SPORTS
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Jordan & Lawson Guests
On Ebony/ Jet Showcase
Basketball sensation Michael Jor
dan and actor Richard Lawson ap
pear on “Ebony/Jet Showcase" the
weekend of Feb. 5-7.
Nationally known basketball star
Jordan calls time out from his com
mercial project with filmmaker
Spike Lee to review his remarkable
career. The North Carolina
native, who leads the NBA in scoring
and slam-dunking, says his
hometown feared he’d get “lost in the
shuffle” on the University of North
Carolina courts, but says attending
that school led to gold medal honors
in the Olympics, a $6 million, seven
year contract with the Chicago Bulls
and numerous commercial offers.
Jordan says his commercial en
dorsements are for companies that
“reach out into the community to
help individuals.” Revealing his per
son! side, the 6’6” star talks about
nis love for kids and his plans for
marriage and fatherhood in the near
future.
TbrnifeY^ Dyntrsrty ‘'-Tegular
Lawson says a knife-wielding audi
tion that could have gotten him ar
rested turned his acting career
around. Lawson, who won acclaim
for his part in the award-winning
show, “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,"
is now working on the CBS show,
“Silent Whisper.” He discusses the
importance of his role as Nick Kim
ball, the love interest of Diahann Car
roll’s character on "Dynasty,” tells
how dropping his character from the
show may be shortchanging black
viewers ; and tells how he juggles his
time as a father, drug counselor and
band manager.
“I say that I’m a teacher by profes
sion and a gospel singer by
avocation,” notes Sister Thea
Bowman, the black nun with the
opera-quality voice and African garb.
Sister Thea decided as a child she
wanted to become a nun and now in
spires children to believe in God and
themselves. This energetic nun who
battled breast- cancer twice, also
teaches a black spirituality course to
white priests and reflects on her
message of hope, faith and love.
Plus, outrageous singer Millie
Jackson says she’s still “all the way
live,” and talks about her image with
men todav.
Deacon’s Ivy Toughens
Up With Each ACC Foe
*
In Sam Ivy’s first ACC basketball
game last season, Georgia Tech’s
Tom Hammonds took the Wake
Forest rookie into the pivot and
taught him an unforgettable lesson.
’niough stunned in his ACC debut,
Ivy responded. He got tough.
Ivy led Wake in rebounding and
ranked second in scoring his
freshman season. In the rematch
with Tech, he also did some “in-your
face” shooting with a 25-point effort.
He was runner-up to North Carolina’s
J.R. Reid in the ACC Rookie of the
Year voting.
Since that time, the 6’7” Deacon
forward has become stronger,
smarter and more skillful, to a great
extent because of a stringent weight
lifting program and experience in
last summer’s U.S. Olympic Festival.
Results of his work ethic are revealed
in the averages—18.0 points and 6,8
rebounds per game going into Thurs
day’s matchup against North
Carolina. Heading into the contest,
he also had a 66.3 percent field goal
touch, 14 blocked shots for the season
and 17 steals.
Ivy modestly views his perfor
as "okay” but constantly
Marches his game for flaws. Free
throw shooting, boxing out, defense
and rebounding are areas he insists
can be upgraded.
Thursday, Ivy tested himself
against North Carolina and the rugg
ed Reid, whose wide shadow often
dhhs the glow of other good players.
“People are probably looking at us
two," Ivy said of the matchup. “But
It’s not a personal [duel] with me, not
from my standpoint. I was with J.R.
during the summer, and he was a nice
follow."
Ivy isn’t easily Intimidated—not by
the North Carolina squad, not by
anybody. In two contests against
Carolina last season, he scored 36
points, snared 17 rebounds and hit 18
of a shots.
On the court, he is a deadpan
Deacon. His facial expression seldom
changes. He’s not big on high fives,
low fives or other .emotional shows.
But a dark, competitive fire burns in
side him. All .Ivy does is score, re
bound, block shots; make steals and
play defense.
Despite his. contributions, the
Deacons are still not a winning team
and that gnaws at him.
“Of course, it’s frustrating,’: Ivy
saya. ’Tm not saying Urn used to it,
and I don't want-to get used t<> iK I
think we have tne ability to play with
anybody. We played the full 40
minutes against State (in a 71-67
upset), and that let everybody know
we can win games.”
Ivy came to Wake Forest from St.
Louis, where his life was not always
pleasant.
