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Ground Game Grounded in O-Line
North Carolina football fans
beware: Do not get too excited
about a couple of rookie run
ning backs.
After all, they could hurt an ankle or
get declared academically ineligible.
No, wait. That was last year.
Regardless, if the ground game is
what you want to get hyped about,
there is a far better reason than Daniel
Davis and Willie Parker. After all,
they’re only freshmen, and it was only
a scrimmage.
The place to look for rushing hopes
this season is the Tar Heels’ offensive
hne. Last season, the unit had five new
starters. For you non-football types,
that’s all of the offensive lineman.
My grandmother could have been
at tailback, and it probably wouldn’t
have made much of a difference
(though she does have surprising
quickness out of the backfield even at
age 76).
But this year, UNC’s starting O-line
is made up entirely of familiar faces.
That makes rookie rushers look good.
That makes veteran rushers look good.
That would even give my grandmother
a decent shot at a 100-yard game.
A good runner is useless if he has
nowhere to ran. That’s why any hope
of a ground attack has to start with the
linemen. Because if you take a guy
with 4.3 speed and let him tear
through a wide-open hole, he’s unstop
pable. If you ran him into a brick
wall, he’s unconscious.
Comets' Guard Perrot Dies
Following Cancer Struggle
Associated Press
HOUSTON - Kim Perrot, the pop
ular Houston Comets point guard often
described as the heart and soul of the
two-time WNBA champions, died
Thursday of lung cancer. She was 32.
Perrot died peacefully with friends
and family by her side at the University
of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer
Center, the team said.
Perrot, who was diagnosed with lung
cancer on Feb. 19, sought alternative
treatment in Mexico after undergoing
surgery Feb. 24 to remove tumors in her
brain, where the lung cancer had
spread.
The Comets were in Los Angeles on
Thursday preparing for Friday night’s
game against the Los Angeles Sparks.
Her condition worsened during her
second trip to Tijuana, Mexico, where
she had been receiving treatment. She
returned to Houston last Saturday.
The Lafayette, La., native arrived in
Houston three years ago, fresh off the
professional women’s circuit in Europe.
She was signed as a developmental play
er for the fledgling Women’s National
Basketball Association franchise here.
Despite her 5-foot-5 frame, Perrot
Orlando Deals Again, Ships Ellis, Manning to Bucks
Associated Press
MILWAUKEE - The Milwaukee
Bucks and Orlando Magic made a four
player trade Thursday, with Milwaukee
sending forwards Chris Gatling and
Armen Gilliam to Orlando for forward
Danny Manning and guard Dale Ellis.
Manning was the NBA’s best sixth
man for the 1997-98 season. The deal
moves four well-traveled veterans, each
with at least eight years of experience
and four previous teams on their
resumes. Ellis and Manning were both
acquired by the Magic in offseason
trades with Seattle and Phoenix, respec
tively, and hadn’t played a game in
Orlando.
“By acquiring Danny and Dale, we
have improved our basketball team,”
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See how simply the logic works?
There is no doubt that speed, quick
ness and agility are keys to a danger
ous rushing attack.
But a little excitement about those
qualities sometimes makes people for
get that the holes created by the offen
sive hne are what produce a consistent
rushing attack.
Before the ’9B season, offensive
coordinator Steve Marshall -then
preparing for his first year at North
Carolina - said he planned to bring
intensity and aggresiveness to the Tar
Heels’ O-line, creating a more attack
ing style of offense.
Then the ground game never mate
rialized. With five new starters, it was
hard to determine whether the flaw
was in the recipe or the ingredients.
The 1999 season should give UNC’s
men in the trenches a chance to prove
that being experienced might make a
difference in production.
And considering the Tar Heel run
ning game was a question mark week
quickly became a starter and crowd
favorite noted for ferocious play that
helped the Comets win consecutive
championships in 1997 and 1998, the
league’s inaugural seasons.
Last year, Perrot averaged 8.5 points
and 4.7 assists with 84 steals in 30 regu
lar-season games and was second in vot
ing for defensive player of the year.
In the offseason, Perrot began suffer
ing headaches. After conducting tests,
doctors delivered the startling diagnosis
of lung cancer for Perrot, a nonsmoker.
The cancer already had spread to her
brain when it was detected.
After brain surgery, Perrot entered
radiation treatment to attack tumors in
her head. She went to Mexico for alter
native medical procedures rather than
submit to chemotherapy prescribed by
her Houston doctors.
Perrot played for Southwestern
Louisiana. She scored 58 points against
Southeastern Louisiana in 1990, the sec
ond-highest total in NCAA history.
She set 26 school records, including
the career scoring mark of 2,157 points.
Perrot played six years in Europe for
pro teams in Sweden, Germany, Israel
and France, returning to the United
States in 1997.
Bucks coach George Karl said in a state
ment. "Danny has shown the ability to
play all three front line positions excep
tionally well, and Dale is one of the best
shooters in the game. This trade makes
us a better team.”
Manning, 33, was traded to Orlando
with Pat Garrity and two first-round
draft picks for Penny Hardaway earlier
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An experienced offensive line could make it easier for UNC runners, like
fullback Deon Dyer, to find holes in the opponent's defense.
in and week out in 1998, anything that
might bolster its success this year
should be a welcome change.
Perhaps that comes in the form of
impressive young tailbacks. But think
ing a skilled rookie runner will put up
big numbers is mere speculation.
