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Page B2-The Chronicle, Thursda The Sports Colum Shattere By BARRY COOPER Syndicated Columnist There used to be a time, parti 111 o r 1 in Ulo/?L ~? . ? uvuiai 11 in 11 iv uicha VVJ111111 U1111 Y , when parents u^ed to find role models for their children by simply pointing to a big-league athlete and saying, "See him? Now that'c a man." Professional athletes may be men, all right, but many are no longer worth looking upio. There is a long list of athletes who have betrayed our trust and respect by involving themselves in illegal drug use, scams and shady business deals. You cap check any daily newspaper, on almost any given day, for details. The temptation is to list examples of big-name athletes who have run afoul of the law or who have otherwise embarrassed themselves. But to further disgrace the athletes -- many of them black would serve no real purpose. After all, if these guys are rotten role models, then the least said about them the better. Suffice it to say that there is a real problem in America today regarding those men who our kids can look up to. Ballplayers are more hung up on massive ego trips, and more interested in their Rolls Royces, million-dollar annuities and floor-length mink coats than setting an example for the 8-yearold kids across town. Entertainers are no better, either. They seemed determined to go the opposite of society, and will pierce their noses and dye imimiiiiiiiimiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiimimiiiiimiiiiiii Ram Report IIIHIIIIIIHNNHIUNHNNHNMUHIHIIIIItllllllMllllllllllllll with a hometown friend, Kelvin Bry friends with the former Carolina al a standout with the Baltimore Star States Football League. "We live in the same neighborh boro)," Handsome said. 4'I know 1 We have workouts together." Kelvin's brother, Wayne, and < both players for Elizabeth City Stat< in the Tarboro training sessions. "Kelvin gives us pointers on ri some said. "He teHs us how to wo and shows us how he runs." Not that Handsome needs many ning. WSSU assistant coaches hav* 4.25 seconds for the 40-yard dash. * I Urttmjtjfr ' A ^ y, September 26, 1985 n d image: T1 their hair strange colors to prove it. Of course, the every move of big-time athletes is chronicled by your local newspaper. If Joe Athlete is busted for drunk driving, we know about it the next day. If he is the party to a paternity suit, then we find out about that in a hurry, too. The feeling here is that it would be stupendous if we could somehow shelter today's youth from that kind of information. It would be nice if we could return to a day when ballplayers were pure and certainly worth idolizing. That day, sadly, may have passed forever. But while we hear the every detail of athletes' lives, we do not hear about the people who may be the only real heroes left in this country: the men and women who make their money awav from the ball fields, not on it. Instead of glorifying athletes, today's youngsters should be taught to look up to such people as John H. Johnson, publisher of Ebony magazine and fyead of a business empire. , There are other examples, too, especially in the black community. There is Motown Records head Berry Gordy, Perry Sutton of Inner City Broadcasting, Edward Lewis of Essence magazine and Earl G. Graves of Black Enterprise. These men never show up in the box scores or on the 6:15 sports highlights. That's too bad. If they did, we might have some real role models for our kids^to~~ look up to. IIIIIIIIINIIIIIIIHIIIIIMIIimillllllllllllllllUIIIIIIIIIIHIIIHK From Page B1 IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIKIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII ant. He is good time/' according 1-America, now might have been s of the United make ir4.35 and Handsome has ood (East Tar- 200 in 21.9. He lim pretty well. 400-meter relay t the state meet. Calvin Bridges, The Ram soph j, also took part Tarboro operatec also recruited bv inning/' Hand- North Carolina S rk on the basics carries as a senio While he may pointers on run- while he's at W i clocked him in forget No. 22 -- i , "a world-class opposition's secc le bad rap < Sports Notebook More details have been leaked regarding CBS-TV's plans to make a made-for-television movie on Mississippi Valley football Coach Archie Cooky. The movie will feature Cooley's life and his work in building the reputation of the Delta Devils, who finished 9-2 last season with a high-scoring offense that was the rage of college football. Said the ever-modest Cooley about the movie: 44It will cover my life from high school to now and how I've been a part of a winner all my life." The movie is to be shown this winter. Former Grambling defensive end Robert 44Big Bird** Smith, who never played a down after signing a big contract with the United States Football League Arizona Wranglers, has filed a $3.6 million suit against the club. Smith, plagued by knee injuries while with the Wranglers, claims he was paid only $200,000 on his four-year contract, which was worth a reported $1.4 million. 44I got a raw deal,*' Smith said. "The league started out good, but it ended up with a bunch of rich people playing games. We were all just a tax shelter for them." Smith, 23, is now with the NFL's Minnesota Vikings. Northwestern Coach Dennis Green, the only black man working as a head coach at a Division I-A school, had this to say about the NCAA and schools that violate recruiting rules: "If the NCAA was really serious7 go sitin the parking lot (at some ?} iiiiiiiiiiiimiiitiiiiiiiiiimiiiimtiiiitiHiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiiii ; to Hayes. "I think the coaches a little quick on the trigger, but that's still world class.*' run the 100 meters in 10.5 and the ran nn Tarhnrn Hioh CrhAAl'c -wnr uii i IU uuiu 111511 uvuv/vi J earn in 1983. It finished second in omore is used to the wing-T, since 1 from the alignment. Handsome, Wake Forest, East Carolina and tate, rushed for 1,213 yards on 127 r, not get those kinds of numbers SSU, it's likely you won't soon ifter you see him sprinting past the >ndary. " 4 I on athletes schools) after practice and write down the license numbers (of the players' cars) and then go to the bank and find out how the car was financed ... because there are some conferences in this country where every player worth a damn has a car and that car was not bought by that individual." Insiders say that Georgetown could be one of the best teams in the country again this year, despite the loss of center Patrick Ewing. One reason for the optimism is news that Ewing's backup, Ralph Dalton, probably will return for a final . season. Dalton has graduated but ^ . I _J _ 1 C. 1 1 cuuiu piay a nnai year oy entering grad school. Troubles continue for Memphis State, which has not graduated a black basketball player in more than four years. Former Memphis State booster Harry Davis has accused the school of providing its players with money, cars and "pseudo jobs." Among those who have investigated the Tigers' program: the NCAA, FBI and U.S. Attorney's Office. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation plans to enter the fray soon. The Mai I bag Q: When the New York Knicks drafted Patrick Ewing, Georgetown Coach John Thompson said he was sure Ewing could adjust. Has there been any evidence of tha t yet ? ? William Sanders, Detroit, Mich. A: Still too early to tell. One positive sign, though, is that Ewing has done well in media interviews thus far. 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