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Reid heads back to Hive,
signs deal with Charlotte
Former North Carolina basketball
standout J.R. Reid agreed to a two-year
- deal with the Charlotte Hornets on July
Ironically, Reid was Charlotte’s fifth
overall pick in the 1989 NBA Draft after
choosing to forego his senior year at
North Carolina. Reid earned some
respectable numbers as a Hornet during
his rookie season, averaging over 11
points and eight boards per game.
But Reid's output continued to
decline through December 1992, when
the Hornets traded him to the San
Antonio Spurs.
Reid spent last year overseas, playing
for PSG-Racing in Paris. His 18 points
per outing helped the team to the
French national title.
Asa Tar Heel, Reid earned ACC
Rookie-of-the-Year honors in 1987, was
a consensus All-American as a sopho
more and made the U.S. Olympic squad
in 1988.
8 women's soccer stars
to compete in Denmark
The North Carolina women’s soccer
team, which captured its 14th national
championship last December, will send
eight players to compete as part of the
U.S. Under-20 Women’s National Team
in the Nordic Cup tournament, to be
held Aug. 4-8 in Denmark.
Tar Heel standouts Lome Fair,
Tiffany Roberts, Robin Confer, Laurie
Schwoy, Cindy Parlow, Rebekah
McDowell, Siri Mullinix and signee
Meredith Horance will take part in the
event.
The team is coached by Virginia’s
Lauren Gregg and will compete in four
matches in five days in the tournament,
which is considered the world’s under
-20 women’s championship.
Ex-UNC women's eager
signs on at Wake Forest
Stephanie Lawrence, who started on
North Carolina’s 1994 women’s basket
ball national championship squad, has
been named an assistant coach for the
Wake Forest women’s basketball team
" next season.
Lawrence is the top 3-point shooter
in Tar Heel women’s basketball history
and has served as a student-assistant
coach at North Carolina, a professional
player in New Zealand and last season
was an assistant head coach at Wingate
College.
She, along with Fred Applin and
Stacy Cox, will serve as assistant coach
es to first-year Demon Deacon skipper
Charlene Curtis.
Applin once was an assistant for
North Carolina head coach Sylvia
Hatchell. Last season, the Tar Heels
claimed three victories over the Demon
Deacons.
North Carolina beat Wake Forest at
Carmichael Auditorium and at
Reynolds Gymnasium in Winston-
Salem during the regular season, and
UNC won the teams’ matchup in the
first round of the ACC Tournament.
FROM STAFF REPORTS
Lang commits to UNC
STAFF REPORT
The North Carolina’s men’s basketball team learned July
16 that it will be getting some help in the paint for the 1998-99
season.
That help will be center Kris Lang of Gastonia, who has
made an oral commitment to attend UNC after his senior year
at Hunter Huss High.
The rising senior is 6-foot-10 and weighs 230 pounds. He is
currently the top prep player in the state and is regarded as one
of the top 25 players in the nation by most publications. Lang
averaged 16 points, nearly 10 rebounds and 4 blocks per game
during his junior year.
He has been touted as the best player to come out of
Gastonia since Tar Heel and Laker hoop star James Worthy.
The center chose Chapel Hill over N.C. State and Wake
Forest. Lang made his decision while taking part in the ABCD
basketball camp, an Adidas-sponsored instruction school in
New Jersey. Lang fills the only scholarship slot left at UNC for
the 1998-99 season. Spots might open up if Antawn Jamison
C or Vince Carter decide to leave early.
Basketball hopefuls can make an oral commitment before
signing a national letter of intent. Such commitments are not
binding. The signing period for letters of intent begins Nov.
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Teams in the National Football
League started training camp
last week to prepare for the 1997-
98 football season.
The preseason will kickoff this week
end with three exhibition games on
Saturday and one on Sunday.
Owners, general managers and
coaches have a lot of work ahead of
them. Negotiations of contracts for
unsigned veterans and rookies need to
be wrapped up, and rosters must begin
to be trimmed.
But an integral part of the NFL’s off
season ended July 15. That day marked
the end of the five-month free agency
period.
The idea behind free agency in sports
is to allow players to have a firm control
over the future of their careers.
In the past, organizations had too
Women’s crew coach eager to hop on board UNC ship
BY HARRISON RAND
SPORTS EDITOR
North Carolina is respected through
out the country because of the success of
its athletics programs.
Since the inception of the Sears
Directors’ Cup in 1993-94, UNC has
placed lower than second only once.
With such success comes pressure for
all coaches to field the best teams they
can in order to better Tar Heel athletics.
Joel Furtek is ready for such a chal
lenge.
Furtek will be the first coach of
UNC’s varsity women’s rowing team.
And now that he has finished work on
his masters of education in exercise
physiology at UVa., he is eager to get to
Chapel Hill and get the ball rolling.
“We are going to be looking for any
one and everyone who is willing to train
hard and wants to become a national
champion,” Furtek said. “Realistically,
Slimmer Daly readies for comeback
■ John Daly, who won the
1991 PGA Championship,
is fighting alcoholism.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
CROMWELL, Conn.—A trimmed
down John Daly is preparing for a
return to PGA competition following a
five-week absence that started with his
abrupt withdrawal from the U.S. Open.
