European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 24, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday. March 24,1989 the stars and stripes Page 23 Only Vitale can tame hoops overload b Tony Kornheiser the Washington Post Dick vital you re a Star Bay Bee a Star who else would put on a Ball stale Hal or a Princeton sweatshirt during the game would Jim Nalz and muss his hair arc you kidding me thai s what s so Greal about you Dick you be got no hair so you Don t have to worry about How you look. You sit there like or. Potato head on Metherine making mad passionate love to the Mcaa games and 1 Salute you. I would t dream of wading into the first round of the Caas without you Richie. Noon through 2 . Wit i you 32 games m two nights. How docs it work do they toss you some red meal every so often then Hose you Down after an of you left that poodle Tim even i can t imagine what i m talking about but How do you like my tie Brando in the dust you smoked him. Esp nettled a double team to slay close to you. Who s on the air longer than you Only Jerry Lewis and near the end All he docs is asked Mcmahon for another Tympani Roll. You re there and you re doing the heavy lifting. Schools nobody Ever heard of you be been to their gyms. Players nobody s Ever seen you saw them in Grade school. You re the sports Easler front Lac Moon. You be got coaches on the phone coaches on hold coaches leaving school. Hey pick forget those coaches you made into stars he Michi Gan s Sieve Fisher. Siena s Mike canc and Creigh ton s Tony  you virtually had on the nut greyhound out of town headed fora belter Job it s you Dick you re the paper you re the Guy with the big a you re a Star Bay Bee i Only want to talk to people who watched esp on thursday and Friday and lbs on the weekend and i want you to Tell the Rush. Tell me Vilalte in t incr galactic. I m not talking about doing game. I m talking about in the studio just got Cable a few weeks ago so 1 was spared an entire season of vital. I m told that watching him do games is roughly like being rapped in a Small closet with a Rabid Doberman pins her Vilalte. .is.made, for the studio. They come to him for Small commentary bursts of opinions and when they sense he s on the verge of becoming too loopy you can usually Tell because his eyes Start bulging like they re pumping helium into his head and he begins to levitate from his chair they la pull the plug and Send you out to an other game. In contrast when lbs switched Back to Jim Nantz in the studio Tell me you did t feel like you were watching someone being de iced before your very eyes. On sunday after Iowa roared wildly Back from being behind 25-6. Against North Carolina stale and went to halftime tied at 41, Nantz intoned so a remarkable first half comes to an end in that Flat professional Anchor voice of someone Reading a grocery list. Come on. After a half like that the least Vitale would have done on the air is have a heart attack esp was so much belter than lbs. Not in the announcing of games lbs did a Fine Job. Anyway this in t a column rating announcers though 1 was impressed by analysts Clark Kellogg and Quinn Buckner whom i had t heard before. Where esp destroyed lbs was in switching from game to game to Basket Ball fans could gel a Fuller sense of the crowded Pano Rama of the Mcaa s opening rounds. Esp made sure we saw the right stuff jumping around masterfully getting in and out of games at propitious times. Lbs locked us into one same. There Are 40 million people watching 39.5 million of them Are in pools and lbs stays with the same game. Early in the second half of  state Iowa lbs flashed scores which showed South Alabama and Michigan were tied obviously Laie in the second half and Evansville had closed to within one Point of Seton Hall apparently equally late in the game. As entrancing As . Staic Lowa was How could lbs nor Cut away to the other games a few minutes later Nantz dutifully announced Michigan won by nine and scion Hall won too. In time we Learned Seton Hall scored the last 13 Points in its game thanks for sharing that with us. I Ose Calls a Wake n h of a s by David Ginsu pc f Washington a after two straight close Calls in the Mcaa tournament Georgetown hardly appears to be invincible anymore du1 that could work to the i Loya. Advantage As they prepare for Friday s showdown against North Carolina stale. A week ago Georgetown was brimming with Confidence. The Toyas had just won their fourth big East tournament in six years registering a record setting Point differential in the process. The . Expected to provide. Georgetown Wilh the impetus it needed to March through the tournament. Bui then some not  things happened to the hoyas. First Princeton thai no scholarship Ivy league walk on came within a Basket of pulling off a monumental upset. Then Georgetown had to Roar from behind to eliminate notre Dame. If nothing else the Luyas no longer have to contend with being overconfident As they enter he next round of the Eastern regional tonight in East Rutherford. . Against  "1 think if we would have blown but Princeton and notre Dame we might Noi have concentrated on working As hard for . State said freshman Alpo mourning. We probably would have gone in with a different Altitude.  