Monday - July 28, 1997
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Steelers stomp Bears
in American Bowl
DUBLIN, Ireland (AP) — In the sto
ried home of Gaelic football and hurl
ing, the Pittsburgh Steelers defeated
the Chicago Bears 30-17 Sunday be
fore 30,269 mostly baffled fans.
The first NFL game played in Ire
land — an American Bowl exhibition
aimed at promoting the game abroad
—drew a crowd that was smallerthan
the throng of 38,000 that attended a
college game here eight months ago
between Notre Dame and Navy.
Half of those were Americans who
made the trip, and this time the lo
cals had to fill most of the seats.
They saw the Steelers looking much
sharper than the Bears in the first
preseason game for each team.
Kordell Stewart, who is taking over
as the Steelers’ No. 1 quarterback af
terbeing a multi-purpose threat at sev
eral positions, was almost perfect right
from the start. He engineered two
scoring drives in the first quarter —
the only one he played — to help Pitts
burgh to a lead it never relinquished.
Astros, Bagwell beat
up on Expos, 7-2
HOUSTON (AP) — Mike Hampton
earned his fifth victory this month and
Sean Berry homered and tripled to ex
tend his hot streak as the Houston As
tros upped their winning streak to nine
games by beating Montreal 7-1 Sunday.
Hampton (8-7) won for the sixth
time in seven de- p
cisions and I;
pitched his j
fourth complete p
game in his last I
six starts. He i
scattered eight |
hits and struck
out six without
walking a batter. [
Berry hit his Bagwell
eighth homer of
the season in the second for a 1-0 lead.
He also drove in two more runs with a
triple to deep center field in the sixth.
Houston never trailed after an RBI
groundout by Jeff Bagwell made it 2-
lin the third.
Derek Bell and Bill Spiers had
RBI singles in the Astros’ five-run
sixth inning.
Expos starter Jim Bullinger (6-10)
allowed eight hits and seven earned
runs over 5 1-3 innings.
Erickson blanks
Twins in Orioles win
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Scott Erick
son pitched a five-hitter for his first
shutout since 1995 Sunday, and the
Baltimore Orioles got three-run
homers from Geronimo Berroa and
BJ. Surhoff in a 9-0 win over the Min
nesota Twins.
Erickson (13-5) set a season-high
with nine strikeouts and walked
^Inone. It was his 10th career shutout
and first since blanking Toronto on
Sept. 27,1995.
With his first complete game this
season, the right-hander improved to
3-0 in three starts against his former
team this year.
The Orioles have won five of six
and now lead the second-place New
York Yankees by 5 1/2 games in the
H East.
Jones says Cowboys,
El Paso have a future
Dallas owner wouldn’t comment about when union would occur
Photograph: Associated Press
Cowboys wide receiver Michael Irvin works out with the
team last year. The Cowboys may cement their relationship
with El Paso soon.
EL PASO (AP) — The Dallas Cowboys’
relationship with El Paso, a town that
seems to love them even through the
tough times, is just in its infancy, said
team owner Jerry Jones.
But Jones wasn't saying what kind of
eventual union he had in mind as he stood
on the Sun Bowl turf Saturday while his team
prepared to take the field for a controlled
scrimmage against the San Diego Chargers.
The civic leaders who organized the
game, the centerpiece of a daylong par
ty for the city’s football fans, hope to
eventually bring an exhibition game or
a week of training camp to El Paso.
Jones seemed to suggest the organiz
ers had scored by drawing more than
40,000 people Saturday to what turned
out to be a Cowboys 9-3 victory. A sellout
crowd of 51,118 attended the 1996 scrim
mage against the Houston Oilers.
“This is a phenomenal thing,” Jones
said. “It gets the job done in a way that it
needs to to influence my future decisions.”
Just what fans
hoped to hear.
“This is a nice way
of sending Jerry Jones a
message that El Paso is
supporting the Cow-
hoys,” said Mike Ad- p f ^***;
jemian, who was
among the many self-
proclaimed diehards
who paid between $10 Jones
and $110 to attend.
