyre, Darling and Ojeda were the only
Mets who showed up at the park yesterday as
Mets’ Manager Davey Johnson gave his belea
guered club a day off.
“I think after the second game, we were in a
little shock,” Stottlemyre said. “The first night
college dormitory room. The judge set
Nov. 17 as the trial date for Tribble.
Tribble is accused of supplying Bias with
the cocaine that killed him, and is charged
with possession of cocaine, possession with
intent to distribute cocaine, distribution of
cocaine and possession of PCP.
At a pretrial hearing, the prosecutor said
Long and Gregg, former teammates of
Bias, “have promised to continue to cooper
ate with the state and assist us in our
investigation.”
After the charges against Long and Gregg
were dropped, Tribble attorney, Thomas
Morrow, asked for dismissal of charges
against his client because of “unfair, preju
dicial publicity” generated by Marshall,
who Morrow claimed almost daily talked to
“We have an outside chance of
getting in the NCAA tournament if
some of the teams in our region drop
a few games,” Bahr said. “Seton Hall
plays Rutgers this week and it would
really be better for u£ if Seton Hall
wins.”
Gorman said Penn State has its
destiny in its own hands for the rest of
the season.
“We have our backs against the
wall,” he said. “We have to stand and
fight and prove ourselves to be a good
team because our record does not
show how good we really are. We are
in a position that if we don’t win, it’s
our own fault.”
Delaware is in Penn State’s region
and despite a 5-7 record, Bahr said
the Lions cannot take Delaware light
ly.
He pointed to the previously win
less Green Bay Packers’ win over the
Cleveland Browns last Sunday as an
example. .
Dennis “Oil Can” Boyd will be trying to give the Red Sox a 3-0 game lead in the World Series when he
takes the mound tonight.
was anybody’s game. A 1-0 game always is just
one pitch away.
“We had our best (pitcher, Dwight Gooden)
going in Game 2 and they had theirs (Roger
Clemens) and neither was very sharp. But we
still got blown out.
“I was surprised their bullpen did the job it did.
They shut us down. We have a long road ahead of
us, but we still have a good feeling.”
Stottlemyre noted that the Mets won 53 of 82
games on the road during the regular season.
“You still have to have a sense that if we get
our game going, we have a chance to get back to
Shea (for Games 6 and 7). That’s all we can hope
for now.
“We’re going to throw a good pitcher out there
the media about the grand jury proceed
ings.
Rea denied the motion, saying, “Even if
there was some judicial prosecutorial
abuse, it is not enough to reach a level that
an indictment should be dropped.”
Long and Gregg are expected to testify in
Tribble’s trial, but both Marshall and their
lawyer, Alan Goldstein, denied that charges
were dropped against tliem as part of a plea
bargain.
“For the record, no deal has been con
summated,” Marshall told the judge.
After the hearing, Goldstein said there
had been “no agreement,” even though he
and his clients had a long discussion with
Marshall last Thursday, just hours before
the players broke months of silence and
testified before the grand jury.
“This is like the Browns and the
Packers,” he said. “Cleveland is a
much better team, but the Packers
had nothing to lose. That’s what made
them dangerous and that’s what
makes Delaware dangerous.”
Bahr also compared Delaware to
Lock Haven and Lafayette, two tea
ms Penn Stale should have beaten but
did not. The Lions lost to Lock Haven
2-1 and Lafayette 1-0.
Bahr hopes Penn State does not
repeat those two performances.
"There is no question that we
should beat Delaware,” he said. "We
should be a better team and we have
a lot of talent, but they will keep our
hands full just the same.”
Gorman said Penn State will treat
Delaware “with the utmost respect”
in hopes of avoiding a repeat of the
Lock Haven and Lafayette games.
“We have to see if we can put them
away early,” he said, “which is what
we did not do before. The longer the
game goes on without us scoring, the
more confidence they (opponents)
get.”
Gorman said Penn State is starting
to play more effective soccer.
