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Ex-Blazer recalls days of fights
(AP) — PORTLAND Think th*- NBA is lough
these days with a lisi of fines and violent e that
looks like a polit e blotter?
Forget it This is wimpy stuff compared to what
^ used to go on night after night
The authority for that is Kermit Washington,
who stored the most famous or infamous •
knot kout in league history when lit* tit* ketl Rudy
Tomjanovu h in a game ir> years ago
"In my time, everywhere you went, there was
somebody there to hit you.' Washington said "I
wasn't one of the toughest I |ust tried to survive
Today, there's a lot of woo fin' going on It's a dif
ferent world now
Washington is among Thursday's inductees nt
the GTF Acadernk All-America Hall of Fame A
graduate of Amerit an I diversity. he is one of just
seven players to average more than 20 points and
20 rebounds per game for his college career
In the NBA, Washington was a workmanlike
player for nine years, a rugged presence under the
hoards at fcfoot H, 210 pounds His basketlxtll abil*
itv never gets mentioned, though His KO of Iom
lanovit h always does
1 was an average player.” said Washington,
w tio now hosts a radio talk show in Portland and
is president of a company marketing fitness and
conditioning gear "I could have lasted longer d I
didn't play injured In my day, if you could walk,
you played, I probably wouldn’t be remembered,
though, if not for the Tomjanovich thing. "
The Tomjanovich tiling occurred Dei 9. 1977 in
Los Angeles when a brawl broke out during a game
between Houston and the Lakers Out of tfie i orner
of tiis eve. Washington saw Tnmjanov u li running
toward him In the wild west spirit of shoot first
and ask questions later. Washington landed a hay
maker, never simper ting the guy on the run was
Irs mg to make peace
Tomjanovich suffered a fractured skull, broken
nose and ( ra< ked eye six ket Washington was
fined 510,000 — an enormous sum in those days
— and suspended for 60 days
"It was bad judgment, ' Washington said, "a mis
take I paid lor and i oritinue to pay for Him is a
guv running at you and you don't know why You
feel threatened You art
|ust like today 's NBA.
"Art* you kidding?" Washington said. "This is
lame < ompared to what went on then It was a haif
c ourt game in those days, much more dangerous.
These guys are not dangerous. They are non-threat
ening entities '
Bill Launbei-r. fined three times this season for a
total of $26,(HX), not threatening' How about Charles
Oakley, fined $10,000 for a flagrant foul? Or
Shaquille O'Neal, also assessed $10,000 for throw
ing a punch?
They don't scare Washington
"The guys I played with put you in the hospital,"
lie said "I remember Willis Heed beating up the
whole baker team and Bill Bridges beating up the
whole Seattle team. This is nothing One time. Adri
an Dnntley went into the toiler room to get Dave
Mesers
"Detroit with Bob Lanier. Guys like Lonnie Shel
ton, Mnurit Luc as. Paul Silas, Clifford Ray. Truck
Robinson You didn't mess with Dave Cowens or
even little Calvin Murphy They'd heat you to death.
Lseryliody had tough gins You feared for your life
We had monsters
Washington thinks today's spats get more atten
tion because television is everywhere, watching
even game "We played in pnvat s." he said. "You'd
hit somebody, niavlie get fined $250. and that was
it."
Don't get him wrong. Washington believes there
are players he named Karl Malone and Charles
Barkley — who would fit into the old knockdown,
drag-out style of the league.
"Today's players are aggressive and they're more
talented," he said "But they're not tough. The game
is better, more entertaining. These guys are so good."
And when the woofin' turns serious, Washing
ton has some advice
"if you walk away, s our career is over,” he said.
"If you don't retaliate, you tan pack sour him h and
go home II soil sit Iwi k figuring the league will take
care of it, forget about it The only thing that holds
the other gus bat k is if he knows you'll come bat k
at him.”
The University of Oregon Creative Writing Program
and the Walter Kidd Tutorial Program announces
THE 1993 WALTER KIDD
WRITING PRIZES
TWO 1ST PRIZES OF $1000
TWO 2ND PRIZES OF $300
TWO 3RD PRIZES OF $200
Competition rules:
1 Prize competition is open to alt currently enrolled University of
Oregon undergraduates.
2. Bach contestant may submit only one story and/or up to five
poems. Fiction entries must be no longer than 5000 words. Entries
must be typewritten, double-spaced (not poetry), on one side of 8 Vi
x 11 paper, and delivered to the Creative Writing Program Office,
341 PI C. Include your name, address, phone number and student
ID number on the first page; all succeeding pages must be
numbered and must include only your student ID number. Please
note "KIDD PRIZE" on all delivered entries. Entries must be
received on or before Friday, May 7,1993. Entrants should retain a
copy of any submission. Manuscripts will not be returned unless
accompanied by a sufficiently stamped self-addressed envelope.
3. Three winners will be selected in each genre for overall literary
excellence. Final judges will be the novelist Frederick Busch and
Creative Writing Program Director Garrett Hongo. The prizes will
be awarded on May 28, 1993 by Mr. Busch at his public reading in
Gerlinger Lounge. The decision of the judges is final; winner(s) may
not be chosen if in the judges' discretion no entries merit award.
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