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;TELLING IT LIKE IT REALLY IS! .
;<Balanced judgement is the difference be
jfween wisdom and foolishness,
i Super Bowl Sunday looms larger than
;£ver with two of professional football’s
greatest teams meeting head-on Sunday
Afternoon in Tampa Bay, Fla. The know
ledgeable people are laying their hard
earned bucks on the Los Angeles Raiders
While giving Washington from two to four
points.
r After dusting off the Ole Crystal Ball for
^gne last look at football for the current
Treason, I’ve come up with the prediction
Jiat the Redskins will polish off the Raiders
fy I®* Admittedly, OCB didn’t fare very well
during the MEAC-CIAA football campaign,
#ut, remember, this is ...as some would say
>.“another day!’’ Perhaps, “another
league” is better stated.
> There is very little to choose between
these two gladiators, who survived 16 weeks
of head-knocking and butt-busting in the
undeclared wars more popularly known as
professional football. However, OCB warns
that the Redskins have been “up” since the
second week in the season and that Wash
ington has defied the law of average all
season long. One more appearance is not
asking very much of them.
1 If they have their way, the New York
Giants will make black quarterback War
ren Moon football’s newest millionaire.
That’s because the Giants are competing
yith the Houston Oilers, who reports say
4re ready to hand the former Canadian
Football League great a blank check for his
Signature.
■? r.any reports are that the proposed fight
between Sugar Ray Leonard and Mar
velous Marvin Hagler is expected to cross
over $65,000 million and that the fighters
fc'ill divide $35 million between them. Now
you know why the “Sugarman” was itching
to climb back into the boxing rings
I’m happy to note that local television
Viewers who subscribe to cablevision have
turned their thumbs down on “Season
Ticket,” the gimmick to milk extra money
from each viewer for a few extra ACC
basketball contests. It’s about time viewers
teach the TV big-wigs that they’re not going
bMogfca, vm matter**)Headway it s -
i; Mbiifr.|ban the Super Bowl promoters will
strike it rich Sunday. ABC will get $525,000
fw each of its 30-second commercials
during the game. One minute spots will cost
$* million each.
'Incidentally, conservative estimates are
that Super Bowl fans will spend $70 million
in the Tampa Bay area this week.
Did you know that Jim McKinley has
resigned as bead football coach at Prairie
View AAM to accept an assistant coach
fraction with the New Oklahoma team in the
‘Or that CBS, which removed announcer
Tom Brookshire from its regular broadcast
ing team following a negative remark he
madd°df>oUt the Louisville basketball team,
tips assigned Brookshire to do the Super
Bowl pre-game show Sunday.
, - Financial problems have caused the
dfemise of the Willie Stargell Foundation, an
oirganization to aid in research for sickle
cell anemia. The former Pittsburgh Pirates
outfielder says, however, that he will
continue to fill speaking engagements “to
r&ise funds for fighting the disease.”
"Jack Benson, who is more widely known
to his grandiloquence than fir his ath
toip skills, believes West Charlotte’s young
Sophomore Lance ! Jones is going to become
a* stfpefstar. Prep coaches in the area
generally are in agreement.
£ The very informative “Fact Sheet” which
Norfolk State's publicity people send down
t«ch week, reports that Charles Christian
ftwns an enviable 146-60 record, with a
a lefty .709 winning percentage that’s eighth
test in NCAA II and 35th tops in all
(Bvisions. Charles, the reports says, was
teen better in high school where he was
fl-58 in 18 seasons for an .893 dip.
Johnson C. Smith’s young Robert Moore
a .630 winning percentage mark for 12
Of Coaching at Virginia Union and
'/Modre whs 84-57 at JCSU prior to this
and 172-101 overall.
who is building a credit
m at ^cCrorey YMCA,
into Swimming Hall Of
I_ Washington, D.C. Cardozo
Eorrest Willis, formerly of
a being honored.
, who won everything on
“American Music Awftnto”
the hall in which the event
/chalked up still another
in the new PepafCola
feature Michaefc along
-Jadfe, Tito, Germaine,
, in specijiJip tailored
Members of West Charlotte Community
Center Number Two Basketball team
pose happily with their successful coach
Don Cureton.
West Charlotte Community
Center Wins Cage Tournament
By James Cuthbertson
Post Sports Writer
The West Charlotte Com
munity Center Numbei
Two team recently won th<
Earle Village Center
Christmas Tournament.
The starters on the team
are Anthony White at
center, Sherman Crowder
at point guard, Daniel
Freeman at wing, and An
dre Douglas and Jeff Curry
at forwards.
Other members are
Donnie Mclnnis, A1 Grier,
Ballius McLean, Ricky
Jackson and William How
ard.
Coached by Don Cureton
and Winford Phillips, the
team from the West Char
lotte Intermediate League
beat Greenville, 60-55, the
first day, with White scor
ing 15, Curry 13 and
Crowder 12 points.
In the championship
game the team beat Bou
levard Homes, 74-34, with
White scoring 20, Crowder
17 and Curry 13 points.
Anthony White of West
Charlotte was the most
valuable player of the
tournanent.
He was joined on the
All-Tournament team by
Sherman Crowder of West
Charlotte, Wayne Mc
Laughlin of Greenville,
Charles Pegues of Earle
Village and Clem Clendin
ing of Boulevard Homes.
