Oregon Doily
Emerald Sports
Duck basketball celebrating gets pretty whacky
What better wav to get
pumped up for a name
than with a solid
whack in the earT
College athletes are a strange
bunch, alw avs < oming up with
new wavs to celebrate Mn:hi.;ai
does the chest bumping thing
that Dick Vitale uist can't get
enough of. and then of course
there's the famous head butt
with helmets in football
Now the Oregon men's basket
ball team lias come up with its
own form of celebration It’s
called kicking the living crap
out of each other
To mv knowledge, no other
team in the country is so abusive
to one another during and before
games — that could explain the
Dm ks' fi-12 record
Oregon freshman Henry Mad
den seems to he the one who has
started this at t of celebration.
Madden stands at the end of the
introduction tunnel and "roughs
tip" the Duck starters as thev are
introduced.
Deadlocks, elbows to the
stomai h and noogies are part of
Knight
looks into
fan actions
BLfXJMINtH'ON. Inti (AP) -
A kinder, more tolerant Bob
knight'
Maybe not toward the offi
cials. but the Indiana coach may
be rethinking his unbending
attitude on perfect student deco
rum at home.
The Assembly Hall crowd,
seemingly hold in check by
Knight's rigid and vocal
demands for good behavior, is in
marked contrast with the rau
cous reception, the Hoosiers
usually receive on the road
He's not suggesting Hoosier
Ians reciprocate with equally
rowdy behavior, but Knight
admits the dampened enthusi
asm at home rnay be hurting the
players
I don't think I'm being lair to
my team," ho said in the dlnoin
ington Herald-1 Hints last week
after he was ejected with two
technical tools for arguing with
officials in a game against Ohio
State.
When knight left the court
and retreated to the locker room,
the noise level of the crowd rose
noticeably, along with a few
chants directed at the Buckeyes
and some waving behind the
basket in an attempt to distrui t
Ohio State foul shooters, all
Knight no-nos.
The Indiana coach has often
scolded home crowds for such
behavior, even going so far as to
take the courtside public
address microphone to admon
ish the offending fans. A lew
daggered stares or even a side
line saunter to the source of his
irritation usually are enough to
quiet the crowd
"As long as I'm here. I think
that you're the host team, you
support vour team, you get
behind vour team, you show
everybody that Indiana fans .ire
lhe most supportive of their
team," knight said on his radio
show
the attm k Hut the one move
that stands out is the what k to
the head The other plavers for
the Dm ks have no < lion e but to
11roti* t themselves by what king
Madden ot i asionalh
I'hursdav during introduc
tions of the Stanford game. >
foot VI point guard Kenya
Wilkins was introduced, and
Madden grabbed hold of him
when he got to the end of the
tunnel Wilkins then whispered
something to Madden and
whacked the (> foot-(> forward
rigfit square in the ear and
pretty hard, too
The things that will amuse
when sou re losing
As brutal as it mav sound,
there are some people who
would better deserve a little
whack in the ear once in a
while We'll call these the
DwkCharbonsku
Whm kies" (or ! guess wo could
call thorn the "Dave can't think
of anv other ideas for a column
this week")
The f’a<ifi(-10 Conference
referees The f’ai 10 refs have
never been stellar, hut this sea
son is as had as I've seen it ill
m\ lour years here I have yet to
see a game in the conferuni e
this season where the offii nils
haven't totally taken the game
out of the players' hands
It gets to the point whore it
seems .is though the offii tills .ire
just making a game-loin, series
of makeup rails l'hey make a
bad i all at one end of the i ourt
and then an equally terrible i all
a! the other end
l he thing is. I'm not i oni
plaining about the rets Iks a use I
think they si reu Oregon That s
not the problem The people get
ting s; rowed are the falls who
have to sit and vs ati h teams go
to the Iree-throu line for the
final It) minutes of each half
be< ause both teams are already
ill the bonus
(iuvs with dumb signs A
bum h of people in the front rim
at the t al game Saturday mode
up signs tiiat ripped Jason Kidd
lor being ugly You're i rai kmg
some mm ground there It's
■ ommon knuyy ledge around the
nation that hold is one ugh
limit' Von think In- doesn't
know lus f.u f is enough to
knoi k a hu//urd off a crap wag
on7
I'hf fat I is. thf guv si hooted
Oregon and everyone knew lit*
would. I ruallv don't think Kidd
gives a damn who thinks hit’s
rule or tlgh w bower's guard
ing him is the out) w ho s going
to look ugly hv the tmd of the
ganm
Plus, no station hroadt astiilg
the gamti would won think
.ihotit putting a sign hkf that on
thf ttihi*. whit h is thf point of
making a sign anywav. isn't it7
I rtsih/f what a lug deal it would
hf to get voiir lai f on Ravi oiu.
hut at ifnst think ot something
intelligent.
/Jm c Charbomwati is a snorts
rt'porlrr tor tlir kmrrnld
fnTT[diversity
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Multicultural Education and the future of the Race,
Gender and Non-European-American requirement.
When?
Where?
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Walnut Room, EMU (Across from Post Office)
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