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African-American Ownership Of
NBA Franchise Motivates Others
IMS to an estimated 3,500 in 1988, ac
cording to a study by World
Domograph Research, the Black
Chamber of Commerce and the
state's office of minority business.
But a lack of funding remains a pro
blem for black businesses, local
leaders say.
"The primary universal concern it
seems across the country is access to
capital,” said Louis Freeman, ex
ecutive director of the Colorado
Black Chamber of Commerce.
Financial institutions are lending
money to blacks, but not enough to
guarantee their growth.
“It ensures that you’re under
capitalized, which implicitly means
you cannot succeed,” Freeman said.
Another setback occurred earlier
this year when the Federal Deposit
Insurance Corp. seized control of the
black-owned Equity Federal Savings
Bank, Denver’s only minority-owned
financial institution.
Davis Looks Forward
To New Life In Denver
CHAPEL HILL (AP)-Wlth his
drug problems behind him and a new
start in Denver, former North
Carolina basketball player Walter
Davis says he can enjoy himself
■*rm having fun again,” he said.
“Pvt me to leave Phoenix, it had to be
a brighter picture.”
• Cocaine and alcohol nearly ended
Us career and ruined his life. When
he left the Phoenix Suns, it was on bit
iter terms. The Suns had been ripped
apart by a scandal, which left drug
'charges and Davis in the middle of it
all.
Phoenix chose the former UNC for
ward with its fifth selection in the
first round of the 1977 National
Basketball Association amateur
draft. This fall, he’ll be starting his
second year with the Denver Nug
A1 though he received a warm
welcome in Denver, Davis said it took
awhile to feel comfortable again.
"It kind of held me back for awhile,
because I felt so embarrassed about
what happened,” he told the Chapel
Hill Newspaper. “I knew that wasn’t
me.
“The paper and the fans there [in
Denver] have been very nice to us.
It’s nice to get some good press for a
change.”
Davis says he has managed to stay
in the NBA for 12 years for one
reason.
“I produce, and when you produce,
they keep you around,” he said dur
ing a recent visit to Chapel Hill.
Although Davis enjoyed a suc
cessful career at North Carolina, he
was by no means considered a
superstar when he entered the NBA.
He blossomed that first season,
though, nad was named the league’s
Rookie of the Year.
He has averaged 20 points per
game during his career. This past
year, he averaged 15.6, shooting .496
from the floor.
But defenders have always been
the least of Davis’ troubles. He’s fac
ed his biggest challenges off the
court.
Davis has two years left on his con
tract with the Nuggets, but only one
year is guaranteed. He said he’d like
to play both years.
“I’m hoping they [Nuggets] will
take that option,” he said. “Two sides
have to agree on it. Hopefully, they
will. If not, then the coming season
will be it.”
Whether he spends one or two more
years in the NBA, Davis’ professional
career will have been a lengthy one.
Yet reflecting on his many years as a
ballplayer, it’s the four he spent at
Carolina that stand out, Davis said.
Davis said there are so many
memories that it’s hard to pick one or
two highlights, although playing for
the national championship in 1977
rates at the top. The Tar Heels lost to
Marquette in the final game.
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by Big Bob Matthews
Major League Baseball
National League
Favorite Spread Underdog
Thursday, July 13th, 1989
Chicago Even-6
CINCINNATI 7!/a-8‘/i
New York 5‘/a-6‘/a
PHILADELPHIA 5‘/a-6>/a
SAN FRANCISCO 6-7
LOS ANGELES 6-7
LOS ANGELES
MONTREAL
NEW YORK
CINCINNATI
SAN DIEGO
SAN FRANCISCO
Monday, July 17th, 1989
SAN DIEGO
Philadelphia
ATLANTA
Houston
Pittsburgh
St. Louis
5Vi-6Vt Chicago
Even-6 Atlanta
7-8 Houston
71/a-8‘/a Philadelphia
5*/a-6*/a Pittsburgh
_ 5l/a-6'/a St. Louis
NL Lock Of The Week: Chicago (7/13)
American League
Favorite Spread Underdog
Thursday, July 13th, 1989
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NEW YORK
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Boston
Cleveland
DETROIT
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AL Lock Of The Week: New York (7/13)
All-Star Game Pick: American League — 5Va-6'/a
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DENVER, Colo. (AP)-The recent
Bale of the Denver Nuggets to a group
of black investors, the first black
ownership of an NBA team, has given
local black entrepreneurs renewed
confidence in their ability to survive
and prosper.
“It does mean a great deal to me
and to the black community and
society,” said Lloyd Ransom, owner
of a 4Vi-year-old graphics company,
Hi-Tek Graphics in Aurora.
