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Spoil] r Deal • D—-_, BILL JOHNSON j j? ••• » ® ,* *? ~ *■ X »rrvr> ^ ___ j ASKED ME, BUT. : . JJ*e fro football playoffs didn’t come off the ; nmes in an impressive manner a couple of 5 Hg°nij* “tJury-jinxs were more than to Pittsburgh Steelers, and the L.A. ^Rams and the Minnesota Vikings gave the s Impression that they had played enough football ■; for one year. % The results pit the uninspired Oakland Raiders ; against the reckless Minnesota Vikings in what ' should prove exciting action. The feeling here is : that Fran Tarkenton and Church Foreman will -i-Prove too much for Oakland to handle. ; o fr°m iGr*ensboro thaHhe MEAC has _ x added a couple of great attractions to its annual 4* Basketball Tournament at the Greensboro Coli - seum, February 24-26. The Howard University gymnastics team and the Creative Dance Group ; of North Carolina A&T, both crowd pleasers, are :. scheduled to perform during the halftime ? breaks. ji If given the opportunity to select only one back 5 as the greatest in professional football, based on contribution to his team, this reporter, would chose Chuck Foreman over O.J. Simpson or s Franco Harris. ij You’d never guess who is leading the CIAA :• basketball teams in team defense! It’s the 5 run-and-shoot Spartans of Norfolk State, who £ come to town Monday night to clash with the ■; Golden Bulls of Johnson C. Smith University. The rumor-mill has Tony Dorsett asking for the most money ever paid to a college player ! when he signs with a NFL team later this : year...Even more than Joe Namath’s reportedly r $900,000 or O.J.’s $2.5 million, c •: I find it difficult to believe that basketball star l Walt Frazier has a refrigerator, containing c teacher’s scotch and Cheddar cheese in the back t seat of his limousine. The older dudes had a : better idea! • Joe Louis has a point. The ex-heavyweight : champ was quoted recently, “I think Ali would 5 have been smart to quit after he regained the *: title!” 4IA1I jHalutl--— 12__ . 1.1_A a J v lvalue umt a WI1U doesn’t-roMM^ie better-off than the person who ■ i. can’t read! i The Trojans of Virginia State musl_fceJor j? REAL. In addition to heading up the conference : northern division standings, VSC is the CIAA’s £ top team in team offense, team rebounds and ' team field goal percentage. f. A call from Bob Moorman, the CIAA Commis sioner, informs that there are attractive rooms s available at the Omni International Hotel in £ Norfolk, Va. “Only 30 minutes away from the Hampton Coliseum,” Bob explains. The Omni is - THE HOTEL in the area. C Would you like to try my favorite Christmas ffturkey stuffing recipe? It contains two secret £ ingredients...hennessey and soda! £ George Foreman, the man who lost the 5 heavyweight title to Muhammad Ali, has pur chased a ranch in Texas. ' A.B. Williamson, head basketball coach at Howard University, must be grinning ah the way ;down 14th Street. MEAC experts thought S.C. £State and N.C. Central would be the teams to “beat in the race for the conference champion 'ship. £ Once the shooting started, neither S.C. State •nor NCCU could buy a victory while William 0 £son’s Bisons were zooming to the top of the s standings with a perfect record. % Marshall Emery is off to a slow start in his £ first season as head basketball coach at Dela 5 ware State. S.C. State football season superla £ tives through 10 games show the Bulldogs gave £their best performance against Johnson C. “Smith.: ■ s -- H (y Melvin Condell Hoover Is Post’s “Player Of The Week” ay James uuthbertson Post Sfaff Writer Horace Greeley’s old adage was go "Go West Young Man” and for some aspiring young athletes the adage still holds true today as the big universi ties such as California, Ari zona State, UCLA, Colorado, and Southern California use the lures of sunshine and excitement to recruit the best stars in the Southland. When asked were he would attend college this week's Player of the Week, Melvin Condell Hoover of North Mecklenburg High School, said he would chose either Tulane or Arizona State. He is also leaning in the direction of the Sun Devil? of Tempe, Arizona. "Arizona State will be in the Pac-8 (Pacific Coast Athletic Conference) next year and 1 want to get a chance to play in the~Rose ~B5Wl;““ said the - 17-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. James Withers, who will Melvin Hoover ...Cage standout make a trip to Tmepe, Arizoni sometime in the next tw< weeks to look over the cam pus. Melvin, who averages 12 points and five rebounds per game coming off the bench "~was the- primary-reason-his