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6 SPORTS
Thursday, July 7, 2003 THE BATTALION
Parcells: time for Ekuban
to live up to potential
By Stephen Hawkins
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SAN ANTONIO — Ebenezer
Ekuban’s talk with Bill Parcells
was short and simple. The mes
sage from the coach was clear.
The Dallas Cowboys expect
Ekuban, their right defensive
end and former No. 1 pick, to
have more quarterback sacks. He
had just one last season.
“He sees ability, so he’s just
trying to tweak some things so I
can get to the quarterback,”
Ekuban said. “He’s always scru
tinizing and never satisfied, so
every day you’re learning.”
Parcells likes the potential he
sees in the 6-foot-3, 265-pound
Ekuban, who has always relied
on his speed to get around block
ers, most bigger than him. But
that is not enough anymore.
“Basically what I’ve seen is a
little bit of a one-dimensional
rusher kind of guy. He just needs
to get a little more versatility in
the package,” Parcells said. “He
does have the acceleration and
speed to be successful, if he can
just mix up his technique
enough.”
Parcells insists he didn’t
know that Ekuban was the
team’s No. 1 pick in 1999. But
the new coach was very aware of
that single sack last season,
which put Ekuban in a group of
just five starting defensive ends
in the NFL with one or no sacks.
And that lone sack came in
the season opener against the
expansion Houston Texans, who
went on to allow a record 73
sacks. Ekuban may have set
career highs of 43 tackles and 20
quarterback pressures last sea
son, but the sack total was disap
pointing.
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— Ebenezer Ekuban
Cowboys defensive end
“It matters to me. I’m a
defensive end and that’s what
I’m here for,” Ekuban said.
“Everything matters to me, the
way I play the run, the amount of
times I get to the quarterback. I
look at ways to get better and
I’m the hardest critic of myself.”
Parcells told Ekuban to set
his goals high, and to work on
his counter moves. At some
point during camp, once things
settle a bit and a few players
have been cut, the coach plans to
work individually with Ekuban.
“It’s encouraging to know you
have a coach who is going to be
working with you and sees posi
tive things from you,” Ekuban
said. “It’s encouraging that he
has the patience to see me devel
op into a football player.”
After playing all 16 games as
a rookie in 1999, starting the last
two after Greg Ellis broke his
leg, Ekuban led the Cowboys
with 6 1/2 sacks the next season
despite playing primarily in a
reserve role and missing four
games because of big toe injur)'.
Ekuban started the 2001 sea
son opener, but played only in
the first half against Tampa Bay
before a herniated disk in his
hack required surgery and forced
him to miss the rest of the year.
He then had to earn his starting
job back in training camp last
summer.
"Through even the bad
problems he had, he still was
getting some tackles and getting
some pressures on the quarter
back," said Ellis, also Ekuban’s
teammate at North Carolina and
drafted No. 1 by Dallas a year
earlier. “He still played hard. He
just wasn't hitting on all cylin
ders last year.”
Ekuban insists he’s not
dwelling on the past ups-and-
downs, or the fact that he is going
into the last year of his contract.
But his disappointments seem to
be a motivator for him.
“I am just out trying to make
amends for the past couple of
years when things haven’t gone
right and hopefully put every
thing together,” Ekuban said.
And that’s also what the
Cowboys want.
Better late than Bryant makes
never for new first court
Bucks coach appearance
By Arnie Stapleton
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ST. FRANCIS, Wis. — Terry Porter is finally
over the heartache of being bypassed by his home
town team in the NBA draft 18 years ago.
Now he’s coach of the Milwaukee Bucks.
“I’m glad they didn’t pass on me this time; ’85
was a tough year for me,” Porter said Wednesday at
his introductory news conference.
Porter replaces George Karl, who was fired on
July 20, and becomes the first black coach in fran
chise history.
After starring at Milwaukee South Division High
School and Wisconsin-Stevens Point, Porter was
hoping to be drafted by the Bucks in 1985.
He even spent the evening as their guest at the
club’s draft headquarters at the Milwaukee Arena.
But coach Don Nelson selected LSU’s Jerry
Reynolds instead and Portland grabbed Porter two
spots later with the 24th pick.