Accompanied by his familiar crush
ing drives is another commitment to
sobriety, and a push to get back to hav
ing fun with the game that thrust him
into the spotlight after winning the PGA
Championship six years ago.
“Everybody for the last three years
has been saying go out and have fun. It’s
easy to say that,” Daly said Tuesday
while practicing at the TPC at River
Highlands, site of this week’s Greater
Hartford Open.
“The only fun I used to have is what
got me suspended,” he said.
His golf bag carries more than just
his clubs this time, bearing the words
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ball have suffered from the system’s
effects. Players began skipping around
the league like stones, which decreased
team continuity and brought down the
we’d like to be competing for a national
championship in four or five years.
Ideally, three years. In any case, we will
be competitive this year.”
The first meeting for tryouts will be
August 24, although a definite time and
place have not yet been determined.
The new coach said he expects about
30 of the women who participated in
club crew last year to step in with five
incoming freshmen who have prior row
ing experience.
One of the freshmen has been a
member of the United States junior
national team.
Furtek emphasized the fact that there
are still plenty of spaces to be filled for
the team, regardless of experience with
the sport or not.
At UVa., Furtek served as the novice
coach for four years. His task was to
teach freshmen and any other students
the basics of a sport in which they had
never previously competed.
“God, Serenity, Courage, Wisdom.”
Daly said he has been attending
Alcoholics Anonymous meetings as
often as five days a week.
DSly, 30, was suspended in 1993 after
quitting during the second round of the
Kapalua International. After fighting
with a 62-year-old man at the World
Series of Golf in August 1994, he
agreed to sit out the rest of the year.
He underwent alcohol rehabilitation
for the second time in four years after a
drinking binge at the Players
Championship in March.
The rocky road continued at the U.S.
Open last month when he quit at the
turn in the second round. He said he
withdrew because of shakes brought on
by anti-depressant medication.
The once beefy Daly, slimmed down
to 198 pounds and sober since March,
said things will be different this time
around.
“I feel good, and my game is solid,”
he said. “It’ll be a little different because
I haven’t played in a month and a half,
but I’m not going to worry about what
I’m going to shoot. I’m just going to go
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level of play despite the increase in over
all talent.
The free-agency period prior to this
season, however, saw fewer veteran free
agents signing with new teams since the
implementation of the current free
agency system, including the Collective
Bargaining Agreement, in 1993.
Only 89 veteran free agents left their
old organizations behind this season.
That number represents only five per
cent of the NFL’s entire player pool.
Hopefully, this will be a continuing
trend, since GMs are coming to realize
the importance of teamwork and cama
raderie over talent alone.
Just two years ago, 179 free agents
signed contracts with different organiza
tions from those they had played for one
season prior.
That was the highest number of free
The Cavaliers came in fourth in the
NCAAs this past season. And much of
the team’s success is due to Furtek’s ear
lier instruction of its varsity team mem
bers at the novice level.
With the size of the student body and
the current club program, Furtek said he
was excited about the possibilities of
pulling together a strong team at UNC.
“We want to keep as many women as
we can without diluting our coaching,”
Furtek said.
He estimated that 60 total athletes
would earn spots on the team.
“For the first year, the number one
goal is to get the program running,”
Furtek said, adding that UNC was lack
ing in equipment due to the fact that this
is the first year crew is a varsity sport.
Boats, oars and rowing machines are
on the top of his list. The team will be
training at University Lake, just off
Jones Ferry Road.
“The main disadvantage is the
out and play and see how I feel. There’s
no goals these days, except sobriety.”
Tennis, swimming and dieting have
helped Daly shed more than 40 pounds
in four months.
He and caddie Brian Alexander
arrived in Connecticut on Monday after
a nearly 19-hour drive from Tennessee.
They spent the previous three weeks
working on every aspect of Daly’s
game.
The Daly that will tee off during
Thursday’s first round is a more mellow
man, Alexander said.
“It’s all going to work out for the
best,” Alexander said.
There were no shakes Tuesday as a
steady Daly, cigarette dangling from his
mouth, drained 10-foot putts on the
practice green.
“The mental thing really wears on all
of us to an extent,” Daly said. “It just
kills your mind. Everyone thinks it’s all
glamorous.... It takes a lot out of each
individual here.”
On Tuesday, Daly played in a nine
hole Skins Game paired with Fuzzy
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Last year, that number dropped to
105, and this year, to 89.
An obvious example of a free agent
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“Prime Time” signed a one-year deal
with San Francisco for the 1994-95 sea
son in which the 49ers won the Super
Bowl. He then signed a seven-year deal
with the Cowboys, who won the Super
Bowl the very next season.
If all of the athletes in the NFL had
the natural ability of a Deion Sanders,
constant trading would not impact the
level of play. But, of course, that is not
the case
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one of the best backs in league history.
The 29-year-old is already seventh in all
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Certainly, he would like to have a
Super Bowl ring, and other teams would
love to have him in their backfield, but
he is sticking with a team that went 5-11
last season.
Moreover, Sanders will also be work
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Ross filled Wayne Fontes’ old position.
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