European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 13, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday january 13, 1989 the stars and stripes Page 25 commentary a year of Jordan Mercer Hershiser no the Abc television network won t do the super bowl for a second straight year. Yes the Abc column is Back for a fourth straight year. The Only thing missing from this letter by letter review of 1988 is Michaels Dierdorf Gifford. A american football conference. What a dog league in 88. The West was pathetic the East so shaky that Buffalo won it. If the Bills and bengals can rebound so can the jets and Steeles. Watch fora new York Pittsburgh final next Winter. B bowl. It s called the super bowl a Misnomer for the nil championship game. It should be called the pfc title game the Way National teams have humiliated american pretenders the last five years. Make that six when san Francisco Fries Cincinnati. C Continental sports conference. Safe s mus Cle league turned lean with the ouster of Torrejon football. You know that disturbed the spaniards. D Doug Williams. For one Blitzkrieg Quarter in last january s super bowl this Redskin bombed like no quarterback in big game history. Four touchdown passes a 35-10 halftime Lead. Washington went on to win 42-10. You wonder what Williams would have accomplished but not for those exile years with the Oklahoma outlaws. E errors. First i picked Denver to beat washing ton 30-7 in the 88 super bowl. Ouch. Then i stuck last year s is super bowl contest Winner Bob Kondo of Kaiser Lautem with picking the Broncos. Actually Kondo picked the redskins. No wonder Hewon the contest. F fight. Tyson Over Spinks. Ninety one  fight g Gretzky. The great skate iced a marriage to a gorgeous actress then left Edmonton for los an Geles. And he caught hell for that h Heidelberg. The High school s basketball coach Wes Sisson proved that Justice can win one at the Buzzer. Two years after Touchy parents benched him three games for Barking at dragging Drill team Mem Bers Sisson won a Union backed reprieve. You won t see the Drill team stretching the halftime now. I Isiah Thomas. The second Best Point guard inthe Aba Only started kissing in 88. After he s Buck Fox through with magic Johnson the Star Piston will Smooch the championship trophy in june. J Jordan. Not the country. Michael. The Way he plays basketball he could probably beat countries one on five. K kicks. I wish i could accurately pick my Aba team to win it All. They proved in 88 they have the Eastern conference s Best coach and Best Center. They just Don t have a better team than Detroit. Then again they be won three straight Over the Pis tons this season. L Larry Brown. The Man stays five years at Kan Sas and he s still called a Vagabond he should be called smart. He leaves by his own volition. Other coaches get fired. M merciless Mercer. There was nothing sugary about Ray. His punches opened wounds in the Seoul olympics and his Flag waving poured Salt in them. Just a Baum older Soldier doing his duty which was winning the heavyweight boxing Gold. N new York mets. After their Romp through the National league East who could possibly Stop them o Orel Hershiser that s who. His oooo Moorel surgery capped the no West title league Pennant an world series championship for the dodgers. P predictions. One of my Best years. After that Denver super bowl pick last january that is. Of the six nil teams i picked to win division titles five reached the playoffs. The raiders could be made it a sweep but their defense mistook Dave Krieg for Johnny Unitas in week 16. Q quit. Safe can use Money As an excuse All i wants but it simply gave up on the All Star football game. Then there were deep gashes in skiing Power lifting boxing wrestling and track and Field. Let s see baseball struck out. What s the next Safe sport called out r Rhein main s rockets. The military Airlift come s finest won the football championship of Safe. With an 11-0 record. With a defense that ranks among the tightest in air Force history. Heck with a team that ranks among the Best in air Force history. S Stuttgart basketball. The High school stallions won the big schools championship. The army Stal Lions won the Usa eur championship. The girl scout stallions must be won something. T tigers. The Missouri basketball variety. My boys will win the big eight. Then comes the unbelievable the impossible. They la win a first round Caa game. U Usa eur. Watch the Wiesbaden eagles in basketball. A second title in three years. V Victory for Rolfe Bott the is super bowl contest Winner at that army signal site called Lin derhofer near Hess Isch Oldendorf. He did it by going 12-0 in predicting the College bowls then winning the second tiebreaker. I Felt great going 9-3, but then i had my wife Marji monitoring my picks like Shedid All season. W Watkins. Watch Butch shoot a basketball clobber a softball intercept a football. The Rhein main rocket is simply the finest military athlete Over Here. X x marked the spot on the 50-Yard line where West Point s Golden Knight paratrooper was sup posed to land with the football for the Emerald Isle classic in Dublin