“It means that we can begin to put
hahinH us the myth that blacks don’t
have the ability or the wherewithal to
pull together this kind of capital,”
Ransom said. “When I read it in the
paper, it was sort of a shot in the
arm.”
Sidney Shlenker sold the Nuggets
for 165 million to Chicago investors
Bertram Lee and Peter C.B. Bynoe.
The change of ownership will add the
Nuggets’ estimated $20 million in
sales to the $88 million in annual sales
generated statewide by black-owned
firms.
The deal is proof that blacks are
opening once-closed doors, said Lind
sey Strudwick, a leader in the local
black business community and the
director of brewing purchasing and
materials management for Adolph
Coors Co.
“It shows that these people have
learned the system and done their
homework,” he said. “You’re seeing
a new breed of black businessper
sons—they not only have the formal
academic training, they’ve also
worked for corporate America and
have an understanding of the
system.”
In Colorado,, the number of black
owned businesses rose from 2,537 in
DONNIE MOORE
YOUTH PROGRAM—Tin National Youths Sports Program
hold at Saint Augustlna’s College was a huge succaat this
summer. During the last week of the program, tha kids
shown In this photo rofloct just a tow of the capacity
sosslons hold. (Pholto by TaKb Sabir-Calioway)
Wake Participant* In ’89
Senior Olympics Feted
The Greater Raleigh Parks and
Recreation Department and the
Greater Raleigh Senior Games will
be the hosts of a reception honoring
Wake County’s participants in the
1989 U.S. National Senior Olympics.
The reception will be held at 7 p.m.
Tuesday, July 25, at the Tucker
House, 416 Person St.
Fifteen Wake County participants
competed in the National Senior
Olympics held in St. Louis June 19-24.
Of those, five brought home medals.
The Senior Olympics provides annual
competitive athletic and recreational
opportunities for adults age 55 and
older.
Medal winners included George
Sturgeon, 88, a former high school
principal and retiree from the U.S.
Department of Agriculture.
Sturgeon, who says he enjoys bowl
ing, shuffleboard and croquet, won a
silver medal for shuffleboard in his
age category. Other medal winners
were Annie Formo, Donald
Greetham, Bernice Greetham, who
won two gold medals in swimming,
and Margaret High, who won a gold
Moore Kills Wife & Self As
Baseball Career Faded
ANAHEIM, Calif.
(AP)—Tormented by the memory of
one pitch and despondent over his
foiling career and marital troubles,
former California Angels’ pitcher
Donnie Moore shot his wife repeated
ly before killing himself last week.
“All indications are that Donnie
Moore and his wife, Tonya, became
involved in an argument, Mr. Moore
produced a handgun, shot his
estranged wife and then turned the
gun on himself,” Anaheim police Lt.
Marc Hedgpeth said.
Tonya Moore, 35, was in critical
condition last week suffering from al
least three gunshot wounds in the up
ner chest and stomach, Hedgepetl
said, after the shooting Tuesday
afternoon at the couple’s home in the 1
affluent Peralta Hills area of
Anaheim.
Their 17-year-old daughter drove
her wounded mother to nearby
Kaiser Permanente Hospital. The
couple’s two sons, ages 7 and 10, were
at the house during the shooting, but
none of the children were hurt.
The 36-year-old Moore was releas
ed last month by the Kansas City
Royals’ minor-league team in
Omaha. He had been plagued by In
juries during his last years in the ma
jors and saw yet another comeback
attempt dissolve when he was releas
ed by the Royals’ organisation.
He also had separated from his wlfei
of 10 years about a month ago, said ,
Moore's New York-based agent,
Dave Pinter.
Moore was released by the Angels
In 1968, two years after he carried
California to within one strike of the
1900 World Series, a loss that tortured
him through the years.
With the Angels ahead three games
to one in the best-of-seven American
League playoffs, Moore, pitching
with a sore right shoulder, had a 6-4
lead, with two outs and two strikes on
Boston’s Dave Henderson In the top of
the ninth Inning of Game 5. But
Hendeeon then hit a Moore forkbaU
for a two-run homer that gave the
Red Sox a 6-5 lead.
The Angels sent the game into ex
tra innings, and once again Hender
son victimized Moore, with a
sacrifice fly in the top of the lit that
lifted the Red Sox to a 7-6 victory.
The Red Sox won the next two
games in Boston and moved into the
World Series, which they lost to the
New York Mets.
“Everything revolved around one
pitch,” California veteran Brian
Downing said in a somber Angels’
clubhouse in Toronto, where the
players heard of their former team
mate’s death after their 1-0 victory
over the Blue Jays.
“You [reporters] destroyed a
man’s life over one pitch. The guy
was just not the same after that,”
Downing said. “I never ever saw the
guy be credited for getting us to the
playoffs because all you ever heard
about, all you ever read about, was
one pitch.”
