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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 31, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 26 the stars and stripes saturday january 31,1987falcons want to talk with Parcells Atlanta Ai the Atli Ista Falcons searching for n now head coach after the firms fran Kenning have sough permission to mtg with new York giants coach Dill Parcells two newspapers reported. The giants denied permission though the Falcons have been in Contact with Pat cells attorney the Allan is comic lion said in Friday s editions. And Parcells who led the giants o a Victory in the super howl last sunday angrily denied that he is inter ested in talking to Atlanta. Alloney Robert Fraley of Orlando fla., who rep resents i a cells contacted the Falcons according to he newspaper. His interest was piqued by report that the Falcons had made lucrative offers to former Phila Delphia eagles coach Dick Vermeil and Urcla s Terry Donahue. Vermeil and Donahue have rejected offers from the Falcons. The Falcons Are willing to offer Parcells $900.000 a year to become coach and general manager the Constitution said. The Boston Globe reported Friday that the Fak tons Are ready to offer Parcells a five year contract. I in cold makes  a year with the giants and lint two years it it on his current contract. Falcy con lends that nil rules would allow Parcells to leave the giants however if he could improve his position with another team the Constitution said. After the giants denied permission for the Falcons to talk to Parcells the Constitution said. Falcy contacted nil commissioner Pete roil la. Who Dis cussed the situation with giants owner Wellington Mara and Falcons president Rankin Smith or. Falcy also told Roc Lac and the Falcons that Par cells would pursue the matter with the giants the Constitution said. Parcells met for two hours with giants general manager George Young on wednesday night and discussed the Falcons situation the Atlanta newspaper said. Parcells contacted by the Constitution said there is no truth to the reports "1 Don t want to see my name in the paper in Connic wit College from Page 2t state fell to 7-11 and 1-6. Iowa broke open a one Point game in the first half with a 16-2 spurt that included Bur three pointers. Two Long jumpers by Mac Ana one each by Gam ble and Drad Lohaus helped Iowa turn an 11-10 deficit into a 26-13 Lead with 9 03 Eft in i he first half. Michigan slate pulled within 36-29. Sparked by Todd Wolfe s 10 Points off the Bench but Iowa recovered for a 46 35 Lead at halftime. The spartans pulled within seven Points twice in the second half but a three Pointer by Gamble and a Dunk by Lohaus quelled the threats. Roy Marble added 13 Points and de Norton 10 for Iowa. Michigan slate we led by Wolfe with 18 Points including four three pointers while Vernon Carr had 15, Bobby Wor ii Nylon a career High 12 and Barry Fordham ii. Georgia tech 73. Duke 66 Atlanta Bruce Dalrympie scored 25 Points including eight free throws in the final 1 07, As Georgia tech downed Jill ranked Duke in an Atlantic coast conference game. Dalrym pie s clutch free throws came after the Blue devils had closed to 65-62 on a three Point Field goal by Quin synd Erwith 1 14 to play. Duke had rallied from a 5s-43 deficit with 7 02 remaining on two Field goals each by John Smith and Danny ferry in a 10-0 run that ended on two free throws by Snyder with 4 20 to play. The Victory snapped a three game lot ing Streak for tech 10-7 Overall and 2-4 Bruce Dalrymple. Scores 2i for Georgia tech in the acc. Duke fell to 15-4 and 4-3. The Blue devils pm the Lead to 60-57 with 2 42 left on Tommy Amaker s 15 footer but four consecutive Points by Duane Ferrist gave tech breathing room and set up the finishing hurry for dal Rymple. Tommy Hammonds added 18 Points for uie yellow jackets. Ferry led Duke Wilh 17 Points White Smith and Snyder each had 12, the game was interrupted briefly mid Way through the first half when tech s Craig Neal and ferry got tangled up and fell to the floor. Players from both teams Hen got in a Brief shoving match. Temple 82, Duquesne 64 Philadelphia Mike Vreeswyk scored 22 Points and Nale Blackwell added 19 As no. 7 Temple Defeated Duquesne in Atlantic 10 conference action. Temple s zone press caused the Dukes to turn the Ball Over 22 times and the owls held Emmett Sellers who had been averaging 20.5 Points a game to just 10 Points. Temple 20-2 Overall and 9-0 in the conference scored the game s first six Points and jumped to a 31-14 Lead with 6 48 left in the first half. Temple led 36 26 at halftime As Vreeswyk had 13 Points. Oklahoma 82, Iowa St. 76 Norman okla. Tim Mccalister scored 28 Points 17 in the second half to Lead i0lh-Rankcd Oklahoma Over Iowa state in big eight action. The soon arc improved their record to 16-3 Overall and 5-1 in the conference. Iowa state dropped to 10-9 and 2-4. Oklahoma led by As Many As 10 in the Fin half and by seven at halftime but the cyclones rallied behind Jeff grayer and Tom Schafer to tie the score 49-49 Wilh 14 23 to play. Mccalister and Ricky Grace then scored seven Points apiece in a seven minute Span in which the sooner took a 68-61 Lead. A Layup by Grace with 5 27 remaining made it 72-63. The closest the cyclones could get was eo-76 with 23 seconds left. Unlv114,chrvln103 Irvine Calif. Nevada Las vegas had thumped Cal Irvine by 42 Points in the first meeting Between the two teams four weeks ago but the anteaters made it respectable this time. Third ranked Nevada Las vegas was led by Armond Guiam with 36 Points and 14 rebounds. With the Victory the Runnin rebels remained undefeated in nine Mcaa games and improved their Overall record 10 20-1. Cal Irvine fell to 6-5 in the con Ference 11-9 