team beat Olympic’s Trojans for the first time in nine. meetings last w«*k ■ Olympic Invitational 70w™ ment. Although he scored only eight points in the game. tWe of them came in overtime His three-point play with 41 se conds left gave the Vikings a - 64-59 lead etiroute to their final 66-61 victory. “I believe the team is ready now,” Hoover said. “I felt real good about beating Olympic. We had a 15 point lead on them last year and lost by one point earlier this year. We will go all the way now.” The Vikings’ biggest opposi tion will be Garinger and South, said the star, who pre dicts the Vikings will be one of the league's representatives ' in the state tournament in Greensboro. Other stars last week were Jack Planter of Independence who scored 20 points in his team's 78-71 win over Myers Park for the championship_of_ the Myers Park tournament and Ondra Richardson of O lympic, who scored 21 points against North and 19 against Harding to lead his Trojans to second place in the tourney. ^* Preps Face Heavy Schedule w un me nouaay break and a couple of prep tournaments behind them, local high school basketball teams will get back to work Friday night with five big contests scheduled. The top attraction will pit the Garinger Wildcats against the Olympic Trojans in a battle for fijst place in the Southwestern 4-A Conference. Other games on tap Friday night will match Harding with— North at North while Myers Park travels to Independence and West journeys to South Mecklenburg. Each high school contest tips-off at 8 p.m., following a perliminary contest. Garinger will make a rare appearance Saturday night when the Wildcats host Bow man High School of Wades boro, Read the Charlotte Post Each Week. It’s your best source of news about the jgQ£le_you know. rHHP I CASH BONUS I 1 (OFFER GOOD ONLY THRU JAN. 1OTH) ■ I ON ANY 1976 OR 1977 I I NEW OR DEMONSTRATOR I 1 VEGA on CHEVETTE IN STOCK I I $200 FROM I 8 < H I $401 FROM / I I LAPOINTE I I CHEVROLET 1 1 EXAMPLE *',OUUSt YOU! ttoo CASH MtM I I «DOWN PAYMENT ■ CHEVETTE $81 *11 1 $600 CASH OONUS AS DOWN PAYMENT. CASH B 1 SELLING PRICE $3636 31.41 MONTHLY PAYMENTS^ B I CHARGES $(61.29, TOTAL OF PAY? 8 I £5n^Lt°nlr.A.NNUAL PERCENT AGE RATE ■ 1 12.03%. ON APPROVH) CREOIT. PLUS N.C TAX TAGS ■ I ANO DOCUMENTAL FEE OF $10.00 ’ b WBTV To Telecast UINCC - Appalachian State Game WBTV is making plans to telecast a basketball game which is shaping up to be one of the hottest regional con frontations of the 1976-77 sea son. The January 19th contest in B^one, N c. between Appla «uan state and UNC-Char Z e is scheduled to air on GTxannel 3 at 7 priTBuf, cast a °Ul'lals “y tele ther anPends on Putting toge Mt on nMPr!Cedented combi ‘S?1echn'cal facilities to beam the wgnai from B back to Charlotte. WBTV s Broadcast Opera tions Manager, John Edger ton, says conventional televi sion lines do not extend to Boone, and cost estimates for installing them are prohibi tive. Therefore, WBTV Tech nical Operations Manager, George Reynolds, and his staff have set about finding ways to adapt the station’s modern micro-wave equipment nor jnally used for news gathering to ~accomplish this—task “There is no guarantee ol success," says Edgerton, "bul we are determined to try t« make it work.’’ One factor which could present a problem would be heavy snow or dense fog conditions on the night of the game, which would affect the microwave beam. Appalachian State Athletic Director James F. Jones and Coach Bobby Cremins have agreed to schedule the game to begin shortly after 7 p m, enabling WBTV to put toge ther two of the key basketball games of the regular season on the same night. ~ Jim Thacker. WBTV Sports Director, will provide the play-by-play for the ACC con test ... WEEK ^ IN BASKETBALL WHERETHEYPLAY Friday, January 7 Virginia St. at Fayetteville Elizabeth City at Campbell N.C Central, Shaw, St. Paul, St. Augustine's at Capital Classic Saturday. January 8 Shaw i Detroit i at How-ard Delaware at Lincoln S C. State at A&T Hampton at Virginia Union Monday, January io UMES at Stockton State A41 at Western Carolina Norfolk St. at J C. Smith Livingstone at Fayetteville St. Augustine's at Eliz. City Winston-Salem at St. Paul's Atlantic Christian at Shaw Tuesday, January 11 Delaware State at King's Wednesday, January 12 Virginia L'nion at St. Paul's J.C Smith at Shaw Livingstone at Winston-Salem -Hamptzmal Fliiahath riiy _____ Norfolk State at Howard St Augustine's at Virginia St. Morgan at UMES S C State at L'NC-Wilmington Look for the green tags... OUT ® THEY GO! 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