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ABC, ESPN
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replay offer
Associated Press
Nuggets' English
helps Ethiopians
By HAL BOCK
Associated Press Sports Writer
Athletes too often are looked on as some sort of disembodied crea
tures, supermen operating in their own private stratosphere.
Most make enormous salaries. They have awesome abilities. It is easy
to forget that beyond their formidable athletic skills, these are but human
beings, sharing the same frailities and emotions as the rest of us — fear,
joy, sadness, anger.
Many of them, like Alex English of the National Basketball Associa
tion Denver Nuggets, are moved by the human condition.
Last October, at the start of the NBA season, an 82-game long grind
that challenges the minds and bodies of the men who play this demand
ing sport, Alex English was enjoying a rare night off at home with his
family. He turned on the television set after dinner and in the next few
moments, his life changed.
Denver’s Public Broadcasting station was airing a special on the fam
ine in Ethiopia, produced by the British Broadcasting Corporation. En-
f lish, a sensitive man who writes poetry to pass his idle time, was touched
y the newsfilm.
Touched and horrified.
“It was pitiful,” he said. “There were kids who were starving. Kids! It
was a terrible situation.”
Alex English has two small children and another on the way. He
could relate to the vacant stares of the hungry children of Ethiopia.
“I wanted to help,” he said. “I felt a need to do something about it. I
think every person has an obligation to do his share.”
English, who is a vice president of the NBA Players Association,
called the union’s executive director, Larry Fleisher. “He had seen the
horror,” Fleisher said. “He felt we had to do something for those people.
It evolved from there.”
Within a day, with the help of some of the NBA’s very best players,
human beings like Bernard King, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Julius Erving
and Larry Bird, the All-Star fund raising plan was developed.
“I had the idea,” English said, “But it took all of the All-Stars to say
they would do it. I wanted to reach out and do something to help. But
I’m just one person, and how much impact can one person nave?”
Not much, unless he has a number of tall and talented friends willing
to contribute a day’s pay for a good cause.
Fleisher polled the Association’s officers — Junior Bridgeman,
Quinn Buckner, Jim Paxson and Norm Nixon — and about a half dozen
of the league’s top players, the likely All-Stars. They all endorsed En
glish’s idea.
It called for the 24 NBA players in Sunday’s game to contribute their
cash shares — $2,500 for winning team players, $1,500 for losers — to
Interaction Ethiopia, which is coordinating relief activities for that
stricken country.
The NBA agreed to supplement that $48,000 with $52,000 more for
a total $ 100,000 donation.
The idea received such a positive response from the public that the
players hope to do more.
“We’ve got to produce and create ideas,” Fleisher said. “The guys are
willing to do things. They give tons of time to charitable causes.”
For Alex English, though, the Ethiopian crisis and those starving
children have become a top priority itetn.
“The amount we are giving can only sustain them for a short time,”
English said. “So we have it on the (union) agenda to discuss more All-
Star games this summer.
“I’d like to see the relief fund continue beyond this game and become
the No. 1 NBA players’charity.”
When you reflect on the West’s 140-129 victory Sunday and the re
markable performances of players like MVP Ralph Sampson, Magic
Johnson, George Gervin and Isiah Thomas, remember they played for
free because of Alex English’s human emotions for his fellow man.
That might make him the biggest All-Star of them all.
The United States Football
League can’t count on television if it
wants to use “official” instant replays
this season.
Both ABC and ESPN, the net
works which televise USFL games,
indicate they won’t go along with the
idea.
During Saturday night’s exhibi
tion between Tampa Bay and New
Jersey, the USFL experimented with
an instant replay.
Cal Lepore, the league’s supervi
sor of officials, viewed a replay of a
questionable fumble and upheld the
field officials’ call.
New Jersey was charged with a
timeout since the call was upheld, if
the call had been reversed, no
timeout would have been assessed.
Lepore said the experiment
woula continue next Saturday in
Birmingham when the Stallions play
the Houston Gamblers and that if
Commissioner Harry Usher ap
proved, it would be used during the
regular season.
But Jim Spence, senior vice presi
dent of ABC Sports, and Bill Fitts,
executive producer of ESPN, said
Sunday their networks had no inten
tion of crossing the line between
televising games and officiating
them.
Spence said ABC had been ap
proached 15 months ago by Chet
Simmons, Usher’s predecessor,
about providing instant replays in
order to review officials’ calls.
“We stated then that we thought
there should be a clear difference
between our responsibility as a
broadcaster and any role we might
have in game decisions,” Spence
said. “Although our involvement
would be indirect, we didn’t feel that
was a proper role for us as a broad
caster.
“Harry Usher has asked us to take
another look at the use of our re
plays for the ’85 season. I expressed
negativism when he put that request
to us late last month (shortly before
officially succeeding Simmons).”
Spence said ABC has not officially
responded and will view the situa
tion again before doing so.
“We have not given him an official
response, which we will be doing
very shortly. We’re going to look at it
again as a courtesy to Harry, but my
guess is the decision will be the
same.”
Fitts said ESPN had never been
formally approached by the USFL to
provide replays.
However, Fitts said he didn’t want
to get involved.
“I’m against it,” Fitts said. “Televi
sion shouldn’t get involved in the of
ficiating of a game.
“We’d be nappy to give them a
line feed, but no special replays.
We’re not going to mess up our tele
casts to help them with their officiat
ing.”
Spence and Fitts each said they
would have no problem with the
USFL viewing the networks’ stan
dard replays — the ones the fans see
at home — to review calls.
But providing replays at the
league’s request, they said, was a dif
ferent matter.
Both New Jersey Coach Walt Mi
chaels and Tampa Bay Coach Steve
Spurrier said after the game that
they liked the system.
“Sure I’d like to see it,” Spurrier
said. “We’re all human. We all make
errors and hate to let an error or bad
decision by a referee determine the
outcome of the game.”
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