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The Daily Tar HeelFriday, August 28, 19927
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Remembrances
of youth soccer
remain bitter
Rec soccer was never my fort6.
I know I shouldn't be losing sleep
over this, considering my career as New
Jersey 's worst recreational-level soccer
player ended more than a decade ago.
Now that the burden of playing the
game is off my shoulders, I should be
able to sit back and enjoy watching
soccer games just like everybody else.
But when a UNC soccer game comes
on, I get an occasional flashback to my
not-so-stellar grade school soccer ca
reer. As a fifth grader, I was a little both
ered by the fact that I couldn't kick the
ball, head the ball, run with the ball, stop
someone else from running past me
with the ball, play offense, defense or
midfield with any degree of success. I
was particularly good at knocking the
ball down with my hands, but every
time I did, the coaches and the referees
yelled at me.
I was the type of rec soccer player
whose shin guards never stayed still
under his socks. Our coach wouldn't
even let me pour the post-game Hi-C
out of fear that I'd somehow manage to
injure one of the team's valuable play
ers. ,
And this still bugs me. Every now
and then Bill Buckner must wake up in
the middle of the night with visions of
making the most infamous error in the
history of sports to lose the 1 986 World
Series. Once in a while I'm still haunted
by a vivid memory of my one career
goal. The ball bounced off my knee and
past our goalie for the game-winning
score in Security National Bank's 1-0
victory against our hapless Sally 's Auto
Parts team.
That was the only game we came
close to winning that year we were 0
8. 1 felt like Charlie Brown does when
Lucy pulls away the football before he
can kick it. ;
Now I know not everybody can be
remembered as a rec 'soccer superstar.
Despite my disappointing athletic ca
reer, or perhaps because of it, I grew up
as a fan and an admirer of success in
sports.
I can remember the headlines from
all of the major events in sports. I grew
up well north of the Mason-Dixon line
but still recall a headline in 1982 that
announced the first national champion
ship for college basketball's second
winningest coach.
"Buzzer-beater gives Smith his first
NCAA title."
Maybe that's in a scrapbook some
where at the bottom of Dean Smith's
footlocker.
Surely not every sports success story
can get hyped. So it's only fair that rec
soccer takes a back seat to most professional-level
sports, with the exception
of possibly Arena Football.
And in those rec soccer stories, it's
probably only fair that the good players
get mentioned more frequently than the
bad players, even when the bad player is
me.
. But one average fall day in 1 980 the
town newspaper hit our front yard. My
own success story was immortalized in
the sports pages and I didn't even know
it
Within the sports section of this pa
per (which has a readership of about 1 7,
or 1 2 if you count only literate subscrib
ers), way on the bottom of the back page
between two ads and below a press
release about a fly fishing tournament,
was a story about the recreational soc
:er league.
In the last paragraph of the story,
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NEW YORK The Toronto Blue
Jays moved to solidify their hold on
first place in the American League East
and to upgrade their shaky pitching
Thursday, obtaining pitcher David Cone
from the New York Mets. In return, the
Mets got infielder Jeff Kent and a minor
leaguer to be named later.
Cone, 13-7 with a 2.88 earned run
average, leads the National League in
strikeouts with 214 and has five shut
outs. He has led the league in strikeouts
for the last two years and has a career
record of 80-48 with a 3. 1 3 ERA, but he
will be a free agent after this season, the
major reason he was available.
Toronto, coming off a 5-7 road trip,
remains in first place, two games ahead
of Baltimore. But the Jays have had
pitching problems. The staff has only
two complete games in its past 44 out
ings and the starters have an ERA of
7.85 in 22 games prior to Wednesday
night, when Todd Stottlemyre pitched a
one-hitter in Toronto's 9-0 win over
Chicago.
The staff began its downward spiral
after the All-Star break when Juan
Guzman went on the disabled list with
shoulder trouble after building a 12-3
record. In fact, only veteran Jack Morris
(16-5) has performed up to expecta
tions, while David Wells (7-8), Jimmy
Key (8-11) and Stottlemyre (8-9) have
been up-and-down.