“We are cutting down on our mis
takes and we are starting to punish
the other team on their mistakes. We
are feeling more confident, but not
overconfident.
“We’ve played some excellent soc
cer and not gotten results. But we
have to play well against Delaware
because if we can knock them off, it
will look good on our schedule.”
LION NOTES: Leading goal scorer
Jan Skorpen, with 13, has a banged up
thigh suffered against Hartwick. Del
aware’s head coach, Loren Kline, is a
former Penn State soccer player.
Only on'e previous meeting between
the two teams, in 1970, saw the Lions
prevail.
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every game. We’re committed to ( coming back
with Dwight (Gooden) in Game 5.V
Stottlemyere put Darling, who will start for
New York in Game 4 tomorrow night, through a
light workout of throwing in the bullpen and wind
sprints across the outfield grass.
The bright, sunny autumn afternoon filled
Darling with nostalgia. Darling grew up in near
by Millbury, Mass., and frequently attended
games in the ancient park.
“I used to come here five or six times a year,”
said Darling, the loser in Game 1. “I used to sit
right up there (pointing to a red seat in a sea of
green in Section 42 in right field).
Since he was the only New York player on the
field, Darling was popular with the media.
Long and Gregg refused to comment.
“They (Long and Gregg) will honor all
subpoenas in the case, whether they come
from the state or the defense,” Goldstein
said.
Morrow said last week that his client
would be exonerated of all charges against
him “if Long and Gregg tell the truth.”
Tribble, Gregg and Long were with Bias
when the top draft choice of the NBA’s
Boston Celtics collapsed after ingesting an
unusually pure form of cocaine. Tribble
called for an ambulance from the dormitory
room about 6:30 that morning.
WUSA-TV and WRC-TV in Washington
reported that on Thursday Gregg and Long'
told the grand jury that Bias suffered three
seizures in the early hours of June 19. They
said Bias regained consciousness after the
The Daily Collegian
Tuesday, Oct. 21, 1986
ESPN will
broadcast
VWU game
Kickoff for the sixth ranked
football team’s game against
West Virginia Nov. 1 in Morgan
town has been changed from 1:30
p.m. to 7:45 to accommodate
ESPN, Pete Kowalski, assistant
sports information director at
Penn State announced yesterday.
The 6-0 Lions will tune up for
the game when they travel to
Alabama this Saturday to play
the Crimson Tide. The game will
be nationally televised by ABC.
West Virginia, 2-4 on the sea
son, hosts Boston College this
week.
The Nov. 1 game will mark the
second time Penn State has
played on ESPN this year.
Jets hold off
Bronco rally
By BARRY WILNER
AP Sports Writer
EAST RUTHERFORD, N. J. - Ken
O’Brien threw a 23-yard touchdown
pass to Wesley Walker and an
unyielding New York defense shut
down Denver’s high-scoring offense
as the Jets defeated the previously
unbeaten Broncos 22-10 in an NFL
game last night.
O’Brien, who missed New York’s
last game against New England with
a knee injury, came on late in the
second period after Pat Ryan was
sacked by Denver’s Karl Mecklen
burg. On his second play, O’Brien
found Walker speeding down the right
sideline behind safety Dennis Smith
for the touchdown that made it 20-0.
By then, the Jet defense had estab
lished its dominance. Ranked fourth
in the NFL against the rush Denver
led the league the Jets never allow
ed the Broncos to get moving.
They pressured quarterback John
Elway, sacking him five times, allow
ed only 34 yards on the ground and
controlled Denver’s passing attack,
even though the Jets ranked next-to
last in pass defense entering the
game. The Broncos came into the
seventh weekend of the season with
the league’s most productive offense
with 179 points.
Although it sputtered in the second
half, the Jets offense already had put
the game out of reach. Led by Ryan,
the Jets put together time-consuming
marches of 65, 56 and 49 yards in the
first half.
Pat Leahy kicked field goals of 27
and 25 yards, giving him 22 consec
utive successful kicks, one short of
the NFL record set by Washington’s
Mark Moseley.
