European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 19, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Fray december 19, 1966 the stars and stripes Pago 23 i i Mem Ubhi he bpm Moi a Buck s pick is sure bet in reverse gamblers beware. There a a hitting the numbers boards it � called the Fox pox. It s More unlucky than 13. Deadlier thai make Eye. A bigger Jinx than the sports mutinied cover. It works this Way whatever team i pick loses. If i pick Chicago Over Tampa Bay the bean  i pick Peon state Over Dickinson College the Nituna Lions lose to the deadly red devils for the first time in s3 Yean. If 1 pick the celtics Over Mannheim High Well you gel the Point. My horrid prediction record nearly hit Bottom thit football season. I say nearly because guest pick or always appeared below Hie Sas sports staff Dur ing our weekly College forecasts. That meant there was always someone to Cushion my weekly Falls. I finished the 14 weeks with 70-70  in there 1 managed to pick Oklahoma Over Missouri which barely turned into a 77-0 Cor rect Choice. To give you an idea Bow bad my .500mark was 1 was 40 games behind the Winner. Rusty Bryan. It got so bad i surrendered my ballot to Tny  was the Only week Fox led the staff with a 6-4 record. The Fox pox spread outside the College predictions. It hit Safe football like the plague. All year i guaranteed upper Heyford Over Ramster for the championship. Both teams lost in the playoffs. When the conference finals rolled around i picked Heyford Over Chicksands an Hahn Over Pitburg. Heyford and Hahn lost no wonder when i strolled into the office myi ports editor asked who Are you picking in the Safe Fin air i said Pitburg. He quickly bet on  was right of course. Chicksands won 22-19. It was embarrassing enough that i promised a bit Burts Triumph. Bui by 35-77the strangest reaction came from the Chicksands fans. They tagged me in effigy. They should bronzed my statue. When i pick against you. Cele  the spirit of the Fox Fox i Oiler a winning Low along on Page 26.the Rule is simple whatever i pick you pick the other team. Then Start packing for  of Fame bowl Boston College Over Georgia. If the eagles can beat Temple and Louisville they can surely beat the lame bulldogs. Sun bowl Washington Over Alabama. The huskies purple and Gold uniforms have it All Over the tide s snoozer remand while jobs. Gator bowl Clemson Over Stanford. Since whens a team that can read 2nd write in this Case the Cardinal supposed to win a bowl Holiday bowl san Diego state Over Iowa. I re Spect teams let gut Oul three and five Point Victo Ries Over Long Beach and  bowl Virginia tech Over North Carolina stale. Ever since our lop guest picker Torrejon coach Jim Kirksey. Correctly called tech s upset of Denton i go with the Homics. Despite their Hick  bowl Colorado Over Baylor. Pm a big eight  bowl Auburn Over Southern Cal. When the trojans reach a bowl other Ihan the Rose they could t care Lew. Cotton bowl Texas am Over Ohio stale i love Cheater schools that win. Now Cheater schools that lose like Iowa state better to Back to transcript forgery 101.sugar bowl leu Over Nebraska. Forget big eight loyalty. Has Tom of born Ever won a bowl wearing that while Belt Rose bowl Arizona state Over Michigan. Repeat after me the big ten never wins the Rose bowl Orange bowl Oklahoma Over Arkansas. Like i said i love Cheater schools that win. Fiesta bowl Penn state Over Miami. This Contra dict my love for winning Cheater schools. Do re member this Jimmy Johnson cheated at Oklahoma state and could t win  bowl new England Over the . Rams. This in t on the ballot but Here s your Chance to Akebi Gouda. Or. J., 76ers get dose of own Medicine by the associated press Philadelphia ii was the Doc Tor s office so Cleveland s Ron Harper prescribed his own Medicine. I fell like playing like Julius ening Harper said of his fourth Quarter steal and subsequent spectacular a Var the head reverse Layup. I be seen him do its Many times on televisions i thought i d try to do it in  Harper a Rookie playing in the spec Irum for the first time scored six of his 27 Points in the " Esb a final 39 second wednesday night to Lead the Clevelan Cavaliers Over Erv ing Long known As or. A and the Philadelphia 76en 110-107, handing the 76crs their fourth straight toss. Harper s jump shot with 39 Sec is ones 10 go lied the score at 105. Idaj after a steal by teammate Phil Hubbard Harper hit a driving Layup with 13 Sec Ond left. He Sank  throws a coach Lenny Wilkens said. It s always great to win on the Road but especially Here against a Good team. Harper does a lot of things. He s an exciting  Rookie Brad Daugherty lied his sea son High with 29 Points and grabbed 11 rebounds for Cleveland. But n was Harper who lifted the cars in the final moments. It was his Erving like Layup that snapped a 93-93 deadlock. This was a great win for  Harper said we keep building Confidence and we re playing game by game. So every win helps us. Philadelphia Ted 47-32 with 14 14 Leftin the second period. But