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8 Portland Obaarvar, February 23,1983
Sport Talk
What a difference a few years
make. Bay area pre»* it now calling
for Coach A1 Attic» to step down.
Attic» hat ipent the last 14 yeart at
W arrior head coach and Boston’s
Red Auerbach it the only coach to
equal that. Some Bay area visitors
are laying that A ttlet no longer hat
the interest in coaching. And a few
playert are bad mouthing the coach
for not practicing and for holding
short practices.
Remember back in the golden
yeart when the Rick Barry-led
Warriors were the scourge o f the
league? Well, then Attlet was given
credit for revolutionizing the game.
A ttlet was the first coach to win
contittenly by using 10 playert.
Using this system Golden State won
the NBA championship in 1968 and
barely missed in 1969. It it rumored
that club owner Franklin M ieuli is
high on Indiana coach Jack
McKinney should Attics decide to
retire.
Now that the collegiate football
recruiting wars are over who came
out best?
Notre Dame lured 11 o f the top
100 prep players to South Bend.
Coach Jerry Faust, in a produce or
else year, signed more o f the
nation’s top playert than any other
school. In comparison, the Pac-10
as a league signed only 11. O f those
11 Southern Cal grabbed four, while
U C L A and Washington gained
three apiece.
Last year the U . O F O signed
Kevin W ilhite and Dana H ill. Both
selected are blue chippers.
Boxing promoter Don King, after
building an empire in toe fight
game, is now said to be interested in
purchasing the Cleveland Cavaliers.
It is reported that King has
formed a group comprised o f heavy­
weight champion Larry Holmes
and W B A champion Michael
D oket. I f successful this would be
the first black-owned franchise ever
in professional sports.
Seattle's Super Sonic» are contin­
uing their struggle in the NBA. The
Snnics jumped o ff to a 12-0
beginning and threatened to run o ff
from their Pacific division fold. The
trade for David Thompson helped
the Sonic* in their early romp. D a­
vid did it all in the early part and
had all Seattle talking about his out
of sight play.
Now
Thompson
has
been
benched in favor of Oregon State’s
Mark Radford.
So one should keep an eye on just
how much playing lime David will
get since the team is losing. The
more Thompson plays with the
Sonic», the lets money it's going to
cost the Nuggets.
Unless Thompson plays at least
1,800
minutes,
the
Nuggets
reportedly will have to pay half of
NBA Actual Standings
Eastern Conference
W
L
Pet.
* * 1. Philadelphia
* * 2. Boston
*
3. Milwaukee
* * 4. Naw Jaraay
*
6. Detroit
48
39
36
33
26
7
14
18
20
28
.888
.736
867
623
.481
*
8. Atlanta
* * 7 Washington
* * 8. Naw York
*
9 Chicago
*
10. Indiana
*
11. Cleveland
2S
24
24
19
28
28
29
36
38
41
.472
462
463
362
296
.241
16
13
* ♦ : Atlantic Division
* : Central Division
Western Conference
W
* * 1. Lo» Angola»
* * 2. Portland
3. San Antonio
* * 4. Phoenix
* * Saatti«
8. Kanaa» City
7 Dalla»
8 Denver
* * 9. Golden Stata
* * 10. San Diago
Utah
12. Houston
40
33
33
32
X
TI
26
26
22
19
19
10
L
12
21
22
23
24
26
27
29
32
36
36
44
Pct.
.789
.611
.600
.582
.566
509
491
473
.407
346
346
.186
* * : Pacific Division
* : Midwest Division
Blazer Schedule (this w eek)
Feb 23 San Antonio (away)
Feb 26 Dellas (away)
Feb. 27 Cleveland (away)
Thompson’s (800,000 salary.
And what a shame that P ort­
land's Calvin Natt was by-passed
for the A ll-Star team. Portland's
small forward is playing some of the
best ball in the league.
At present the man nicknamed
"the pit bull" is averaging 20.2 ppg
and 10 rebounds. Natt is shooting
551 from the field and .804 from the
line. Consistency has been the main
ingredient in Calvin’s game.