Johnny Hector ran one yard for a
touchdown to account for New York’s
other touchdown. It was Hector’s
seventh of the season, tying him for
the NFL lead with New England
receiver Stanley Morgan.
With 30 seconds remaining in the
half, Elway was sacked by cor
nerback Bobby Humphery in the end
zone for a safety, making it 22-0.
Rich Karlis barely made a 47-yard
field goal early in the third period,
then Elway got the Broncos to the
New York 8. But he was intercepted
by a diving Kyle Clifton at the one to
end that threat and the Jets had little
.aserpholo
trouble the rest of the way.
Denver scored with 3:35 remaining
on a 20-yard pass from backup quar
terback Gary Kubiak to Sammy
Winder after the ball had been tipped
by Bronco tight end Clarence Kay.
The victory kept the Jets, 6-1, two
games ahead of New England in the
AFC East. Denver, the last unbeaten
team in the league, is, at 6-1, one
game ahead of Seattle in the AFC
West. The Broncos play the Seahawks
on Sunday in Denver.
The Jets completely dominated the
first half, when the game was decid
ed. Ryan hit nine of 10 passes and
O’Brien’s second pass of the half was
the touchdown throw to Walker.
initial two seizures, but remained
unconscious after the third attack.
It also was reported by the television
stations that the players said that Tribble
brought a “mound” of cocaine into the
room. After Bias collapsed for the final
time, Long and Gregg reportedly testified,
Tribble called for an ambulance, then the
three men cleaned up the room.
Tribble then put the remainder of the
cocaine “in his pocket” and left the scene.
- Marshall said yesterday that the testimo
ny of Long and Gregg before the grand jury
was crucial because of a medical report
that claimed Bias may have unwittingly
consumed the cocaine in a drink.
“It was important that we find out exactly
what happened in that dormitory room June
19,” Marshall told Rea.
Although her name Is not the most recognizable of the players on the
women's volleyball team, Judy McDonough has been a key to Lady Lions’
success this season.
Unsung McDonough
key for lady spikers
By MARK S. McWHIRTER
Collegian Sports Writer
Every sports team has at least
one of them. American Express
has launched a successful adver
tising campaign featuring many of
them. They are people who give
100 percent day in and day out but
never manage to make it into the
spotlight. If Trey Bauer of the
football team is a good example,
Judy McDonough of the women’s
volleyball team is a better one.
McDonough has played solid,
consistent volleyball for four
years. But if you asked someone
the names of a few of Penn State’s
women’s volleyball stars, her
name would not likely be men
tioned.
While at Norwin High School in
North Huntington, McDonough
started on three state
championship volleyball teams.
At 5-foot-4 she was the team’s
setter and in volleyball, the setter
is usually the player who controls
the tempo of the game.
But when she graduated from
Norwin and and decided to attend
Penn State, McDonough’s volley
ball career made an abrupt
change. She realized she had to
leave her familiar setter position
to become a back row player. High
school teammate Ellen Hensler
assumed the setter position for the
Lions.
McDonough says it was that
realization that helped her decide
on Penn State.
“One of the reasons I came here
was for the volleyball.” McDon
ough says. “I knew they had a
good team, but I also knew that
Coach Rose would play short peo
ple.
“I knew I wasn’t going to be able
to hit,” McDonough continues.
“And a lot of coaches don’t have
defensive players on their team.”
McDonough says she explored
the option of playing at a smaller
school that was not up to the
calibre of Penn State.
“I knew I could have gone to a
smaller school (a Division II
school), and probably would have
started,” McDonough says. “I
could probably have even set, but
I’d rather go to a bigger school
with a better program and not
play as much.”
Coming into her senior season
this fall,- Head Coach Russ Rose
said McDonough is one of the best
defensive specialists in the East.
So far, Rose has been accurate in
Emotions mixed as
By WALTER BERRY
AP Sports Writer
PHOENIX, Ariz. Six cities hoping to land
an expansion franchise made presentations
yesterday to the NBA’s Board of Governors,
but league officials expresed mixed emotions
about diluting their product.
