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Page lOAThe Battalionn"uesday, February 3, 1987
Desire for pro sports
doesn’t compare to
love of college game
By Hal L. Hammons
Sports Writer
Once upon a time, a long time
ago, I was carefully nurturing a love
affair with a
lady named
Professional
Sports.
Viewpoint
I Finally broke it off when I found
out more about her older sister. Col
lege. And since then I have started
to see a lot of problems with Pro that
I preferred to overlook before.
Pro and I still get along pretty
well. I go and visit on occasion, and 1
always have fun with her. But there’s
no spark there anymore.
I really decided it was over this fall
during football season. Sometimes it
seemed the only thing Pro could
think or talk about was money. If it
wasn’t a player holding out for a big
ger contract, it was a coach breaking
a multi-year contract to depart for
greener pastures.
Plus, I finally got fed up with her
ego. I constantly was barraged with
players who thought they should
have been recognized by more wire
services for their on-the-field ex
ploits. And so many of them became
personalities instead of athletes be
cause of their off-the-field exploits.
They would make idiots out of
themselves publicly and then write
books that tried to make idiots out of
others as well.
And Pro is so violence-oriented.
She really looks to hurt people some
times, especially the “big-contract
types.” And all in the name of
friendly competition.
Pro has a drug problem, too. Ev
eryone has known for a long time
that she messed around with the
stuff some, but it is more serious
than people first thought. And it
really has become common knowl
edge recently that she is no longer in
control of herself.
Actually, she seems to take drugs
more often in the winter and spring
during basketball season. Strangely,
that is the time of year when organi
zations like the NBA try hardest to
straighten her out.
I guess she has concern for nei
ther her own physical and moral
well-being, nor her influence on oth
ers. And no matter what I and many
others say to warn people, she re
mains a role model, particularly for
children.
Literally thousands of kids in ev
ery state in the country want nothing
more than to spend their lives with
her. And that’s scary. Because a few
of them will get their wish, and un
less they have a lot of inner strength,
Pro could wreck the kids’ lives.
It’s her lifestyle, really. She came
upon a lot of money over the years,
and she has yet to find out how to
stay in control of it.
She feels obligated to feel good all
of the time. She always has to enjoy
herself. And as we all know, life is
not prepared to accommodate her in
that.
So drugs look pretty good to her.
And as the old economics proverb
goes, “demand creates its own sup
ply.” She never has run short of sup
pliers, and she never will. No matter
what governmental, theological or
personal war on drugs is waged, the
simple fact of the matter remains: as
long as drugs are popular, there will
be drugs. Period.
All the time I was moping about
Pro’s lamentable condition, 1 was
overlooking a truly fantastic alterni-
tive in College. After all, when one
of two girls is more popular, more
showy than the other, it’s easy to get
caught up in the glamour and miss
the inner character.
And I’m not trying to pretend
College doesn’t ever slip up. She
does. In fact, she has many of her
sister’s problems. Despite being
older than her sister, she does look
up to Pro and follow her example a
great deal.
She can get a bit money-oriented
at times. I mean, money gets hold of
all of us once in a while. And she
does have more than her share of
ego, especially since non-confor
mism has become the trend with
Pro.
And yes, she does dabble with
drugs.
But College’s problems are proba
bly correctable if enough of the right
people keep their eyes on her. She is
human, and humans make mistakes.
With proper measures, however, her
slip-ups could be kept to a mini
mum. I’m afraid Pro may be beyond
the point of no return.
Friends are really the key, aren’t
they? A support group has a direct
impact on people, for good or ill.
Pro’s friends tend to be the “love-
’em-and-leave-’em” type. When she’s
up, they are right beside her, but
when Pro is in a tough situation, they
are the first to start casting stones.
Fortunately, College has a group
of supporters that is always loyal. We
aren’t happy when she’s down, of
course, but it’s not like she is a ba
nana peel that is cast aside after the
good part is gone. We love her “for
better or for worse,” as the saying
goes.
The biggest difference, I suppose,
is that College still knows how to
have fun. Somehow Pro has lost that.
Pro is so concerned with her bank
roll and her image that nothing else
matters.
College, for the most part, still
does what she does because it’s what
she loves to do. And if she can make
money with it later in life, that’s
okay, too.
I, personally, like to have fun.
And I have fun with College. Let’s
hope it stays that way.
UNLV returns to No. 1 spot
in AP poll after short hiatus
(AP) — Nevada-Las Vegas, which
had been No. 1 for six weeks earlier
in the season, returned to the top of
the Associated Press’ college basket
ball poll Monday after a two-week
hiatus.
The Runnin’ Rebels, 21-1, re
ceived 48 first-place votes and 1,243
points from the nationwide panel of
sportswriters and broadcasters, eas
ily outdistancing Indiana, which
jumped from fourth to second with
10 first-place votes and 1,181 points.
North Carolina, which had re
turned to the No. 1 spot for one
week, was knocked from the perch
after suffering a 60-58 defeat at
Notre Dame.
The Tar Heels, 18-2, received
four first-place votes and 1,148
points and will play the next two
weeks without senior scoring leader
Kenny Smith, who underwent ar
throscopic knee surgery last week
end. Smith scored a career-high 41
points in his last game before the
surgery, a 108-99 victory over then-
No. 14 Clemson last Wednesday.
Nevada-Las Vegas broke the 100-
point mark in each of its three victo
ries last week. The Runnin’ Rebels
won two Pacific Coast Athletic Asso-
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ciation games, 106-58 over Fresno
State and 114-103 over Cal-Irvine,
before beating then-No. 18 Auburn
on the road 104-85.
Indiana, 17-2, registered two Big
.Ten Conference victories last week.
The Hoosiers beat then-No. 12 Illi
nois 69-66 and then-No. 4 Purdue
88-77.
Iowa, the only team other than
Nevada-Las Vegas and North Caro
lina to be ranked No. 1 this season,
fell from second to fourth with 999
points and one first-place vote.
DePaul, the only Division I team
besides Nevada-Las Vegas to have
just one loss, jumped from eighth to
fifth with 935 points, six more than
Temple, which moved one spot
from last week.
Purdue, Oklahoma, Alabama and
Georgetown completed the Top 10.
Syracuse, 17-3, leads the Second
Ten with 556 points followed by
Clemson, Pittsburgh, Illinois, Texas
Christian, Duke, Providence, Kan
sas, St.John’s and Auburn.
Last week’s Second Ten was
Georgetown, Illinois, Duke, Clem
son, St. John’s, Texas Christian,
Pittsburgh, Auburn, Florida and
Kansas.
Caller threatens to shoot
Skipper of Stars & Stripes
B3 "Quality First”
PERTH, Australia (AP) — An
Australian television station received
a call from an anonymous man who
threatened to shoot America’s Cup
skipper Dennis Conner, a police
spokesman said.
The caller, believed to be an Aus
tralian man in his early 20s, tele
phoned the Melbourne studios of
Channel 10 Tuesday morning,
claiming that Conner, the 44-year-
old helmsman of the San Diego’s
Stars & Stripes, would be shot rather
than be allowed to remove the
America’s Cup from Australia.
Stars 8c Stripes currently holds a
3-0 lead over Australian defender
Kookaburra III and needs only one
more victory in the best-of-seven se
ries to regain the Cup.
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