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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 28, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday january 28,1989 the stars and stripes Page 23 commentary ask or. Negative for the answers by Scott Ostler los Angeles times ask or. Negative to whom every Cloud has a Silver lining no doubt due to atmospheric pollution or radioactive fallout. Or maybe because his eyes Are going bad from staring at this Damn word processor screen. When Gaylord Perry missed being voted into the baseball Hall of Fame winding up 34 votes shy of the 336 needed for enshrinement were you disappointed heartbroken. I thought he should have missed by 336 votes. This Guy loaded so much junk on the baseball it floated up to the plate looking like a hot fudge sundae. This is known As creativity and games Manship. It is also known As cheating. Enshrinement How about incarceration your Momma could win 300 games with Perry s bag o tricks. You re not supposed to be Able to drool your Way into the Hall of Fame. Perry deserves his own special Niche though. Bestow on him the title Sultan of saliva present him with a Gold plated tube of by Jelly hold the Peanut butter and give him an acad Emy award for special effects. What s the news on the sum football scene a return to life a renewed Pride for the Mustangs program which was found guilty of every Rule in fraction but loading up the football with by Jelly. Around Dallas there is a proliferation of bumper stickers bragging sum football integrity since1989." that s old news though because those bumper stickers started appearing a year ago. On a recent halftime interview los Angeles lakers coach  Riley told announcer Chick Hearn there s been a lot of speculation undue criticism directed at Kareem Abdul Jabbar about his performance do you agree i think what Riley meant to say was overdue i which Case i agree. The criticism was undue it s curious that Riley would put Kareem on a two week probation. What did Riley Tell Kareem if this town s sportswriters on t shape up soon you la be benched interestingly most of the undue criticism of Kareem has come from Kareem. The Media criticism Riley said created a Burden on our  solving the lakers problems should be simple then. Just cancel the players and coach s newspaper subscriptions. What do you think of the Book personal foul the broken promises and shattered dreams of big Money basketball at Jim Valvano s North Caro Lina state riveting. I could t put it Down. I read the entire title in one sitting. I keep hearing All these stories about Miami the crime the drugs the poverty the turmoil and racial strife. Are things that bad in the super bowl City v Nawaa. They used to be but in recent years they be gotten worse. I have friends who live in Miami. They watch the Miami vice to series an think it s a sitcom. There was Hope for improvement though. The Miami police department could be solved 75,500 crimes sunday if it had arrested whoever decided that the nil should charge $100 a ticket for the super bowl. I read where Lloyd Moseby is disappointed because he s about to be traded by the Toronto Blue jays just when they re about to get new uniforms and move to a new Ballpark. He said for nine years i be played in pyjamas in the worst Ballpark in base Ball do you sympathize does a Bear install plumbing in the Woods you think i m called or. Negative because i hang out i photo darkrooms i think or. Moseby should be reassigned to a new occupation featuring dignified clothing and pleasant working conditions. Coal mining comes to mind. To be fair though i guess it would t be much fun to be in a line of work where you re forced to Wear a silly Cap funny underwear and flip Down sunglasses. No wonder the players Are threatening to strike. Abc s Bob Trumpy made an on the air refer ence to Miami football coach Jimmy Johnson having a reputation As a used car Salesman was that a lowbrow the lowest an unprovoked cheap shot at used car salesmen. Most used car salesmen in fact Are former College coaches and alumni athletic boosters who had con science attacks and decided to go straight but could t do it cold Turkey. Do you personally refer to the forum Home of the lakers As the great Western forum after All great Western Bank did kick in a lot of Money for Arena improvements in Exchange for linking it name with that of the  i think it would be unfair to single out one Spon Sor to have  attached to this great Arena. Several other corporations generously donate Money to the forum in Exchange for hanging their name or logo inside the building. Therefore i always refer to this grand Arena by its full and proper name the Toyota Kenwood prime ticket Budweiser Michelin re cola Continental airlines Sharp copiers cent Inela Hospital Klix radio Labatt s Blue discount tire Center Bud Light Northwest airlines gatorade Amtrak Lite Beer from Miller Canon eos Marlboro emergency exit Only forum. Rice implies racism Over map reaction 