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Before trying to keep up with the Joneses, find out where
they’re going? ...
Look for the Dallas Cowboys and the Los Angeles Rams
to play an NFL exhibition contest in London, England,
next summer.
The bitter holdout struggle Eric Dickerson waged with
the Los Angeles Rams earlier in the year is currently
showing negative results. The high-salaried Mr. Dickerson
was ranked seventh among the individual rushers in the
f National Conference last week. A year ago, he was in first
place. Dickerson is averaging a mere 3.7 yards per run
with 685 yards on 184 carries. Meanwhile such plus* acts as
Walter Payton and Tony Dorsett are averaging 5.2 and 4.7
gl yards per carry, respectively. »
Quick now! Can you recall when Clemson, South
Carolina, and South Carolina State have had disappointing
football seasons in the same year? Bill Davis believes
2. South Carolina State is a year away from becoming a great
2 football team.
L Big Charles Oakley, who stole the limelight in the CIAA
a'year ago while performing for Virginia Union, is being
'« labeled “genuinely ineffective” in the early season games
n with the Chicago Bulls. He’s hitting less than one-third of
his field goal attempts and is scoring less than five points
per game. He likely will be released shortly.
Syracuse will become the national leader in season
! * attendance in college basketball before the year is out. The
! Orangemen, have sold a record. 22,000 season tickets and
I are being heralded as the best college basketball team on
* the East Coast. The nation’s leading experts are
overlooking Georgetown in their early season predictions.
They might live to regret the oversight._
i reopie irom over m naieign are saying mat snaw coacn
‘Warren Reynolds has gone “up north and recruited
■players with enough energy to digest an atomic bomb.”
> Co-champions of the' CIAA Southern Division in 1984-85, the
Bears have added seven classy rookies to a squad that lost
ionly two players from last year’s squad. CIAA experts
: predict the Bears will finish third in their division.
| The Bears will show off their talent this weekend in
Raleigh in the first United Negro College Fund Capital
City Doubleheader. In addition to Shaw, the field includes
St. Augustine’s, Fayetteville State and the ACC-CIAA
All-Stars. Fayetteville State is the experts’ choice as the
“team to beat” in the Southern Division.
Aside to those of you who believe the black athletes are
not doing anything worthwhile with their millions: 0. J.
r' Simpson’s production company, in conjunction with
others, is plotting a black soap opera to be called “Heart
and Soul.” And Kareen Abdul-Jabbar and seven other
A basketball mHMonlrtres are investing^heavily in the-hotel
? business.
Dwight Gooden, a likeable young chap who just might be
the best pitcher ever in major league baseball, says his
future goals include "winning the Silver Slugger and the
Gold Glove for fielding and pitching a no-hitter.” In case
you’re wondering, he’s won just about everything else
baseball has to offer.
It may be a sign of the times, but a mere 3,250 fans
turned out in Seattle, Washington, last week to watch the
Harlem Globetrotters introduce their first lady eager.
x wemy-six-year-oia L.ynetie wooaara mixea her prowess
with magic, but the Trotters’ magic may be on the wane.
When Hampton defeated Winston-Salem State for the
' CIAA Football Championship, it was the eighth time a
, team from the Northern Division has captured the crown.
The South has yet to win a title.
You have to send words of praise out to quarterback
Earl Harvey and wide receiver Robert (Sark, both of
North Carolina Central. Clark proved a record setter when
he grabbed 47 passes for 1,387 yards and 13 touchdowns. A
freshman from Fayetteville, Harvey’s stats are more
impressive. He set records in the CIAA, NCAA and at
North Carolina Central with his pinpoint passing. He
completed 188 of 392 aerials for 3,190 yards while
accumulating 3,006 yards in total offense on 538 plays.
And he was the first player in NCAA history to pass lor
more than 3,000 yards ln total offense in a season.
Can you imagine the once-great Earl Campbell has
amassed only 463 yards in 12 games?
Charlotte native Charley Sifford added $3,500 to his bank
role, shooting 213 and finishing fourth in the Quadel
Seniors Classic at Boca Raton, Fla., last weekend.
Lee Elder was four strokes off Gary Player’s winning
t pace and collected $12,500.
