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Brock game, Klitschko reigns
By Barry Wilner
JHE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK - Wladimir
Klitschko seemed intent on
defending his title with one
hand, the left. He jabbed and
jabbed and occasionally
hooked Calvin Brock.
Then the IBF champion was
cut by an inadvertent head
butt, and the blood trickling
down the left side of his face
told him it was time to throw
the right.
When that hand entered the
fight, it was time for Brock to
’ leave it.
Klitschko stunned Brock
with a sharp left, then fin
ished him off with a thunder
ous right late in the seventh
roimd Saturday night.
“I should have tried that
earlier, but it took me time to
get my distance and rhythm,”
Klitschko said. “He was a
good defensive fighter.”
Klitschko kept the right in
reserve as he pOed up points
with his jab. But he found the
range with the right midway
in the bout, and Brock had no
chance when Klitschko
opened up the challenger’s
defense with another quick
See BR0CK/3C
PLAYOFF PUSH IS ON
Mets break ground on
45,000-seat stadium
By Karen Matthews
ThIE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK - The New
York Mets held a ground
breaking ceremony Monday
for a new 45,000-seat ball
park that will replace Shea
Stadium in 2009 and is sup
posed to evoke historic parks
like Brooklyn’s Ebbets Field.
“The 21st-century New
York Mets deserve a home
befitting an emerging base
ball dynasty, and they will
have that in this new field,”
said state Assembly Speaker
Sheldon Silver, who joined
Mets officials at a news con
ference.
The new $800 million stadi
um, to be built next to the
current stadium in Queens,
will be called Citi Field, part
of a 20-year sponsorship deal
between the Mets and bank
ing giant Citigroup Inc. that
is reportedly worth an aver
age of more than $20 million
annually..
The pla3Tng field will be
smaller than Shea down the
lines, but larger in the gaps:
335 feet to left field, 408 to
center, 330 to right. Shea is
338 to left, 410 to center, 338
to right.
Shea Stadium opened in
1964 and is the sixth-oldest
major league ballpark in use.
The new park will have old-
timey features like brick and
limestone arches intended to
evoke baseball’s storied past.
The link with Ebbets Field,
home to the Dodgers imtil
they left Brookl3m for Los
Angeles, will be made explicit
with a Jackie Robinson
Rotunda at the entrance. The
rotimda will pay tribute to
the former Dodger who broke
major league baseball’s color
barrier in 1947, and will
include a statue of him.
PHOTO/CURTIS WILSON
Sean May and the struggling Charlotte Bobcats will try for
their second win of the season Saturday at Orlando.
FILE PHOTO
Point guard Jerome Givens leads Johnson C. Smith into the
Wendy’s Tip-Off Classic Friday.
Inexperience a concern
when Bulls tip off
against Bluefield State
By Herbert L. White
heft), whife@lhechartofteposf.com
Johnson C. Smith basket
ball starts on-the-job training
Friday.
The Golden Bulls open the
season at the Wend5f’s Tip-Off
Classic at Brayboy Gym
against Bluefield State at 8
p.m. St.Paul’s takes on West
Virginia State at 4 p.m. as
part of a quadrupleheader
with the women’s Queen City
Classic.
Smith, which has five fresh
men and a sophomore, on the
roster, is one of the CIAA’s
least-experienced team. But
coach Steve Joyner, who is in
his 20th season at JCSU, is
excited about the Bulls’
potential.
“We have a very young bas
ketball team that we have to
nurture,” he said. “We can’t
wait to get going so we can
mark our progress.”
The Bulls, who went 23-8
and advanced to the Division
II tournament last year,
aren’t expected to duplicate
that success this season with
three new starters. Joyner,
however, is-focused on getting
the new players acclimated
as quickly as possible.
“In any contest, you are
going to face some liabilities,”
Jo5mer said. “Since we’ve
been here, we’ve never been
particularly taU or particular
ly big, we’ve been pretty
much even-keel. Certainly,
there’s a lot of uncertainty
that can be addressed best by
playing games.”
One freshman - former
See JCSU/2C
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2006
PHOTO/V/ADE NASH
Johnson C. Smith running back Henry Willoughby
(18) looks for daylight in the Golden Bulls’ 40-37 win
over Virginia Union Sept. 23 in Richmond. Smith will
play Tuskegee in Pioneer Bowl IX Dec. 2 in Charlotte.
Bulls get
to bowl
at home
Pioneer bid another first in
JCSU’s turnaround season
By Herbert L. White
hefti.wh(te@fhechartofteposf,com
There’ll be one more game in Johnson C. Smith’s foot
ball season after all.
The Golden Bulls have accepted a bid to play SIAC
power Tuskegee in Pioneer Bowl IX Dec. 2 at Memorial
Stadium, capping a season in which Smith finished sec
ond in the CIAA West and above .500 for the first time
since 1998. The Bulls’ 7-3 record is the program’s best in
10 seasons.
“It (means) the world to the j
players,” second-year
Smith coach Daryl i
McNeill said. “It’s /
something they didn’t
believe could happen when the season started, but
when you believe, it can happen. And you can’t imagine
what it means to the Smith family and (President
Dorothy Cowser) Yancy because the program had been
down for so long.”
Smith, which snapped a 24-game losing streak in the
season opener, earned its first postseason appearance
since the 1970 CIAA championship game. The Pioneer
Bowl, which started in 1997, is the only Division II
bowl game sanctioned by the NCAA.
“I guess it’s the worst-kept secret in the CIAA,” said
Jeffrey McLeod, the league’s assistant commissioner,
“Everybody was speculating it would be Johnson C.
Smith and Tbskegee, but we weren’t saying.”
Although five CIAA teams were bowl-eligible with
.500 records or better, league champion N.C. Central
Please see BULLS/2C
North Carolina
passed on
Tar Heels’
agemm
backyard
Butch Davis is North
Carolina’s new head foot
ball coach. Current coach
John Bunting was. fired
but is being allowed to
coach out
coach was the finnt-run-
ner. If Davis had
declined, there was a list
of candidates ready to
take his place.
Conspicuously absent
from that list was a coach
who just guided his team
to a record-breaking
undefeated season. A
coach who has the only
winning record among
ANY Triangle team. A
coach who has extensive
experience on the
Division I level and one
who is quite familiar with
UNC.
A coach named
Roderick Broadway.
Broadway and North
Carolina Central have
electrified the campus
and the Bull City - some
thing Duke football prob
ably will never do again -
yet he can’t get so much
as a sniff from his alma
mater.
And he won’t.
'The undeniable fact is
that Broadway coaches at
a Division II historically
black college. He could go
undefeated for 10 years
and not get a bhnk from
an ACC athletic director.
Why? It’s not what you
think.
The ACC, like most D-I
power conferences, are
deluded enough to believe
that the world revolves
around them. If it ain’t
See BROADWAY’S/2C
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