His mother died when he was a
sophomore in high school, a hard
blow at a pivotal time. He also had to
work during the summers and after
school with his father and four
brothers as a jahitor.
Ivy did find time for prep basket
ball in the winter and pickup games
in the off-season. But unlike many
standout high school players, he at
tended only one summer camp—at
Missouri—during his formative
years. And when it came to
recruiting, Nebraska, Tulsa,
Missouri, and Wake Forest were the
only major schools seriously trying to
sign him.
Ivy grew up admiring Charles
Barkley and Moses Malone.
Ivy said he didn’t particularly want
to come this far away from home but
he knew that if he went to a good
league and a good school it wouldn't
matter.
Norfolk’s Archie
Recently Feted
By Athletic Club
Known as Doing one ui me more col
orful and respected coaches and
athletic administrators in the CIAA,
coacn Bill Archie was honored
recently by the Norfolk Sports Club.
In a surprise presentation at the
Omni Hotel in downtown Norfolk, Ar
chie received the Tom Fergusson
Memorial Award for being the club’s
Man of the Year in Sports for 1987.
Club member Don Fentress
described the former Norfolk State
athletic director as being “a tremen
dous force on the Norfolk sports scene
for a quarter of a century, boosting
and promoting athletics in the area at
the college level as well as working
with the youth.”
Recently retired NBA star Julius
“Dr. J” Erving, who was the keynote
speaker at the banquet, will return to
Tidewater in February td address
CIAA student-athletes at the annual
Basketball Tournament Tip-off lun
cheon, sponsored by Coca-Cola.
Walker Agrees To Help
Arizona State Program
Leroy T. Walker, the former N.C.
Central coach and chancellor, has
agreed to assist Arizona State’s
troubled track and field program as
special consultant.
Charles Harris (the Arizona State
athletic director) called Walker and
told him they were having problems
out there and asked Walker to help
them out.
Walker recently said that since it
was two very close friends (Harris
and Herman Frazier, the ASU
associate athletic director) who were
in need of assistance in a sport he has
given all his life to, he agreed.
According to the retired coach, how
long he will serve and in what specific
capacity has yet to be determined.
Walker recently stepped down as
chairman of the board of N.C.
Amateur Sports, the host organiza
tion for last summer's highly suc
cessful U.S. Olympic Festival.
Harris announced last week that
Arizona State head coach Clyde Dun
can had been fired amid an investiga
tion into allegations of NCAA rules
violations.
Since Duncan coached sprinters
and hurdlers. Walker said he pro
bably would fill that role.
“But mainly I want to help them
understand how to run a good, strong
program without being in confronta
tion with the NCAA," said Walker,
who coached at Central from 1945-74
before stepping down and then
coaching the U.S. men’s track team
at the 1976 Olympics.
Walker later served as the NCCU
chancellor from 1983-86 and is cur
rently the president of The Athletic
Congress, the national governing
body for track and field in the United
States.
Arizona State won the NCAA men’s
outdoor track and field championship^
in 1977, but its program has been
inconsistent since. In 1987, the Sun
Devil men tied Clemson and East
Carolina for 41st at the NCAA meet.
Each had seven points.
Walker, 69, who produced
numerous Olympians during his
tenure at Central, said he would not
be interested in the ASU job on a full
time basis.
Walker already knows the staff,
having worked with it and some of the
Sun Devil athletes last March while in
Phoenix for a surgical procedure on
his sinuses.
East Wake High4
AD Tells Change
In Scheudle Hen
Easl Wake High School Athletic
Director Stan Terrill recently an
nounced several scheduling changes
lor the Warriors' basketball and
wrestling teams
The Warriors’ regularly scheduled
Triangle :i-A Conference basketball
games on Jan 26 against Western
Harnett are rescheduled for Feb. 5 at
East Wake.
East Wake’s scheduled Feb. 10
basketball game at Southern Nash
were rescheduled for Jan. 26, replac
ing the Western Harnett contests.
The Warriors' scheduled Feb. 2
conference basketball games at Apex
have been rescheduled to Feb. 10.
East Wake’s cagers will also play
at South Johnston on Feb. 15 in a
makeup of conference games
postponed on Jan. 15 because of incle
ment weather.
