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! / Page B4-The Chronicle, Thursday, Auguj The Sports Column Accredited By BARRY COOPER Syndicated Columnist As slimy and unpalatable as some player representatives are, they are very necessary for today's uneducated Dlavers. some of whom are introduced to the world of checkbooks and savings accounts on or about their 22nd birthdays. Apparently, Dallas Cowboys running back Tony Dorsett is one of those rich young ballplayers who continues to fumble away his earnings. Why else would he owe th^IRS some $400,000 in back taxes? We must conclude that Dorsett is getting horrible advice from his counselors. He has poured $600,000 into oil explorations thai have turned up little more than big, dark holes. There have been other such losses foi nrtrcatl t /-*/-* A^Vl JVllf I UV/ His case points out the need for some kinc of accreditation system for player represen tatives. More often than not, the players an duped by slick, fast-talking agents who ar< in the business only for a quick buck. Let uj hope that if that is the case with Dorsett and the Cowboys suggest that it is - he car untangle this mess before he faces bankrupt cy. The Notebook The more you tried to like the Unite* States Football League, or at least give it i chance, the more the USFL showed its rumi to you. iHHIIIMIMnilUltlltHHUIIIIfHIHHHHHHHIUHIWHmiminilHtmniH Baseball From HiiiuiiiwwHiHiHHiiiiHHHiwNiiiHiiHmmmmimniiiminiipini but he jumped over the Brave _ runner. (^ Smith's The Best ^ * Smith, winner of five straight Gold Glove awards, is clearly the YflQT\ best fielder to play the game in the last two decades. That in eludes Hall of Fame third ( baseman Brooks Robinson. The veteran shortstop, who has been in St. Louis since 1982, gives the Cardinals one of three forms of intimidation; the other two are speed and Whitey Herzog's y skillful managing. "" ^ Coleman's speed is the newest __ form of Cardinal intimidation. Without it, they might still be in 8^ the pennant race. With it, the are That bent on winning a second World After aJ Series in only five years. y?u sa* The former Florida A&M star stealer? singled and stole two bases in the What first inning Saturday night, timidati Braves' Manager Eddie Haas stcal retaliated the next day by order- native ing Rick Mahler to throw at Col- 100-yar eman's head on the first pitch of Throug BASEtALL FIVEft. CATCI IT! | ' l PtaY+ J* . I tha ATLANTA AU.STII BRAVES Gam?. aM if vv TMK ^ I ' ^ Jetfer I I ?oody I ' I Yatti i w 4 * 5t 29, 1985 agents would s( The last meeting of the USFL owners, held in Tampa recently, was supposea to be a session during which all unfinished business would be taken care of. The USFL failed to meet that objective, though, which is sadly the norm for the troubled leagute. If the USFL is to gain any credibility, it must move to find some leadership. Harry Usher, the commissioner who was supposed to bring a Midas touch to the league, has been lit- tie more than a puppet, iust like former . figurehead commissioner Chet Simmons. Bethune-Cookman College football ^ Coach Larry Little was all set to leave B-CC for an offensive line coaching position at the University of Miami. But the deal was zapped when UM Coach Howard ) Schnellenberger suddenly left Miami for the USFL and then the University of Louisville. I Florida A&M football Coach Rudy Hubbard recently felt the pinch of new school president Frederick Humphries. Reportedly, Humphries ordered the school's [ athletic department to quit subsidizing Hubbard's TV show. The school had been providing "The Rudy Hubbard Show" with j about $15,000 a year to pay for travel expenses, film and the like. So Gerry Cooney, the best white heavyweight fighter the media ever invented finally officially retired, eh? By the way, light heavyweight champ Michael Spinks says he will knock off Larry Holmes on Sept. 21 and then try to lure Cooney out of i retirement. The reason? Money. Cooney a may have been a mediocre fighter, but he p could definitely sell some tickets. Give jailed boxer John Garcia (alias lllllllllimiltMHIIMIMMHHItllimHIHtHtHIHWMHMHWttHHHIIHtHmHMMHMMW Dana Di i ayu u i r have a desire vant to steal a base. I have a <^S)^S| tager vv/to w/// g/ve me the opportunity to AH 'ince Coleman tc. 86 thefts. 