Representatives from Minneapolis, Toron
to, Miami, Fla., Charlotte, N.C., Orlando,
Fla., and Orange County, Calif., each made
30-minute presentations to the board’s advi
sory and finance committee.
The 23-team league, which hasn’t expanded
since 1980, is expected to make its decision
today. Eighteen votes are needed for final
approval.
“We won’t expand for the sake of expand
ing,” San Antonio Spurs president Angelo
Drossos said. “I’ve been an expansionist for a
long time, but it won't hurt the league if we
say ‘no.’”
NBA Commissioner David Stern said he
favors expansion, however
“I think that expansion would be a good
his remarks as McDonough has
consistently been one of the Lady
Lions’ statistical leaders in areas
such as digs, service aces and
service winners.
In matches against Rutgers and
Hofstra, McDonough was thrust
back into the setter position as’
Hensler was absent for both con
tests. After four years of back row
duty, McDonough dusted off her
setting techniques and led the
team to two decisive victories. As
a result of her performance, she
was nominated for Atlantic 10
Player of the Week honors.
On and off the volleyball court,
McDonough says that dealing with
the excessive time demands that
accompany a Division I program
have been relatively easy for her.
“I haven’t known anything other
than practicing three hours a
day,” she says. “I just have to
budget my time because we’re
away most weekends.”
As far as any predictions re
garding the fate of the team this
season, McDonough says that she
thinks the picture looks promising.
“I think we’re a good team,”
McDonough says. “We just have
to play consistent all the time,
which has been a problem for us.”
On matters of post season play,
McDonough shares the same goals
as Rose, taking the Atlantic 10
championship.
“The first thing we have to do is
make sure we win the confer
ence,” she says.
The Lady Lions have been atop
the Atlantic 10 conference three
years running. However, their
success in the NCAA tournament
has not been as dramatic.
After this season, McDonough’s
collegiate volleyball career will be
over. She says life without volley
ball will be a difficult adjustment.
“Of course I’ll miss it because
this will be my eleventh year of
playing,” she says. “It will be nice
to not do anything for a few
months.
“I’m sure I’ll continue to play
too,” she adds. “Not something as
competitive as college play, but
probably summer tournaments or
something like that.”
McDonough says college athlet
ics are a good way to spend one’s
time and that there are valuable
lessons to be learned.
“It makes you more organized
and a better leader,” McDonough
says. “I think that just the experi
ence of being on a team and travel
ing with it is worth it.”
idea. But if it was next year, I think one
(team) would be all I would recommend,” he
said. “I’m supporting the issue of expansion.
We hope to have a firm and positive response
to the subject of expansion before we close
these meetings.”
Board members said they will examine
each city’s strength of ownership, playing
facilities, population growth, market area
and projected fan support before casting
their votes.
“It’s a lot for the owners to absorb. They’re
still in the middle of discussing the pros and
cons of expanding at this time,” Stern said.
“I’ve been preaching restraint and caution
and the owners are reading that back to me.
It’s a normal businessman’s caution. We’ve
tried very hard to tell each of the cities that
they were welcome to apply, but we didn’t tell
them to build massive media campaigns.
How much money they spent is not gonng to
determine anything.”
Toronto has NBA Hall of Famer Wilt
Chamberlain as one of its financial backers
PSU grad hired by New Peach Bowl
By COLIN SNYDER
Collegian Sports Writer
The Peach Bowl is undergoing a
facelift and a recent University grad
uate is assisting in the operation.
Robert Dale Morgan, a 1983 journa
lism graduate and former sports in
formation director at the University
of Tampa, has been named assistant
executive director of the New Peach
Bowl.
The New Peach Bowl has been
developed from the merging of the
Peach Bowl with SPORTS 2000, a
membership organization that funds
and supports organized sports on the
amateur, collegiate and professional
levels in Georgia. SPORTS 2000 is a
division of the Atlanta Chamber of
Commerce.
