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Former football star Mercury Morris, once a drug user, spreads his anti-drug message around the nation
Clemson overpowers TUNC soccer
By BONNIE BISHOP
Staff Writer
CLEMSON, S.C. UNC lost its
second game of the season to fourth
ranked Clemson, coming up on the
short end of a 3-1 score here Sunday
against the defending ACC
champion.
The Tar Heels, who dropped to
4-2 overall and 0-1 in the ACC, came
out hard in the first half and were
the first to put points on the board
13 minutes into the game. Midfielder
Marcus Martin took a pass from
Tommy Nicholson and kicked it
through the outstretched arms of
Clemson's diving goalie for UNC's
only goal of the game.
Scoreboard
Football
UNC 20, Kansas 0
UNC
Kansas
0 3 14 3-20
0 0 0 00
UNC FG Gliarmis 25
UNC Humes 55 pass from haJKGiiarmts kick
UNC Starr 2 fun (Gliarmis kick)
UNC FG Gliarmis 35
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But the Tigers (3-0-1, 1-0), a
perennial power in NCAA soccer,
were simply too tough. They put
UNC on the defensive for much of
the rest of the game, outshooting the
Tar Heels 19-7.
Clemson tied the score at 1-1 with
a little more than three minutes left
in the half, as the Tigers Bill Fortner
caught UNC by surprise with a goal
off a pass from Eric Eichmann.
The Tar Heels were happy to be
even at the end of one half on the
road against a nationally-ranked
squad. "1 was pleased at the half with
it knotted at 1-1," said UNC coach
Anson Dorrance.
But hopes of a UNC upset were
UNC KU
First Downs 16 20
Rushes-yards 58-282 26-89
Passing yards 79 284
Return yards 49 36
Passes 5-15-0 29-50-2
Punts 9-39 7-36
Fumbtes-lost 2-1 3-3
Penalties-yards 3-32 5-34
Time of possession 324)5 27:55
INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS
Rushing UNC: Humes 22-89, Lopp 10-27,
Thompson 7-37. Starr 11-71, Halt 6-21. Streater
2-37. Kansas: SneU 16-87. Rogers 2-12. Vaughn
1 -6. Henderson 1 41 Orth 6-(-20)
Passing UNC: Hall 4-12-Kansas:
Orth 29-50-2-299
1-55. Maye 1-3-0-i
- UNC: Humes 4-77. Starr 1 -2. Kansas:
Caldwell 7-96, Snefl 7-47. Ray 4-67. Harvey 4
31. Vaughn 4-19. Harris 2-20. Rogers 1-19.
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quelled by Clemson, as the Tigers
kept UNC on the defensive end of
the field for the majority of the
second half. North Carolina
appeared to be run down and tired
in the middle of the second half, and
Clemson took advantage.
Keith Parkinson gave the Tigers
the lead at 2-1 with an unassisted
goal, and with five minutes left in
the game Eichmann scored the final
goal on an assist from John Meek.
After that goal made the score 3
1, UNC rebounded and defended its
goal well. Goalie Darren Royer
saved several more shots and pre
vented the score from reaching rout
proportions.
Around the Nation in CoKsge Footbal
ACC
Furman 17, Georgia Tech 17
Georgia 31, Duke 3
Maryland 31, Vanderbilt 0
Navy 20, Virginia 10
N.C. State 14, Pittsburgh 14
Virginia Tech 20, Clemson 14
Wake Forest 31 . Boston U. 0
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Miami 61, Texas Tech 1 1
Michigan 24, Notre Dame 23
TCU48.Tulane 31
Mississippi St 27. Tennessee 23
Iowa 43. Iowa St 7
Kentucky 16, Rutgers 16
BYU 31. New Mexico 30
Army 33. Syracuse 28
USC 31. Illinois 16
Morris reformed, but a hero no more
By MIKE BERARDINO
Assistant Sports Editor
Standing near him, I couldn 't help
but feel the electricity. The air of
urgency which pervaded his remarks
was unlike any I had ever sensed
before. He made me nervous.
Eugene "Mercury" Morris is an
incredibly intense individual.
Just like every other normal young
boy who grew up in the early 1970s
in South Florida, my heroes were
the men who wore the aqua-and-orange
uniforms of the Miami
Dolphins. Back-to-back Super Bowl
championship seasons, including the
enduring masterpiece 17-0 year in
1972, elevated Don Shula and his
band of gritty gridsters to an
unreachable plateau.
