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OUR GAMES: Greensboro hosts the 1998 Winter Olympics! Look right. DOME-FOUNDED: An enclosed multi purpose stadium will be built on Guilford's pond in time for the '9B Games. Look right. GUILFORDESQUE: New sports pro grams are popping up on campus. See what's taking shape al Guilco on page 8. MAIER OF USA: Yours truly leaves this school tabloid to take a real job with a major newspaper. To understand my rea sons for leaving, look down. SHARK ATTACK: Jerry Tarkanian packs up his hoop troops and heads for the NBA. See page 8. IT'S THE SHOES: Famous playground ballplayer Lamar "Money" Mundane scored 71 for Charlotte to lead the Hornets over the Pistons, 84-81. When asked how he did so well in his first NBA game, the free agent-signee answered, "It's gotta be the shoes." Mundane was wearing a pair of Dee-Vaults, the new Nike shoe worn by slam dunk champion Dee Brown of the Boston Celtics. BO KNOWS BILLIARDS: Bo Jackson, a two-sport athlete who's careers in base ball and football are in jeopardy after suf fering a severe hip injury, has decided to persue pocket billiards as his most recent hobby. "There's nothing like kissing in the eight ball off of a side rail," Jackson said. "I can't get enough of this game." Jackson revealed that he plans to chal lenge all-time great Minnesota Fats to a match later this year. STEELE MAGNOLIAS: Ostracized for his apparent inability to officiate pro fessional boxing matches, ex-referee Rich ard Steele was named head florist for next January's Tournament of Roses parade in Pasadena, California. ARGONAUT ASTRONAUT: Raghib 'The Rocket" Ismail has agreed to a seven year, $42 million contract with Toronto of the Canadian Football League provided that he can alter league rules. "I can't stand the three-down system," he said. "I feel so out of synch—every time I prepare to convert on a third and long, we set up to punt." The soon-to-be $6 million dollar man refused to comment on the seriousness of his plea, but Ismail was confident that matters "would quickly be resolved." SPORTS Greensboro Wins '9B Winter Games Tank McNamara Assistant Sports Editor At a press confer ence in Washington today, the Olympic Committee an nounced that Greens boro, N.C., will host the 1998 Winter Olympic games. Greensboro, oust ing Seattle, Denver and Jefferson City, Mo., for rights to the games, plans to stage the Opening Ceremo nies in the Greens boro Coliseum. Guilford College will house some of the indoor competitions, but the outdoor events will be tricky to place. "We may have to give the downhill skiing to the Pilot Mountain people," one Maier to Leave Sports Editorship Paul Dean Guest Writer In a news conference Monday, Buich Maier resigned as sports editor of The Goofordian to accept a position in the USA Today sports department. Maier, citing "irreconcilable differences" with his school paper's editorial board and "the opportunity of a lifetime" as grounds for leaving, is pleased with the offer he received from "The Nation's Newspaper." "I couldn't be happier," Maier told re porters from his office in the Founders Hall Publications Suite. "[USA Today publisher Cathleen Black] made me a very reasonable offer, so I had to tender my resignation from The Goofordian." But the proceedings were none too ten der, according to Goofordian officials. "1 don't care how much they offered him," said newly-appointed Editor in Chief Bruce James during a phone interview Monday. "This is a matter of loyalty, not money. Butch already reapplied for his position for next year and no one else is in competition with him. Where does that leave us? And besides, who will produce his section for the last two issues of this semester?" Maier said he has that responsibility taken care of. "I'll just write a couple more columns and reprint some sections from earlier in the year for the rest," he said. "No one really pays attention to anything in my section anyway. Most people are under the impression that I only write a column Greensboro Olympic official said Thurs day. "But it'll all work out." The city of Greensboro looks to gain about $lO million in revenues from tour- HHL. life* At the groundbreaking ceremony of the soon-to-be-built Quakerdome, several athletes assist Athletic Director Phil Roach into the lake/photo by Lor6al ists during the six-week festival, pleasing leaders in the area. "I'm estatic," Greensboro Mayor I.M. ' 1 lilf Hk #■§ hHHHHr Top: Publisher Cathleen Black welcomes Butch Maier to USA Today in touching ceremony. Bottom: Maier happy to be making headlines/ photos by And By each week, so who'll know the differ ence?" Terms of Maier's contract with USA THE GOOFORDIAN April 1, 1991 Ajoker said. 1 "This should do a lot for community pocket books, not to mention for our pride. Greensboro was made for the Winter Olympics." ence today. 'To think that we were able to take on such a see OLYMPICS on page 8 >• Today were not disclosed, prompting the Board of Trustees to raise tuition another 9.5 percent. Quakerdome In a bold move by the athletic de partment, it was an nounced Monday that construction will soon begin on adorned stadium at Guilford to house college sporting events and some of the 1998 Winter Olympics. "This is truly exciting," Guilford Athletic Director J. Philip Roach said in a press confer- 7
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