Ireland. He missed by 1 Yard. Boston College s Eagle Mascot answered by running out with an umbrella and pouncing on the 50. Y Yankees. They axed Billy Martin and their chances for a Pennant. After the Lou ser Piniella mistake they re Back in the Hunt with Dallas Green. Z Wei Brincken. The air base invited me to speak at its sports banquet. I showed my thanks by saying the next time Wei Brincken wins a football championship Gary Hart will be  Don t grouse warriors. I said the same thing at Rhein main. The stars and stripes Turner turns it on for Georgetown by the associated press when John Thompson talks people listen. Especially his own players. So when the Georgetown coach told John Turner to contribute More to the team s Effort he did. Turner scored 18 Points and had 11rebounds wednesday night As the seventh ranked hoyas beat Pittsburgh 76-57in the big East. John and i had a Little conversation and i think he heard what i said Thompson said. All of it was t kind but it was t  Thompson took aside Turner a jmrnn1college Transfer tuesday and said Georgetown was relying too much on olympic guard Charles Smith and fresh Man Center Alonzo mourning. He just told me to rebound to Hel Alonzo on the boards Turner said. That s what i  mourning who scored 15 Points an blocked seven shots noticed the difference. He took a lot of pressure off me mourning said. He was picking up the Loose balls dumping them Back in help ing us All  Smith scored 19 Points and George town held Pitt to 19 Points in the first half. Smith began the game with 999 Points and became the 24th Georgetown player to score 1,000 in his career. The hoyas improved to 11-1 Overall and 1-1 in the conference. They Are 7-0 against the panthers at the capital Centre. Pitt 7-6 and 1-2, has lost two straight games for the first time since coach Paul Evans took Over in 1986."it could be three in a Row Evans said. We be got Oklahoma on saturday. College basketball i picked Georgetown As the team to beat in the big East and they re just going to get better. We were kind of Happy we were hitting them this Early so i hate to see what s going to happen Lateran the  no. 1 Duke 100, William & Mary 38 Duke crushed visiting William Mary As Christian laettner scored 13 Points and Danny ferry had 12. The Blue devils 12-0, led 55-14 a halftime and six players finished in Dou ble figures. Duke held a 49-21 rebound ing Edge and committed Only 12 fouls. No. 8 North Carolina 88, Maryland 72 Kevin Madden scored 25 Points Andrick Fox got 18 As Host North Carolina won its Atlantic coast conference opener. . Reid still a Reserve since foot sur Gery added 17 Points for the tar heels 14-2. North Carolina led 46-35 at half time and scored the first seven Points of the second half. Jerrod Mustaf scored 18 Points for Maryland 6-8. No. 9 Louisville 75, South Carolina 52 Pervis Ellison scored 11 of his 13 Points in the second half and Louisville beat South Carolina for its 11th straight Victory. The Host cardinals 11-2, never trailed in the metro conference game. They led28-22 at halftime and used a 15-2 burst in the second half to take control. Kenny Payne and Tony Kimbro scored 12 Points each for Louisville. Joe Rhett had13 Points for the gamecocks 8-3. No. 11 univ 83, Fresno state 77 Stacey Augmon scored 18 Points including the go ahead Basket with 2 44left, and univ rallied to win at Fresno. The Runnin rebels 11-2 Overall and6-0 in the big West trailed most of the game before Augmon made it 75-74. Greg Anthony scored 16 Points David Butler added 15 and Anderson Hunt 14. Jervis Cole scored 26 Points for Fres no state 7-5 and 2-1. No. 13 Seton Hall 74, Lona 58 Frantz Volcy scored 14 Points and sparked a first half surge that carried Seton Hall past Lona. The pirates trailed 13-3 in the first six minutes before scoring 17 straight Points. Volcy led the spurt with six Points. John Morton got 17 of his 18 Points inthe second half to preserve the Lead. Seton Hall 14-1, won in its first Gam since losing by 34 Points at no. 4 Syra Cuse on saturday. Sean Green scored 15 for the Host gaels 6-8. No. 14 Florida state 85, Jacksonville 70 George Mccloud scored 35 Points including six 3-pointers, and Florida state beat Jacksonville for its Best Start in nine years. The seminoles 11-1 Start is the bes since they won 11 of 12 to open the 1979-80 season. Florida state used a 27-8 run Early inthe first half to get past Host Jacksonville 6-6. No. 17 Tennessee 100, Louisiana St. 96 Ian Lockhart tipped in two missed foul shots in the last 90 seconds and ten Nessee got past visiting leu in the Southeastern conference. The volunteers 11-1, made seven of nine free throws in the final 1 50 with North Carolina s Kevin Madden. 25 Points is. Maryland Lockhart tipping Home the other two. Dyron Nix scored 20 Points Lockhart finished with 19 and Doug Roth had 18 Points and 13 rebounds for Tennessee. Freshman Chris Jackson scored 26 Points for the tigers 9-5. Jackson aver aging 28 Points per game was held to a Basket at the Buzzer in the first half. An sports television pro hockey Edmonton at washing ton 2 . Saturday. Radio pro basketball Atlanta at Phila Delphia 1 30 . Saturday