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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Thursday, December 3, 1987

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 3, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Hawks Roli Over celtics by the associated press Atlanta Dominique Wilkins scored 22 Points and tree Rollins had 20 tuesday night to offset a 22-poin season debut by Boston s Kevin Mihalc and Lead the Atlanta Hawks to a 120-106 Victory Over the celtics. Mihalc who had off season ankle surgery played 22 minutes in his first action of the season. Atlanta look control of the game by outscoring the celtics 15-0 in a s i min no Roundup Etc Span beginning late in the first Quarter and continuing into the second Quarter. Kevin Willis scored 18 Points. Randy Wittman had 17.-Mcl Glenn Rivers 10 for Atlanta. Larry Bird scored 18 Points and Darren Dave Robert Parrish and Jerry Sichting each scored 12 for Boston. In other Aba games pistons 124, nets 115 of East Rutherford . Adri an Dantly scored four of his 31 Points in overtime As Detroit handed new Jer sey its sixth straight loss. Detroit rallied from a 10-Point deficit in the third period and tied the game at110 on a jump shot by finnic Johnson with 13 seconds to go in regulation. Johnson Bill Lamb car and Isiah Thomas each had 19 Points for Detroit while Mike Gminski had 18 and Otis Birdsong 17 for new i Crecy. Supersonics 112, knocks 109 new York Dale Ellis scored 37 Points including a go ahead three Point play with 1 02 left As Seattle held off a fourth Quarter rally by new York. Tom Chambers had 32 Points for Seattle. Rockets 106, nuggets 101 Houston Ralph Sampson scored the go ahead Basket with 36 seconds left to spark Houston to a come from behind Victory Over Denver. Sampson finished with 20 Points and 17 rebounds while Kacem Olajuwon had 22 Points and 14 rebounds for hous ton. Denver was led by Alex English with thursday december 3,1987 the stars and stripes Page 19 Detroit s Isiah Thomas drives to the hoop past new Jersey s Dallas cum Crys. A photo 26 Points and Blair Rasmussen had a career High 25. Trail blazers 102, suns 100 Portland. Ore. Terry Porter Sank an 18-foot jumper from the top of the key with 22 seconds left As Portland edged Phoenix for the Trail blazers sixth straight Victory Clyde Drexler scored 35 Points to Lea the blazers. Droxler who is averaging 30 Points per game in his last five outings and was the latest Aba player of the week did t score in the final 9 46 of the game. Bulls 98, warriors 97 Oakland Calif. Rookie Scottie pippin s driving Layup with seven seconds left gave Chicago the Victory. The warriors who trailed by 25points Midway through the second Quarter had a Chance to win in the final seconds but sleepy Floyd s Layup with one second left rolled around the rim and off As Lime expired. John Paxson and Rookie Horace Grant each scored 19 Points for the bulls. Micha Lordan and Pippen had 16 each. Jordan the Aba s leading scorer with an average of 33.1, had not scored fewer than 25 Points in any game this season. Lakers 125, Kings 120 of Sacramento. Calif. . Green scored five Points and grabbed three re Bounds in overtime to Lead the los an Geles lakers Over Sacramento. A Arcco Abdul Jabbar led the lakers with 27 Points As los Angeles posted its 25th consecutive Victory Over the Kings. Magic Johnson added 26 and Byron Scott 25 for the lakers. Sacramento was paced by Oti Thorpe s 31 Points and Reggie thus capitols stymie Gretzky by the associated press Landover my. Bengt Gus Lars son scored i to goals and assisted on an other in Washington s four goal second period and the capitals became the Sec Ond team this season to shut out Wayne Oret Kyas they Defeated the Edmonton oilers 4-2 tuesday night. Gryl by who had at least one Point in 15 straight games and was named player of the month for november had scored nil Roundup a Point in every game this year except against Quebec on oct. 27. Gustafsson. Who sat put the capitals i Vious game after getting slashed in the face scored on a wrist shot from the Slot at 2 14 into the second period pulling Washington into a 1-1 tic. After Mike Ridley s Power play goal five minutes later. Gustafsson intercepted a Clearing pass along the right boards and got the puck to Mike  or who scored on a wrist shot. In