Morgan will be responsible for
Perchance to dream: a writer vs. the Tide
I believe it was William Shake
speare, when he played quarterback
for the University of Stratford-Avon
campus, who said after a post-game
press conference:
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“To be, or not to be, that is the
question. Whether ’tis nobler in the
mind to suffer the slings and arrows
of outrageous fortune ... To sleep,
perchance to dream ... aye, there’s
the rub.”
I rank dreams right up there with
cleanliness and godliness.
As one of my heroes, Robert F.
Kennedy, often said, quoting from
Tennyson: “Some men see things as
NBA officials discuss league expansion
and plans to play in Maple Leaf Gardens,
which seats 16,182 for hockey.
The Toronto Huskies hosted the first NBA
game in 1946, but the city’s team folded after
the 1946-47 season and league officials are
skeptical of competing again against hockey.
Nick Mileti, who owned the NBA’s Cleve
land Cavaliers from 1970-80, heads the
Orange County group that hopes to build a
20,000-seat Westdome Arena in Anaheim.
League officials, however, said they are
hesitant to add a third NBA team to the
Southern California area. The Los Angeles
Lakers and Los Angeles Clippers are already
there.
Former Philadelphia 76ers player and
coach Billy Cunningham is a partner in the
Miami group with ex-76ers General Manager
Pat Williams involved with Orlando’s bid.
Miami already has its nickname of “Mag
ic” chosen, has started construction on a
16,930-seat arena and has sold 14,000 season
tickets, while Orlando is ready to break
ground for a 15,300-seat facility if it gets a
franchise.
coordinating the marketing, promo
tion and public relation areas of the
game and also assisting in the overall
management of the bowl and related
events.
“We brought Robert Dale (Mor
gan) up from Tampa because we felt
he was an impressive athletic admin
istrator and felt he would compliment
our staff very well,” said Lee Ayres,
Executive Director of The New
Peach Bowl in a press release an
nouncing Morgan’s appointment.
Morgan said that his goal is to
make The New Peach Bowl one of the
top five post-season bowl games with
in the next three years.
“The New Peach Bowl will be pro
moted more this year than in the last
eighteen years combined,” said Mor
gan, who indicated that the game
“was not promoted as well as it could
have been in the past.”
Cornelius Bennett
they are and say, ‘Why?’ I dream
things that never were and ask “Why
not?’ ”
There’s one recurring dream that I
wish to share with you now.
It is a cold November day in the
heart of the Deep South Birming
ham, Ala.
The Penn State Nittany Lions,
ranked No. 2 in the land, are battling
the No. 1 ranked Alabama Crimson
Tide.
ftrlUA.
In the dream, I’m the Lions’ sixth
string quarterback (I also play wide
receiver, defensive back, linebacker,
offensive tackle and water boy). It’s
my dream, I make the rules (apol
ogies to George Carlin).
The Lions have been victimized by
injuries to their first four quar
terbacks and starting for the Lions is
Darin Roberts. Me, I’m Darin’s back
up for the afternoon.
Before the game, as Darin and I are
warming up, Joe Namath, a distin
guished Alabama alumnus, goes by to
offer a few words of encouragement.
“Chris, good luck to you,” says
Last year, according to Morgan,
attendance in Atlanta-Fulton County
Stadium was just over 46,000 for the
game, which featured Army against
Illinois.
Morgan also believes that the atti
tude with which the public views the
game has to change.
“Our biggest problem is the re-edu
cation of the general public. In the
past, the bowl was not viewed in the
highest regard,” Morgan said.
The New Peach Bowl also has a
new, three-year television contract
with MIZLOU that may potentially
earn more revenue than the old con
tract with CBS.
Morgan said that MIZLOU is guar
anteeing that 80 percent of the nation
wili be covered and is presently pro
jecting coverage at 93 percent.
Since his graduation, Morgan has
Namath. “I remember when I was in
your shoes a young boy in a man’s
game I just lived, lived, lived.
Partied hard and had my share of
women. Just one bit of advice . . .
look out for oP No. 97.”