Cleveland scored the last nine Points of the Quarter and trailed Only 54-51 at halftime. The cars went ahead 69-68 on a Layup by Harper with 4 17 left in the third and look an 81-78 advantage at the end of three periods. Seconds later Lead. For a 109-105 Cavalier losing strip aka we re coming up Short in oui thai was a big win for us Cleveland from Page 21 against the nil based its request on the jury s finding that the nil was liable on one of the nine antitrust charges in the suit the Broad allegation that the established league was indeed a monopoly. I think it i the end of the trial court portion of the Case bul not toe end of the league usher said. It will go up to the 2ns circuit court of appeals for what believe to be the correction of errors Hurt have affected this Inal i think the Opin Ion he read reflects the confusion that was present in the 1 linage charge he gave the jury. Leisure said in his opinion handed Kulcy u3 1 of swim in  of concerned. I did t see a hungry look and that s a trademark of this learn. Down at the end of the arguments  because the jury specifically bad found the nil blameless w monopolizing the television Market he found no reason to order the nil off any of the three major networks he also note that the demand to raft and pfc into two inde nil Roundup Charles Berkley had a game High 32points and Erving had 20 for the 76ers. In other Aba games wednesday celtics 113, pacers 101 Boston Larry Bird who finished with 34 Points scored Boston s first four Field goals in the fourth period and the celtics pulled away from Indiana for the  s a great player Indiana coach Jack Ramsay said of Bird. He Doe whatever he has to do to help his team win. You re never going to Stop Larr Bird. He has no  it was the celtics 49th Victory in their last 50 appearances at Boston Garden. The celtics had a 48-game Home court winning Streak snapped by the los an Geles lakers last  Boston leading 87-84 after three periods Bird hit on three set shots the followed his own rebound for a Layup in the first three minutes of the fourth period. His second Field goal triggered a 10-4 run to give Boston a 101-92 Lead. The spurt was interrupted by a Brief fight Between Indiana s John Long an Boston s Rick Carlisle. Both were ejected with 7 ii remaining. The pacers were led by Chuck person and Mem Fleming with 21 Points  122, jux 107 pont1ac, Mich. Adrian Dantle Yand Isiah Thomas scored 20 Points apiece As seven Detroit players Hil dds ble figures and the pistons beat Utah. The loss snapped Utah s seven game winning  got a season High 27 Points from Karl  got successive fourth Quarter baskets from Rick Mahon and Bil Laimbeer for a 101-92 Lead. Laimbeer was fouled by Tamri Bailey while scoring and a technical foul was called on Utah Smarc Lavaroni after the play. Laimbeer made the foul shot and the technical a ving Detroit "03-92 Lead and the to. Got no closer than eight Points the rest of the . 94, suns 81 san Antonio Texas Jon Sund void scored 22 Points 14 of them in the final period to Pace san Antonio Over  s season High scoring performance combined with Artis Gilmore s20 Points As the spun snapped a four game losing  Davis led the suns with 21. San Antonio outscored the suns 12-4 Over a five minute stretch in the fourth period to go ahead 82-68 with 6 04 left. Pendent conferences with separate administration and a separated aft would overturn the act of Congress that had authorized the 1966 merger of the of with the american football league. And he added that be agreed with the Iron who said thai the Usel had caused town problems in rolling in $150 million in losses Over three years of playing in the Spring and summer. When firm which has committed  in the nurse Tel seeks to gain benefits through injunctive Relief that it could not acquire through fair Competition courts should not be condemned for obstructing such an Effort Leisure wrote in his opinion. Five Days after the verdict last july the eight remaining Usel owners voted to go dormant for the 1986 season which was to be the league s first in the fall after three seasons in the Spring. The owners said they hoped to resume play knee then nearly 75 player including such stars As Herschel Walker. Jim Kelly and Kelvin Bryant have signed with nil teams. But some Usel officials suggested be fore the hearing that a negative decision from Leisure could kill the league for Good. I feel in my personal opinion that the Usel has run its course Jerry Sklar president of the Birmingham Sid Lions said in a recent interview. If judge Leisure is not very favourable to Ward injunctive Relief the league would have no Choice bul to dose Ita  i can t speak for management bul it does t look Good Larry Csonka Gener a manager of the Jacksonville bulls said after Leisure s ruling. Obviously we re disappointed said Bill Tatham st., owner of the Arizona outlaws. Nil commissioner Pete Rozelle Hadiye opposite reaction. We re obviously pleased he said. "1 think the judg ruling directly reflect on the jury s ver dict for us in this