When the voting is over in the
N B A for coach o f the year P o rt­
land’ s Jack Ramsay should win
hands down. Ramsay, with a bunch
of average NBA talent, has won 33
games, while losing 21. That com­
putes out to a .6 1 1 m ark, second
best in the Western Conference and
sixth best in the entire league. That’s
rig h t— out o f 24 teams, Portland
owns the sixth best overall record.
The Blazers were picked in pre­
season polls to finish either fourth
or fifth in their own division. Since
there are no real super stars on the
team all credit must go to Mr. Ram­
say for putting it together. Miracle
workers?
And Moses Malone should never
have been perm itted to sign with
Philadelphia. It was an injustice to
the rest o f the league. Before the
coming o f Moses the Celtics and
Sixers would battle down to the wire
with no more than one game separ­
ating the two teams. Now the Celtics
have a 39-14 record, but find them­
selves 7 games behind the high-fly­
ing sixers.
WBA lightweight champion Alex­
is Arguello is blaming veteran train­
er Eddie Futch for his loss to Junior
W elterweight king Aaron Pryor.
Alexis blamed Futch for allowing
him (Alexis) to overtrain.
Arguello, long thought to be one
of the class individuals in the boxing
world, it rapidly destroying his ima­
ge by blaming everyone but himself
for his loss to Pryor.
Arguello claimed that his trainer
" m a d e ” him run fo r 194 hours a
day, a claim that Futch vehemently
denied. Alexis Arguello is a super
fighter, but he must someday recog­
nize the truth and the truth is Aaron
"T h e H aw k" Pryor it just a better
man.
The U S F L , scheduled to begin
play on M arch 5, had made
another offer to sign an N FL super
star. The Michigan Panthers report­
edly offered Redskin running back
John Riggins one million dollars for
two years. T hat’s a lot of Moola to
put out for a 33-year-old running
back.
It’s realized that the new league in
order to gain credibility must go for
tome big names. But someone
should do their homework before
dishing out these astronomical sal­
aries. Remember the mistake the old
A FL made when they signed Larry
Csonka dn Jim Liick?
They were both all-pro running
backs with the N F L ’ s M iam a
Dolphins. They were both hired
away and signed lucrative contracts
with the “ other" league. Both never
produced in the A F L , m ainly be­
cause someone forgot to bring along
that great Miami offensive line.
And the same thing would happen
to Riggins, should he leave without
bringing along those “ Hogs.”
The millionth home run in Major League Baseball his­
tory was scored by Bob W atson, Houston Astro first
baseman on May 6, 1975.
The spoon as w e know it today, with its spatulate
handle, dates from only the 18th century.
The fastest bird alive is called, appropriately, the
swift. It is capable of speeds of more than 200 miles per
hour.
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Social activist Michael H arring­
ton w ill speak on "C a p ita lis m in
Crisis," at 8:30 p.m. in the Univer­
sity o f Portland's Buckley Center
auditorium Tuesday, March I.
H arrin g to n , the author o f 13
books, including Socialism, The
Twilight o f Capitalism, and Unfin­
ished Dem ocracy: The American
Political System, is a political sci­
ence professor at Queens College.
He has chaired the Democratic So­
cialist Organizing Committee since
its founding in 1973, and was a na­
tional chair in the Socialist Party
from 1968-72.
Active in the movement for civil
rights since 1954, he helped organize
the Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom
and the Youth Marches for In te ­
grated Schools. He became a mem­
ber o f M artin Luther King's advi­
sory conmmittee in 1965, was part
o f the White House Conference on
C iv il Rights. He is working with
M rs. M a rtin Luther King Jr. and
other leaders to create a new thrust
for full employment for minorities
and all workers.
As a member o f the American
Federation o f Teachers, Harrington
has also been involved in the labor
movement. He was a member of the
Fund for the Republic Trade Union
Project from 1956-62 and has
spoken at union conventions and
educational meetings fo r several
unions.
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