European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 27, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday january 27, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 25 Bol called Best Blocker Ever Landover my. A link by Little so to speak minute Bol  becoming a Force in the National basketball association. After just half a season the 7-foot-7 Rookie of the Washington bullets already is being called he Best shot Blocker in league history. The superlatives flowed anew saturday night after Gol keyed a 111-103 Victory Over Trie Atlanta Hawks with 15 blocked shots a Tola exceeded on the All time Aba list Only by Elmore Smith s 17 blocks oct. 28,1973. Bol who once caused Atlanta Rookie Jon Koncak to stagger out of Bounds with the Ball after consecutive crushing blocks sat urday night also forced Many other shots to be altered harmlessly out of Range. He s the Busl Shol Blocker Ever said Washington coach gents Shuc. A contemporary of Bill Russell the halt of Famor whose shot blocking has been considered the measuring Standard for that special Lal eni. Coach Don Nelson of the Milwaukee Bucks who played on some great Boston celtics teams with Russell gave the same evaluation after Bol rejected a team record 12 shots in his first Aba Start dec. 12. Bat expected to be worked in gradually with the bullets after being drafted on the second round was forced into action after Center Jeff Ruland suffered a broken ankle Bone. Now with Ruland working out and expected Back shortly Shuc anxiously awaits the Prospect of having both players in the lineup at the same time. " it May Lake a couple of weeks for Jeff to get into the flow of the Jenme Shuc said. But once he does Well be great the bullets have a 12-10 record without Ruland the team Leader in scoring and re bounding when he was sidelined. Guard Frank Johnson also has out missing if games while recovering from a broken Bone in his left foot. Manuec is doing what i thought he could do. Once 1 got Over the idea that he could t play in the Aba said Shuc. I saw him twice in the summer league Shue said and i kept saying he can t play he Ean t play but he Kepi blocking i5 shots a game Bol s latest performance was timely since he is due to make an appearance on David Lel Tennan s tale night television show monday night. Shue said Bol is especially valuable be cause he keeps the Ball in play after the Blacks noting that players like Smith and Wilt Chamberlain swatted half of their blocks out of Bounds. Minute is athletic and he has Fine instincts Shue said. He also has Long arms. So he does t have to by tits his feet to Block shots. When he extends his arms Manuec can reach about 10-5 or 10-6," Shue said. That s quite an  Shue said he could understand he pre sent frustration of seven footers who had their Way under the Basket before Bol arrived in the Aba. It would have been like a coach telling to Post Bob pc tit a Ken i  said the 6-foot-3 Shuc. Referring 10 the former Aba scoring Champion. "1 would have thought the coach was crazy. But that s basically what it  Shuc said. Minute is seven inches taller than the players he plays  Bol lends the Aba with an average of 4.9 blocks per game although he has aver aged Only 23 minutes of action in the 41 games in which he has appeared. He s doing incredible things but Man ule has t arrived yet Shue said. He s going to improve on defense when he learns what the other players want to do. And he s going la improve on  Bol not involved in the bullets offensive patterns is averaging Only three Points per game. Bui it s of Little concern to the mild mannered native of Sudan. I feel like playing defense All the time and make someone miss a shot a said. Nil graduation rate Only 41% Dallas up four out of every 10 players in the nil have a College diploma a Dallas newspaper reported in its sunday edition. The Dallas times Herald said Only 41 percent of nil play ers have College degrees despite attending school for up to five years. The figure drops to 33 percent for Black players compared to 49.6 percent for Whites the newspaper reported the Chicago bears have a graduation rate of 51 percent to rank fifth in the league behind the Cleveland Browns 64.4 percent new York jets 61,6pittsburgh St Celers 56,6 and Minnesota Vikings 55.4. The new England patriots rank ninth from the Bottom with a 35.6 percentage. The Kansas City chiefs have the lowest graduation rate a 20.8 percent. Other teams with graduation rates below 30 percent Are the new York Gianu 21.b percent. New Orleans saints 24.1los Angeles raiders 25.0houston oilers 2b.6 and Green Bay packers 29.fi. To Schramm president and general manager of the Pallas cowboys who reported a graduation rate of 47 percent said the Tow figures were nol real surprising "1 know that you hear of players who say they Are going Back to school and a few do Schramm told the newspaper. But a Large number Don  former Washington redskins defensive Back Mark Murphy now assistant to the executive director of the nil players association speculated the 41 percent graduation Rale might be Loo  Hope your figure is right but i m afraid the information you re getting is when a player sits Down with the com s or department and fills out a Survey Murphy