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H With the ACC tourney
looming, UNC faces two
top-10 weekend opponents.
BY FORREST EBER
ASSISTANT SPORTS EDFTOR
Before this season, senior forward
Cindy Werley readily admitted that
North Carolina’s bid for a third consec
utive field hockey championship would
be more difficult than the previous two.
Fourteen games into the current sea
son, Werley’s words are ringing true.
North Carolina has lost three games
this season the most since 1992
and this weekend the Tar Heels won’t be
able to take a break, playing two games
in three days against two top-10 oppo
nents.
“This weekend is especially big to
prove to ourselves that we can handle
the tougher teams,” UNC sweeper Jana
Toepel said. “And that we can com
pete.”
The No. 4 Tar Heels start the week
end today, playing No. 6 James Madison
at 2 p.m. at Navy Field. The Tar Heels
resume action Sunday against No. 3
Maryland at 1.
With UNC dropping its second game
of the year to UVa. last weekend,
Shelton says her team might have turned
DTH Picks of the Week
TTie DTH sports staff and one celebrity/personality pick the winners of the biggest college football games this weekend. We are joined today by Dave Lohse,
UNCs media relations director for Olympic sports. Lohse’s a Purdue grad, but out of a long-standing tradition, we let him pick along with us.
It’s that time of week again, and no one is
more excited than Alec “Cyst No"
Morrison,who gained a game on John Sweeney
“Beenies.” Apparently all that time Motown
hangs out at Sera-Tec finally paid off.
DJ Joe “Bunn” Rolison took time away from
mixing his dope rhymes and Dave “Woah...”
Alexander finally got a clue, as both joined
Queen Sween and Phalec at the 60-victory
plateau.
But there are a host of self-indulgents still
waiting to get out of the 50s, and we’re not talk
ing about vanilla cokes and hop-dances here.
Forrest “Iglesias” Eber and Aaron
“Guantanamera” Beard hope their Latin
rhythms will propel themskyward; Kurt “Let Me
Live” Tondorf doesn’t want to play anymore.
Again, no one on the sports desk was able to
m out-pick the guest picker last week, as Cindy
“'Parlow “Vous Francais” romped to a 10-2 record.
She probably thinks she’s pretty cool. In any
other context, that would be fine. But none of us
think we’re cool. We just pick. And love it.
Rodman returns to Bulls, signs 1-year deal with defending champions
■ The rebounding maven
had been dissatisfied with
the Bulls 1 previous offer.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
DEERFIELD, 111. Dennis
Rodman made it official today he’ll
return to the Chicago Bulls.
Rodman, the NBA rebounds leader
for the past six seasons, signed a one
year contract, the Bulls said.
Rodman initially said he was dissat
isfied with the contract, which he
declined to sign two weeks ago. But
Bulls coach Phil Jackson and Rodman’s
agent, Dwight Manley, said the 36-year
old forward simply had considered
retirement.
“The big thing is that Dennis has got
Gretzky’s wife treated for freak rink-side accident
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK Janet Jones, wife of
hockey great Wayne Gretzky, sustained
a mild concussion and a cut lip
Wednesday night when a 6-by-6 foot
pane of rink-side glass was knocked
from its moorings onto her head while
watching her husband play.
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case, it could not
come at a better
time. After this dif
ficult homestand,
a game at top
ranked Old
Dominion and the
ACC tournament
both loom on the
horizon.
But today, none
of that matters.
“We are not
thinking about the
ACCs or
Maryland,” UNC
back Jen DiCuollo
UNC back
JEN DICUOLLO
said Thursday that .
the James Madison
game would be *a
huge game for UNCs
confidence."
said. “Right now we are thinking about
James Madison. It is going to be a huge
game for our confidence.”
JMU has only defeated UNC once in
Karen Shelton’s 16-year stint as North
Carolina’s head coach. That loss took
place in the 1994 NCAA Finals, a 2-1
decision that came in penalty strokes.
Last season, the Tar Heels dropped
James Madison 6-0 in Chapel Hill. In
the last five games between the two
teams, JMU has only managed to score
one goal in regulation time.
But this year’s JMU team is much
improved and relies on teamwork and
scrappiness to make up for shortcom-
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Clemson at Md. Clemson Clemson Clemson Clemson Maryland Clemson Clemson Clemson
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to want to have to play,” Jackson said.
“He’s going to have to feel that this is his
business and it’s what he wants to do
more than anything else, for us to be suc
cessful.”
Rodman was at the Bulls’ practice
center when the contract announcement
was made, but a team spokesman said
the player would not comment.
The Bulls will play the Philadelphia
76ers tonight at the Smith Center. As
Rodman is under contract, he at least
should be in uniform.
Known as much for his outbursts,
dyed hair, tattoos, body piercings and
erratic behavior as for his rebounding,
Rodman reportedly was offered a con
tract worth $4.5 million plus incentives.