The 29-year-old Cone, whose best
year was 1988, when he was 20-3, is
expected to report to the Blue Jays on
Friday and will probably start one of the
games against the Milwaukee Brewers
From the home office: top ten things
There are things you must do in col- Kristine Lilly
lege. and Mia Hamm
You must study hard and try to make in action would
good grades. You must call home every be worth the
now and then. You must eat three bal- money if ad
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your laundry at least once a month. charged. The
Those are all nice. program, which
However, for the sports fan, there are has won nine of
things you MUST DO especially at the last ten na
a sports lover's heaven such as UNC. tional champion
So to all the new UNC sports fans, ships, is full of
here is a list of the top 10 things you superstars, and
MUST DO while in college: some think head
1. Camp out for N.C. State or Duke
basketball tickets, Some people can' tar...vprnen' s soccer.
get up for an 8 a.m. class, yet the same
people can be found every Sunday when
ticket vouchers are distributed at 6 a.m.
What's wrong here?
One guarantee is that when students
camp out for State or Duke tickets, it
will be either cold, rainy or both.
2. Enjoy the pre-football game fes
tivities at Kenan Stadium. This will
mean giving up your usual snoozing in
on Saturday morning and strolling in
during the second quarter. Show up
early! Watch the two teams stretch and
take light drills. Listen to the band play.
Grab some food from the concession
stand. Then be part of the excitement as
the wave of Carolina Bluejerseys storms
out of the locker room and races for the
sideline.
3. Go see the women's soccer team
in action. Simply getting to see stars
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By John G Manuel
AwbuuM Sports Editor
Al Harazin should be ashamed of
himself. For Pat Gillick, it's Miller
Time.
Gillick pulled the steal of the de
cade Thursday. The general manager
of the Toronto Blue Jays has been
trying to bolster his team's sagging
pitching for two months, especially :
since All-Star Juan Guzman went
down with a sore shoulder in July.
Thursday, Gillick made his move,
sending infielder Jeff Kent now
known in New York as Jeff Who? :
and a player to be named later to the
New York Mets for pitcher David
Cone.
Indeed, the move makes the Blue
Jays prohibit! ve f a writes in the thi ee
team American League East race. To
his credit, Gillick has turned the Blue
Jays' roster over in the last two years,
with positive results.
First, he dealt Fred McGriff and
Tony Fernandez to San Diego for Joe
Carter and Roberto Alomar prior to
the 1991 season. Few GMs have the
chutzpah to make that kind of a blot k
this weekend.
Kent, 24, is a rookie who can play
second and third base. He's hitting .240
with eight home runs and 35 runs batted
in 65 games. Mets' general manager Al
Harazin said the other player is cur
coach Anson
Dorrance invented
4. Sit in Boshamer Stadium and
second-guess Mike Roberts. The 15
year veteran of UNC baseball always
has a trick up his sleeve. Roberts loves
double steals and suicide squeezes, and
he thinks nothing of telling his power
hitter to bunt in the fourth inning. Don't
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continues push to the cellar
buster deal. He also acquired Devon
White to lead off and patrol center field.
Before the '92 campaign, Gillick
signed veterans Jack Morris and Dave
Winfield to keep the Blue Jays from
losing the big games.
After Thursday's move, Toronto's
competition must now adopt "wait til
next year" as their motto.
Harazin, GiUick's counterpart with
the Mets, said that potential free agent
Cone would have been difficult to re
sign. The 29-year-old hurler, who cur
rently is paid $4.25 million per year,
wanted a five-year deal for upwards of
$25 million.
Cone, with a 13-7 record and 2.88
earned run average, was the bright spot
on a sorry Mets squad. The defense
: was expected to draw its share of Bronx
cheers, and it has lived up to that billing
But the Mets figured that Cone,
Dwight Gooden, and off-season acqui
sition Bret Saberhagen would give them
ample starring pitching .
And the $29 million man, Bobby
Bonilla, was going to team with fellow :
free agent pickup Eddie Murray and
slugger Howard Johnson to give the
Mets a switch-hitting Murderer's Row
rently in the minor leagues but would
not identify him.