“We put a tough press
and zone trap on them,"
said Cureton of his team's
effort.
“Last year, they beat us
by one point,” he said.
"This year the fellows said
things would be different.”
special Olympic Cagers
Enjoy Successful Season
By Lori Grier
Post Staff Writer
“It’s not so much win
ning, it’s how you play. It’s
just an experience that
can’t be explained unless
you’re there.” said Ms. Pat
McDonald, who helped or
ganize the Special Olym
pics Basketball Team at
Statesville Road Elemen
tary School.
Ms. McDonald started
the team at University
Park Elementary School in
1961, but it was later
moved to Statesville. The
coach for her team is
Harry Deaver.
^'^THrtSifiinBcomp8l«roI
students, ages 11 and 12, in
a self-contained class at
Statesville.
“In Special Olympics
students can only partici
pate in one event. Some
choose the run,' dribble
shoot event, while others
choose the basketball
event,” McDonald added.
Statesville Elementary
School played Plaza Road
Elementary School in No
vember, 1963, and went into
overtime. At the end of
overtime, the score was
still tied. Since neither
team won the game, five
members from each team
were selected to repre
sent Charlotte in the State
Olympics Competition in
November, 1983, at Fort
Bragg in Fayetteville, N.C.
They came away the vic
tors and received cham
pionship ribbons. Mrs.
Rhoda Anderson is in
charge of the Plaza Road
team along with coach
Kelvin Rhumph.
Of the three games
played they lost only once
to a Gastonia team during
the Christmas Classic. The
areas they play in de
pend upon where the State
Olympics will be held, but
local games are usually
played at the Metro Center.
According to McDonald,
the purpose of the team,
which is a Branch of the
National Olympics funded
by the Kennedy Foun
dation, is to help with
self-esteem, morale and
competition. The goals are
that they do the best they
can, learn sportsmanship
behavior, have a good time
and make friends.
She describes the team,
which practices three
hours weekly during
school operation from 7:40
a.m. until 2 p.m., as
“active, pretty skilled in
sports and a good bunch of
boys.” Last year the team
was co-ed with the addition
of one girl.
“The skill isn’t there like
it is for the normal child,
but our kids appreciate it
(sports) more and give it
their all,” McDonald con
tinued.
Her major disappoint
ment occurred when they
lost a game, and she saw
them hurt. McDonald al
ways tries to relieve their
hurt with the motto “Do
Your Best.” The rewards
she receives from working
with them are numerous.
“You get to see the child
ren succeed at some
thing, accomplish on their
own and feel good about
themselves. Seeing them
unable to dribble to able to
make a basket is a won
derful feeling. I've seen
their skills improve from
the very beginning to the
actual game,” she con
fessed.
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friends informed of
what’s happening in
Charlotte by sending
them a copy of The
Charlotte Post each
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News Conference Ruling
Confuses QAA Followers?
By Phil Busher
Special To The Post
A change in how the
CIAA standings are deter
mined is causing some
confusion among confer
ence followers. The formu
la, voted in by league
coaches last year, will in
clude only games that
Johnson C. Smith plays
against fellow members of
the CIAA Southern Division
(JCSU, Winston-Salem
State, Livingstone, Shaw,
Fayetteville State, N.C.
Central and St. Augus
tine’s). All games played
against Northern Division
teams (Virginia Union, St.
Paul’s and Virginia State),
will not count in the stand
ings except to be used as a
tie-breaker to determine
seeding for the CIAA Tour
nament
The Golden Bulls have
split contests with the
North, beating Elizabeth
City State and Bowie State,
while dropping games to
St. Paul’s and Norfolk
State. Six of the Bulls' next
seven games will be
against Southern Division
teams, starting with N.C.
Central Thursday and a
visit to Livingstone Satur
day.
smith s success in that
six-game stretch will
be squarely on the
shoulders of the guards'
play. Center Phil Smith
and forward Roosevelt Mc
Gruder, along with reserve
Mike Singletin, have de
monstrated that the big
men can definitely score if
they get the ball. Although
Singleton measures at only
6’5”, he has been a thorn in
opponent defenses with an
11 of 15 shooting perfor
mance his last two games.
No clear, dominant force
has emerged in the South
ern Division. Central,
WSSU and St. Augustine's
have all sustained losses.
The early surprise has
been Shaw, who has de
feated WSSU, Virginia
Union and Central in three
straight wins in Raleigh.
Mike Singleton
.Golden Bulls reserve
ine Bears are due for an
extensive road trip which is
never kind for trying to
maintain a winning record.
While experts pointed to
Virginia Union as the
power to beat in the
North, the Panthers have
proven human with two
CIAA losses. Hampton In
stitute has proved a steady
force white Norfolk State
has been convincing in roll
ing up 13 straight jyins to be
ranked number two in the
NCAA II polls.
“We haven’t hurt our
selves yet," remarked
JCSU coach Bob Moore.
“St. Paul's taught us that if
we aren't mentally pre
pared against every single
CIAA opponent, no matter
where the game is played,
then, we'd better be pre
pared to have our heads
handed to us."
The JCSU women are on
a roll, having won five of
their last six contests
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with Central, the Smith
teams will take to the road
with visits to Livingstone
(January 19). Barber
Scotia (January 23), St.
Augustine's (January 26)
and WSSU (January 28)
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