Jackson told management during the
offseason that the Bulls needed to keep
either Rodman or Brian Williams,
Jones, 36, spent the night in
Roosevelt Hospital and left the next
morning accompanied by her husband.
X-rays and CAT scans showed no prob
lems, said hospital spokesman Brice
Peyre.
As Gretzky watched from the
Rangers bench, medical workers attend
ings of talent.
“They play beyond their individual
talent,” Shelton said. “Asa team, they
are so much better than they are as indi
viduals.”
While JMU may be a team of over
achievers, Maryland is a team full of tal
ent.
The Terrapins are the only team to
leave a blemish on Old Dominion’s
record this season, handing ODU a 3-2
loss in penalty strokes.
Three days later, Maryland dropped a
3-2 decision to Virginia. That loss
remains the Terps only of the year.
Since that loss, Maryland has
outscored their opponents 28-4. Nadine
Bennett leads the scoring attack with 22
goals, including two hat tricks in her last
three games.
Maryland is one of the few programs
that has troubled the Tar Heels in recent
years. They have handed the Tar Heels
five losses in the ’9os only Old
Dominion has bettered UNC more
times this decade.
But the Tar Heels have won the last
nine meetings, including a 4-0 win in
last year’s ACC final.
The Terps play at Duke on Friday
night, giving Shelton an opportunity to
see Maryland for the first time this year.
But this weekend, North Carolina is
less worried about the opponents and
more concerned about which UNC
another power for
ward from last
year’s champi
onship team.
Williams signed
with Detroit, so
“we had to have
Dennis,” Jackson
said Wednesday.
“We need
Dennis’ fire. We
need that player
who can instill
some fear,” the
coach said. “We
need the desire,
intensity, full-out
play ... all the
Bulls forward
DENNIS RODMAN
could play tonight in
Chicago's preseason
game vs. Philadelphia
at the Smith Center.
capabilities Dennis brings to the floor.
That goes some distance when the team
is trying to defend, rebound, get after the
ed to Jones after the protective plastic
glass fell upon her during the third peri
od. After ten minutes, Jones was taken
out on a stretcher.
Gretzky played the last six minutes of
the 1-0 Rangers loss to the Chicago
Blackhawks at Madison Square Garden
before rushing to the hospital.
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UNC forward Cindy Werley, shown here tangling with a UMass defender, scored two goals against Wake Forest on
Wednesday night and tied the UNC single-season goal mark of 27 set by Bashi Buba in 1978.
team will show up to play. The team that
romped to a 5-1 win vs. Wake Forest is
a vastly different group than the UNC
ball. Just that energy level, that’s a fuel
ing source to the rest of the players ....
I don’t know if we can or can’t win with
out him. All I know is it would be a lot
easier with him.”
Wednesday’s game was a good illus
tration. Led by Clarence Weatherspoon
and Terry Cummings, Philadelphia out
rebounded the Bulls 49-35, winning 95-
87.
“The way we got beat on the boards,
we’d sure like to see Dennis back in uni
form,” Jackson said. “It’s obvious that’s
one of our weaknesses without him. We
need someone to react to the ball.”
Chicago also was without All-Stars
Michael Jordan, sidelined for ingrown
toenail surgery, and Scottie Pippen, who
had foot surgery and is out at least until
January.
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play for us,” Jordan said Wednesday. “If
he don’t want to play ...”
Jordan finished his statement with a
profanity, much like Rodman might
have.
One of Rodman’s three suspensions
last season was for swearing on live tele
vision; the others were for kicking a
cameraman and hitting an opponent in
the groin.
“He’s not going to get $5 million
from anybody else, and we’re not going
to get 15 rebounds from anybody else,”
teammate Steve Kerr said.
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“We are not worried about their
game,” DiCuollo said. “We need to put
our game together.”
Bulls’ Jordan
hopes to play
against 76ers
■ Michael Jordan's feet are
better, and he could play
tonight at the Smith Center.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
DEERFIELD, El. Michael Jordan
has recovered faster than expected from
surgery to remove ingrown toenails and
hopes to play in tonight’s exhibition at
the Smith Center.
“The quicker I can get back to play
ing basketball, the better,” the former
UNC star said Thursday. “It isn’t as ten
der as I thought it was going to be. The
doctors anticipated five to seven days,
but after the first day, I was able to put
a shoe on and move around a little bit.
... I went to a half-size bigger shoe. It
seemed to give me room I needed.”
Jordan, the nine-time league scoring
leader, said he’ll see how he feels in the
pregame hours before deciding to play.
Earlier in the week, Jordan expressed
disappointment about not being able to
play in tonight’s 7:30 matchup between
his Chicago Bulls and the Philadelphia
76ers.
“I know everybody would have been
teed off if I wouldn’t have played,” he
said. “But my season comes first. That’s
one the reasons I went on and did the
surgery. If my foot wasn’t feeling well,
I wouldn’t have played even in North
Carolina.”
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