Cone, one of the few bright spots for
the Mets in a disappointing season, be
comes a free agent after the season.
With his success this year, Cone, who
yell too loud, though. He's been to the
College World Series twice.
5. Play one of the intramural sports
with a funny name. Come on, you can
play football or soccer with your bud
dies any old time. Why not try some
thing like Napoleon Basketball or
Innertube Water Polo?
6. Watch a track meet UNC had the
55-meter indoor national champion in
Allen Johnson last year and the runner
up (Lynda Lipson) in the javelin. Head
out to Belk Track and find out who the
next superstars will be.
7. Go to a Durham Bulls game. OK,
,so Jhe. Bulls are not a UNC.lcam. but.
students attending summer school of
ten adopt the Atlanta Braves' farm team
as their own. Better go soon 1993
will be the last year for quaint old
Durham Athletic Park.
8. Attend a fencing meet The fenc
ing team is celebrating its 25th anniver
lot of reasons
meggers
for the '90s.
But every move Harazin has made
since taking the reins in 1991 has
backfired, and the Mets sit 1 1 games
under .500, 14 games behind first
place Pittsburgh in the National
League East
Eversince the ill-fated Len Dykstra
trade, the Mets have lacked charac
ter; dealing Dykstra and funnyman
relief pitcher Roger McDowell for
Juan Samuel didn't just cost the Mets' .
talent, it cost them their soul.
Now the Mets want to trim their
$44 million-plus payroll and build for
the future. Attendance at Shea Sta
dium is already down this year, and
it's hard to imagine fans being ex
cited by Jeff Kent.
And of course, there's that player
to be named later. Harazin said the
player is currently in the minor
leagues, but he would not elaborate.
The Mets bad better hope that player
is Guzman, currently on a rehab as
signment at Syracuse.
Met fans had Harazin to thank for
one more bad move Thursday and the
the Mets out of last place.
won a $4.25 million-a-year contract in
arbitration this year, will be in position
to seek considerably more.
But Harazin said a bigger stumbling
block would be Cone's expected de
mand for a five-ear contract. "Our
a true UNC
sary as a varsity sport at UNC. Because
it is a non-scholarship sport, students
who have never fenced in their lives can
make the team and even become stars.
9. Work out in the Woollen Gym
weight room. It's hot and it stinks. Yet
no student should let his UNC career
pass by without getting sore there at
least once.
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tracts with pitchers is a checkered one in
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Of the Mets' stable of star pitchers',
only Cone, who last year tied an NL
record with 1 9 strikeouts in a game, has
been consistently healthy. Dwight
Gooden, who signed a long-term con
tract two years ago and makes $4.9
million this season, has missed parts of
the last two seasons with a shoulder
injury and is currently 7-11. And Sid
Fernandez, making $2.26 million this
year, missed most of last season with a
broken wrist and knee injuries. ;
Bret Saberhagen, obtained in a deal
with Kansas City last year, has missed
most of this season with tendinitis in a
finger on his pitching hand and bullpen
stopper John Franco has had arm prob
lems. !j
Those are among the reasons the
team has fallen 14 games out of firsi
place. Despite sweeping a three-game
series in San Francisco, the Mets are 1 1
games under .500 after being one of the
favorites to win the NL East.
"I felt I had to make the deal," Harazin
said during a conference call Thursday!
"At best, we'd have a 50-50 chance of
signing David at the end of the season
and that could even be optimistic." '
The Blue Jays have made a' habit in
recent years of trading for a pitcher
during their drive for the playoffs. 1!
They got Bud Black from Cleveland
in 1989, John Candelaria from Minne4
sota in 1990 and Tom Candiotti from1
Cleveland in '91. None of them re
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fan must do
mob after a big basketball victory:
This would have ranked higher on the
list except there is no guarantee that a
given year will produce a win big enough
to make the fans congregate. A crowd
has gathered downtown once in each of
the last four years three times after
beating Duke and once when the Tar
Heels beat Temple to advance to the
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