Sports Friday
THE PITCH
John C.
Manuel
Assistant
Sports Editor
Diamond has
lost its luster
for everyone
My heart is being broken.
Slowly, tortuously, Major League
Baseball is turning the knife. I and mil
lions of baseball fans across the country
are hemorrhaging, and there is no one in
sight to stop the bleeding.
In fact, no one seems to want to.
When baseball’s winter meetings
convened in Louisville, Ky., in early
December, a dark cloud already hung
over the nation’s pastime. No one—
players, owners, the commissioner, no
one— seemed immune to the virus of
greed and the disease of conceit that had
gripped the game. Nowhere was it more
evident than at the meetings.
Players had been contributing their
share to the malaise throughout the year
with mind-boggling regularity. Cincin
nati Reds pitcher Rob Dibble continued
to be an embarrassment to the sport,
whether it was by throwing behind the
headofHouston’sEric Yelding, tearing
his uniform off on the field after yield
ing a game-ending home run or, most
prominently, fighting with then-man
ager Lou Piniella.
In October, New York Yankees
pitcher Steve Howe, banned from base
ball after seven drug-related offenses,
was reinstated by baseball arbitrator
George Nicolau, making a further mock
ery of baseball’s drug policy.
And at the winter meetings, player
salaries reached absurd, insulting lev
els.
First, San Francisco won the Barry
Bonds sweepstakes, signing the former
Pittsburgh outfielder for $43.75 million
over six years.
Even more revolting were deals in
volving mediocre players and star dol
lars, like Spike Owen’s pact with the
Yanks (3 years, $7 million) and scatter
anned reliever Randy Myers’ contract
with the Chicago Cubs (3 years, sll
million).
This spending comes as baseball's
cash cow, its television contract with
CBS and ESPN ends this season, and
revenue from TV will decrease after
these networks lost millions.
All this was sideshow to the center
stage folly of Reds owner Marge Schott.
Already known as an eccentric
blowhard, she drove out competent gen
eral manager Bob Quinn and manager
Piniella with her bizarre running of the
club, which included giving her Saint
Bernard, Schottzie, free reign of the
Riverfront Stadium turf.
Then Schott was accused of making
racist comments about former Reds
players Dave Parker and Eric Davis.
The Cincinnati front office was surpris
ingly bereft of minority employees, and
a former employee alleged that Schott
had a swastika armband in her home.
Schott struggled to apologize or, as
she pronounced it at her news confer
ence, “apolize,” for her actions, and
said she didn’t know anyone would be
offended by the swastika.
Confusing all this was the hiring by
Schott of a minority, former Big Red
Machine star Tony Perez, as manager.
Now, as the 1993 season approaches,
the model of bad ownership The
Boss, George Steinbrenner returns
to take control of, like it or not, baseball ’ s
flagship franchise. Steinbrenner was bad
for baseball before his banishment re
lated to his involvement with gambler
Howard Spira. Now, have two years
away from the everyday operations of
the Yankees really made him a better
owner?
Finally, Commissioner Fay Vincent,
betrayed by greedy, overbearing own
ers and his own mistaken vision of the
game, resigned Sept. 7. No replacement
has as yet been named, and other top
ranking baseball officials are leaving as
well.
Deputy commissioner Steve
Greenberg resigned this month, citing
an increased workload due to the lack of
a commissioner. And National League
president Bill White will leave office
after his term ends in March, expressing
deep concern for the future of the game
and frustration over his inability to stem
the tide.
That is the attitude many fans have
taken toward the game now. A growing
disillusionment hangs over the game, a
feeling of impending doom that has
gripped lovers of America’s Pastime
everywhere.
The young fans care more about how
much a player’s card is worth than
whether he can hit the cutoff man. The
owners concern themselves with play
ing cities off against each other to get
sweeter stadium deals.
And players go on the disabled list
after slamming their hand in the door of
their Porsches on the way to the bank.
Something’s got to give. The game
of baseball cannot go on much longer
this way.
Sampson’s 30 keys UNC’s 4th-straight ACC win
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FLORIDA STATE 60
Staff report
TALLAHASSEE, FL. - The North
Carolina women's basketball team
avenged a Jan. 10 loss to Florida State
by blitzing the Seminoles 73-60 Thurs
day night before 1,037 at Tully Gym.
After dropping their first two confer
ence contests, the Tar Heels have won
four straight ACC games. No. 20 UNC
now stands at 13-2 overall, 4-2 in the
ACC. Florida State fell to 9-5, 4-4 in
conference play.