Mississippi Valley State’s great quarterback, Willie
* Totten, is being projected by NFL scouts as a top draft
choice....Don’t be too surprised if a large number of black
colleges dropped football in the near future. Morgan State,
^ Alabama AAM, Alabama State, Florida AAM, and
Bethune-Cookman are among the colleges giving serious
thoughts to cutting back their athletic programs. They are
~ beginning to fed the financial pinch.
Following a performance in which he completed 32 of 40
; passes for 446 yards and eight touchdowns, coach Arthic
2 Cooley said Willie Totten played the “worst game he’s
S played this year.”
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Johnson h “Happy* To Be A Golden Buffi
By James CutMerWon
Post Sports Writer
At 8’9” and 190 pounds, Dante
Johnson is known around Johwoa C.
Smith University as “The
Franchise."
It is bo around whom the Golden
Bulls hope the season revolves.
The junior communications major
is from Summerton South Carolina’s
Scot Is Branch High School and
stayed out a year after graduation
before coming to Smith, where be
made All-CIAA last year with his
19.5 points per game and 14 re
bounds per game average.
“My most exciting game last year
was against Virginia State,” smiled
the affable basketball star. “I
scored 38 points and pulled down 25
rebounds in ail overtime thriller in
Petersburg.”
This year,” he said, “I will con
tribute to the team by combining a
little bit of offense with a little bit of
defense.”
For the Golden Bulls’ faithful, this
means a lot of everything because
the young man from Summerton
never does a little bit of anything.
Satisfaction guaranteed, Dante
Johnson is happy to be a Golden
Bulls. It beats playing in the adult
leagues in Summerton and he gets
personal attention and help from
coach Robert Moore who has taught
the things about basketball that he
did not learn when he was in high
school.
Dante is talking loudly.
“I’m talking championship,” he
said. “I feel that we should be able to
at least make it to the champion
ship game based on the talent that
we have. We have so many people
coming back and we have so many
good young people who are going to
be a definite plus for our pro
gram.”
The major weaknesses that the
Bulls have, according to Johnson, is
Dante Johnson
.“The Franchise”
at the center position^
‘"This hurt last year, but Eddie
Jordan and Christopher Jones are
really working hard to give us
strength in the middle,” he added.
Dante’s wish for 1986 is a CIAA
championship ring and in 1987, upon
graduation, he hopes to get a shot at
the NBA. The young man may get
his wish. He has a devastating jump
shot.
Dante knows that the scope of the
Bulls’ fortunes will come early.
"We have a rough road schedule
coming up with Elizabeth City on
December 5 and Hampton on De
cember 7 and then we go to Norfolk
on December 16 after we finish
exams.
“If we can come out of that trip
with three wins, we will be well on
our way,” he concluded.
Look for big things from the
Golden Bulls led by Dante Johnson.
lassie Howell Is “Hot” Item!
By James Cuthbertson
Post Sports Writer
As the women of Johnson C. Smith
University prepare for a conference
match Saturday at Brayboy Gym
nasium, it must be noted that
Cassandra “Cassie” Howell is a hot
item around Charlotte.
Last year, Cassandra Howell
made the most consecutive field
goals in a game with 13 and leads
Division II of the NCAA in that
category.
Since Cassandra came to Johnson
C. Smith three years ago from
Asheville High School, the team has
won 44 and lost 31 for a .587 per
centage, won the JCSU Women’s
■rttaftion^CChampionahip in 19&4,
won the Southern Division Cham
pionship of the CIAA in 1985,
made an NCAA appearance and
finished third in the NCAA re
gionals in 1985.
Her season high last year was 32
points and 22 rebounds scored
against Winston-Salem State.
In 25 games, she hit 162 of 279 field
goals for 58 percent, 65 of 124 free
throws for 50.4 percent, and pulled
down 305 rebounds for a 12.2 ave
rage. *>
" She garnered 26 assists, 19 blocked
shots, 37 steals and never fouled out.
Impressive?
Wait. She made 389 points for a
15.5 per game average and made the
All-CIAA teams in 1984 and 1985, the
AJl-Toumament team in 1985 and the
NCAA South Atlantic Regional
Team in 1985.
For her career, she has played in
72 games, shot 60.7 percent from the
field, connecting on 425 of 700 shots,
shot 60.2 percent from the free throw
line, connecting on 183 of 304 and
pulled down 754 rebounds for an
average of 10.5 per game She has
scored 1,034 points for a 14.4
average.
She is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Eugene Howell of 111 Edgar
Street, Asheville.
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