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BY JAMES L. GILES, 8R ' ; GARNER’S WILLIAMS IS 11 MCDONALD'S ALL-AMEtUCAN During a recent press conferenc* held at McDonald’s regional offia here in Raleigh, Garner High prej star Donald Williams, Jr., was nam ed to the 20-man McDonald’s All American Team. He will participate in the McDonald’s All-Star Game April 6 in Springfield, Mass. Williams graciously thanked God. his parents, Coach Eddie Gray and McDonald’s for the honor. ‘.‘I grew up watching the McDonald’s game on television, and the opportunity to play in the game is a dream come true,” said Williams ' • with a wide smile. “I am honored and flattered.” The all-star game will be nationally televised. 'The UNC-Chapel Hill bound Williams becomes the 12th prep eager for the-Tar Heel State named to the elite “dream” team since its in ception in 1977. He follows basketball greats Brad Daugherty, Keith Gatlin, Curtiss Hunter, Danny Manning, Michael Jordan, Buzz Peterson, Rodney Rogers, Chris Washburn, Kenny Williams, Dominique Wilkins and James Worthy. Currently eight of, the McDonald’s All-Americans from North Carolina are playing professional basketball. Rodney Rogers from Durham’s Hillside High is at Wake Forest and was named to the 1991 All-ACC Con ference Team. At the end of the Atlantic Coast Conference regular season, the four top teams combined played 16 McDonald’s All-Americans. Duke played six-,' Carolina seven, Wake Forest one and N.C. State two, led by record-setting Chris Corchiani and Rodney Monroe. Now basketball fans, you can make your evaluation of the significance of being named a McDonald’s All American. With all the notoriety Williams keeps things in proper perspective by taking one step at a time. “My greatest desire now is to help my team win the 4-.i state basketbal championship. I am happy to have the opportunity to further my educa tion and pursue a career in broad casting. From the advice of my father I signed early so I could con centrate on my studies.” Williams is currently maintaining a B-plus average. On the basketball court, Williams is averaging 36.4 points per game and is on pace to break the existing state record. To maintain that average, he has knocked in 53 percent of his two point attempts and 45 percent of his shots beyond the three-point line, while converting 82 percent of his at tempts from the charity stripe. Overall, he has netted 2,486 career points while establishing class scor ing records his sophomore and senior seasons. His 873 points this year in cludes a career-best 55-point perfor mance early last month. Though he has been asked to carry a lion’s share of the team’s scoring, Williams has managed to dish out 2.3 assists and make 2.3 steals per game while collecting 7.4 rebounds. On Monday night, Williams kept his number-one goal in focus by leading the Garner Trojans to an 89-70 victory over Oxford Webb in the first round of the state playoffs. Williams was the show as usual, scoring 36 points in what may have been his final home appearance. The victory sends Garner to East Wake for a Thursday night second round game. Garner and East Wake split regular-season games. East Wake also eliminated Garner from the state tournament last year. Garner got key play inside from senior Kevin Wall and sophomore Tony Daughtry. Wall had 21 points and 13 rebounds while Daughtry had 17 points and 10 rebounds. At the McDonald’s press con ference, Williams spoke highly of teammate Daughtry. "Tony has been playing well in the ‘pit,’ and we all think he will be even better on the wings because he is a natural slashing player,” he said. George Foreman Blames Don King For Downfall NEW YORK, N.Y.-Former world heavyweight champion George Foreman, who retired from the ring in 1977 after being defeated by a much less-experienced boxer, Jimmy Young, has revealed that the defeat was due to advice from boxing pro moter Don King. In an interview with Jose Torres to be published this Sunday in Parade magazine, Foreman recalled that King was in charge of arranging a series of boxing matches to be televis ed by ABC. “I fought maybe four guys,” Foreman said, “and I was knocking them out in three, four rounds. That’s when Don King told me, ‘You know, George, the network loves you. But you're knocking these guys out too quick.’” “I was not dejected by the loss,” Foreman added. “I had complied with Don King’s request of not knock ing guys out so fast. With Jimmy Voung, King had told me, ‘This time we're gonna prove to the world and show the TV networks what you can do. Don’t knock him out. They wanna get more commercials in there.’ So I went out not to knock him out but to go into the later rounds. That’s what I had wanted to do, and I found myself using all my energy jumping around, doing things.” Torres, who was unable to reach King for comment, said that Foreman recalled “with sadness” how badly wounded Young had been early in the fight and said he stepped back to allow the fight more time as King had advised. “Then,” Foreman commented, “when I went to knock him out [in the late rounds], I didn’t have the energy.” Young won the fight by a unanimous decision. Asked now ue teels about King to day, Foreman, who began a com eback jn 1987, said, “Nothing he did to me have I taken personally, i con sider him a friend... Business with him'.' Well, that’s another story." Douglas Makes Plans To Buy Recreation Honu COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP)-Former world heavyweight champion James "Buster” Douglas plans to buy four acres in the neighborhood where his career began for a recreation and community center for inner-city youths. Douglas disclosed last Thursday he will buy the near east side site from the Pontifical College Josephinum. The land was the original site of the college. The center, costing $2 million to $3 million, will be developed in two phases over five years. The first phase will include refur bishing and opening a closed roller skating rink that is on the site. Rodney Rogers, a friend of Douglas and executive director of the center, said that should be accomplished by the end of summer. Boarded-up store fronts are also on the property. Later work will focus on the 27,000-square-foot community center. Plans call for it to include an auditorium and gymnasium, Rogers said. “Now that I’ve achieved my goals, I can hold the door open and help others achieve theirs,” said Douglas. "Through sports, I can go and help others.” The Rev. Blase Cupich, president of the college, said the price of the and has not been determined but will not exceed $1 million. The Franklin County auditor’s of fice lists the land value at $125,200 and the buildings at $155,500. "We could have sold it to anybody, and probably for more money in the long run,” said Cupich. “We’re more interested in the sale including a buyer looking to help young people. This is a dream come true for us.” Douglas said the center will take the name of his mother, Lula Pearl Douglas, who died in January 1990, two weeks before he won the heavyweight boxing title. The development will be handled through the Lula Pearl Douglas Foundation. SIAC ALL-CONFERENCE DEFENSIVE UNIT-Atlanta, Ga.-Moses Brewer, Assistant National Program Director for the Coors Brewing Company (2nd row-far right) and Eugene McCuRers of Coca Cola, USA (2nd row-center) Join the SIAC All-Conference Defense Unit. The members of the unit include Ed Lighting of Albany State; Leon Crenshaw of Tuskegee; Corey Norwood of Fort VaRoy State; Eugene Brantky of Savannah Stats; BaMy Maddox of Fort Valley Stats; Tsdd Wsulard sf Alabama ASM; Mike Bakor of Albany State; Robert Banton of Afeany State; Dosmond Brown of Tiiikogoo; Karoom Bacon of Clark Atlanta; Mario Block of Fort VoNey State and WIHam Garth of Alabama AAM. Hail OfFamer Wins Civil Suit A federal jury has awarded baseball Hall of Famer Joe Morgar $540,000 in his civil rights suit against a detective who mistook him for a drug suspect at Los Angeles Interna tional Airport. The six-member panel found that Los Angeles Detective Clayton Searlc violated Morgan’s constitutions rights by arresting him without pro bable cause and using excessive force in the March 15,1988 incident. “I didn’t do it for the money. 1 didn’t do it to massage my ego,” the broadcaster and former secont baseman said of his suit agains Searle and the City of Los Angeles. RECEPTION FOR MANUTE BOL-Minute Bol played another position recently as he spoke lor Sudan aid during a recaption held recently at Saint Augustine’s CoNogo. Dr. Helen Othow, head el the English department and co-chalr ot the International Studies Committee at Saint Augustine’s College greets Manuto Bol., center, Philadelphia 76ers; as Anade Othow, lobbyist, Sudan Relief and RohabWatlm Association, RRA, looks on. BROTHERHOOD OF SKIERS AT SUMMIT ’91-Wayman F. Smith ■ (left), corporate affairs vice president at Anheuser Busch Companies, and Victor M. Julen (right), corporate affairs director of special programs, present a contribution to officials of the National Brothorhood of Skiers (NBS) during the ski dub’s “Summit ’91” in Park City. Utah. States Ski Turn. Q. What has happened to Ralph Sampson? He was the best college basketball player I have ever seen, but