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NBC’s “SportsWorld” will present
live coverage of IBF middleweight
champion Frank Tate’s first title
defense when Tate meets British
veteran Tony Sibson Sunday, Feb. 7,
at l p.m. Marv Albert and “The Fight
Doctor” Ferdie Pacheco will
describe the scheduled 15-round bout
from Staffordshire, England.
Tate, a 1984 Olympic gold medalist,
owns a perfect 21-0 record with 12
knockouts. He captured the vacant
IBF crown with a unanimous decision
over Michael Olajide last Oct. 10 in a
bout crried by NBC.
The Tate-Sibson bout will be the
first fight in three straight Sundays of
boxing on NBC in February. James
“Buddy” McGirt will take on Frankie
“Panchito” Warren Feb. 14 for the
IBF junior welterweight crown, and
Darrin Van Horn will meet Ugandan
veteran John Munduga in a scheduled
Antonio Davis
Named Player
Of The Month
Antonio Davis, who used up his
eligibility with the Livingstone Col
lege Fighting Bears, was named the
Miller Lite Player of the Month for
January.
Through the first 10 games of the
season, Davis led the CIAA in scoring
with 34.6 points per game. He also led
the conference in free throw percen
tage and was a 44 percent three-point
shooter.
Tyson Tabbed
Boxer Of The Yr.
NEW YOKK, N.Y.—Mike Tyson,
who made the second defense of his
undisputed heavyweight title by
knocking out Larry Holmes, was
named Wednesday as Boxer of the
Year for 1987 by the World Boxing
Council.
lo-rouna contest r eu. zi.
Sibson, of Leicester, England, has a
professional record of 55 victories,
six defeats and one draw, and will
enter the ring amid a large con
tingent of hometown fans. This is his
third attempt at a world title. He
challenged undisputed middleweight
champion Marvin Hagler in
February 1983 and was stopped in six
rounds. Moving to the light
heavyweight ranks for a while, Sib
son met then WBC champion Dennis
Andries in September 1986 and lost on
a ninth-round knockout.
Sibson subsequently returned to the
middleweight ranks, and in his sole
1987 appearance on Sept. 16, he halted
Brian Anderson in seven rounds to
win the Commonwealth mid
dleweight crown and set up his
showdown with Tate.
Though Tate captured three of his
1987 outings by knockout, his most
outstanding efforts were a pair of
decisions. The first was a victory
over Troy Darrell after 12 rounds last
July. The bout, telecast by NBC, pro
pelled Tate to the championship
match with Olajide. In that match,
Tate wore down Olajide with a
relentless body attack and was on the
verge of a knockout in the late rounds
before settling for a unanimous
15-round verdict.
HARD FOUGHT GAME-North Carolina big man J. R. Reid draws the toul on N.C.
State’s Charles Shackleford on the way to the basket during second half action.
North Carolina won a hard fought 77-73 decision over the Wotfpack. In their next
game, the Tar Heels lost as the Wake Forest Demon Deacons pulled off a stunning
unset. In that oame, J. R. Reid and his teammatpe Scott Williams fouled out.
Washington Elementary
Hosts Science Exhibition
^earning By Doing ' is the theme
of the Science Exhibition being held
at Washington Gifted and Talented
Elementary School on Feb. 2. Since
October, students at the school have
been involved with science activities
under the guidance of a
parent/teacher Science Project Com
mittee. With assistance from
teachers, the media specialist, and
parent-consultants, students have
identified scientific areas of special
interest for themselves.
Teachers and students in
kindergarten through second grade
have developed thematic displays on
the “Human Senses” (kindergarten),
“Animals and Where They Live”
(first grade), and “Weather and Us”
and “Scientists and What They Do”
(second grade). These displays will
fill the halls of the school on the day of
the exhibition. .;
Individual students in the upper
grades (3-5) have selected ex
periments and displays to enter in
competition for the opportunity to
represent Washington School at the
original Science Fair in March. These
displays will be set up in the gym for
viewing from 1-3 p.m. Students in
grades 3-5 will be acting like scien
tists as they explain their projects to
others. Judging for Washington’s ex
hibition is being done by science
teachers from six local middle
schools. Almost 300 of the 450 students
at Washington School are involved
with projects and displays associated
with the Science Exhibition.