Pinter also said Moore was haunted
by the pitch.
“Ever since Henderson’s home
run, he was extremely depressed,”
Pinter said. “He blamed himself for
the Angels not going to the World
Series
“Even when he was told that one
pitch doesn’t make a season, he
couldn’t get over it. That home run
killed him.”
After the playoffs, it was determin
ed that Moore had been pitching with
a painful bone spur on his spine and
he underwent surgery to correct the
problem.
Neighbors said Tonya Moore had
spoken to them about her husband's,
career and also told them of their
marital nroblems.
Moore set Angels’ records in 1965
by recording 31 saves and finishing 57
games. ,
in the 1500-meter race walk.
Also among the participants was
Casper Holroyd, a former state
representative and longtime Raleigh
resident, who competed in several
track events.
More than 200 Wake County
residents participated in the Greater
Raleigh Senior Games this year, the
sixth year of the games.
Davls& L. A.
Commissioner
Meet In Private
LOS ANGELES, Calif.-Los
Angeles Raiders’ owner A1 Davis met
privately recently with the head of
the Los Angeles Coliseum Commis
sion to discuss the possibility of keep
ing the team in L.A.
“We want to start a dialogue in a
nice, quiet atmosphere, without
public attention,” said coliseum
general manager Joel Ralph.
“Hopefully, this will be the start of ant
ongoing dialogue.”
Davis’ agreement to meet with Col
iseum Commission President
, Richard Riordan marked the first
’ time the NFL team owner has agreed
to talks with the panel since announc
ing plans to move to Irwinale 22 mon
ths ago.
But Irwindale’s inability thus far to
put together financing for a new
stadium on the site of an existing
gravel pit has reportedly prompted
Davis to entertain other offers, such
as moving the team back to Oakland
or to Sacramento.
Riordan reportedly proposed a plan
that calls for a major reconstruction
of the coliseum, which would take two
or three years to complete.
- It includes lowering the playing
field and doing away with the Olym
pic track, as well as reducing the
stadium capacity to 75,000 or less for
an “all-football” configuration and
installing 200 luxury boxes.
Meanwhile, Irwindale spokesman
Xavier HermosUlo said he believes
the Raiders are still legally bound by
a contract the team signed with the
city in 1987.
Under that pact, Irwindale made a
$10 million advance payment to
Davis, which the agreement
stipulated Davia would be allowed to
keep if the city was unable to build
the stadium.
But despite financial difficulties,
Hermosillo said he remains hopeful
that the tiny San Gabriel Valley city
will be able to put the deal together by
the end of the year.
SPORTS
FROM THE
PRESSBOX
by Jim Fuller
The past 10 years in
major league baseball were
dominated by players like
Mike Schmidt, Jack Morris,
George Brett, Dave Win
field and Ozzie Smith. But
the league is full of blossom
ing stars. So here is the
team of the 1990’s:
Pitchers: Dwight Gooden,
New York Mets RHP.
Gooden is still only 25 years
old and is the most feared
pitcher in baseball. For a
lefty, try Cleveland’s Greg
Swindell Pitchers like Bret
Saberhagen of Kansas City,
Atlanta’s Tom Glavine, and
of course Boston’s Roger
Clemens would be an almost
unbeatable starting rota
tion. Throw in relievers like
Mitch Williams from the left
side and Gregg Olson of
Baltimore from the right
who will be there for
support.
Catcher B.J. Surhoff of
Milwaukee is a year older
than San Diego’s Benito
Santiago, but earns the nod.
Santiago has the better
tools, but Surhoff is more
polished.
First base: Will Clark of
San Francisco is the best.
Clark can do it on offense
and defense to hold off Oak
land’s Mark McGwire and
Toronto’s Fred McGriff.
Second base: A tough call
as the position is the
weakest around. Jose Lind
of Pittsburgh is the best
defensively, and he beats
out San Diego’s Roberto
Alomar.
Shortstop: Barry Larkin
of Cincinnati, who is quickly
reaching a fielding level of
Ozzie Smith and is the best
offensively. Tony Fernandez
of Toronto is a dose second.
Third base: Bobby Bonilla
of Pittsburgh. Still learning
the position, he struggles on
defense, but offensively he
can be devastating.
Outfield: Jose Canseco of
Oakland, Ruben Sierra of
Texas and Ken Griffey Jr.
of Seattle are the best of the
lot. Players left out indude
Boston’s Ellis Burks and
Mike Greenwell, Bo Jackson
of Kansas City, New York
Met Darryl Strawberry,
Barry Bonds of Pittsburgh,
Eric Davis and Kal Daniels
of Cincinnati, and Kevin
Mitchell of the Giants.
©1989, McNaught Synd.
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