The Tar Heels are now 5-1 away
from Carmichael Auditorium, with their
only road defeat coming at Georgia
Tech on Jan. 5.
Tonya Sampson led all scorers with
30 points, two shy of her career high,
nailing 9 of 17 shots from the floor and
10 of 12 free throws. She also snagged
five offensive rebounds and six steals.
Sampson, a junior from Clinton, is
currently fifth in the league in scoring
and ranks second in steals. She played
the entire 40 minutes against Florida
State.
Charlotte Smith powered her way for
UNC travels to New Jersey to play
PJ.’s 10th ranked Kids in the Hall
By Bryan Strickland
Senior Writer
For one season at least, being the
beast of the Big East doesn’t insure
national acclaim.
While No. 3 North Carolina and two
other ACC schools, Duke and Virginia,
rank among the nation’s top seven, three
Big East teams are wavering in the
lower reaches of the latest Associated
Press poll, trying to hang in.
It’s up to Seton Hall to protect the
league’s elite status.
The 1 Oth-ranked Pirates could take a
big step in that direction Sunday, host
ing the Tar Heels (15-1,5-0 in the ACC)
at 12:30 p.m. in a game televised on
CBS. A season ago in the now-defunct
Big East-ACC Challenge, the Tar Heels
slammed the Pirates 83-54 at the Mead
owlands Arena in East Rutherford, N.J.
Head coach P.J. Carlesimo’s Pirates
have fought their way to a 15-2 record
this season, including a 5-1 Big East
mark. But Seton Hall has been far from
overpowering despite the record: Its
five conference victories have come
against teams with a combined league
Bill, Bo and Long John make Thursday a day for comebacks in sports
Parcells new top man with Patriots
The Associated Press
BOSTON Bill Parcells, who left
coaching sifter winning two Super Bowls
with the New York Giants, was hired
today by the struggling New England
Patriots.
Parcells, who quit after eight years as
Giants coach in May 1991, succeeds
Dick MacPherson, who was fired by the
Patriots after the team went 2-14 in his
second season.
Parcells and the Patriots apparently
came to terms late Wednesday night.
Among the other announcements made
by the Patriots at the afternoon news
conference was that Patrick Forte, vice
president of administration, would take
over as executive vice president for
football operations.
That left the Patriots without a gen
eral manager, leaving open the possibil
ity that Parcells would assume that au
thority, too.
Hiring their fourth coach in five years
allows the Patriots to focus on other
ways to rebuild the franchise, such as
signing free agents and preparing for
the April draft in which they have the
first choice.
Parcells brings credibility to a team
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No. 5 Maryland up next for 12-2 women’s basketball
By Jacson Lowe
Staff Writer
The 20th-ranked North CaroKnaTar
Heels proved last week that they are
ACC championship contenders when
they defeated then-No. 17 Clemson
59-56 Saturday on the road.
When the women’s basketball team
knocked off Florida State 73-60 in
Tallahasse Thursday night, die con
tender label got stronger.
And if the Tar Heels can puli an
upset against No. 5 Maryland (12-2
overall, 4-1 in the ACC) when they
play at 7 p.m. Saturday in Carmichael
Auditorium, they will turn heads on
the national scene.
North Carolina (12-2,4-2) will not
have an easy task against a Maryland
team that has beaten powerhouses No.
2 Tennessee, No. 10 Virginia and No.
24 points and pulled down 13 rebounds
to notch her seventh double-double of
the season. Center Sylvia Crawley also
had a double-double, her fourth, netting
record of 9-22.
And the Pirates struggled in their
latest “triumph,” a 66-61 overtime vic
tory against last-place Villanova Tues
day night at the Meadowlands.
Senior shooting guard Terry Dehere
leads The Hall —and the Big East—in
scoring. Dehere’s 22.6 points per game,
combined with his 42.4-percent shoot
ing from 3-point range, make him the
frontrunner for Big East Player of the
Year.
While Dehere leads the team statisti
cally, senior Jerry WalkerisSeton Hall's
inspirational leader. A scrappy player
who can do a little bit of everything,
Walker serves as Carlesimo’s coach on
the floor, averaging 12.4 points and 5.8
rebounds per contest.
Toss in Luther Wright, a 7-foot-2
sophomore who leads the team in
blocked shots and rebounds, sophomore
point man Danny Hurley (yes, he’s
Bobby’s younger brother), junior for
ward Arturas Kamishovas (13.8 ppg,
6.4 rpg), and the Pirates have an offen
sive lineup to be reckoned with.
