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iHlliliiillllliP laai 2C 0%0 SPORTS/irtt CtatUne Thursday, February 16, 2006 Guy emerges as top prep sprinter Continued from page 1C hard to train your own kid,” Guy Sr said. “When he first wanted to be a sprinter it was a clash of wills, now it’s eiyoy- able ” For West Chariotte coach Bennett King, watching a normal kid harness the ener gy to post such a jaw-drop ping time is gratifying “TVenton’s a kid, he has a lot of energy that he channels into his sprinting,” King said. “TVenton worics hard, and he’s gotten to the top faster than any of my other sprinters. He’s great ” Wilks to coach Bears DBs King is not worried about his sprinter getting ahead of himself, and losing focus. “Tm pleased he doesn’t have all that stardom stuff, he real izes that the season is not over,” King said. If there were a change in Guy’s demeanor, he has close fnend and Lions hurdler Jamaal Miller to keep him grounded. “TVenton is 80 percent of our track team, and he makes people around him better,” Mdler said. “But IVenton is always humble, laid back, and always trying to get better. We’re like best fiiends. We’re always going over each other’s house play ing video games, or wrestling. We’re like brothers.” Really fast brothers. Continued from page 1C season since 1981 Wilks also played defensive back/wide receiver with the Arena Football League’s Charlotte Rage in 1993. He went to Savannah State with McNeill in 1997 and became the Tigers’ head coach in 1999 In 1998, Wilks was named Division 11 defen sive coordinator of the year by American Football Quarterly when Savannah led the nation in total defense (166.3 yards per game! The Huskies finished sixth in the Pac-10 in pass defense last year, allowing 275.6 yards per game, and were last in opponents’ completion percentage (66.8). The NFL is different fiom college, but not to the point where coaching philosophy changes, Wilks said. “From my standpoint, it’s not a lot of change,” he said. “(Players) want to be coached haid and they want you to make them better. I won’t change how I do it.” \ JCSU faces tall order in Shaw Continued from page 1C match up well. Both are defensive-minded and have multiple players that can score. But Smith has Sumpter, someone the Bulls didn’t have down the stretch last year. When Sumpter went down with a knee iiyury last season, the Golden Bulls went a month with out a win and made an early exit fium the CTAA tournament. “Having me on the court brings a lot of con fidence to the teeuii,” she said. Head coach Vanessa Tayior said every ni^t she wants to focus the Bulls on getting better, and she saw that growth fium the Winston- Salem State game to l\iesday She expects that to continue Saturday ‘'We want to j:ake the next couple of days and work on execution,” Taylor said. “We’re starting to pay attention to details and that was one of our goals.” Against Shaw, the devil may be in the details TUmovers against the Bears led to points and the champs force about seven per game. “Shaw has very active people on the floor and they rebound as a team and that is some thing that we have to work on,” Tajdor said. “It’s a game we look forward to, we’re playing a three time champion and they haven’t lost a game. Shaw has been dominate and in order to be the best, you have to beat the best.” Alexander ready to play field if Seattle doesn’t work Continued from page 1C The Panthers, who lost to the Seahawks in the NFC championsliip game, may have left the strongest impression. There were four Carolina players on the NFC including quarterback Jake Delhomme, receive Steve Smith, defen sive end Julius Peppers and guard Mike Walile. Not to meiition the entire coaching staff. Alexander “At the same time, we’ve already started with Seattle and the, conversations will continue tomorrow and we told them if it’s correct, it’s correct. But if it’s not, we’re going to play the field,” Alexander said. “If Carolina conies correct or Arizona, or whoever else it could be, Jacksonville, whoever, tha.t is what it is." Alexander led the NFL with a team-record 1,880 yards rushing and a league- record 28 touchdowns, and gained 95 yards on 20 car ries in the Super Bowl, The three-time Pro Bowl Cox unfaze(i by Braves’ spring challenges player said the Seahawks’ spectacular season won’t fac tor in his decision. “I’m a firm believer that I’m going to get back to the Super Bowl,” he said. “They know what they have to do. I tell them that in a loving way But if they don’t. I’m prepared to go off and play the market.” Alexander said the trip to Hawaii helped close the year. “I kind of realized there was life after this season. We were just on a grind and I just felt our team, as a group, just came together so much. We just achieved so much this year, it was awesome,” he said. “This was just a great opportunity to take a deep breath and say, OK, let’s see what happens next year.” Continued from page 1C no established closer Farnsworth, CTiris Reitsma and Dan Kolb worked in the role last season. Kolb was traded back to Milwaukee after his dis astrous (3-8, 5.93 ERA) season in Atlanta. Reitsma enters camp as the favorite for the role. He con- veited 13 15 save opportunities in June and July last sea son before trying to pitch through a knee iryury Ultimately, he lost the job to Farnsworth, but Cox remembers that Reitsma was effective before the iryiuy Cox also has confidence in Joey Devine, the Braves’ top pick in last year’s draft, Devine was rushed to Atlanta only to earn the indignity of becoming the first pitcher to give up grand slams in each of his first two nitgor league appearances. Two more rookies fium last season - Blaine Boyer and Macay. McBride - and offseason acquisition (Dscar Villareal also are candidates to close games. There’s room for a surprise to emerge in Florida, and a reliever to watch is minor league fiee agent Brad Baker, With a shrug, Cox said he’ll somehow find one or more answers. “We like what we’ve got,” Ckix said. “We’ve done it before with pieces and well do it again.” Braves general manager John Schuerholz was outbid for such veteran relievers as Tbdd Jones, Tbm GHtlon, Bob Wickman and TVevor Hoffinan, and couldn’t reach a deal for Tampa Bay’s Dan>s Baez. “We were interested in some of the fiee agents, but quite honestly a lot of them are pitching at 39 years old and just signed huge, huge contracts,” Cox said. Schueihob said his staff will continue to look for help in otiier m^or league camps, hoping for a spring trade similar to the CHie which sent Jorge Sosa to Atlanta last year ‘AVe will be scouting every nuycn' league training camp, look ing for the possibility fia* that to develop.” Schuerholz said. Also, fin* the first time in his 16 years as Braves manager, Cmc won't have Mazzmve at his side in the dugout. Mazzone left to becmne Baltimore’s pitching coach. The picture of Mazzoi^. alwa>'s nervously rocking, sitting beside Cox became so familiar to TV viewers that it’s difficult to imagine anyone else claiming that (aeferred dugout loca- don. T guess it will be a little bit strange,” Cox said ‘The fact is you are focused so much on the game, quite hcn- estjy. you don’t even know who’s in the dugout or not, Leo wouldn't know and I wouldn't know because the omcentraticai level is so hi^.* Mc»^ important than finding a new bench buddy for Cox is the task facing McDowell in his first league coaching job The leap firou Mazzone. regarded as periiape the game’s tcp (Htching coach, to the unprov'^ McDowell is significant. OBSESSED WITH ANNIVERSARY SAVINGS j \ Come By For Complimentary jyin Annua! 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