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Basketball—shirts vs. skins
The basketball players are in Carmichael daily, honing their skills
for the upcoming season. Staff photo by James Parker.
Skip Foreman
Sheila Smith-Cameron
Sports Writer
Here I am sitting in Carmichael
Auditorium at 4:20 p.m. on a quiet af
ternoon enjoying a pick-up game. Now
wait just a minute. Don’t tell me that I
should be studying somewhere in a quiet
place^. I know that! But this is not just any
pick-up game. You should try to imagine
the following line-ups:
Shirts Skins
Randy Wiel John Kuster
Tom Zaliagiris Walter Davis
Phil Ford A1 Wood
Mitch Kupchak Jeff Wolf
Mike O’Koren Rich Yonakor
If you enjoyed the sport of basketball,
you.’d probably be here, too. I havp
Jabbar speaks with fist^ Jackson with bat
discovered that some of the past anc^^
present basketball players of this schoc^^
play these interesting games daily. Many
people stop by to watch such people as
Walter Davis and Mitch Kupchak get
ready for the upcoming season.
It’s not a bad place to take a break when
you’ve had a rough day.
If you’ve noticed that I happened to bie
female, don’t jump to the conclusions mo§t
“knowledgeable” males assume. I do not
watch these games because I am awed by
the players themselves. The only thing
anyone could be awed by is the immense
talent these guys posses.
So if you’re walking by Carmichael one
afternoon and you hear the squeaks of
Adidas basketball shoes, stop in. You may
like what you see.
You might stay for awhile.
It’s not who Kareem Abdul-Jabbar hit in
the NBA opener for the Los Angeles
leakers and the Milwaukee Bucks last
month, but instead, why he knocked out
Kent Benson in the first round of their
unscheduled ten-second bout.
All the news stories have made Kareem
the culprit, who took out his frustrations in
the game on the Indiana rookie. It is ap
parent that thorough investigation is
necessary though the verdict has been
handed down.
It will t)e a hefty fee, $5,000, Kareem will
have to put into the NBA coffers, but
Benson was the master of his own fate. A
study of the video tape shows that Kareem
hit Benson back, instead of first as one
could be led to believe.
Following a rebound, Kareem and
Benson headed to the Milwaukee end of the
court. Jabbar gave Benson a slight shove
to establish position. Benson responded
with a quick, jab-like elbow to Kareem’s
midsection. The shot caused Jabbar to
double up in pain. Whether he was acting
or not only he knows, but his retaliation
was no performance.
His right hook sent Benson reeling for
three or four staggered steps, and then
Benson hit the floor like a limp rag, and
Kareem headed for the showers. The
sympathies will flow for Benson, but
Kareem deserves some review. He didn’t
buy those goggles for looks, but to protect
his very vulnerable eyes. Jabbar was
booed in the town he personally gave an
NBA championship some years ago. You
could expect the boos, but what Kareem
did was in self-defense. No rookie is going
to intimidate an eight-year man, and
Kareem made that clear.
Reggie Jackson has proven that when
the money is on the table, he will bring it
home. He had said earlier in the baseball
season that he wasn’t worth the $3 million
the Yankees were paying him to play, tut
down the stretch into the playoffs, Jackson
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showed that he is the
everyone claims he is.
He also plans to return to Yankee
Stadium next spring, despite, all the
fighting, and all the troubles with
management. Reggie can’t play anywhere
that the press won’t give him at least half a
page of ink daily. He can become the star
he’s always wanted to be. The New York
press will more than oblige.
South Carolina State, ranked first in
NCAA Division II polls, feels that playing
in the Gold Bowl in Richmond is much
better than winning the NCAA cham
pionship. Coach Willie Jeffries has in
formed the larger athletic body that he will
defend the honor of the MEAC by playing
the CIAA champion. It may make sense to
the people of Orangeburg and the MEAC,
but try explaining it to the powers oi ohe
NCAA. You can bet on some sort of in
vestigation in the future.
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