But much like Virginia, the Tar Heels’
80-58 victim Wednesday night at the
that missed the playoffs the past six
seasons, has four post-season wins in its
33-year history and has struggled at the
box office.
Inquiries from prospective buyers of
the franchise also could get greater at
tention. Owner James Orthwein wants
to sell the team once he receives assur
ances he will get one of the expansion
franchises the league is planning to
award. There is no definite timetable
for expansion.
Parcells, 51, had been considered the
Patriots’ top choice, although former
Philadelphia Eagles coach Buddy Ryan
also was a strong candidate.
Parcells was the Patriots linebackers
coach in 1980 before becoming defen
sive coordinator with the Giants the
next two years.
The Patriots finished in last place in
the AFC East, just as the Giants finished
in the NFC East cellar in Parcells’ first
season as coach with a 3-12-1 record in
1983. Three seasons later, Parcells led
the Giants to a 14-2 record and the
Super Bowl title.
They did it again after the 1990 sea
son, capping a 13-3 season with a 20-19
Super Bowl win against Buffalo.
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UNC 'will be another big game for
Maryland. And when the Terrapins need
big numbers in the bi g games, they turn
to All-America candidate Jessie Hicks.
Hicks, a 6-foot-4 center, is averaging
17.9 points per game, B.4rebounds, 1.3
blocks and is shooting a torrid 64.6
percent from the floor through her fust
14 games. Her 57.6 percent career mark
is the highest in Maryland history.
If UNC can contain Hicks inside,
Maryland coach Chris Weller can count
on a formidable backcourt tandem.
Malissa Boles and Katrina Colleton
are enjoying stellar senior seasons at the
guardpositions. Boles is averaging 11.4
ppg along with 3.1 assists per game.
Colleton has done an excellent job run
ning Weller 1 s fast-paced offense, aver
aging 14 ppg and dishing off 4.1 apg.
The Terrapins’ balanced attack is
11 points and 16 rebounds.
UNC outrebounded the Seminoles
42-39.
North Carolina shot 44.7 percent from
Smith Center, Seton Hall does most of
its damage on defense. The Pirates are
holding the opposition to just 65 points
per game on 39.8-percent field-goal
shooting.
And The Hall has been untouchable
at home this season, going 10-0 at the
Meadowlands and 2-0 at their on-cam
pus home, Walsh Gymnasium. The Pi
rates have won 19 consecutive home
games, last losing at home on Jan. 18,
1992.
The red-hot Tar Heels, meanwhile,
haven’t lost to a Big East team since the
1989-90 season. On Dec. 7 of that sea
son, UNC fell to John Thompson and
Georgetown 93-81 at the Meadowlands
in the team’s inaugural Big East-ACC
Challenge game.
At other times, the swamplands of
New Jersey have been much kinder to
the Tar Heels.
In 1991, UNC used the arena as a
springboard to the Final Four, downing
Eastern Michigan and Temple to reach
the national semifinals. On Jan. 5 of that
same year, the Tar Heels blasted Notre
Dame 82-47 in the arena named for
former N.J. Gov. Brendan Byrne.
Jackson set to play with White Sox
The Associated Press
CHICAGO ls Bionic Bo ready to
go? He’s got an artificial hip, and he’s
preparing for one final comeback with
the Chicago White Sox.
Bo Jackson was impressive Thurs
day, fielding grounders and taking
swings in a batting cage. He topped that
by running four, 120-yard sprints to the
controlled time of 20 seconds a sprint.
“There’s no limp, no pain, the differ
ence from last year is night and day,”
said Jackson, who did not play an in
ning last season after having his hip
replaced last April.
The Heisman Trophy winner from
Auburn, a professional superstar at foot
ball and baseball, injured his left hip in
a 1991 NFL playoff game for the Los
Angeles Raiders.
The Kansas City Royals, for whom
he hit 32 home runs and drove in 105
runs in 1989, released him in the spring
of 1991 when doctors said he would
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rounded off with two more players av
eraging double figures in scoring.
Michele Andrew and Bonnie Rimkus
join Hicks in the frontcouit, averaging
10.8 ppg and 10.7 ppg.
Terp opponents are averaging just
under 58 points per game, impressive
considering Maryland’s high-tempo
offense is averaging almost 80 points.
The Tar Heels will try to keep pace
with die Terrapins with a talented
frontcourtof their own. Tonya Sampson
leads UNC in scoring with 19.5 ppg.