his NBA career has fallen to nothing. R.P. Dallas, Texas A. When both of his knees were healthy, Sampson, 7’4”, was a marvelous blend of grace, speed and power. But as you say, he is nowhere near being the player he once was. Both of his knees are shot. 1 watched him play for Sacramento the other night and it is almost as if he is im mobile. He struggles to keep up with the other players and he has virtually no lateral movement. But he is mak ing more than $2 million a year and he is going to continue on until his contract runs out in a few years. You certainly can’t argue with that. For Sampson, basketball is just a business now. This week’s trivia question (answer below): Who was the first black general manager in professional foot ball? Q. Is there any chance the old Grambling football highlights show could be brought back? What has happened to Collie Nicholson, the great publicist who was at Grambl ing? T.R. New York City A. Nicholson remains one of the top publicists in the country and he still is very close to Grambling coach Eddie Robinson and the Grambling pro gram. Yes, it would be nice to see a weekly Grambling highlights show. I have been saying for years that Black Entertainment Television ought to jump on that project. But of course, some of the other black colleges would grumble. But hey, life is tough. The black schools could use their ver sion of Notre Dame, and that is exact ly what Grambling was before in tegration began to eat away at their talent. Answer to trivia question: Jackie Robinson, who also broke the color barrier in baseball, accomplished a similar feat in football. In 1966, he was the general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, a pro football team in the now-defunct Continental League. Trivia question II (answer below): Only two original NFL teams are left from the league’s inception in 1922. Can you name them? Q. Have there been any big en dorsement contracts for any of the African-American players with the New York Giants? Did winning the Super Bowl help? R.Q. Sweetwater, Okla. A. Haven’t noticed anything yet, but surely there must be something in the works for linebacker Lawrence Taylor. Keep in mind it is a tough time for advertising right now. Not very many new commercials of any kind are being made. Answer to trivia question II: The two teams are the Chicago Bears and the Green Bay Packers. Got a sports question? Just write “Ask Barry,” P.O. Box 681545, Orlan do, Fla. 32868 Angry Atlanta Residents Want New Home, Stadium ATLANTA, Ga. (AP)-Residents of a decaying community making room for a colossal Olympic stadium have drafted an ambitious blueprint to con vert their environs into a showcase in time for the 1996 Summer Games. The plan by Summerhill residents culls for razing and replacing the Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium with a park full of gardens rnd monuments. The park would be the centerpiece of a mixed-use suburban village. "If we succeed in Summerhill, every neighborhood in this city and every blighted neighborhood across the country can duplicate what we did in Summerhill,” said Douglas Dean, the former state legislator and cur rent president of Summerhill Neighborhood, Inc. The proposal, unveiled Saturday to about 150 residents, also pushes for new housing, retail zones and mixed use development. Parking for up to 5,000 people would also be included. The plan falls in line with a pro posal to build the 85,000-seat Olympic stadium on the parking lot south of the Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium, Dean said. “Our plans are going to work with or without the Olympic stadium,” he said. "The Olympics will enhance our plans.” Dean also has asked the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games to declare Summerhill the official Olympic neighborhood and to start a partnership with Summerhill and the city. “I think it's a wonderful idea and indicative of the partnership we in tend to have with the people there,” said ACOG President Billy Payne, who declined to comment on the neighborhood’s draft. Other elements of the plan: • Transform the Fulton County juvenile justicde center north of the existing stadium into a center that would provide athletic training to young people. • Create a mixed-use urban village a few blocks from the stadium. • Erect a mid-rise apartment or condominium buildings with exten sive amenities to attract downtown workers. • Build an .official mayor’s residence in the heart of redeveloped Summerhill. • Link Summerhill to Grant Park with improved east-west access.
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