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Gminski a gem in Philadelphia’s win
PHILADEJLPHIA (AP) — Mike
Gminski is accustomed to being
overshadowed by the NBA’s elite
centers, but that inspires him when
he faces a well-known pitvotman.
Gminski battled Akeem Olajuwon
on Tuesday night, scoring 16 points
and grabbing 15 rebounds as Phila
delphia won its eighth straight game,
133-112 over the Houston Rockets.
“I’m not in the echelon and a lot
of people seem to think I’ll get de
molished by those guys,” Gminiski
said. “No doubt, the incentive is
there when I play against them.”
Gminski said his strategy against
Olajuwon, who scored 19 points, was
to try to “get a hand in his face.”
“He’s very difficult to guard, and
he’s very effective with his turn
around jumper,” Gminski said.
Good defense and team rebounds
were crucial, both Philadelphia
coach Jim Lynam and Houston
counterpart Don Chaney said.
“Our fast break has really been
going well, and that’s mainly due to
the excellent rebounding,” Lynam
said.
Philadelphia, which hasn’t lost a
regular-season home game to Hous
ton since Jan. 2, 1974, outre-
bounded the Rockets 60-49. The
76ers improved their home record
to 32-5 while continuing their torrid
scoring pace — averaging 141 points
in their last three games.
“There’s no doubt Philadelphia is
playing very good basketball. We
had an awful first quarter, and that
hurt us. I think that was the biggest
factor,” Chaney said. “When you’re
on the road and up against a hot
team, you can’t play as poorly in the
beginning as we did.”
Philadelphia’s Charles Barkley
scored 26 points, including 14 in the
third period. Rick Mahorn added 23
points and Hersey Hawkins21.
Vernon Maxwell had 19 poiiv
for the Rockets, whose three-gain,
winning streak ended.
The 76ers led 70-64 five minuit
into the third period before Barklt
sparked a 12-4 surge for an 82-Jj
advantage. Houston got no dost
than 13 points thereafter.
The 76ers led by as many as i;
points in the first quarter, but 4
Rockets rallied behind Maxwell an;
tied the game at 39-39 on a layupt,
Mike Woodson with 6:17 left ini
second period.
Chambers heats
up as Suns blaze
past Mavericks
PHOENIX (AP) — Tom Cham
bers scored 34 points and Kevin
Johnson had eight of his 23 in the fi
nal 4:25 as the Phoenix Suns
avoided a second-half collapse to
beat the Dallas Mavericks 117-111
Tuesday night.
Mark West added 19 points, Ed
die Johnson 17 and Kevin Johnson
matched his season-high of 20 assists
as the Suns moved a half-game
ahead of San Antonio for fourth
place in the Western Conference
playoff seedings.
Dallas had its four-game road
winning streak halted despite Ro
lando Blackman’s 22 points.
Roy Tarpley had 21 points and
Derek Harper 20 for the Mavericks,
who trailed 99-88 with 9:30 to play
before closing to 103-101 on Black
man’s free throws with 4:41 left.
Kevin Johnson responded with a
layup with 4:25 left, a jumper with
3:10 remaining, a slam off a steal 24
seconds later and two free throws
with 1:53 showing for a 115-105
lead.
Chambers had 22 points in the
second half, including 12 in the
third period. Kevin Johnson’s assist
total was one off his career-high and
the club record he set against the Los
Angeles Lakers on Feb. 26, 1989.
Dallas, trailing 31-27 after West’s
13 first-quarter points, tied the game
at 31-31 on Bill Wennington’s layup
48 seconds into the second quarter.
Aging veterans finding life on
bubble hard after spring lockout
KISSIMMEE, Fla. (AP) — More than batting
practice and exercise, aging players looking for a job
need time in spring training.
Because of this year’s lockout, tim6 was too short.
Players like Joel Youngblood, Joaquin Andujar,
Bill Buckner, Ken Griffey and Jim Lindeman ar
rived in Florida this year with no guarantees of a job
or playing time.
“This has been a very difficult situation,” said At
lanta manager Russ Nixon, who must decide if he
wants to keep 42-year-old Darrell Evans. “There just
was not enough time to see everybody and obviously
it’s more difficult for a non-roster player or rookie to
make the team.”
Don’t expect anybody to give up, though.
The 38-year-old Youngblood has been playing
professional baseball since 1970. He has gone from
young phenom to a spare part.
In Ins 14-year major league career, Youngblood
has played with six teams.
After playing 76 games for Cincinnati in 1989,
Youngblood filed for free agency and is now trying
to win a job with the Houston Astros.
There isn’t much Youngblood hasn’t seen, either.
On Aug. 4, 1982, he played for the New York
Mets in an afternoon game at Chicago and got a hit.
After the game, he was traded to Montreal for
pitcher Tom Gorman.
Youngblood joined the Expos in Philadelphia that
night for a game against the Phillies and also got a
hit.
“There have been a lot of times when I thought I
wasn’t wanted,” Youngblood said. “But baseball is
still fun for me and I think I can still contribute and
play well.”
Andujar, who played senior baseball, came to
West Palm Beach with hopes of playing with the Ex
pos.
But he’s been hit hard so far and his chances seem
slim.
“For some of the older guys it takes a little while to
get going,” Montreal manager Buck Rodgers said.
“Unfortunately, this year we just didn’t have time to
wait. Decisions have to be made starting now. A loi
of our younger pitchers have done better than 1 ex
pected.”
Griffey, who will be 40 on April 10, has played in
2,000 major league games and is ready for a few
more.