Thanks Joe. 01’ No. 97 is Cornelius
Bennett, a truck of a human being
who many consider the best lineback
er in the country.
Nervously, I say something stupid.
“Thank you Mr. Namath. I’ve been a
fan of yours ever since I saw you on
“The Brady Bunch.”
The game begins and Roberts is
moving the offense beautifully.
Unfortunately for the Lions, Mike
Shula’s doing the same for Alabama.
Time is quickly running out and the
Lions are losing 23-17. With six min
utes left in the game, Roberts is
driving Penn State for the winning
score when he finds Bennett breath
ing down his face mask. Bennett
pounds Roberts to the ground, caus
ing a fumble that is recovered by
Steve Smith. The sack puts Penn
The Charlotte group, backed by business
magnate George Chinn, has started building
a new 23,500-seat arena and has sold more
than 7,000 season tickets. But with a popula
tion of about 300,000, Charlotte is the smallest
of the six cities seeking an expansion fran
chise.
Minneapolis hopes to have an 18,000-seat
downtown arena built in two years while its
team plays in the Metrodome.
Harvey Ratner and Marvin Wolfenson are
trying to bring the NBA back to Minnesota
after unsuccessfully trying to buy the Utah
Jazz last summer for $25 million. The two
businessmen once owned about 3 percent of
the Minneapolis Lakers in 1957-60 before the
team transferred to Los Angeles.
Minneapolis, Miami and Anaheim all had
teams in the old American Basketball Asso
ciation while the ABA Carolina Cougars
played some of its games in Charlotte before
eventually moving to Denver and becoming
the NBA’s Nuggets.
Each of the six groups has paid a partially
refundable $lOO,OOO application fee.
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worked at the U.S. Olympic Training
Center in Colorado, the Sun Belt
Conference and the University of
South Florida.
Morgan has also freelanced at the
1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles
and was selected as a press officer by
the U.S. Olympic Committee for the
1986 U.S. Olympic Sports Festival in
Houston.
In addition, Morgan has worked or
freelanced for eight daily newspapers
in Pennsylvania and Florida and has
freelanced for all three networks and
ESPN.
And when the bowl bids go out,
would Morgan like to see his alma
mater come to Atlanta and play?
“I’d love to see the Nittany Lions
here. As a matter of fact, I plan on
attending the Penn State-Alabama
game since it’s down here (in the
South).”
Chris Loder
State out of field goal range, but more
importantly, Roberts is down and
barely moving.
This is it. This is my shot. Mamma,
call in the dogs. Our boy’s on TV.
I get up and quickly begin to warm
up on the sidelines. This is my calling,
and in the faint distance, I can hear
the deep baritone and graceful assur
ance of the late John Facenda and the
NFL Films’ music ringing in my ear.
The Penn State defense stops Ala
bama, but the Crimson Tide punter
booms a 60-yard punt, and the Lions
take over at their own 13. There’s 2:08
left on the clock.
On first and ten, 1 throw a deep
pitch to D.J. Dozier, who dances
seven yards to the 20.
Going without a huddle, I drop back
and throw a sideline pattern to Ray
Roundtree. The play gains six and a
first down.
All right, I’m thinking. This isn’t so
bad. There’s no way Bennett is going
to get to me now.
Please see DREAM, Page 12.
‘I think that expansion
would be a good idea.’
Dallas was the last city to be granted an
expansion franchise six years ago. The Mav
ericks were second in the league in atten
dance last season at 16,904 per home game.
“What we need is another Dallas,” Drossos
said. “The Mavericks are the blueprint for a
success franchise.”
Stern said 20 of the league’s 23 existing
clubs “are operating with a profit” and “it’s
a much healthier situation than it’s been.
“But our business turnaround hasn’t com
pleted that cycle. Whether it’s time to re
spond with a full-blown expansion plan is the
issue on the table. You don’t make money by
grabbing a few bucks by expanding. Just
because there are more cars in the parking
lot doesn’t mean you have to expand.
David Stern, NBA
Commissioner