's pretty remarkable. That the former Ri 11, when was the last time America had been caug ' a pitcher throw at a base percent of his attempts his relative inexperi makes Coleman so in- baseball. Coleman, ? ing is the ease with which Minnesota Viking pur s. The Jacksonville, Fla., Coleman, wanted to b< reportedly has run the punter. He even tried o d dash in 9.2 seconds. position with the W; h Sunday's games he had Redskins, who wanted t LEAGUE... g-v LISTEN TO THE A TLA NT A BRA VES ONWTOB AM STEREO 1380 prfv ...your adult k_ji i i a l tern a tl ve to a rock and roll loorv station. '4*: ".ZV.# --*<{> a ^ y>. ?*$* fir BR tOBI i TH TLANTA BRAVES D. Hkrtt A Associates son Stsndsrd Life Insurance 's Hoodacho Powders aluminum ir Window Co. u \ 1 )lve problems Roberto Medina) credit for having a lot of heart. It takes courage to fight on national television when you are an escaped convict. Garcia, who was living in St. Petersburg, Fla., was arrested recently after a televised bout. Turns out that he had been arrested 61 times and had escaped from a Colorado prison. Garcia thinks his ex-giilfriend, with whom he had just split, turned him in. Is Muhammad Ali punch-drunk or what? He says the problem with boxing is that too many blacks are involved in the sport. Wonder why he didn't suggest that when he and Joe Frazier were making millions off their classic encounters. Northeastern University has started an admirable Droaram that is catchino on nil too slowly. It is called a "Program for Pros Without Diplomas/' and it gives former college athletes a second chance at earning a degree. Players who haven't turned pro are allowed to return to school and take classes for free. Those who have advanced to the pro ranks but have not finished their degrees are allowed to take classes at a discount. Only 11 schools - most of them in the East have adopted the program. Auburn University football Coach Pat Dye on the need to pay players an allowance: "One of the problems we have is recruiting kids from very, very low-income levels, kids whose families may even be on welfare. I'm talking about kids who need more than their parents can give them just to be normal college students." Please see page B10 mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmtmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm him into a wide receiver. "I have a desire to want to I steal a base," Coleman said after Saturday night's 7-0 win over the Braves. "At the same time I have a manager who will give me the opportunity to steal and a batter (Willie McGee, who has a leagueleading .362 average) behind me that will allow me the chance to run. "All that's important and I guess that's why I have 86 steals and the next guy (Tim Raines) has 49." It seems appropriate Coleman is supplanting Raines as the NahL tional League's master thief, for Coleman attended Raines High School in Jacksonville, Fla. ittler allIs due to Vincent Van Go ience in Coleman showed his unique ousin of running ability in the minors, iter Greg stealing a baseball record 145 r an NFL bases at Class A Macon, Ga., in ut for the 1933 101 at AAA Louisville ashington year< yet, skeptics wondered o convert if he could make it in the majors, invoking "you can't steal first" Please see page B10 ill I LEASES AVAILABI Even more remarkable, we'll give a 3-year/36,000-mile scheduled maintenance program free of charge, when you lease before August 31, 1985 In other words. during that time, you ' won't have to lay ^ out any money j>f on routine pVBH RL maintenance tjH J And that's on V 7 H top ?* our 3-ycai^ i 7 H /36,000-mile, 5-yeai^VB j /50.000-mile powertrain^B '] H limited warranty that ft, H already comes with your Peugeot. ^ I More Ccir for The M h I See Sam , ' I I 1AIA B , I VvAK I *?*s . r > ^ e|j|9^l g:> ,- :j|g^phhk*^ R3Py^^^ canadian || mir ^^^^^k?i|k:: mg^sr^pptr mr ** bj @^m*we**3'|*$ " tb h^brad* j^jlh 9lfa^ :-;^SB|(PPB|JHBIP^^^^ 19 #rt^ "' ', vi^^l ^?rSp^||ip:i,y^ ' v*|B IB 9^<1^9V^B9^H999l^ 1b Bf< - 4 ? iW^^^BNkT 8'H">': Us sM " '1 !Siy% ^ - ? = 19 - -||jM ^^^^^jill^llMj||^||B|MHWi^P^{ is iiB 2" ' - > ^B I 1 l;i^-l . # 9 ^mimf 9 wK^w?, w I 99 %<& J J**' 9 ^*B9|09B9^9111IH?PiL*i ?&m*tIitiL 9 ^B jMBF. 99^ ^ GO MISTING TONIGHT. 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