European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 22, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday january 22, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 25 mean Joe agrees bears defense Tough by Milton Rici Iman up senior editor sports now i ask you who s Gonna argue Wilh mean Joe Greene Abom politics religion or he Chicago dears. Or any thing  ids you know How he feels about Mike Dilka comparing the bears present defense with the pills Burgh Stecks celebrated steel curtain mentioning the two in the same breath mind you and you Don t argue Wilh Joe Greene you just listen to what he says. You go along Wilh the flow give him the Benefit of the doubt. Even if you disagree. As big and Strong is he is you Don t go poking your in Ger in his Chest. Would you believe five years already have gone by since Joe Greene pc cd off that Steric is Jersey of his for Good he can t remember the last time be picked up a football. Probably when he was Dusling off one of the game balls the Steric is gave him which he still has around the House. Anyway Joe Greene one of the greatest defensive tackles in the Steric is history a 10 time All pro and a keep coming Al you Force who supplied much of the Iron and manganese for the steel curtain has now heard where Dilka claims his defensive linemen Don t suffer by any comparison with the unit hat became so feared and famous in Pittsburgh. A lot of our people Maldi up with theirs the bears coach said. I think we can be close to what the steel curtain  that s How Ditka sees it. But i wondered what some Bouvet takes parpan slalom 1st cup win parpan Switzerland a Didier Bouvet the 1984 olympic Bronze medallist Mode Hii dream come True by tearing his lint world cup Victory end the first far France in More than a decade. Bouvet beat Ingemar Stenmark by .51 second in the two run special slalom pre venting the swedish Veteran from bettering his record of 80 world cup wins. A have dreamed of this Ever since a joined the circuit in 1980," the 25-year-old Frenchman said after the race. "1 think this confirmed my Bron at  his Best previous world cup showing was a fifth place last year at Park City Utah Gouvei the no. 23 starter was second in he first heal which went to Liechtenstein s Paul Frommelt by a comfortable ,67 mar Gin. Frommelt Winner of sunday s world cup slalom in Kitz Bushel appeared on his Way to an easy second straight Victory after bettering Bouvet s intermediate time in the second run. Then then hooked one of the last Gates and was out of the Competition. Switzerland s Thomas Buergler took third place also his Best Ever special slalom finish Yugoslavia s Joze Kruzak was fourth. The most impressive comeback came from Sweden s slalom world Champion Jonas Nilsson who wound up in fifth place with an explosive second heat Effort. His first run was put him Well Down in 23rd place. Defending world cup Champion Marc Girardelli of Luxembourg was one of the 36 one like mean Joe Greene had to say about that. So i got him in Duncanville Texas where lie owns a restaurant and risked Kim How he feels about Dills rating such relative Johnny come la Clys As Richard dem William the refrigerator Perry and the rest of the bears defensive line. Surprise. Greene goes right along with Dilka. I agree with him he a Iid. The bears defence is close to  How close that s hard to measure Greene said. We set the tone for our time. As Lime went on. The rules changed. Offensive linemen were allowed to extend their arms and open their hands. They were Able id hold und gel away Wilh it More and we weren t us Strong As we were earlier boy i Tell you 1 like the bears. They Gal u great scheme and some great people in it. They play aggressive defense and they look like they re having fun the dears offence right now is trying not 10 Hurt the defense. They re playing Safe and close to the  Dent is the one Greene has been watching a lot. He s great he marvels. Lining up Lis wide As he does he s very susceptible to the trap. He up s himself in a negative position and he overcomes it. That s what a lot of great players do. He must to very fast because he plays the run very Well and he also rushes Well  every year at this time Greene s adrenalin starts pumping. Mostly out of Habil. He played on four super bawl winners with the Steric is. The first time we went to the super bowl we were lining up in the Tunnel in Turunc Siu ilium before being introduced he remembers. The Vikings were there with us and were facing us but none of them was saying a Ward. Glenn Edwards one of our defensive backs tried speaking to some of their Guys but could t get any response. Finally he walked Over 10 the Biggum Minnesota player he could find arid said 10 Hirm Liu talc up big Fella this is Gonna be a to a go ii it was fur lie Vikings who were beaten. Ift it Greene is going Wilh the a cars in this one. Hut he does t think the patriots will Roll Over fur them 11 likes the bears by four.  while another former member of Pitts Burgh s steel curtain sees tic rears und patriots so close lie does t have a pick. I m real proud of both  while now vice presi Dent and Branch manager in Pittsburgh of a banking investment firm says. The hears lire very confident and Aren t afraid to Lei you know it. They re very Lough and seem to like being that  what about Ditka s