He starred for a decade with the Trail Blazers,
becoming their career assists leader before stops at
Minnesota, Miami and San Antonio before retiring
in 2002.
Through it all, he never forgot that awful night in
1985.
“It always stuck me,” Porter said. “Whenever 1
see Nelson and guys who were on that staff, I always
give them a little jab: ’Hey, you guys passed up on
me.’ I always say that. Growing up in this town and
being a part of the draft day and then not get draft
ed, it was disappointing
“But I look forward to being a big part of the
organization now.”
Sen. Herb Kohl had just bought the team when
the Bucks passed on Porter the player.
“It’s nice that you guys didn’t pass up on me this
time,” Porter said he told Kohl after getting the
coaching job.
Kohl gladly welcomed Porter to the Bucks this
time.
“We are really very pleased that a man from our
community has gone out and been a big success and
now is coming home to provide that kind of leader
ship to our organization,” Kohl said.
“It was just a matter of great coincidence but also
great fortune for us that the best-qualified candidate
was also the guy from our own community.”
Porter, 40, worked last season as an assistant with
the Sacramento Kings, his first season in coaching
after a 17-year playing career.
“He is a proven winner in the NBA who played
the game with dignity, confidence and intensity,
skills that will translate directly to the improvement
of our team,” general manager Larry Harris said.
Bucks hire Milwaukee native Porter
Milwaukee native Terry Porter, who played 17
seasons in the NBA, was named as the new coach
of the Bucks.
AGE 40
NBA PLAYING
CAREER Portland Trailblazers
Minnesota Timberwolves
Miami Heat
San Antonio Spurs
PLAYING CAREER
HIGHLIGHTS Two-time NBA
All Stan Portland’s all-time assists
leader (5,319)
Porter
COACHING
CAREER Sacramento Kings
COLLEGE University of
PERSONAL Wife, Susie,
AP
By Tim Dahlberg
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
EAGLE, Colo. — NBA superstar Kobe
Bryant made his first appearance in court
Wednesday on a charge of sexually assaulting
a 19-year-old hotel worker.
Flanked by his attorneys, the 24-year-old
Bryant stood quietly as his attorneys waived
his right to be formally advised of the felony
assault charge. Judge Frederick Gannett seta
preliminary hearing for Oct. 9.
Bryant has said he had consensual sex
with the woman but is innocent of assault.
Bryant, who is free on $25,000 bond, said
virtually nothing during the seven-minute
hearing. He left the courthouse immediately
and was expected to leave Colorado soon
after the court appearance.
The hearing was held amid a media frenzy
akin to the NBA finals. Hundreds of reporters
and photographers swamped this quiet moun
tain town and the brief hearing involving the
five-time All Star was carried live on national
cable networks.
Bryant took a private jet to a nearby airport
and was driven to the Eagle County court
house in a sport-utility vehicle. There were
scattered cheers and a shout of “Kobe is inno
cent!” from the crowd after he arrived.
Bryant and defense attorney Pamela
Mackey both went through a metal detector
before they entered the courtroom.
Outside the courthouse, a small city of tel
evision satellite trucks was set up riexttoa
dozen or so platforms for live TV shots -
precisely the type of coverage Bryant hoped
to avoid when his attorneys asked Gannett to
allow the Los Angeles Lakers star to skip the
procedural hearing.
The judge denied the request, setting the
stage for the circus-1ike event.
SPORTS IN BRIEF
Kent drops appeal of two-
game suspension for pushing
HOUSTON (AP) — Astros second baseman Jeff
Kent has dropped his appeal of a two-game sus
pension he received for pushing team manager
Jimy Williams into an umpire, the team
announced Wednesday.
Kent, who was also fined an undisclosed
amount of money by Major League Baseball, will
miss Houston's games against the New York
Mets on Wednesday and Thursday at Minute
Maid Park.
Major League Baseball officials, who issued the
suspension on Tuesday, said Kent pushed
Williams into plate umpire Matt Hollowell while
objecting to being thrown out for arguing a
check swing strike call during the Astros' home
game July 26 against the Chicago Cubs.
Kent had initially decided to appeal the sus
pension and played in Tuesday night's lO-l loss
to the Mets.
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