For me, the Dolphins were per
fection personified.
Sadly, however, perfection on the
playing field doesn carry over into
the "real" world. In fact, it doesn't
mean a damn thing here.
Farmer, Chambers
win for x-country
From staff reports
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va.
North Carolina's cross country
teams opened up their 1986 seasons
with easy victories at the Old
Dominion Invitational. The top
performances were put in by seniors
Jim Farmer and Karol Chambers,
who won the individual titles.
Farmer's time of 24:06 on the 4.5
mile course at Fort Story put him
just ahead of teammates Mike
McGowan (24:06) and Mike Cur
rinder (24:20), who finished in
second and third places. The other
performers for UNC were Reggie
Harris (sixth in 24:37), Eric Landis
(eighth in 24:48) and Mark Clinebell
(ninth in 24:51). North Carolina's
total of 20 points easily beat the
second-place team, Old Dominion,
which had 54 points.
Chambers' time of 20:30.6 on the
5,000-meter layout gave the Florida
native her first collegiate cross
country victory. The other Tar Heel
scorers were Heather Zimmerman
(fifth in 21:00), Kim Shuman (sixth
in 21:26), Vicki Verinder (seventh in
21:37) and Jennifer Sallez (ninth in
22:04).
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Mercury Morris was a speedy,
elusive, infinitely-talented running
back who could seemingly switch on
an invisible afterburner and turn the
corner on the quickest of defenders.
Number 22 was undeniably a vital
cog in the Miami machine and the
last truly great runner to regularly
roam the Orange Bowl turf.
But in time, "Merc," the symbol
of perfection, became Morris, the
embodiment of the fallen hero. He
became entangled in the always
alluring web a lady named "Cocaine"
had spun for him. In 1982, he was
busted for cocaine possession and
trafficking.
Morris spent the next 42 months
in a Dade County prison. That's a
long time. Think about it.
While paling in comparison to the
type of jail terms we mechanically
throw around in casual conversation
(5-10, 15-20, life) Morris' penance
meant he had to experience almost
1,300 straight sunsets, had to fall
asleep almost 1,300 straight nights,
and wake up almost 1,300 straight
mornings behind bars.
The tribulation made Morris, now
39, a changed man. He spoke about
it last Thursday night, at the Hotel
Europa in Chapel Hill where he was
the keynote speaker at the Cocaine
Connection Conference. Later, Mor
ris followed up his hour-long pres
entation by fielding questions from
local and national media for another
30 minutes.
When he retired from professional
football in 1976 after an eight-year
career that ended with the San Diego
Chargers, Morris realized just how
one-dimensional his life had been for
the first time since he began playing
football 20 years earlier.
"When I stopped playing ball, I
was left without a goal," he said. "For
years, I always had someone who
would hand me a game plan and say
'This is how we're going to do it.
FSU football
From Associated Press reports
Florida State University football
player Pablo Lopez, a starting
offensive lineman, was shot to death
after an argument rekindled with a
Tallahassee man outside a campus
dance, police said.
Byron C. Johnson, 20, was
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"When I retired, I found myself
having to come up with my own
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Getting busted roused Morris out
of his self-imposed doldrums and
eventually enabled him to become
what he is today a living, brea
thing drug-use deterrent. '
Morris inspiration? The word of
Jesus Christ. -
"I am for sure an unlikelihood
second only to Paul (of Tarsus) as
far as grace is concerned," Morris
said. "Why He spared me, I have
no idea."
While in captivity, Morris sought
and found solace in the Bible. He
also found the strength to overcome
his dependence on cocaine.
"Drug use is a gigantic problem!
but it can be defeated," he said!
"While rehabilitation is fine, you can
only be driven to that spot. You must
want to go there yourself. You must
desire a change."
His conversion apparently now
complete, Morris tours the country,
appears on talk shows and has taped
a nationally-distributed public ser
vice announcement all with the same
aim spreading the word that God,
not drugs, is where it's at.
Today, Morris lives in Miami with
his wife and three children. Unlike
the well-documented examples of
Len Bias and Don Rogers, Morris
got a second chance. You don't have
to remind him of that.
Somewhere near the middle of his
speech, Morris looked at his atten
tive audience and sort of blurted out,
"Don't you feel bad for me, because
I'm probably one of the happiest men
on this earth today."
I don't feel bad for you anymore,
Mercury. But as an ex-hero wor
shipper, I still feel bad for me.
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