Overall. Boggs from Page 21 Gorman said that a report of $5.5 Mil lion was a Little High flogs had filed for arbitration seeking si.85 million a year. The club s counteroffer was si.6 million. A hearing had turn set for feb. 20 in new York. Less than Ihrcke hours before the sign ing was announced Boggs said at another news conference that he was very close to reaching an agreement on a multiyear contract. This is the Only time i m coming to Boston during the off season and i Hope to get my contract squared away before 1 lean the hard Hilling third baseman said i came from Tampa for the dinner and also to wrap up my  Boggs went 10 arbitration and won a is million contract from the red sox n i9b5. He went to arbitration again in 1986, seeking Sisi for the season but Tost settling Lor $ 1.15 million. Then after winning the Al Balling championship for the third time in four years with a .357 average he filed for arbitration again while his agent continued negotiations. Boggs said he did t even sit in on the negotiations Here because i Don t like the things they say about you. The two arbitration hearings the last couple of years left me feeling pretty Down. That s the reason it s very important to me to get my contract out of the Way. I want to stay in Boston. I started my career Here and i want to finish it Here. A Long term contract would be a step in the right direction. Three years would be heavenly Bliss. In my mind this is the Only place to  Boggs who was teen on National Tele vision weeping in the dugout after the red sox were beaten by the new York mets in the seventh game of the world series said he still has t gotten Over that disappointment. It docs make you want to go Back though he said. It makes you even hungrier. We re a Good Young team and hopefully Well go Back. It s not going to be easy though. And if Geddy Catcher Rich gedman goes signs with another club As a free agent there will be a big void. He s a hard Guy to  noting that everybody knocks me for not driving in a lot of runs Boggs had a message for red sox manager John me Namara. No i won t Bat Lead off he said. I m going to make it very Clear to John. I Don t want to Lead off. I prefer batting third. 1 fed it s Lime for Wade flogs to move on and moving on Means hit Ling  he said dropping Down a couple of notches in the order would not pressure him into try ing to hit More Home runs. I m not going out and try to hit 40 homers and bal .320," he said. I think i can hit .360 or .370 with eight to 10 homers and drive in about 100 runs. Thai would be a pretty Good  Tion with  Parcells said. It s a Bunch of Bull. It s not Rue. Lisul Gol done with he super bowl i m trying 10 get some things accomplished and this Bull  Falcy said he does t know if Parcells wants him to Lay much publicly about his situation but added Bill Par cells is a wonderful Guy if the Falcons want Bill parcs its i d say they arc sure headed in the right  the Gloch reported that Porcelius was upset by he giants refusal to allow the Falcons to Contact him. Charlie Dayton spokesman for the Falcons contacted by the associated press thursday night declined to comment on the reports. I heard that report earlier in the evening he said. Y Only response is no comment which is consistent h other reports about  after Donahue turned Down the Falcons team officials said they would not comment on the coaching situation until tie Job is filled. Henning was tired last year after posting four consecutive losing seasons. Eloy optimistic looking Forward to 2nd Chance Honolulu a John Elway Hai had a Chance to reflect on that empty feeling that goes with being a super bowl loser. It s like we were never even there the Denver Broncos quarterback said. It s like the giants arc the Only football team there  still Elway also Learned that even after the 39-20 loss to new York in Pasadena Calif., last sunday the world went on spin Ning "1 was Happy to see that the Sun still came up monday morning Elway said with a smite. I rehashed the i  me afterwards Elway thought of the things i could be done differently but you do that with every game he said it wot such a buildup for a game said Elway one of five Denver players in Hawaii for sunday s pro bowl. We would like to have won of course but you never know what to expect. Ii was disappointing for us and for our fans Back in Denver but we still had a great season and Well have the Chance to make it Back to the super boat again. We have a lot of Confidence and there Are still Many areas i be got 10 improve on and areas the team needs to improve on. If we improve in some areas we can play with  Elway blossoming in nil fourth pro season played Well in the super bowl he wound up Wilh 22 completions in 37 attempts for 304 Yards Wuh one interception. He threw for one touchdown and ran for another. Bui although he passed the Broncos Down the Field on four of their first five possessions they came away with just 10 Points. To the second Quarter the new York defense held Denver three times after the Broncos had first and goal at the new York i and Hen Rich Karlis missed a 23-Yard Field goal. The new York defense stiffened even More in the second half and quarterback Phil Simms passing almost flawlessly led the giants to 1 7 third Quarter Points As they look command. It really Hurt us when we could t get the Ball into the end zone when we had it first and goal Down there Elway said. That was a real turning  Elway said he d like to finish the season on a winning note with an acc Victory Over the Afcin sunday s All Star game. This is our 24th game of the year coining up so it would be Good to finish up by winning it he said. But then he frowned and added a l not much of a   
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