The 3-point shot, however, has given
Sampson trouble as of late. In order to
counteract Maryland’s height in the
middle, Sampson will have to improve
on her 4-for-16 performance against
Duke and FSU from trey land.
Charlotte Smith continues to have a
fine sophomore campaign, averaging
17.5 ppg while pulling down 150 rc-
the field for the game, holding Florida
State to a 38.3 percent shooting clip.
The Tar Heels raced to a 40-32 half
time advantage and held off the Semi
point guard
Virginia backcourt Wednesday night. Senior Henrik Rodl
O hit three 3-pointers and scored a season-high 11 points
rj versus the Cavs. Danny Hurley has manned The Hall’s
[a* starting point guard spot since Bryan Caver’s early-season
injury. Terry Dehere is everybody’s All-American.
111 (dll H<■ Arturas Kamishovas is a smooth forward who played for
the Lithuanian national team. Center Luther Wright will
O return after missing Tuesday’s Villanova game because of a
niJr concussion. Jerry Walker is The Hall’s version of UNC’s
X George Lynch, a do-it-all kind of player. Eric Montross
will have to contend with Wright’s 7-foot-2 frame.
'Sit is hard to imagine the Tar Heels ever losing out to an
opponent depth-wise. The Pirates’ depth situation
O received a boost when Caver returned two games ago after
l missing seven games with an ankle sprain. Freshman
S forward Adrian Griffin grabbed a career-high 13 rebounds
versus Villanova, and John Leahy can nail the 3-pointer.
Hall head coach P.J. Carlesimo has won 69.6
percent of his games over the past five-plus seasons. He
[O has led the Pirates to the Sweet 16 three of the last four
£ years. Meanwhile, UNC’s Dean Smith has led his Tar
l§s Heels to 12 consecutive Sweet 16 appearances, and he
IS may well be on his way to No. 13.
Big East may have fallen, but Seton Hall has not. The
H**““ t *““““Pirates will try to regain some of die luster that the once
§ mighty conference has lost, and they certainly remember
£ last season’s 83-54 thumping at the hands of the Tar
£ Heels. Seton Hall is playing at home, where they’ve won
IP v/XI 19 straight. So much for streaks.
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never play again.
The White Sox gambled and signed
him. After torturous rehabilitation, he
played in 23 games in September of
1991, hitting three home runs and driv
ing in 14 runs.
Last spring, the pain became unbear
able, and he had the hip replaced with a
plastic-metal prosthesis. Deciding to
give baseball one more shot, he went
into rehabilitation with hip replacement
trainer Mack Newton and White Sox
trainer Herm Schneider.
“Actually it feels like I’ve never had
any problems in the past,” Jackson said.
“There is no fear factor.”
“We are in uncharted waters,”
Schneider said. “If something happens,
I don’t have the answers.”
And the worst scenario? “If the hip
comes loose or the femur fractures,”
Schneider said. “Then we’d put in an
other hip and let him lead a normal life.
It’s a one-shot thing.”
bounds on the season.
Down 10w,6-5 SylviaCrawleyjoins
Smith and continues to dominate
shorter players with an array of low
postmoves. Crawley may have trouble
equalling her season mark of 11 ppg
against Hicks, who can match up with
her in both height and strength.
Jill Suddreth and Stephanie
Lawrence may be the key to a North
Carolina upset Both had subpar per
formances against Duke, each manag
ing only a single basket and going a
combined 0 for 8 from the 3-point arc.
Better shooting could open the middle
for Smith and Crawley.
If the Tar Heels play solid team
basketball, contain Hicks and get the
crowd in the locally televised game
early, they could steal' a victory at
home from possibly the best team in
the NCAA.
noles in the second stanza.
Three UNC players, Jill Suddreth,
Toni Montgomery and Stephanie
Lawrence, fouled out against FSU.
Daly back to golf
after treatment
The Associated Press
TUCSON, Ariz. John Daly, who
has undergone alcohol rehabilitation
treatment, will return to action on the
pro golf tour next week in Phoenix.
The former PGA champion will com
pete in the Phoenix Open, tournament
officials said Thursday.
Daly has received treatment for alco
hol-related problems since late last
month at an undisclosed location.
The PGA Tour announced in De
cember that Daly voluntarily commit
ted himself for treatment. The action
followed his arrest on charges arising
from an incident at a holiday party at his
home in Castle Rock, Colo.
Daly burst on the professional tour
when he shocked a field of the world’s
best golfers by winning the 1991 PGA
Championship as a qualifier.