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Wolf pack rocked by
point-shaving allegation
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North
Carolina State coach Jim Valvano
and two former players denied alle
gations Wednesday of point-shaving
in a basketball game against Tampa,
a smaller, unranked school, in 1986.
The Greensboro News 8c Record,
quoting unnamed sources, reported
that a State Bureau of Investigation
probe centered on a Dec. 27, 1986,
game between then 12th-ranked
N.C. State and the Division II
school. The Wolfpack lost, 67-62.
William Dowdy, the SBI’s chief in
vestigator, acknowledged that the
agency was investigating the N.C.
State basketball program — already
on two years’ probation for NCAA
violations — and that part of the
probe would include the point-shav
ing allegations.
However, he added, “There was
no information to lead me to believe
there was any point-shaving.”
“I was never aware of anything
going on with point-shaving,” Vinny
Del Negro, now a guard with the
Sacramento Kings, said in a tele
phone interview from Miami. “I just
think we had a bad game.”
“I don’t know anything,” said
Bennie Bolton, another member of
the ’86 team, reached at his home in
Washington.
“I heard about it, yeah,” said Bol
ton, who has been playing in Austra
lia. “It was just a case of coming in
against a hungry team and we didn’t
play up to our capabilities.”
Valvano, who missed the game at
Tampa due to illness, said he never
suspected anyone of trying to throw
the game.
“If I had, I would have reported
it,” he said. “But I never reported it
because I never had a reason to.”
“I don’t know what to make of it,”
said Tampa coach Richard Schmidt,
whose 1986-87 team finished 26-6.
“If there was point-shaving going
on, why would it be against us?
There wasn’t even a line on the
game, at least not to my knowledge.”
Stockpiling pheasants
County flocking to
pheasant populating
VERNON (AP) — Lon Byars and
about 150 others want to establish a
pheasant population in Wilbarger
County. But they face a formidable
task.
Say “pheasant.” It’s a new word
for this North Texas county along
the Red River, and it doesn’t come
easily except for hunters who travel
elsewhere in search of the game. But
get used to it. The idea just might
fly.
Two years ago, Byars said, County
Judge Bobby Arnold and the county
agricultural extension agent got a
group of men and women together
to gauge their feelings on the mat
ter. Byars, a farmer, and about 60
others, including other farmers,
business owners, professionals and
homemakers, heard a man from
Tillman County, Okla., just across
the Red River, talk about efforts to
develop a pheasant population
there.
“He told us Tillman County alone
couldn’t start a pheasant population
in this area,” Byars said, “and that
the more pheasants you put out, the
better the chances would be.
“We’d been seeing some pheas
ants in the county that had migrated
from Tillman County,” Byars
added. “That aroused some interest.
We wondered where they were com
ing from. After he told us about
their program, the judge asked for a
show of hands to see if there was an
interest to start a program here.
There was definitely an interest.”
And the government’s involve
ment in the effort ended right there.
It just so happened that one of the
interested men was the county judge
and the other was the extension
agent. Since that meeting in Jan
uary, 1988, Greenbelt Pheasants Inc.
has been formed, thousands of pri
vate dollars have been donated and
thousands of birds have been re
leased.
Byars, president of Greenbelt
Pheasants, said that in 1988, about
15,000 ring-neck pheasants flew the
coops set up across the country in
abandoned houses, unused barns
and other structures donated by res
idents.
In 1989, about 14,000 birds — at
about $1 a bird — were released,
about 500 from each of 30 release
sites, Byars said.
At each site, the birds are hatched
in a 10-foot-by-20-foot brooder
house where they are kept until
they’re about 2 weeks old, Byars
said. Then the fledglings are let into
a 20-foot-by-75-foot net-covered
flight pen where they test their
wings.
“Then, at six to eight weeks of
age, depending on their maturity,
they’ll be released out of the pen,”
Byars said. “The gates are opened
and they’re allowed to venture out
on their own.”
Food and water are kept nearby,
he said. “After a week or so, few stay
around.
“We release them in all parts of
the county,” Byars said, “but we try
to release some in a habitat with
some type of feed grain and some
type of foliage cover.”
It’s a considerable amount of
work, and that’s what was lacking in
a previous effort to establish a
pheasant population here, Byars
said.
“(The Texas Department of)
Parks and Wildlife tried this same
thing,” he said. “They had game
farms in East Texas and they
brought them out here in coops and
released them.”
The failure might have been be
cause they were hatched in one envi
ronment and released in another; or
because the birds released were
fewer in number; or because the de
partment “didn’t want anyone to
know they were doing it,” Byars said.
But for whatever reason, the idea
was grounded from the start, he
said.
“By them not telling anyone they
were doing it, no one planted any
thing for the birds or left any hab
itat, any crops standing,” Byars said.
That may be part of the reason
Greenbelt Pheasants gets no state
support for the present project.
“In fact, we couldn’t even get any
encouragement from those people,
any indication that it would work,”
Byars said.
But members of Greenbelt Pheas
ants think the plan will work. Many
farmers, Byars said, are leaving
parts of their grain fields unhar
vested just for the birds. So they
hope that maybe the pheasants,
which aren’t native to the United
States and were introduced to the
plains of West Texas only in the
1880s, will stay around this time, es
pecially since so many are being re
leased in such a small area.
Why all the trouble? Pheasant
hunting, which the state allows as
close as Hardeman County to the
west, is a secondary goal, Byars said.
“We don’t promote hunting,” he
said. “If we do establish a population
here, then in the end there should
be a hunting season. But it was sold
basically on the aesthetics of the pro
gram. It’s going to enhance the qual
ity of all our wildlife — ducks, tur
key, deer. All wildlife will benefit
from that habitat.”
Byars said that at the end of this
year, the program will be evaluated
and its organizers will decide
whether to ask donors, who were
asked for only three years of involve
ment, to extend their support.
Right now, he said, the program
seems to be working.
Lehmann
(Continued from page 9)
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Money issue #4 is roster size.
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