European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 8, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Wednesday novembers 19b8 the stars and stripes Page 25 commentary cheating is Andis All that matter the Washington Post scandal is nothing new to the sports pages. Anyone who reads them regularly learns Aboul drug abuse ticket scalping illegal recruiting academic fraud to name just a few of he common corrupt practices. Tuesday the Mcaa basketball Champion Kansas was twp cd for three years for its Overly generous courting of a potential Transfer. Cheating is so routine so numbing in its regularity that most sports fans shrug off new illustrations As part and parcel of the games themselves. Only occasionally docs a Case come along that is outrageous enough to jangle even those benumbed nerves. Such an example of deceit hit the front Page of the Washington Post last saturday in a Story about How one Montgomery county my. Junior football team falsified Ages of its players and thus gained an unfair advantage Over younger weaker players. According to league officials the Ages of six to nine of the players registered on the belch sea Chevy Chase boys club team were falsely stated or omitted at the weigh in in september. To ensure competitive fairness league rules pro vide total 12-year-old players weigh no More than130 pounds at the time of the weigh in 13-year-Olds no More than 120, 14-year-Olds no More than 115. You can readily see what a terrific advantage it would be for a 14-year-old to be registered As 12, some can be heavier than the rules allow. You also can readily see the potential for injury when physically More mature 14-year-Olds compete with 12-year-Olds of the same weight. The acc team played four games winning three and lying one. Fortunately said league coordinator James Wiltshire acc s Youthful opponents suffered no serious injuries thank god acc s head coach Matt Hampton and his assist ant Todd Hansen have been barred from the league indefinitely Wiltshire said. He vowed the ban would last As Long As i m Coordie Wiltshire is incensed. It s an awful thing they did Wiltshire said. They lost track of their Val we often Sec winning valued so desperately that people cheat to achieve it. It s an old theme people shortsighted Day defining themselves by is and is. Plans in denies the Issue is winning. Hansen says that Hampton told him the league authorized acc using some overweight play ers after striking an agreement that acc would for Feit its games in return for being allowed to play even though they had 16 players not the minimum 18. Hampton did not return Telephone Calls for com ment and Wiltshire says he knew of no such arrangement Hansen said not every player knew of the alleged forfeit arrangement some did some did Thi said conceding we kept it from you can take what you want away from me. But you la never be Able to take away from the play ers the fact that they re winners Hansen said defiantly. Yet almost in the next breath he spoke of a conversation he had with one of his players Joe Patterson in which Hansen asked if Patterson Felt prouder about their record this season or their 2-5 record from last year Han sen said Patterson chose the two victories an indication the players did t feel like winners this season at All that in fact they Felt shame. I Don t condone cheating and 1 never have Hansen insisted. I m not a after the plot was unmasked they apologized for using overweight overage players. Because of the injury Factor and Only the injury Factor Hansen said As if the Issue was orthopaedic not moral or ethical. It was Hansen who d advanced the notion of Contra football designating that phrase As the team s rallying cry having Contra patches sewn on the uniforms. I ii admit i m a nerd Hansen 23, said. The kids know it we re rag tag misfit people who got together and did something Good Hansen continue of. De Claring and that s Hansen who once was president of the Young americans for Freedom chapter at american University maintained his emphasis on contras was never political it s still but he said now hell put the patches everywhere. It s me against the world me and my kids against the world against lies. I believe in counter revolution in sports Fielding a least that might team right from wrong. Seam some character and maybe gain something. Nuiding will Stop me from continuing to do it. When i Wake up in the morning i m the is this what we want for highly impressionable teenagers. Are these the values sports arc supposed to Leach fair play concern for the safety of others respect for individual beliefs or is this an obsessive vision of Posl Lombardi revisionism somewhere along the Way we got lost in the headlong Pursuit of winning of clicking our Index fingers in the air and shouting we re no. I. It s bad enough in the pros and in College bul now High school kids arc taking steroids. Grade school kids arc being recruited with the Promise of pairs of sneakers. Soap Box racers inc using concealed motors. Kids ii 12 and 13 Are being Given diuretics to make wig he in some Little leagues while others obviously Are lying about their age to gel another year of eligibility and Pound smaller kids to dust. We re rending the fabric of America. We re teaching our children to cheat. Spectrum haunts continues penguins lose 5-4 by the associated press the spectrum in Philadelphia continues to be a no win situation for he Pitts Burgh penguins. I really Don t know what it is with them not beating us Here said Phila Delphia flyers goaltender Mark Law orcs following sunday night s 5-4 nil Victory Over the penguins. They seem to Beatus pretty bad in Pittsburgh. With the Victory the flyers continued an uncanny Home ice domination Over no Roundup the penguins who Haven t won in Phila Delphia since 1974. In that period the flyers have a 38-00 record in the spec Trum Over the penguins. It just seemed like there were too Many Power plays against us Pitts Burgh coach Gene Ubriaco said. In the third period we seemed to have the wrong people in the Box. We missed Mario on our Power the penguins were missing Mario Lemieux the league s leading scorer because of injury Lemieux was suffering from a strained right forearm sustained in a nov.3 game with the Quebec nordic us. The flyers meanwhile capitalized on. Their own Power plays with Tim Kerr scoring two Power play goals. Kerr s second goal came As the flyers scored three time in just More than five minutes in the second period the flyer were losing 3-2 before scoring three straight other games sunday Bruins 4, canucks 2 Boston Andy Brickley scored the lie breaking goal on a breakaway Early in the third period and added an empty net goal lifting the Boston Bruins to a 4-2victory Over the Vancouver canucks. Bob Sweeney who Sal out the last two games in the first benching of his two year career returned with a goal and two despite a Cheek by Penguin Phil Bourque flyer Mark Howe gels offa shot. Tto lie Frank Plet Anjelo made the save. Assists As the Bruins extended their Home record against Vancouver to 12-0-1 since Dee 13,1980. Brickly s goal came less than three minutes after the canucks lied the score 2-2 on a goal by Jim Sandlak 11 seconds into inc final period. I. Devils 6, rangers 5 East Rutherford . Mark Johnson scored the final two goals to Lead the new Jersey devils to a 6-5 Vic tory Over the new York rangers. The devils had a 5-1 Lead in the Sec Ond period before the rangers scored three straight goals two by Chris in an to come within a goal. But Johnson scored his second goal of the game and six Turof the season at 3 24 of the third period to give the devils a 6-4 Lead an their eventual winning goal with Lite Patrick division Victory the devils reached the .$00 Murk and extended their unbeaten Streak to three 2-0-1red wines 5, oilers 2 Detroit Gerard Gallant scored two goals late in the third period to lift the wings to a s-2 Victory Over the Edmonton Oiler. Kings 5, blacklist is 3 Chicago Wayne Gretzky be came Only the third player in nil history to reach the 1,700-Point plateau with two goals and an assist to Lead the los Angeles Kings to a 5-3 Victory Over the Chicago Black hunks