“I think we should have more,” added
Julian Flores. “It’s fun just to see them. If
the Cowboys came here to warm up I’d
bet they’d fill half the stadium.”
That remains to be seen. Ticket sales
were slower this year despite a post-game
concert and other events added to the
evening. Event organizers acknowledged
that was likely because some of the nov
elty had worn off. But they said they
weren’t disappointed.
Jones said much the same.
“I don’t know how you get disappointed
whenyousee something happening that has
never happened (before) in the NFL,” he said.
Coach Barry Switzer said the game
had been good for the team, which is try
ing to get back on track for another Super
Bowl run after a subpar 1996 season.
Tight end Eric Bjornson agreed.
“I think it was good we had the oppor
tunity to go against someone else after
going against each other (in practice) all
week,” he said.
Oilers enjoying honeymoon in Tennessee
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Eddie George
took a short swing pass from Steve McNair
and trotted into the end zone. From the
stands came a burst of applause punctuated
by a high-pitched chant.
“Edd-ie! Edd-ie!” the kids shouted.
George had scored a meaningless touch
down during a goal-line drill on the Ten
nessee Oilers’ third day of training camp at
Tennessee State University last week.
But the kids from the Maury County YMCA
watching from the Hale Stadium stands did
n’t care. They were watching a pro football
practice and they were cheering their new
hometown heroes.
“Now Tennessee is real famous for some
thing besides Saturn,” said one of the pack,
12-year-old David Henson, whose father
works at the General Motors’ Saturn plant in
Spring Hill.
“I just moved back up here from At
lanta,” said Jim Walter, sweltering in the
stands with 14-year-old son Jimmy. “So I’m
not used to having a professional football
team in town.”
Walter said he never liked the perennial
loser Falcons and has followed the Dallas
Cowboys. But the Oilers and their enthusi
asm toward fans have him interested.
“These guys have done it right, coming
up into the stands and all that,” he said.
“Their PR has been excellent.”
Hundreds of fans have turned out for
each of the Oilers practices in their new
home state, an enthusiasm returned by the
team. It’s been easy so far, of course — the
Tennessee Oilers are undefeated and un
tied, and there is not yet enough familiarity
to breed any contempt.
After a lame-duck season in Houston be
fore small crowds — the Oilers responded
with a 2-6 home record in their last year in
the Astrodome — this is a pleasant honey
moon.
“It’s been great,” said McNair, the third-
year quarterback being handed the reins this
Now Tennessee
is real famous for
something besides
Saturn.”
David Henson
12-year-old
season. “The fans are taking us in just like
we’ve been here for years. I really appreciate
that.”
Jason Layman, a second-year player from
Tennessee, has seen firsthand how enthusi
astic football fans in the state can be. He
played before 95,000 of them every Saturday
in college.
“If there’s 60,000 people in the stands this
season that’s a big difference from 25,000 we
had last year, and half of those were cheering
for the other team,” he said.
After years of pursuing major league sta
tus in something besides music, Nashville has
arrived as a pro sports town.
“I think the community and the state
are excited about [the Oilers] being
here,” said James Figueroa, a 26-year-old
high school teacher and football coach
from Clarksville.
Coach Jeff Fisher sent some of his veterans
into the stands on the first day of practice to
meet fans and sign autographs.
Pro football hall
gets its Fab Four
CANTON, Ohio (AP) — Paul
Tagliabue had it exactly right: This
year’s inductees into the Pro Foot
ball Hall of Fame represented the
best of coaching, ownership and
on-field performance.
In Don Shula, the Hall got the
winningest coach in NFL history
— 347 victories with a .660 win
ning percentage. In Wellington
Mara, it honored an owner whose
roots date to the league’s pioneer
days. In Mike Webster and Mike
Haynes, Canton saluted the epito
me of offensive and defensive skill.
“They make a dream frontline
and today is the culmination of their
dreams,” the NFL commissioner
said Saturday at the ceremonies
welcoming the latest Hall of Earners.
