European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 9, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday december 9. 1987 the stars and stripes fags commentary domes make football a Sissy sport mailman or Mai persons As the Case May be increasingly must be even hardier than fool Ball player. The mail people have a Mono neither now nor rain nor heal nor gloom of nigh slay these couriers from the Swift completion of i hair appointed  the line is not Only a favorite for the moods implied he rhythm the Energy that deft adjective Swift hut i Points out a difference Between every Day heroes whose quotidian efforts arc sometimes slowed bul never extinguished and what is happen ing to our sunday heroes. There Are now five domed stadiums in inc National football league from new Orleans 10 hous ton to Pontiac mich., to Minneapolis to Seattle. And More appear on the Way. Other than fora leak in the ceiling or a collapse of the roof or the Thor Moliai going bonkers or the lights going on the frit there s no reason that our Gridiron gladiators there should play in Snow or rain or heat or gloom of night. Vet combating inc Clement has historically been associated with the brutal pleasures of football. On sunday evening a football game seen nation ally on television was played in he newest and Nas list and noisiest or the covered stadiums the Hubert h. Humphrey metro dome in Minneapolis known locally As the Hump. It pitied inc Home team Vikings against the Chicago bears. This is a venerable rivalry Between groups once known on one hand As the purple people eaten and on the other As the monsters of the Midway. Surely these two factions could have frolicked and gambled and busted each other up in any atmospheric condition. Instead they were reduced to playing in a predominately peach coloured Silken looking setting. The lights on the Bubble ceiling give a sense of a studio or a bordello anything out a football theater. Now football games have been played there be Ira Berkow fore and so have baseball games. No reason now logo into the recently concluded world series in which the twins and their full throated and Homer Hanky flapping fans were victorious and where possibly for the first Lime in world series history the major Point of discussion was not the lineup but the Decibel level. It was there a few years ago Hal Billy Martin in his fourth act As Yankee manager ranted and raved and declaimed that it was no place to play a baseball game coincidental he said it after his team had been beaten. He was right about the Domi being no proper domicile for baseball. Now we get from another major authority something we be believed for some time and that is a dome is no place to play a foot Ball game either. That what Mike Ditka said. The coach of the bears was aggrieved during the last week that his monsters had to suffer the  of football. Fool Alt he said should be played  Mike wanted Snow he wanted rain he wanted heat he wanted gloom of night. Or any reasonable facsimile. He wanted whal letter carriers must con tend with. He wanted anything but indoors. What s a domed stadium Best for roller Derby stated Ditka. Now no one can disparage roller Derby not in this space anyway and Pitka probably want noting Only that there were different forts for differ ent sports. This observer grew up on the roller Derby in a manner watching it on television with special Pride because of Cousin Herbic. Cousin Herbic skated in the Early major league around 1950, and was a Jam Mer or May have been a Blocker memory begins to fade for several learns including the Midwest pioneers and possibly the san Francisco Bay bomb ers and the Jersey Jolly is too. Herbie Gilmore. Tall and angular and Long Slid ing was t one of the front line skaters not a Dyna mite Mike Gammon or even a Toughie Brasuhn in fact he was t even Herbic. He called himself Robert Gilmore in the roller Derby. Robert was his Middle name and i presume he thought Robert gave him a certain elegance or fierceness that Herbie lacked. This was before the sport turned into hassling on wheels and you d get hit with a chair if you passed somebody. In the Days of Cousin Herbie. There was elegance As Well As fierceness to the sport. And skill. And when in film clips the other Day we saw Dilka Don the roller skates sent him by the Vikings and skate on  Carpel through inc bears office we noted thai he too must have watched roller Derby. Maybe even watched Cousin Hurbie. For Dilka whizzing along lifted one knee Waist High in traditional roller style when they d sweep around the banked track. The Roan s crazy de Marinaro. A former Viking turned policeman on Hill Street blues Lumen color commentator for an evening said sunday on television in regard to Dilka s remarks about