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Jerseyflagflap
Cager quits
over threats
SOUTH ORANGE, N.J. (AP) —
Marco Lokar could deal with the
booing and even the nastiness after
he decided not to wear the American
flag on his Seton Hall basketball uni
form. The threatening telephone
calls that upset his pregnant wife
were another matter.
On Wednesday, Lokar quit the
basketball team, withdrew from Se
ton Hall and announced plans to re
turn to his native Italy.
“The consequences of my decision
have been quite surprising to me,”
Lokar said in a statement released by
the school. “I have received many
threats, directed both toward me
and my wife, Lara, so that our life
has become very difficult here.
“In order to complete her preg
nancy in tranquility and peace
(which is more important than any
thing else to us) we have decided to
return to our hometown, Trieste,”
said Lokar, who was not available to
comment on the statement.
Coach P.J. Carlesimo and athletic
director Larry ' Keating expressed
sorrow that the flag flap prompted
the sophomore guard to leave
school, but said he would be wel
come to return next year. The schol
arship remains intact, they said.
“It’s very disappointing and sad
that the circumstances evolved and
he has to go back,” Carlesimo said
Wednesday. “It’s sad that he can’t
stay here and do what he wants to do
because of concerns for the child.”
The controversy surrounding Lo
kar had its roots in a decision by 12
members of the team in mid-January
to put U.S flags on their uniforms.
Only Lokar, one of three foreigners
on the team, refused.
‘‘From a
Christian stand
point I cannot
support any
war, with no ex
ception for the
Persian Gulf
War,” Lokar
said in his
statement. “I have heard many peo
ple saying that the flag should be
worn in support of the troops and
not in support of the war.
“This is a foolish argument. The
troops are in the gulf fighting a
war!”
Lokar’s refusal to wear the flag
went unnoticed for four games, two
of which he played in a substitute
jersey after his was stolen.
People seemed to notice the flag’s
absence on his uniform on Jan. 29 at
Providence.
Stories were written, and Lokar
said only that, it was a personal deci
sion.
The flag flap escalated just before
the Feb. 2 game against St. John’s at
Madison Square Garden in New
York City.
The night before the game, Carle
simo said Lokar got a telephone call
from his wife, saying that she had
been receiving threatening calls.
The following day at the game,
Lokar was heckled in warmups and
on the bench.
When he got into the game, he
was booed every time he touched the
ball.
Lokar has averaged just 3.1 points
per game.
Lokar made the trip with the Pi
rates to Pittsburgh two days later,
but did not play.
Carlesimo said there was no heck
ling.
The telephone calls to his home
continued, and Lokar last Wednes
day asked Carlesimo for time to con
sider his options.
He did not attend recent practices
or either of the teams’ last two
games.
“This hasn’t been something off
the top of his head,” Keating said.
“Some kids do that. Not Marco. This
is something consistent with his phi
losophy. It doesn’t surprise me.”
“I know the team supports Mar
co’s right to make a stand,” Carle
simo said. “I know they believe in
Marco’s sincerity. I believe they will
support his decision.”
Texas inks
Palmeiro
ARLINGTON (AP) —The Texas
Rangers reached agreement Tues
day with first baseman Rafael Palm
eiro on a one-year contract worth
$1,475,000, avoiding an arbitration
hearing scheduled on Friday.
Palmeiro had asked for 11.6 mil
lion and the Rangers had offered
$1.15 million. The raise more than
quadruples Palmeiro’s salary last
year of $345,000.
The 26-year-old batted .319 last
year with 14 home runs and 89 RBls
in 154 games. Palmeiro, the Rangers
Player of the Year in 1990, led the
American League with 191 hits and
136 singles and tied for eighth in
RBI.
Three Rangers remain eligible for
arbitration — third baseman Steve
Buechele and outfielders Pete Inca
viglia and Ruben Sierra.
Also Tuesday, the Rangers signed
rookie third baseman Dean Palmei
to a one-year contract. Palmer split
his time in the minor leagues Iasi
season, playing for Tulsa and Okla
homa City. Terms of the deal were
not disclosed.
With the agreement, the Rangers
have 21 of the 40 players on theit
major league roster under contract
for 1991.
Lendl outlasts France’s Raoux
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Rebound Ruckus
Lady Aggie forward Yvonne Hill fights for a rebound early in the
second half of Tuesday night’s 84-77 win over SMU.
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Top-
seeded Ivan Lendl outlasted a deter
mined Guillaume Raoux of France
6-1, 7-5 Wednesday in the $1 million
U.S. Pro Indoor tennis tournament.
After winning the first game of
the match and then losing six
straight, Raoux made Lendl work to
win m straight sets and advance to
the third round.
Lendl said he was satisfied with
his start.
“Then later on I lost my rhythm,
so it was difficult for me,” Lendl
said.
Lendl served an ace to reach 5-4,
but lost the next game after holding
a 30-15 lead. In the 11th game,
Lendl served two aces to go ahead 6-
5. He lost one match point in the
12th game, reached another with an
overhead smash and won on Raoux’s
fifth double-fault of the match.