“People keep asking me about why 1 keep going,"
said Griffey, a .297 career hitter. “I’m not a .300 hit
ter anymore but 1 played in 106 games last season
and hit .263.”
Some of the players looking for jobs w ill certainly
be helped by the expansion of rosters to 27 until the
end of April.
“I suspect some players will win jobs because they
will prove they can add something in the extra time,”
Youngblood said.
Lindeman is only 28, but a series of back injuries
have put his career in jeopardy.
In 1986, he hit 20 homers with 96 RBls lor Class
AAA Louisville and seemed headed for a long ca
reer with the St. Louis Cardinals.
But Lindeman spent time on the disabled list each
of the last three seasons and was traded to Detroit in
December.
“Sparky (Anderson) is giving me every chanceand
that’s all 1 can ask,” Lindeman said. “Fourteen games
or so isn’t much time to prove anything.”
The 40-year-old Buckner really shouldn’t have to
prove anything.
In 20 seasons, he has 2,495 career hits and a .289
average. He played with Kansas City last year anti is
now trying to win a job with the Boston Red Sox.
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their pump and double-pump
dunks. If that wasn’t enough
excitement for you, the treys were
falling out of the sky like bombs
from a B-52, piloted by UNLV’s
Anderson Hunt in the second half.
Duke was slow out of the starting
blocks and looked intimidated on
the court. It took the Blue Devils
forever to realize that getting the
ball down inside the paint was going
to be the key to a close game.
But were they able to execute?
Well, sort of.
Duke’s point guard Bobby Hurley
went inside to his two big men
Christian Laettner and Alaa
Abdulnaby and they started to
produce points. The problem was
Hurley failed to do it sooner during
the game.
The end result — another NCAA
Championship loss for Duke.
I’m not blaming Duke’s loss on
Hurley. But I am crediting their loss
to the aggresive play by UNLV.
So Coach Jerry Tarkanian finally
won a championship game, and it
was a well deserved one at that. The
“shark” showed how bad he wanted
to win the National Championship
by traveling all across the nation,
prior to this past season, recruiting a
team to be reckoned with.
It was time and effort well spent
for UNLV fans. Especially with the
court battles between Tarkanian and
the NCAA for the past 15 years that
have been following the “shark”
since his coaching days at University
of Califonia-Santa Barbara.
Some people may say UNLV
shoots their mouth off and think
they’re God’s gift to NCAA
basketball. But the fact of the matter
is they are the champs and they can
do and say whatever they want.
After all, they were picked to win the
whole thing from the start of the
1989-90 college basketball season.
Can UNLV do it again?
Most of the players on UNLV’s
squad will return next year, so the
future looks bright for the
defending champs.
However, if March Madness lives
up to its reputation, UNLV could
have a harder time of repeating next
year. After all, the NUAA
Tournament has made big teams
look small and small teams look big.
Just ask (insert your favorite
Cinderella team of the 1989-90
season here).
Who knows? Maybe next year it
will be two new colors like the
flourescent green against the
flourescent orange.
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2:00 pm film: "The Times of Harvey Milk"
8:15 pm film: "Torch Song Trilogy"
Tuesday - 410 Rudder
2:00 pm film: "In the Best Interests of the Children"
8:30 pm GLSS meeting: Gay Culture presentations
Wednesday - 410 Rudder
2:00 pm film: "Rights and Reactions: Gay & Lesbian
Rights on Trial"
8:30 pm GLSS Speakers Bureau panel will talk
with the audience and answer questions
Thursday - 301 Rudder
11:00 am
film:
"Before Stonewall"
2:00 pm
film:
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8:15 pm
film:
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Friday - Research Park
noon
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LA’s Hershiser hoping
to recapture magic form
VERO BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Orel
Hershiser went from winning the Cy
Young Award in 1988 to a .500 re
cord last season.
The strange thing is that
Hershiser, who had a share of the
National League lead in losses, be
lieves he pitched better last year.
“In ’89, I think I gave the team a
better chance to win more games
than in ‘88,” he said. “The guy who
pitches the first day and gives up two
runs and loses 2-1, the guy who
pitches the next day and wins 3-2,
who’s the better pitcher?”
In 1988, Hershiser went 23-8 and
ended the season with 59 consec
utive scoreless innings, breaking
Don Drysdale’s record. A year later,
he was 15-15 for his third .500 sea
son in four years.
“Wins and losses can be deceiving,
but winning is an art, knowing when
to give up a run and when to pitch
your head off to try and keep the op
position from scoring,” Hershiser
said.
The 31-year-old Hershiser found
that even if he was able to keep the
opposition from scoring in manysii
nations last year, it didn’t do mud
good. That's because he often found
himseli pitching on days when tht
Dodgers’ offense was non-existent
The club scored 17 runs in the 1)
games he lost.
Beyond wins and losses, Hershis
er’s last two seasons were strikingit
similar. In 1988, his ERA was 2.26;
last year it was 2.31. He led thel
in innings pitched both years —wilt
267 in 1988 and 256 2-3 last year.In
1988, he walked 73; last year lit
walked 77. He appeared in 35gamtt
and had 178 strikeouts in both sea
sons.
“I think excluding the 59-inning
scoreless streak, you had a bettei
year last year than in ‘88,” teammalt
Tim Belcher told Hershiser.
“I think it was better than '88,
Hershiser said. “My ERA was onlt
live-hundredths of a run higherand
I didn’t have 59 scoreless. Fifty-nint
scoreless will bring your ERA wa;
down. 1 might have been the firsi
.500 pitcher to get a first-place Ct
Young vote.”
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