comparison of the hears defense Wilh the steel curtain i think it s quite a compliment while says. To us. I think the bears defense their whup team in fact has a lot of qualities similar to what we had. When it comes to comparing them and us 1 can make a much fairer one after they be been to at iraqi iwo super bowls. But i think icy icon the right  n. Carolina clings to a Cage poll Lead a a Ohio France s Dodier Boutel ,., bests Ingemar Stenmark starters out of a total of 68 who dropped out because of a spill or a Gate error. Afler finishing a poor 33rd in Llie first heat Girardelli turned in the fastest intermediate time in the second before missing a Gate. Girardelli thus has finished Only one out of six slalom races this season. His coach and father Helmut Girardelli said his form bad suffered because of too much downhill racing. In the Overall world cup standings Girardelli remained in second place with 109 Points behind the 130 of Austria s downhill specialist Peter Wirnsberger. Stenmark who has won the world cup three times in his 12-year career moved up to third place Wilh 102 Points. By the associated press North Carolina which opened its new Arena with a three Point Victory Over Duke and followed that with a comeback two Point Road Victory Over  last weekend was the unanimous Choice Mon Day As the no. 1 team in the associated press College basketball poll. The tar heels 19-0, have been on lop of the poll in each of the regular season polls but this was their first week As a unanimous Choice. North Carolina received 1,240 Points from the nationwide panel of sports writers and broadcasters. Last season Georgetown was u Una i Mous no. 1 Choice six times and St. John s was unopposed far one week. Duke one of three teams to suffer its first loss of the season last week was Sec Ond in the voting Wilh 1,089 Points 20 More Ihnn Memphis slate 17-0, of the metro conference Georgia tech the third Atlantic coast conference team in the top four was next with 1,058 Points. Fifth ranked Oklahoma 17-0, had 997 Points just iwo More than Michigan which suffered its first de feat of the season last week 73-63 a Minnesota and fell from its no. 2 rank ing last week. Rounding out the top ten were Kan Sas 889 Points St. Johns 754, Syracuse 674, and Nevada Las vegas 669. North Carolina opened the 22,000-scat Dean Smith student activities Center saturday Wilh a 95-92 Victory Over Duke. The tar heels Ihnn travelled 10 Milwaukee for their nationally televised game at mar us cute sunday overcoming a nine Point deficit with Law minutes remaining to hold onto inc no. 1 spot. Syracuse fourth Lasi week dropped to ninth after losing a big Easi conference game to Georgetown 73-70, and n nation ally televised game at Louisville on sat urday 83-73. The orangemen. 13-2, had played Only one Road game this season be fore embarking on the treacherous Road rip last week. Kentucky 14-2, led the second ten As the Wildca is received just 10 Points less Shanno. 10 Nevada Las vegas. Following a Mucky were Georgetown. Louisville Louisiana stale Purdue. Notre Dame Bradley Alabama Birmingham Texas Elpaso and Virginia tech. Last week s second ten was Kentucky. Alabama Birmingham notre dump Louisi Ana slate Georgetown Virginia tech terns Elpaso. Louisville. Purdue and Grad icy. In addition to the acc s showing to other conferences had three members each in the top Twenty. The metro conference had no 3 Memphis slate. No. 13 Louisville and no. 20 Virginia tech while the big East was represented by no. 8 is. Johns no. 9 Syra Cuse and no 12 Georgetown. There were no new teams in the Tup Twenty although seven members of last week s poll suffered defeats last week. It officially recognizes lend no. I for 85 f own fun f api Ivan Lendl of Czechoslovakia on ,p�bofn8lly named world Champion for 198s by the International Tennis federation. I -.1 i my a Fie Ramov s sons Becker in player he is the first former it Junior Champion the title he held in 1978, to go on to became the senior world titlist. Lend will be guest of Honor when the presentation is made at the world champions dinner during the French championships in Paris from May 26 to june 8. Don budb.,. Ning up the decision to nominal Lendl As world Champion Immen Ted i do not Sec How you could fail to vote for Ivan. He won More tournaments 10 on More surfaces than anyone else. The records of other player do not even come close to Matching the great year he enjoyed during 1985." Trabert said Lendl s head to head record against the other top contenders underlined the fact that he was the Best player what impresses me most is the Way he has improved his game. He moves of much better than he used to has gained a great Deal of self Confidence and earned the right to be no. 1," Trabert said. Sedgman said he was disappointed the Stone faced czech did not have a better year in the Davis cup White Perry described him As a Workhorse who has tickled the things he needed to work on and really improved Over the last 12  but the panel also was critical of Lendl reminding him thai he had a responsibility to represent the game to the Public. We have been disappointed the panel said not Only by his announcement that he has decided not to play in the Davis cup during i98fi, but also by the negative severely critical comments about certain tournaments attributed to him