V Page B2-The Chronicle. Thursday. August 9. 19? 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 Breakers take title IMNHIIIIIHimilHIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIHIIMIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIMIIIHIIIIIMNNUIMIIIIIinilllll 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 ? ? rw:iH?, give me 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 IIIIIIIIIIIIIIINIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMMIINMNNIINIIIINNHUinilllllllllllllllllUIII Rampaging Indians iiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiimiiiiiiiiiaiiiRiiiiiiiiittiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiw "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 to do well, we have to be at the state of North < f nn r*f r>nr namp ar\H montolK/ ~ ~ 1 w/p v/? v/ui ^huiv uuu uv iiiviiiauj pi UUU Ul , &11VJ I and physically ready." that." 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 IIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIttlMWtlllMltMNt1llllllll?HIIIIIIIII||||||||||||||||||||||||||||M|| Black College Spor iiiiiiiiiiiiimitiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiittiiiiiimiiiiiiMiitiiiiiiiiitiiiiiimmmiiiiiimimimii 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 v " j - - W I \A From Page B1 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." iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiimiiiiiitiiiflimiiimiiiiiHiMiHiiiiiHiiiifiiiiiiMii. From Page B1 iiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiijiiiiiiiiimiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiiiiiitiitiiiiiii 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. IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIHIIIIIIIIIHIUIIIIIIIKIIIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIi 1 I From Page B1 miiiiimmiiiimiimiimiiiiimiiiiimaiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii ' 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." laaaaaaaaaaaaiaaaaaaaaiaiiiiiiaaaiiaiiiaaaaaiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaiaaaaaaaaaaaaiiaaan ts From Page B1 I aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaiiiaiiaiiaaaiaNiiaiiaiMtiaaaaaaaa 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. t Thanks For the Second Consecutive Year Cjl^l PARKWAY I FORD HAS AWARD WE ARE YOUR COMPLETE O! 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