the necessity of playing football in the elements. It s near Zero outside and your hands Are so cold you can t fee the Ball and your nose is running and you re slipping and sliding. It s Nasty outside. It since inside.". Who needs Nice for football legendary games were played in the Snow and mud and wind and misery. If  teaches us anything it s that life is not a bowl of cherries thai a football stadium should never be mistaken for a roller rink and that gloom of night is not when someone dims the House lights. Sutton honoured but unsure Kentucky deserves no. 1 by the ass Donled presi the no. I College basketball team in the country has changed but the rhetoric is about the same. Naturally it s a great Honor for our team and basketball program to be ranked no. I Kentucky coach Eddie Sutlon said but i be said Many times i m not sure we re the Best team in the  just As Dean Smith coach of the for Mer no. 1 team North Carolina has said Many times most recently when his learn lost the lop rating in a 78-76 loss at Vanderbilt on saturday. Kentucky got the top associated press ranking on monday after an 82-76 Over Lime Victory Over Indiana in the big four classic on saturday. North Carolina fell to  do know we Are one of the 10 or 15 Best Sutton said but any attempt at picking a Best team is very subjective. There s an old saying that getting there is a lot easier than slaying there. Certainly that s True Sutton said. The wildcats Are the third team in inc three polls released this season to hold the lop spot. Syracuse was the preseason no. I while North Carolina had the top spot in the first regular season poll. The wildcats 3-0, received 46 first place Voles and 1,090 Points from a National panel of sports writers and Broad casters to move one spot in the poll and easily outdistanced runner up Pittsburgh. It Marks the first no. I ranking for Ken Tucky since the 1983-84 season. Pittsburgh 2-0, received four first place Voles and 928 Points in jumping from fourth to second while Iowa 6-0, moved from sixth to third Wilh two arse place votes and 902 Points. Arizona s-0, improved from ninth to fourth As the wildcats received two first place votes and 852 Points. North Caro Lina 4-1, in fifth with 833 Points Fol Lowed by Indiana Wyoming Syracuse Missouri and Duke. Indiana which Tost its first game to Ken Tucky on saturday before 43,601 in the homier dome had 760 Points in falling one place. Wyoming 3-0 and i oth last week had 674 Points four More than Syra Cuse 4-2, which followed its loss to Arizona in the championship game of the Gre Talaska shootout with two victories As Host . Missouri 2-0, which was extended into double overtime before prevailing Over Eastern Michigan 77-75, received the final first place vote and 656 Points in dropping one spot. Duke 3-Ojumpcd from i3lh to round out the top ten wilh565 Points one More than Temple which leads the second ten. We re used to facing a keyed up learn every game so i really Don t think we Elfeel the pressure of being lop ranked like some clubs might Sulton said. I just Hope we re Here in Early  Temple was followed in the rankings by Florida Purdue Georgetown Michi Gan Oklahoma Nevada Las vegas Kan Sas notre Dame and Memphis state last week s second ten was Purdue Temple Duke Louisville Michigan Kansas Georgetown Oklahoma me appt Tolo Eddie Sutton. Imong 10 or 15 Best Vada Las vegas and Memphis stale. Notre Dame la. Advanced into Hoetop Twenty by beating Louisville 69-54 in the second game of the b in four classic. Syracuse clobbers Cornell in fight marred game by the associated press Syracuse . Stephen Thompson scored 15 of his 21 Points in the first half monday night Asna 4 Syracuse beat Cornell 95-59 in a game thai was marred Wilh a Bench Clearing Brawl in the second half. Syracuse 5-2. Ran off 22 consecutive Points in the first half to take a 40-10 Lead with 2 58 left in the half. Soph College basketball Omore guards Earl Duncan and Matt Roc each had eight Points in the run. Including two 3-Poinlcrsby Roc. Center Rony Shikaly added 17 Points for inc orangemen while Roc had 13 and Forward Derrick Coleman 11. Guard Josh Weiler led Cornell. 2-1. Wilh 16 Points. The big red shot Only 30 percent from the Field in the first half and went scoreless for Over eight minutes in the opening 20 minutes As Syracuse took a 48-21 Lead. The Brawl broke out Wilh 6 53 to play and Syracuse leading 77-41. The 6-foot-11 Seikaly was fouled on rebound by 6-0 Forward Greg Gilda of Cornell. The pair then exchanged words and punches before both benches rushed to the floor. Gilda was ejected along with Coltman and Derek Brower of the orangemen. In other games monday Purdue 12. Colorado 54 West Lafayette ind. Troy Lewis scored 20 Points. 12 on 3-pointers, sea College on Page 26