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A change in store?
that 1 ssas out of shape.
"I worked out constantly," he said. "1 was lifting
weights, running and exercising to stay in
shape."
After only three matches at the trials, Thacker
was eliminated from the competition -- not as a
result of defeats, but through a technicality.
"No one beat me. 1 got disqualified twice," said
Thacker, who, by virtue of the two disqualifica
tions, was scratched from the finals.
"It would have been one thing if someone had
beaten me," he said. "But to lose because the
judges thought 1 was stalling is hard to take.
Anyone who has ever seen me wrestle knows that I
don't wrestle fast. 1 beat the first guy I wrestled
12-0, and five of the six guys there I had beaten at
' least four times."
1 defeated the thea-uunibcf-tvvo-rankcd Russian, .
Megadof Nlegadofgov, who is now the Soviet
Union's premier heavyweight wrestler,
i Since his appearance at the Olympic Trials,
Thacker has immersed himself in other projects,
. trying to put the experience behind him. Though he
J wishes he'd have gotten his chance to go for the
gold in Los Angeles, there are other challenges to be
met.
"It really hurt me at first, not getting to go to the
Olympics. Competing in the Olympics is something
I was really looking forward to doing," said the articulate
criminal justice major who attends North
Carolina State. i
The way things look now, Thacker may never
have an opportunity to compete in the Olympics.
Just recently, the International Olympic Committee
passed the "286 Rule" for heavyweight wrestlers
that will be enforced starting with the 1988 Games.
According to that rule, any wrestler who weighs
more than 286 pounds can not compete in the
* Olympics.
Thacker and several coaches feel the rule was
designed specifically to bar him from further competition.
"I think the rule was made to keep me out of the
Olympics in '88." said Thacker. "I've entfen rRS
and Sports Illustrated behind me, so there's still a
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team concept. I've seen a lot of expect to see us \
positive things come out of the game."
league. , . . Among the ^
"Having the best players in the league players
city has made-the best come out Jackson, Sydne;
in "the other players. From my Vincent Brown,
standpoint, I think we've put standout Mike
together a real good program." play.
Hentz and the summer league The alumni tea
players will have the opportunity coached by ex-Hc
to find out just how good they ter Robert Lit
are this week when an all-star u
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team from the league takes on a valuable experien
team of former summer leaguers.
"Seven of the
"We have a bunch of guys that the team will b<
are going to really test us," says school this fall,
Hentz. "But I think our young "They're the om
men will be ready to play and I most io gain fron
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"We're going to be going up had all season,'
against the finest players in the played a lot of p
country," he said. "Most of the all of our pitche
teams we'll see out there are that we'd be reac
sponsored by major corporations came,
and have the top college "I want to go
ballplayers on their teams. For us team that Winstc
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Wilkins said his team has been
laokii^ forward. ttua refusiklup- White. Witkix
?to Wichita aif season. team wrH~ fartr *
"I knew what kind of team we flight competitic
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media's imagination, it was Black Schc
Gerry Cooney. Here is a man Return To Di
who made $10 million for
fighting for the heavyweight Somewhere o
championship when he should Tennessee State
have been navinc his dues like tnr Samuel Whit
black fighters have to. told you so."
The raw truth about Cooney is Several years
that he does not want to be a nessee State thu
fighter. He is said to have cleared NCAA's Di
more than $2 million after taxes applied to join
for the fight with Holmes, Division I-A, 1
enough to place him on easy predicted that
street for the rest of his life. would soon be r
sion II status.
Cooney should do just that. He
should get out of the fight game Of course, a
and leave the money for those soup can be cor
who have earned their way to the explain. Truly 1
top by fighting real contenders. teams like Nc
Cooney got there by beating up Southern Calif<
on no-names and washed-up I-A. Smaller s
veterans. Be should quit while he Grambling and J
is ahead. in I-AA. Still
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chance that I'll be able to wrestle in the next Olympics."
Even it he doesn't have the opportunity to be an
Olympian, Thacker says, his NCAA crown will help
him advance his career.
"There are a lot of other things opening up to me
as a result of me playing in the movie (which is
scheduled to be released in December)," he said.
"I've gotten an agent and he's been getting some
offers for me to do commercials and movies."
Yet, Thacker said he has not decided to cast his
lotk with anybody or anything yet. Football season's
coming up.
"I've been talking to (Head Football) Coach
(Tom) Reed about the possibility of playing football,"
said Thacker, a fifth-year senior who still has
one season of eligibility left for football. "It's been
fans of Slate have been writing expressing thatthtr
would like for me to be on the football team this
fall.
"I'm on a diet and have been working out," said
Thaeker, who has lost some 35 pounds within the
last two months. "I'm a lot quicker now, so I think
1 would be ready to play football."
With fall football practice approaching rapidly,
Thaeker knows he doesn't have long until he'll be
forced to make a decision. He's been weighing both
sides, he said, and the final decision will be his and
won't come through anyone else's prodding.
"1 want to do what is best for me at this time,"
he said.
"Kignt now there's a demand for me to do commercials
and movies. In that business you have to
hop on the opportunity when you're hot. I don't
want to pass up something and be sorry for it later.
That's why I want to be sure before I decide either
way."
Whether he chooses to play collegiate football
this fall or not, Thacker said he still might be back
on the gridiron. .
"There's a possibility that I will give pro football
a try," he said. "The desire to play football is still
there and I think I can do well in whatever I choose
to pursue. I think I have the ability to change over
and excel at other things."
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May a real good the older players."
Among his all-star performers,
former Carver Hentz says he has some outstanwill
be Tobe ding athletes,
y Wilkins and "Kenny Mickens is a blue-chip
Former Pfeiffer athlete who should have an
Epps also will outstanding season this year,"
says Hentz. "Another young
player who has shown good skills
m, which will be is Brian Howard. In Bay Shaw, I
irlem Globetrot- think we have an excellent point
tie, will, says guard."
younger players Other performers on the sumlce'
mer league all-star roster are
1 14 all-stars on Brian Leak, Terry Gwynn, Ron
? going to high Cauthon, Robert Mcllwaine, A
Hentz says. Terry Gunter, Jeff Patton, Doug |
es that have the Ow\y William Tatum and Anl
playing against thony Sides.
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' he said. "We be pleased with two good show>layers
and gave ings.
rs experience so "If we can only win two
ly when the time games, we'll have done better
than any team from North
out there with a Carolina has ever done," he said.
m-Salem and the "There have been a lot of teams
Carolina can be from Winston-Salem fighting to
i think we have get to Wichita over the last 60
years and we're the only one that
has made it. By winning at least
is.- hefieves his two garner I thiafc we will have?
areth against top- -represented the people -very >n,
he said he'd well."
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ols Ponder (Valdosta State, Morris Brown)
vision II are members of Division II.
Though it tried mightily, Tenut
there, former nessee State could not make it in
Athletic Direc- I-A and is now in I-AA. Now,
man is saying "I like a lot of other I-AA schools, it
may be forced back to Division
ago, when Ten- II.
mbed its nose at The reason is television,
vision I-AA and Because of the Supreme Court's
the big boys in decision recently that likely will
Whitman boldly prohibit small schools from apDivision
I-AA pearing on television, there is no
elegated to Divi- longer any reason for them to go
through the added expense of being
in Division I-AA. After all,
J1 this alphabet the lure of TV dollars was the onifusing,
so lerus ly reason they moved up,
sig-time football anyway.
>tre Dame and
)rnia belong to Now, this column has learned,
chools such as at least three black colleges are
fackson State are pondering moves back to Divismaller
schools sion II.
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