For Shula, it was the culmina
tion of a 67-year journey that took
him some 70 miles from the Ohio
town of Grand River on Lake Erie
to Canton and the highest honor
the sport offers.
While Webster called Shula “the
second greatest coach ever, but he
gave us the greatest coach in
Chuck Noll” — the Pittsburgh
Steelers center clearly is preju
diced in favor of his coach — it’s
hard to argue with the numbers.
And Shula certainly had the
numbers, particularly the career
victories and the perfect 17-0 sea
son in 1972 that seems more un
reachable every year.
“In today’s climate it would be
pretty tough,” he said when asked
if anyone will equal his achieve
ments. “There were 11 coaching
changes. If that continues to hap
pen, there is no way anyone will
hang around the way I did. If you
win early and often and build a
reputation as a winner, you have a
chance to stick around — unless
you have one losing season.”
Shula only had two of those. He
won two Super Bowls and brought
his teams to six of them. He knows
exactly why.
Cyclist gives race a German flavor
PARIS (AP) —A hero in his Black
Forest home and a champion along
the Champs Elysees, Jan Ullrich on
Sunday became the first German to
win the Tour de France since the cy
cling showcase began in 1903.
“I’ll never forget this day my en
tire life,” he said. “A dream from my
youth was fulfilled.”
Before several hundred thou
sand cheering fans on a bright, sun
ny day, he rode into Paris with the
leader’s yellow jersey to finish the
21-stage, 2,455-mile race.
He ended 39th for the day, the
same time as the rest of the pack,
but his work in this grueling three-
week test had been done well before
“Unbelievable,” Ullrich said. “I’m
overjoyed because I was afraid of
crashing up to the last meter.”
In only his second Tour de France
— he was second in 1996 — Ullrich
finished 9 minutes, 9 seconds ahead
of Richard Virenque of France, the
largest victory margin since Laurent
Fignonwonby 10:32 in 1984.
The 23-year-old German is the
eighth youngest winner, younger
than five-time winners Bernard
Hinault and Miguel Indurain when
they won the first time. The late
Jan Ullrich wins
Tour de France
Jacques Anquetil, another five-time
champion, was only a month
younger than Ullrich.
Ullrich had been wearing the
leader’s yellow jersey since the 10th
stage of the race, taking over the lead
on the second day in the Pyrenees
mountains in the south of France.
Ullrich, who earned $360,000 for
the victory, said he will cherish two
memories in particular.
“The first was the victory in the
Pyrenees, the second was putting
on the yellow jersey for the first
time,” he said.
Ullrich, bom in the former East Ger
many, was the 1993 world amateur
road champion. He moved to Merdin-
gen, a small town near the French bor
der, in 1994 after turning pro.
In Merdingen, television cover
age of the final day of the race was
shown on a big screen during the lo
cal club’s soccer game.
Fans packed the town’s restau
rants and free beer flowed as the
I’ll never forget
this day my entire
life. A dream from
my youth was
fulfilled.”
Jan Ullrick
German cyclist
party, expected to last well into the
night, got rolling.
Ulrich’s fans, including his moth
er Marianne, traveled to Paris and
waved banners and German flags
on the Champs Elysees. The Ger
man national anthem was played as
Ullrich moved up a step on the
podium from last year.
In 1996 Ullrich was second by a
little more than a minute to
Telekom teammate Bjarne Riis,
who finished seventh this year. This
time, Riis and the other Telekom
team rode to protect Ullrich’s lead.
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To the staff of the Plasma Center,
I would like to start by saying thank
you to each and every employee for making the
past three years enjoyable in a professional,
efficient and courteous environment. As a
donor since 1993, I have been more than satis
fied with every aspect of your operation, which
allows myself and others to contribute what we
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Everyone at the Plasma Center, from those
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as well as keeping the atmosphere light.
Like most, I started coming to the
Plasma Center for monetary reasons, but I
soon developed acquaintances that appealed to
me almost as much as the original need for
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