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: Emerald WEDNESDAY November 29. 1995> COTTON BOWL TRIVIA QWhat former # NFL quarter • back led the Ducks to thetr first and only Cotton Bowl Classic and in what year did he do it? (See Ooflom erf Pag* lor Answer? n TOOAY IN SPORTS China names new basketball team Ducks HONG KONG (AO) — Peking duck is <i popular item on the menu of gourmet ( .'hinese restaurants Peking has long since be< ome Bejing, and Bejing also has the Dm ks. The Ducks are among 12 teams, including the Squir rels, the Panthers and the Tigers, who are getting ready when China's new basket ball league opens its first full season Dec. 10 I hi' Ducks, also known as the Capital Iron and Steel Corp. team, chose their name because of the roast duck Hong Kong-based sports promoter Nick Freyer said Tuesday the Ducks didn't like the initial design for their logo, which showed n friendly duck. "They said, 'You can’t have a friendly duck. It will be eaten by the tiger.' But when you have a ferocious duck, the odds are a little better," he said. The finished logo, which will tie prominently affixed on players' shirts, shows a fierce-looking duck, eye brows arched, w ith a streak of lightning in the bar k ground. The Shanghai August First team chose the name "Hock ets" because they hope to emulate the two-time NBA champion Houston Rockets, according to the Chinese news agency. Xinhua. A Norm Van • Brocklin led the • Ducks to a 9*2 record — the identical record of the 1995 squad— and the Cotton Bowl berth, where the Ducks fell to SMU 21-13. Mirror, mirror on the wall... NATMONTGOMCH *Imai The pressure Is on for Muammar Adams, a junior In Visual Design, as he does sets of squats for Weight Training 212. A variety of athletic courses are offered through Essllnger each term, such as swim training, basketball and other levels of weight training classes NFL salary cap needs to be forgotten Tin? National I onth,ill U'ngue is .1 sinking ship on the ocean of proft'ssiun.il sports In tlm 19?0‘* mul Hit's, this mod til flag ship rodu high on the waves of f<tn sup port and was the standard followed bv tin* three other major moneymaking sports, in terms of revenue earnings and dependably competitive matchups Now. the orn e great vessel that so sut • rtissiuiiy navigated through the rough waters of player strikes, league lot touts nml outrageous player non* tracts has hit an u eborg tailed the salary tap. 1 hit NFI.'s out e imj>en etrnble hull has sprung a leak, anti the ship is going down fast, fort iug a lot of fans to jump overboard Pets ffimalrfnn scnneioer wiifii you look, at the M l, standings, there art) realty only two tt'ums that jump out as dominate squads At the txiginning of th») season every football fan knew that the regular season was just o formality to presenting either Dallas or San Francisco with the Vince l.omhardi Superhowl tro phy It is not that the t iow lxiy s and a'lers are really that good, it's just that the res! of the league is so laid (Apologies to all the Kansas City fans out there, but 1 just don't take the AH' seriously anymore j Outside of San Francisco and Dallas, there is not one Nil. team with a legiti mate shot at getting to the Superhowl this year. Although Green Hay and (dm ago fans can claim their teams are having relatively re*po< table campaigns, they have to know deep in their hearts that they w ill he watching other teams play in January There isn't an AFC' fan who can seriously say that his team wouldn’t he a three touchdown under Turn to SCHNEIDER, Page 10 Investigation to determine if NCAA rules discriminate ■ INQUIRY: Questions have arisen about whether rules single out athletes with learning disabilities WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department ts investigat ing whether the NCAA is dis criminating against student athletes with learning disabili ties. "We received a complaint within the past month, ami we have opened an investigation," John Wodatch, chief of the dis abilities rights section of the department's civil rights divi sion, said today. "This is time sensitive and has priority over our backlog so we will try to move fairly quickly." The complaint came from the parents of Chad Ganden. 17, a senior at Naperville North High School in suburban Chicago. Ganden was the state swimming champion last year in the 100 yard freestyle The question is whether NCAA rules designed to prevent colleges from giving athletic scholarships to students unpre pared to handle college academ ic work are being unfairly applied to learning-disabled stu dents Discrimination against such students would violate the Americans with Disabilities Act. "This is by no means a cut and-dried violation." Wodatch said "Wo arw trying to under stand how tins policy works and whether it violates the disabili ties act " The NCAA requires minimum scores on standard college entrance exams and minimum grade-point averages in at least 13 "core" college preparatory courses for students to bo eligi ble for athletic scholarships. The NCAA told Ganden he did not have enough college preparatory courses to lie eligi ble to accept a school-paid recruiting visit to a college before Nov. 15. according to The Washington Post, which first reported the story. The Post said Gandon has difficulty translat ing letters or series of lot tors into words that i an hi* spoken, but has a normal IQ and the required tost scores The association allows high school athletes and colleges to make binding agreements Indore Nov 15 for admission and scholarships "First, we're trying to under stand what the NCAA policies are. how it chooses 'core' cours es and how it decides whether classes for the learning-disabled fit into those requirements." Wodatch said. "Gandan's par ents say the learning-disabled courses at this high school are tougher than those at most high schools in the country." Wodatch said the department had two earlier complaints about the NCAA scholarship rules from teaming-disabled ath letes during the past year. "They had received letters challenging their scholarship. We asked the NCAA to reconsider, and (hoy did." Wodatch said. "They were both s(!ttl»!(l by ttiis informal process, vvhii.h ivu use frequent ly. and no investigation was opened." "So, we knew the issue was out there (nit we itad not previ ously examined the rules in detail." Wodati h said He said the department had not finished speaking with (ian dens parents and had only con tacted the NC1AA by telephone so far Hi* also said investigators would need to consult the Department of Kducation. "We will look at the rules now from the point of view of this kid." Wodatch said "But there wore reasons these sys tems were t reated The act does not require that we destroy those goals It requires reason able accommodations short of a fundamental alteration " "If we did conclude the sys tem does discriminate, the task would he to keep the basil: poli cy in place but fashion u modifi cation so it does not discriminate."