other nil games tuesday North stars 3. Maple i oafs 2 of Bloomington Minn. Brian Bel lows tied the game with 19 seconds left and won it 1 20 into overtime. Seconds before he tied the game. Bellows had missed a wide open net. But Cal Bro ten gathered in the rebound and sent the puck to the Point to Bob Brooke whose shot was tipped in by Bellows. Then in overtime Brian Lawlon s Brea Kout pass found Bellows in Center ice and Bellows blasted a 35-Foolcr from the left boards Between Wrig gel s pads. Canucks 3. Nordques i Quebec Kirk Mclean blocked 32 shots and Stan Smyl Jim Binning and Randy Boyd scored for Vancouver in the first 16 minutes of play. Peter slastnv1 had Quebec s Only goal As the nordic us failed to win for the seventh time in eight games. Jets 7, Kings 6 of Inglewood Calif. Doug Smail scored on a breakaway with 1 34 remain ing in overtime. Smail took a pass from Thomas Stycn broke in on goalie Glenn caly and snapped a 15-foot wrist shot that beat Healy High on the Slick Side. Coaches ignore cheating Survey says by John Nolan Cincinnati a nearly one third of Mcaa division i football programs regularly violate Mcaa regulations and when they do coaches often look the other Way coaches said in a nationwide Survey re leased tuesday by the University of Cincinnati. When cheating takes place coaches Are usually aware of it the coaches said in responding to the Survey. But almost three quarters of the coaches surveyed also said they believe most of their colleagues Are honest have High ethical standards and want to run clean athletic programs. The pressure to win is the main cause of cheating. 67 percent of the surveyed coaches said. To a Large extent. I Don t think the coach is any different from the average person on the  said Francis t. Cullen one of three University of Cincin Nati criminologists who conducted the Survey. By and Large. Think most coaches want to run a clean program with no cheating and. In most circumstances Don t want to be placed in a position where they have to look the other Way. But we also have a Situa Tion where the Bottom line is winning and if they Don t win they lose their  the coaches were also asked about substance abuse among athletes. They identified alcohol and then steroids As the biggest sources of substance abuse. They also listed cocaine and marijuana As serious problems for athletes. They were not asked to say How widespread they think the drug use is. The coaches were promised anonymity for their responses and provided them in written questionnaires. Cullen and colleagues Edward j.  a and graduate assistant Joseph Byrne sent the questionnaires out last summer and had them Back by sep tember with some prompting. Cullen said the questionnaires were sent to head coaches of All 192 Mcaa division i a and division i a schools with major College football programs. Of those 122 coaches responded a Good ratio for Busy people. Cullen said. He said 49.2 percent of the questionnaires came from division i a coaches and 50.8 percent were from division i a coaches. There was t any Bias toward the smaller schools. It was pretty evenly split so that gives us More Confidence in the  Cullen said. If you protect the anonymity of the coaches they re going to be More Likely to be honest in their an Swers. We re not aware of the Survey and so on that basis it would be inappropriate for us to  said Jim Marchiony at National collegiate athletic association Headquarters in Mission. Kan. The Mcaa has about 800 member schools nation wide. Membership is voluntary and the schools make the rules which the Mcaa staff enforces. Marchiony said. On an average 31.7 percent of football programs cheat on a regular  the surveyed coaches said. A total of 73.2 percent said that when violations take place coaches know it nearly All the Lime or most of the time but choose to look the other Way. But 73.3 percent of the coaches said Thev believe that most or nearly All of their colleagues Are honest and have High ethical standards the researchers said. The responses were based entirely on coaches estimates of How widespread the problems arc. Cullen said. They Don t reall know that he said. But if that Many coaches think violations Are occurring on a regular basis then that s a pretty widespread Phe   
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