49ers Jerry Rice. 11 with map trophy catches for 215 Yards san Francisco a Jerry Rice says he s getting Short shrift from the Media for his most valuable player award in the super bowl and suggests that White team mates on the san Francisco 49ers would thave the same problem. If it were Joe Montana Dwight Clark it would have been headlines All Over the All pro wide receiver said wednesday referring to the 49ers quarterback and former pass Catcher. I m not saying it s racism Rice added in a copyright interview with Kron to. But when asked by interviewer Pete Liebengood whether his comments implied that racism was involved Rice replied yeah i would say  referring to Washington redskins quarterback Doug Williams last year s super bowl map Rice said i did t a feel he got the recognition that he de  Williams like Rice is Black. Rice caught 11 passes for 215 Yards both super bowl records and made three catches in the 49ers final drive that ended with Montana s game win Ning touchdown pass to John Taylor in the 49ers 20-16 Victory Over the Cincin Nati bengals last sunday. After the game Rice said Montana should have been the map. But in the interview with Liebengood he said he was slighted in the coverage of the award and does t expect the same financial benefits others would get fro the Honor. I Don t know if i la get any recognition in commercials or anything but right now the Way things Are looking i m not going to get nothing out of being map Rice said. Just the name to hemp and that s  he said he does t think he gets the Overall attention he deserves and that it s the Media s fault because they re not getting my name out  Montana the team s Best known player and the map in two previous super bowls was the focus of local publicity before and after the game and also appears regularly in commercials. Rice received some pregame attention for an ankle injury that kept him out of several practices articles about the game mentioned him prominently. Harry Edwards a sports sociologist at the University of California at Berkeley who has studied racism in sports agreed that there has been unequal coverage of Rice and blamed racism but added i Don t think it was something that was deliberately  noting that three of the four local newspaper writers on the 49er beat Are White Edwards said people Are going to write what they know. They know Joe Montana. They Don t know Jerry Jerry Rice. They re not As intimate with the inner feelings of  Carson from Page 21 because he has worked in the acc giving him More experience in the Confer ence in which the Browns compete. Sch Ottenheimer resigned three Days after the Browns lost 24-23 to Houston in the acc wild card game. He refused o give in to Modell s demands that he hire an offensive coordinator and fire some of his assistants. The Kansas City chiefs hired Schot Genheimer As head coach tuesday. Carson takes Over one of the most successful acc teams of the past four years Ach Ottenheimer who like Carson was a defensive coordinator previously guided the Browns to four straight playoff appearances including acc Central Divi Sion championships in each of his first three full seasons As head coach. Under Carson the jets defensive ranking improved from 21st in 1984 to eighth in 1985 during his first season in new York. The rebuilding of new York s defense however stumbled to 23rd this sea$9n. The jets allowed 354 Points ranking 1 oth among 14 teams in the acc. Carson began his coaching career at Scottsdale pa., High school 1955-56. He went on to coach at North Carolina 0957-64 and South Carolina 1965 be fore moving on to Georgia tech in 1966, serving As head coach from 1967-71. He was hired As the Steeles secondary coach in 1972 and was named defensive coordinator Midway through that season continuing through the 1977 season. At Pittsburgh he developed what is considered by Many one of the greatest de lenses in the history of the nil the famed steel  the Steeles went to the playoffs All six years Carson was there including two super bowl victories. His most impressive feat came during the final nine games in 1976, when his defense recorded five shutouts and Al Lowed just two touchdowns during it drive for the playoffs. Carson then went to the rams As a secondary coach in 1978, and was defensive coordinator in 1979-81. His defense helped the rams into the 1980 super bowl which they lost to the Steeles. Carson was the defensive coordinator for Baltimore in 1982, Kansas City in 1983, and served As a Volunteer coach at Kansas University in 1984. Browns lose defensive coordinator Al Segundo Calif. A Dave Adolph the defensive coordinator for Cleveland the last three seasons was hired Friday by the los Angeles Raider Sas an assistant coach. Adolph 51, will coach the linebackers and have the responsibility of organizing the raiders defense executive assistant Al Locasale said. File new Cleveland coach Bud Carson. Replaces Marty sch Ottenheimer  
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