Earlier, MaliVai Washington up
set McEnroe’s brother Patrick, the
No. 16 seed, 6-0, 6-3 to advance to
the third round. Washington will
play defending champion Pete Sam
pras on Thursday.
Patrick McEnroe had earned a
wild-card entry after reaching the
semifinals of the Australian Open.
In third-round matches, ninth-
seeded Petr Korda of Czechoslova
kia defeated Wayne Ferreira of
South Africa 7-5, 7-6 (7-3); Aki Ra-
hunen of Finland defeated Jim
Grabb 6-7 (3-7), 6-1, 6-3; and Kevin
Curren upset llth-seeded Darren
Cahill of Australia 6-7 (7-9), 6-3, 7-6
(7-2).
Korda won his first set after trail
ing 1-3. He ended the match by win
ning the final three points in the tie
break.
Rahunen broke Grabb’s service in
the third set for a 5-3 lead, then
served out the match as Grabb hit a
forehand long.
Curren recovered from a first-set
loss to outlast Cahill in a closelv
fought display of placement shots
and well-angled volleys. Cahill’s dou
ble-fault ended the match after he
had fought off one match point.
In other second-round matches
Wednesday, seventh-seeded Michael
Stich of Ciermany defeated Cristiano
Caratti of Italy 6-2, 6-4 and 14th
seeded Paul Haarhuis of the Nether
lands defeated Udo Riglewski of
Germany 6-1,6-3.
Hoops coach overcomes injury
GRAPELAND, Texas (AP) —Think of Chuck Daly,
Bob Knight and Chuck Bailey.
All are basketball coaches. All have won coveted
championships in their respective leagues. They all
work the summer camp circuit.
Daly has seen his team win two NBA championships,
while four of Knight’s teams have won NCAA tourna
ments. Bailey is known throughout this state’s coaching
ranks for his 1989 Class 2A girls championship team.
Which one’s coaching style this season could be con
sidered the most unconventional?
Daly and Knight stalk the sidelines and the officials,
sometimes standing eye to eye with referees to make a
point about a foul call.
Bailey stalks the sidelines and the officials, sometimes
rolling onto the court during a timeout to make a point
about a foul call.
He used to long for the return of the six-foot coach
ing box in front of the bench. Now he looks for gyms
with ramps and wide sidelines.
Your perspective changes when you coach high
school basketball from a wheelchair.
It’s been six months since a car wreck sent Bailey into
a different world, where movements that once were
taken for granted now have become gauges of success.
The wreck caused partial paralysis. It claimed his ability
to walk and weakened his ability to write, but opened a
world of.friends and support he never expected.
“Weight, to me, is a heavy Texas history book, where
it used to be 150 and 200 pounds,” Bailey said. “Im
provement, to me, is small twinges and twitches that
were not there before.
“I guess the most upbeat thing is in every facet of life,
my dealings with tuc '■ommunity, the school, the stu
dents and the athletes are upbeat. Everybody is glad I’m
back, glad to help. All the barriers m fr^nt of me here,
they’ve removed them all. It’s made this a lot easier.”
This’ is Bailey’s return, not just to the gym but to tne
classroom and to the home he shares with his wife, Ra
mona, and their two young daughters.
He still commutes to Tyler three times a week for
therapy, with the help of his wife and friends from the
community who volunteer to drive him there. He has
also returned to the classroom to teach Texas history
and to the gym to coach the Grapeland Sandietles.
Teaching history is not much different than before,
he said, despite his limited hand use. Lectures are still
standard fare, and the students still help grade each
other’s homework, which Bailey then records. A stu
dent aide also helps with some of the grading, he said.
“The use of my legs has limited me, but the use of my
arms has limited me more,” he said. “Things slow
down. I’ve gotten the ability to write left-handed, but
it’s still slower.”
The biggest adjustments have come in the gym.
Bailey can no longer grab a basketball and show a
player how to post up for a rebound, how to put the
proper spin on a crisp bounce pass, how to dribble be
tween the legs to evade a defender.
Now his assistant coaches — Felicia Meador and Nat
alie Ferrell —have become those arms and legs.
“Everything coaching-wise has taken on a different
perspective,” Bailey said. “Instead of being a demon
strator, I have to verbalize more. It’s more visualization
(for the players). You have to discuss more. Natalie and
Felicia have become my legs.”
Getting around to ball games and navigating his elec
tric wheelchair into and around the gyms have brought
support from the team’s parents and fans, who take
turns shuttling him to and from the games and therapy
And in the Grapeland gym, the school board installed a
new door from the gym floor to the coach’s office last
week, allowing Bailey easy access to practices.
The hardest thing to take this season, he said, has
been the team’s off year. Instead of contending for the
District 23-2A title and anticipating playoff action, Bai
ley’s team has struggled. But the future outlook is
bright, he said, since most of his players are freshmen
and sophomores getting their first real taste of varsity
ball.
“I’d give anything to have an outstanding season, but
this is just a year in transition,” Bailey said. “Future-
wise, we’re very positive. Our younger kids are doing
well. Our junior varsity is 14-3. Our young kids are
gaining experience. We just lack experience and we
lack heighth. We may not be doing so well, but our kids
are outstanding people.”
Opposing coaches haven’t noticed much difference
in Bailey’s style.
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