Olympians Blair, Morales honored
COLORADO SPRINGS. Colo.
(AP) — They were supposed to
be too old to lx- Olympians, let
alone Olympic winners But
speedskater Bonnie Blair and
swimmer Pablo Morales each
won a pair of gold medals in
1992. and those feats earned
them further honors Tuesday
Blair and Morales, both 2H.
were named the U S Olympic
Committee s Sportswoman and
Sportsman of the Year
Blair became the first Ameri
can woman to win the same
event at two consecutive Win
ter Games when she took the
500 meters at Albertville, then
added the gold in the 1.000.
She had won gold in the 500
and bronze in the 1.00(1 four
years earlier, at Calgary.
Morales came out of retire
ment to win gold medals in the
100-meter butterfly and as part
of the men's 400-meter medley
relay team at the Summer
Games in Barcelona.
Both athletes find themselves
fending off ever-younger oppo
nents as they ponder their com
petitive mortality And both ad
mit feeling the years add up.
"I c an tell I'm getting a little
older." Blair said. "I find little
nagging things affecting me 1
have to be more careful in mv
training, and physical therapy
takes a little bit longer.
"I sprained both of my ankles
last summer, which was kind ot
frustrating. 1 find I'm doing
things to myself 1 haven't done
in the past I don't know il it's
because of old age, but that's
what I'm attributing it to.”
Blair isn't ready to surrender
to the aches and pains. ht>we\
er She will compete in one
more Olympics — the 1994
Winter Games in l.illehommer.
Norway.
Mad the Olvmpn movement
not switched to two-vear inter
vals between the Winter and
Summer Games. Blair might
have been finished
"Four years is a long way
away.” she said "I would lie al
most 32 then."
But with the next Winter
Olympics just two years after
Albertville. Blair decided last
June to take another shot
Preparing for the world
championships next month in
japan, Blair sa\s her "longer
distances have been going 1»‘t
ter than my shorter ones, which
is kind of surprising bei atise
the 500 is mv favorite race "
Morales sa\s he's less likely
to compete in another Olym
pics.
"I suppose there's a possibil
ity — a very small possibility
— that I'll l>e competing hi At
lanta (in 1‘1'itij,” he said "I
really see myself liemg a sptx
tator there
"M\ goal last year was to get
to Barcelona and give the gold
medal a shot 1 have put law
si hool on hold for a couple of
years now I’m eager to gel bai k
to that "
Morales, who has been mak
ing personal appearances
around the country, will con
tinue training until he returns
to Cornell l.aw School next fall
"I've set some personal goals.
DiTKA
Continued from Page 12
a 20-0 lead in the fourth quar
ter Then |im Harbaugh then
threw an inten:eption on an au
dit>le that was returned for a
tou< tidown Ditka exploded on
the sidelines, and the Hears
blew the lead and lost 21-20
Two weeks later, when he
was again questioned about
"The Audible," Dilka went into
a rage at his press < onterem e
and said. plays I've been
t aim and one I've been exc ited
You think tins is a damn soap
opera."
That was the end of his
weekly Monday press confer
ences
After a 20 17 loss at Tampa
Hav. he had to be restrained
from going into the stands tor a
fan who ''called me a bad
name.”
And after a in-t loss at De
troit. Ditka was stung when Mi
(iaskev said lie would evaluate
tht* learn at the end ol the sea
son
Hut then Ditkil said he would
make his own evaluation, and
that the only wav he would
stay with the team "is d I i an
control it We've hit bottom "
That might have sealed his
fate.
Ditka ranks second among
Bears i oar lies in both tenure
and victories trailing only the
late George Hulas, the team s
founder Hulas coached Ditka
from the ticginniiig of Ins |>lu\
mg career in 1‘M>1 until he was
traded in l‘tt)7 after a contract
dispute
But that didn't prevent Hulas
from selecting Ditka as the
Bears' loth i ouch on |un 70.
10H7
Ditka took over a team that
had only two winning seasons
i n I he prev ions t‘1 He re
vamped the team and the Bears
were 11-14 his first two sea
sons
BOBO
Continued from Page 12
Hobo said alter speaking with Washington State math Mike
Priti' WSt receivers coach Mike Levenseller and former \\ St
coact) Dennis hrickson. who rer.ruited Hobo (jetore becoming Mi
ami's ( uacb, "it c onfused me a lot
They didn't like it very much, but they support mv dm ision,"
Bobo said. I just felt it's time for me to do something else The op
portunitv is there. I just want to grab it while I < an
Bobo said it Bledsoe would have staved in school, lie might have
stayed But, Bobo added. I don't lack confidence in Mike
Pattinson at all Mike's going to In- real good lie has a lot of tilings
that Drew doesn't have '
Pattinson, a redshirt junior, figures to be the Cougars starting
quarterback next season.
Bobo had 51 receptions for 759 yards and six touchdowns as a
freshman in 1990, 54 receptions for 759 yards and six tou< hdowns
in 1991. and 4:t re< options for 665 yards and four touchdowns this
season. He caught at least one pass in his last J9 games
Bobo, a 5-foot-11, 185-pounder, attended Moreno Valley. Calif
High School. He sat out the 1989 season at WSU before playing the
next three seasons.
"I'm going to help him find an agent." Ron Brown, a former
player in the NFL with the Los Angeles Rams and Los Angeles
Raiders, told the AP "We re going to talk to a few agents."
and I have .i c ham ** to build on
lust year's performance," Mo
rales said "I'm hoping to im
prove on the time I swam in
Barcelona, trv to come close to
a life-best time, whic h would
Im> close to the world record."
Morales said the reaction to
his Olympic performance
' made me realize what a
iongshot people considered un
to In* I never felt I was that
much of a Iongshot."
The Sportsman of the Year
award, he said, "just boggles
the mind This is an award I'll
treasure until I'm old and gray,
or should I say older and
grayer "
In balloting by a national
panel of journalists and l’StM!
officials. Morales, of Santa
Clara, Calif , received 1.191
points to l.OfiO for runnerup
Kevin Young, who won the
men's -tOO-meter hurdles in
Barcelona Bruce Baumgartner,
gold medalist in 1 to kilogram
freestyle wrestling, was third
with 981 points
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