On the other hand, it is undeniable
fact that the linemen who will play this
season saw some snaps in ’9B.
FSU Wideout Coles Sidelined for Opener
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FSU's Laveranues Coles reportedly injured his left knee Thursday.
Coles was suspended Wednesday for the team's Aug. 28 opener.
this month. Manning won the 1998
Sixth Man award with Phoenix, where
he had played the last five seasons.
A two-time All-Star and the first over
all pick in the 1988 draft, Manning aver
aged a career-low 9.1 points and 4.4
rebounds per game last season while
playing in all 50 games for the Suns.
Ellis, 39, played for Karl in Seattle
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So if you’re looking for something
to get excited about, fact is a better bet
than speculation.
And who knows? Maybe the two
could come together to give the Tar
Heels the ground game they sorely
lacked last year.
Evan Markfield can be reached at
emm@email.unc.edu.
during the 1997-98 season, and he also
previously played in Milwaukee from
1990-92.
Ellis, who was acquired by the Magic
in the deal that brought rookie Corey
Maggette to Orlando, averaged just 10.3
points per game coming off the bench
for the Sonics last season, his lowest
average since 1985-86.
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Jones Aims for 4 Golds;
Relay Decision to Come
Former Tar Heel Marion
Jones is the favorite in the
100- and 200-yard events at
the World Championships.
Associated Press
SEVILLE, Spain - Marion Jones
won’t settle for anything less than an
unprecedented four gold medals at the
World Championships.
The big question mark is the source
of that fourth gold.
Will it come in the
1,600-meter relay
or in the 400
relay?
If Jones wins
the 100 meters,
200 meters and
long jump, the
relay decision will
rest with her
coach, Trevor
Graham.
“Trevor has
told me that after
my three individ
ual events are
done hopefully
Former UNC star
Marion Jones
owns world-best
times this season
in the 100- and
200-meters.
I’m happy with three wins there - he’s
going to look into my eyes and tell if I’m
ready to run a 400 meters or not,” she
said Thursday. “If he doesn’t... then I’m
Staff and Wire Reports
TALLAHASSEE - Florida State
coach Bobby Bowden that wide receiv
er Laveranues Coles will be suspended
for the season opener against Louisiana
Tech on Aug. 28.
ESPN reported on Thursday, that
Coles was dealt another blow when he
injured his left knee in practice.
Coles is being examined for a possi
ble sprained medial collateral ligament
and anterior cruciate ligament in the
knee. There was no word on whether he
would miss any practice or game time.
Coles was slated to start opposite
Peter Warrick in the season opener with
expected starter Ron Dugans out with a
fractured finger.
“Laveranues Coles will be suspended
for the first game,” said Bowden. “It has
nothing to do with the Houston trip, but
academics instead.”
Florida State is investigating the
financial source of a summer trip Coles
made to Houston.
Bowden told the Orlando Sentinel
he received a copy of Coles’ report card
from summer school Tuesday and was
n’t satisfied with his academic progress.
“I just saw his grades from over the
summer, and I do not feel he applied
himself,” the coach said in the Sentinel.
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going to run the 4 x 100.”
Jones, who went to college at North
Carolina, is a big favorite in the 100 and
200, where she’s unbeaten since 1997
and owns the world-best times this sea
son (10.80 and 21.81).
Her biggest challenge will be in the
long jump, where she lost last month in
Linz, Austria, to Heike Drechsler, the
former Olympic and world champion.
A loss in the long jump here and Jones’
relay choice won’t matter.
After losing to Drechsler - 22 feet, 5
inches, to 22-3 - Jones returned home to
coordinate her blistering speed down
the runway with her shaky technique.
“Everybody knows earlier in the sea
son I was having a little bit of trouble
with my rhythm on the long jump,” the
23-year-old American said. “Since my
last long jump in Linz, we’ve gone bade
to the drawing board and made our nec
essary corrections.”
Some answers will roll in almost
instandy when the championships open
Saturday. Jones begins her long jump
qualifying at 10:30 a.m., with 100-meter
prelims starting 15 minutes later.
“I want to go out there and hopeful
ly on my first jump qualify and be able
to concentrate on die 100 after that,” she
said.
Both Drechsler and British-bom
Italian Fiona May, who has the best
legal jump in the world this season, see
Jones as very beatable.
“He’s not ineligible, but I talked it
over with [receivers coach Jeff Bowden],
and we feel like with the work he did
this summer, he deserves to sit out the
first ballgame.”
It was the latest in a series of setbacks
for Coles, who missed a practice last
week while attending a court-ordered,
anger-management class relating to an
assault case from last year.
Jackets Suspend Pair
ATLANTA - Two Georgia Tech foot
ball players have been suspended
because of conduct “detrimental to the
Tech football program,” coach George
O’Leary said Monday.
O’Leary would not elaborate on the
offenses of the two players, but said
quarterback Jermaine Crenshaw, a red
shirt freshman quarterback, would miss
the first three games and defensive back
Troy Tolbert, a junior comerback, will
miss the first two games, against Navy
and Florida State. The third game is
against Central Florida.
Crenshaw was competing for the No.
2 quarterback slot behind Joe Hamilton,
while Tolbert was competing for a start
ing position.
O’Leary said the suspensions were
not drug-related. Both players will con
tinue to practice with the team, he said.
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