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SPCCIf REVIEW
A Publication
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And A Supplement
To These Newspapers:
Baltimore Afro-American .
Baton Rouge Community
Reader
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Daytona Times
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Speaking Out
Winston-Salem Chronicle
PUBLISHER
Ernest H. Pitt
EDITOR
Allen Johnson
STAFF WRITERS
Barry Cooper
Eric Dillon
Robert Eller
Lorxza Hardy Jr.
Edward Hill Jr.
photographers
Brian Branch-Price
Joe Daniels
James Parker
James Terry
cover photograph
North Carolina A&T's Eric
If Boyd blocks a layup attempt
by North Carolina
State's Ernie Myers in the
third game in the two
schools' young intrastate
rivalry (photo by Joe
Daniels).
PRODUCTION STAFF
Vinson Dewberry
Cheryl Hines
Anne Marion
CONTRIBUTORS
Robin Adams
Fred Jeter
Collie Nicholson
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INSTANT REPLAYS "
Hey, Did
Edited By-ALLEN JOHNSON
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apologies once again to Andy
Roonfcy, ever notice ...
-- now coaches, according to too
many sportscasters,'don't get upset
anymore? They<get "livid."
- how, even when Winston-Salem
State Coach "Big House" Gaines
lambasted the media for ignoring
small college sports, the media proved
his point by ignoring his comments?
-- how, when Natalie Cole is
hospitalized, it's for a "drug problem"
but, when Liz Taylor is
hospitalized, it's for "chemical
dependency?'1?*
- all this foolish."talk about football
players high-fiving and dancing
in the end zone? Let lem dance.
ii i were a coach and one ot my
players scored a game-winning
touchdown, he could do the
Alligator for att I care. tfTom Landry
had let Butch Johnson perform
his "California Quake," maybe the
Cowboys wouldn't have been '
thrown out of the saddle so early
this year. As for John Riggins being
so goshdarned dignified for Handing
the ball to the official instead of
dancing, I'll bet it's more 'cause he
can't dance than anything else.
What's more, how dignified was
Riggins when he wore a Mr. T haircut
before Mr. T even thought of it?
-- how ESPN can televise
: everything from day-old basketball
games to Australian rules football
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(I know there wasn't a 1914 Super
Bowl; I'm just making a point) to
billiards, and still refuse to televise
black college basketball? Foul!!!
-- how only coaches whose games
are televised are acknowledged by
most media as "geniuses," and how
all of them happen to be white?
Here's my vote for Davie Whitney,
John Thompson, Bighouse Gaines
and, the most deservirfg of all, John
McLendon, who ran the Four Corners
in the '40s.
-- how the ACC's arrogance
knows no bounds? Before you accuse
me of sour grapes, I have
nothing against the ACC and, in
fact, graduated from the school currently
ranked No. 1 in the country.
But the league's TV spots this year
have got to go. "The best players
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(photo by Joe Daniels)?
and the best schools," the commercials
say. That's being a tad
bigheaded and inaccurate, 1 say.
Some of the best teams and the best
schools ... maybe.
? how black folk like to Hn a lot
of standing? At many of the black
college sporting events I've attended,
it seems as if half the fans prefer
to stand in aisles and exits rather
than sit in seats. Skeptical? Meet me
at the CIAA Tournament this year
in the Norfolk Scope and I'll shou
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-- how utterly terrible Rosie
Grier's Sports Illustrated Christmas
commercial was?
End Of An Era
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Tennessee State's John Vlerritt,
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I-AA football power for 21 years,
died recently of congestive heart
Please see page 19
1, by the Winston-Salem Chronicle,
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P.O. Box 3154, Winston-Salem,
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