Because of the widespread interest,
Dr. Jack Wheatley, chairman of the
Washington Science Committee and
Hampton U.’s Hardwood Ladies
Keep On Setting NCAA Records
Allhough head coach James Sweat
still considers his Lady Pirates in a
slump of sorts, they keep on winning
and keep on setting those NCAA
records. The first record you may
remember was set way back in
November during their second game
of the season when they defeated the
Fayetteville State Lady Broncos
142-68 and broke an NCAA record for
most points scored in a women’s
game in Division I, II, or III.
In their 140-65 thrashing of the
Elizabeth City State Lady Vikings,
they set a Division II record for most
DRAG THE MAN DOWN-Dtnver’s Ricky Hunley dragged Oiler’s Alonso
Highsmith down Irom behind after a short gain during a playoff game in Denver
January 10th. Denver advanced to the Super Bowl which was played on January
31 and they clashed against the Washington Redskins.
100-point games in a single season.
Against the struggling Virginia Union
Pantherettes, the Lady Pirates broke
their own record with their 11th trip
to the century mark.
Speaking of the Lady Pirates, All
American Jackie Dolberry has
received a questionnaire from the
Olympic Committee. Once she fills
out the form and mails it back, she
may be one of 50 invited to try out for
the 1980 women’s team.
Heiaman Trophy
Winner Salutes
Former Coach
Two-time Heisman Trophy winner
and assistant director of athletics at
Ohio State University Archie Griffin
will salute the late Buckeye football
coach, Woody Hayes, at the fifth an
nual Heinzerlin Memorial Founda
tion Phonathon Sunday, Feb. 14. Grif
fin is honorary chairman.
Griffin will head local charities in
taking donations to help the founda
tion, a private, non-profit residential
facility for the severely retarded and
catastrophically handicapped.
Each year the Phonathon takes
place near or on Woody Hayes’ birth
day. In 1984, Hayes, one of the founda
tion’s biggest supporters, helped
launch its annual fund drive.
“Through his involvement, we have
a Woody Hayes Computer Learning
Center in each facility, a down pay
ment for land acquisition, and ar
chitectural plans for expansion in the
future. For the Henizerlin cause,
Woody was dedicated and determin
ed. We could not have begun so suc
cessfully without him,” said Virginia
Frick, the foundation’s director of,
public relations.
associate proressor ot science educa
tion at North Carolina State Universi
ty, is using this opportunity to
observe changes in students’ percep^
tions of scientists and what scientists
do. Washington’s students have been
involved in a “Draw-a-Scientist” ac
tivity where even the youngest
children can record their views of
scientists. Wheatley will use these
data to document changes in the
students’ perceptions over a period of •
several years. *
Parents are in for their share of the
fun as the PTA sponsors an open
house at 7 p.m. as a part of Washing
ton School’s emphasis on learning
and teaching at the Science Exhibi
tion.
Contact person at Washington is
Cindy Lanier, the school’s science
coordinator.
SPORTS
FROM THE
PRESSBOX
by Jim Fuller
Michael Tyson, along
with his promoter Butch
Lewis, have been literally
boxed out by Iron Mike
Tyson, so the self-styled
“People'8 Heavyweight
Champion” has shifted
continents in his interna
tional search for a fight
site, as' well as an
opponent.
Spinks, who knocked
out Gerry Cooney last
June and has since been in
active, flew to the Ivory
Coast, a West African in
search of his conquest.
Previously, Spinks and
Lewis had their sights set
on a fight in Brazil against
that country’s Adilson
Rodrigues. But they
canceled a December trip
to South America to scout
Rn/lei ffline nrkom tUnt
fighter’s scheduled bout
was postponed.
Spinks and Lewis will
exchange honors with
Ivory Coast President
Felix Houphouet-Boigny.
A Spinks spokesman has
said th jre is “very strong
interest” in setting up a
Spinks bout there.
But who? Is the party
going to be BYOO —
Bright Your Own
Opponent?
* * •
To date, the New Jersey
Nets have lost a league
high 132 manpower games
to injuries, and interim
coach Bob MacKinnon is
worried about the effects,
especially on John Baglay.
“He has played a lot of -
minutes, maybe too many.
It’s not fan- to him. If
O’Koren had not been
hurt, we’d have another
man playing backcourt.
But he can’t so we’ve got
three guys rotating, and
only one — Bagley — is a
true point guard.”
Just what the Nets
need: more problems.
©1988, McNaught Synd.
The Mone tise by Leonardo
de Vinci was assessed for
insurance purposes at $100
million—making it the most
veluable painting ever