said. You Proba Bly have a situation in which a player does l want them to think he has t graduated and so he checks off graduated " Murphy estimated the graduation Rale among nil players was closer to 33 percent. The fact of the matter is that student athletes arc being cd plotted said Bob Malakoff of northeastern University s Center for the study of sport in society. They re being used to play basketball and football at big universities in big Arenas to make Money for the  Harvard athletic director Jack Cardon said that because of the financial Impact of College sports College president will nol support the reforms needed to improve athletes academic performance. What it suggests to me is that the Power of alumni and the Power of Money carry the Day he said. The times Herald found graduation Rales for schools in major conferences were Well below the nil average. The big eight Southeast and Pacific 10 conferences had graduation rates of 34 percent 34 percent and 38 percent respectively. Southwest conference athletes had a slightly better graduation Rale at 42.1 percent led by Rice at 75 percent Texas Christian at 77.8, Houston at 57.1 and Texas which has 37 former players on nil rosters Al 43.2 percent. California led All Stales with 235 Active nil players but the graduation rate was Only 32 percent. Texas was second with Iso players and a 39 percent graduation rate the newspaper reported. In contrast All 19 Ivy league athletes in the nil have undergraduate degrees and four have postgraduate degrees or Are working on them. The times Herald study was compiled from information in nil team Media guides. Information for 1985 rookies was omitted for some teams. Smith Harris Stewart spark comeback rams earn berth in Safe meet Pitburg a Germany the Ramstein rams overcame a 14-Point half time deficit to beat Camp new Amsterdam 87-75 sunday and Advance to the usant basketball tournament. Ramble in s Triumph came in a playoff game of the Continental sports conference Ken s basketball positional tournament. The Rel pro and wolfhounds had finished the round Robin portion tied with 3-2 re cords the Winner sunday was to join Posi Bionoi Winner Pitburg 5-0 and regular season Champion a Eft a Kenmi representatives in the Safe meet there Fra Stein which started the positional tourney 0-2, won its fourth straight behind the hot shooting of Herman Smith Slan Harris and Willie Stewart. Smith b 6-7 Center poured in in of his 22 paints in the second half. Harris hit 15 of his 17 Points in the second half and Stewart collected 12 of his 18 in the last 20 minutes. The rams needed that kind of offence because they trailed 38-24 at halftime. Then Ramstein the last Csc team to win Safe is years ago put the clamps on two wolfhounds Larry Wilson who fired in four 3-Poimcrs in the first half failed to score in the last half. Ronnie Rog ers Cna s 6-6 Center scored two Points in each half and fouled out with 7 minutes left. The rams clicked on their first seven shots of the second half to Cut heir Defi Cit to 40-38. Ray Young s Layup tied it 42-42, then Stan King s follow up gave Ramstein its first Lead 46-44 with 13 minutes left. With 9 30 left Ramstein had ripped off a 32-10 run to Lead 56-48. Butch Martin contributed is Points for Ramstein. Lee Mossey led Cna with 26 Points Ted Rice ail lit do 6, a photo Rosalth Steiner. Perfect second run Steiner triumphs in slalom St. Gervais France a Austri an skier Jaswitha Steiner won the women s world cup slalom event Here sunday Fin Ishing ahead of France s pc Rinc Pelen and Mateja Secl of Yugoslavia. Steiner s combined time Over the two runs was 1 minute 31.04 seconds. Pelen finished in 1 31.60. And Svel in 1 31.64. Steiner was fourth after the first run with a time of 45.66, behind Brigitte Orelli and Erika Hess of Switzerland and Svel and just .05 ahead of of clan and Maria Epple Buck of West Germany. La was the austrian s third world cup Vic tory of the season and the sixth of her career. I had a perfect second run said Steiner. "1 knew i was going to have a Good result  Pelen s second place finish .56 behind the Leader gave France its first placing in the top three this season. Pen fell she was not aggressive enough. I thought that i could win but i did not take enough risks she said. Then he said Hess and Oertli undoubtedly took Loo Many and fell. Hess fell just before the midpoint of the course. She also blew a Good Opportunity to amass More Points to preserve her first place in the Overall world cup standings after her 15th place in saturday s super Ginny at Meg eve. Ortli. Who had nipped Hess by .01 in the first run missed the fast two gales. Men s meet postponed St. Anton Austria a organizers called off the Kandahar world cup men s downhill scheduled for sunday by cause of heavy Snow and High wind. A makeup race has been scheduled far Jan. 31 in Wengzn Switzerland. Finn lakes Lead Sapporo Japan a Matti Nykanen of Finland won the 90-Mclcr ski jump sunday in the world cup series his second Triumph in two Days and moved into the Lead in the Overall standings. The 21-year-old by Kaenan an olympic Gold medallist soared 120 meters on his first jump four meters 13 feet farther than anybody else and iq8.5 meters on his second for 233.3 Point