Monday, November 13,1989
The Battalion
Page 11
spt.
President:
‘No football
at Lamar?’
BEAUMONT (AP) — The
president of Lamar University
said he has discussed recently the
possibility of dropping football at
his school with some regents, but
stressed that no decision has been
made.
“We haven’t even done the fi
nancial analyses yet,” said Lamar
President Bill Franklin.
Lamar System Chancellor
George McLaughlin announced
earlier that he plans to recom
mend the board of regents move
to drop football unless $400,000
in donations can be raised.
Two former presidents of the
Cardinal Club, the school’s ath
letic booster organization, an
nounced Saturday that they have
begun collecting money to meet
McLaughlin’s challenge.
One of the two men, Charlie
Gibbs, said paid attendance at La
mar football game brings in less
than $ 1,000 a game. The team is
averaging 6,911 home attendance
this season.
“Things are not really turning
around,” Gibbs said. “I don’t
think that if we raise the
$400,000, it will rectify the pro
gram, just prolong it.”
Lamar has been an indepen
dent since dropping out of the
Southland Conference three
years ago. This season, the Cardi
nals are 4-5, following a 42-33
loss Saturday night at the Univer
sity of Southwestern Louisiana.
All Pistons not firing
after 2-3 road swing
PRE-THANKSGIVING
SUPER SAVINGS FOR ALL SPORTS
MIAMI (AP) — The Detroit Pis
tons flew home Sunday after a road
trip that Chuck Daly described as
their worst in his seven years as
coach.
“By far,” Daly said. “We’re strug
gling, and we’ll keep struggling until
we get back the killer instinct.”
The defending NBA champions,
2-3 on the trip, blew an 11-point
fourth-quarter lead Saturday night
against Miami and lost 88-84.
The Pistons also lost at Indiana,
where they scored only 74 points,
and at Chicago. Their third defeat
came 18 days earlier than last sea-
“We’ve got great talent,” guard
Isiah Thomas said. “But right now
we’re not a good basketball team.”
On Saturday, the Pistons played
like an expansion team, while the
second-year Heat played liked
champs. Miami rallied from a 76-65
deficit with nine minutes left, then
hit six consecutive free throws in the
final 62 seconds to pull away from
an 82-82 tie.
“This was the best win in team his
tory,” said Coach Ron Rothstein, a
former Detroit assistant. “We have
played this year better than I
thought we were capable of play
ing.”
Second-year players Rony Seikaly
and Kevin Edwards led Miami with
21 points apiece. Seikaly said the
game was one the Heat (2-4) would
not have won last season.
“No way. We’re a much better
team than we were a year ago. We’re
more mature, and we’re learning
how to play with each other,” he
said.
“We cherish every win as we go
along, but this one is sweeter than
any other, because the Pistons are
We’re struggling, and
we’ll keep struggling until
we get back the killer
instinct.”
— Chuck Daly,
Pistons coach
the best team in the NBA.”
The league’s best team wouldn’t
miss 17 of its final 21 shots, as De
troit did Saturday. Thomas and Joe
Dumars were the only Pistons to
score in the final nine minutes.
Center James Edwards missed two
free throws with two seconds left
when Detroit trailed 86-84. He
missed all seven of his field-goal at
tempts and has hit only five of 24 in
the past four games.
The Pistons were also hurt in the
fourth quarter by forward Mark
Aguirre’s wild 3-point attempt and
errant behind-the-back pass.
iewing in the NFL a job for her
96-year old mends Bears’ uniforms after games
I CHICAGO (AP) — Rose Ficarelli’s concern with the
Khicago Bears is not whether they win or lose, but how
badly they rip their uniforms.
I Mrs. Ficarelli — still working full time at 96 — mends
; the team’s shirts and pants after every game.
I “Oh, they were terrible,” she said after Sunday’s
;ame against Green Bay. “All kinds of rips and tears . . .
specially in the shoulders. When they fall down, they
eem to throw themselves onto one shoulder, so you get
his.”
■ She held up Tom Thayer’s game jersey, full of
stitches and alterations.
“Look how heated up it is,” she said. “Some of the
guys are so superstitious they’ll wear a shirt until it falls
|>ff.”
| Mrs. Ficarelli works with an old Singer sewing ma
chine at the All American Co. athletic equipment recon
ditioning plant in suburban Franklin Park, peering
through black spectacles with jewel inlays. She has been
sewing team uniforms since 1938, and repairing Bears
jerseys since 1951.
| “By the end of the year I say sometimes that it’s just
my stitching that holds them together,” she said.
Even though Mrs. Ficarelli is doubtless among the
oldest full-time workers in the United States, “her at
tendance record is better than anyone’s,” said her boss,
Ray Gluss. “We’ve practically got to chase her to get her
out of here.”
The company employs 30 and serves dozens of high
school and college teams. But Mrs. Ficarelli takes pri
mary responsibility for the Bears’jerseys.
When the plant was in Chicago, players used to drop
by, and Mrs. Ficarelli would write inspirational notes
and stuff them inside the jerseys.
“I’d put, ‘Take care, don’t get hurt, I hope my pray
ers will be answered this week,’ things like that,” she
said.
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sonal contact ended and she stopped writing the notes.
On her recent birthday, however, she visited Halas Hall
at the Bears’ training camp.
“This is me with Richard Dent,” she said, pulling out
a photograph of her talking to the defensive end from
her black, snap-close purse.
“I’m telling him to stop tearing his shirt,” she said.
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