we know we can be beat  Princeton had a Chance to become the first no. 16 seed to beat a top seed in the history of the Tournai ,.bui mourning blocked two shots in the filial seconds to preserve a 5cm9 Victor. Then the hoyas needed 28-second-half Points from Charles Smith to Salvage an 81-74 decision Over notre Dame. I think it woke everybody up said Jarcan Jackson. We won t be going into Friday s game lackadaisical we won t be complacent. We Are Well aware of the fact that if we lose once we re out of it it is a message thai coach John Thompson has drilled into his team at virtually Cery Opportunity. Before the notre Dame game Thompson said he told hts seniors they could fool around if they wanted to but this could be your last practice As a College player just think about  to keep those practices going the hoyas could give mourning and Smith some offensive help. The duo has accounted for 76 of Georgetown s 131 Points in he Mcaa tournament the hoyas needed every one of mourning s 2 Points and 13 rebounds against Prince ton and Smith s Stellar second half against inc Irish Siren Jackson Bobby Al Slun what else Well nobody asked me but i m naming my next kid Laphonso. Princeton proved Why it would be terribly wrong to yank the automatic Mcaa bids to some of the smaller conferences. Better to toss the path civic 0-5 Sec instead. For Alt the upsets in the first round 12 of 32 games to inc underdogs there was Only one in the second round and that was nominal a no. 5 beating a no. 4 seed. Minnesota is the Only team seeded less than no. 5 still playing. Sleepers Are fun but like butterflies they Don t survive long., Michigan s better off without Bill they Don t Call me the wizard Fri Cdr. Bui How about that Arizona slate athletic director who gave Fri Cdr 20 minutes to decide if he wanted the Job what was he before be coming Art and a real estate agent. Virginia s Richard Morgan is Lamar mundane rain ing 30-Fbolcrs from the sky. Hell wire you up. Why docs this name ring a Bell for Sroog Marc. Brown ,. How about Eddie sullion on saturday he says anybody who knows me. Knows i won t  on sunday he resigned. What happened i d ask someone who knows Sutlon but they probably think he s still at Arkansas. I wanted Loyola Mary mount to go further. They have a player whose last name is mister and 1 wanted to hear a re say that s a foul on you. Mister. Raise your hand  -. To whom it May concern shrewd move pulling Chris Jackson who s Only the men exciting basketball player in the whole country on to after everybody in the cast was asleep. How come every game 1 watch no Mailer where it s played Larry Lembo is one of the referees thanks Stanford thanks a lot. Tilt Bill s in the mail. Was Pivotal. In contrast Jackson has scored but 13 Points in two games after averaging 12,8 per Erniest during the regu Lar season. The team s third leading scorer in the tournament is Bobby Winston Nho 1m totalled it in the two games. Now the hoyas face another lest in the Wolf pack the regular season champions of the Atlantic coast conference. They re capable of doing a lot of things Thomp son said. Jimmy Valvano likes to play a lot of de lenses Box and one in Anglo and two. They play Man and they play one. We really Don t know what to  mourning does. They Don t do anything we Haven t seen and nothing we re not capable of controlling or beating he said. Editor claims Public to blame for College woes  Kansas City. To. A Over Realous boosters and unethical coaches Are not alone in corrupting College sports says a noted newspaper executive the Public has to accept much of the. Blame said Joe Mcgurt. Editor and vice presi Dent of the Kansas City Star and times. We. Overemphasize sports in our society and under pm phase Ducat  in an address tuesday at the Midwest re search Institute Mcnult a former sports editor and columnist for he newspaper said. Ameri cans no longer Are satisfied with Good competitive athletics we want to win and our egos arc so caught up in the performance of our teams that we place winning ahead of ethics Mcnult said. With the coining of television College athletics gradually changed from Small business to a big business. Larger stadiums were built How games were added schedules were extended and television Revenue steadily increased. As 1 he financial stakes grew so did the pressure to cheat and to exploit athletes coaches realized they were Ucli More Likely to be fired for losing than they were for cheat ing Mcduff added this is hot to say. That every school that plays big time athletics cheats. There Are Many clean pro Grams. But from what pc arc seeing today it is evident that a disconcerting number of schools cheat and have lax standards. In a College or University everything should be subordinated to education. 1 Don t think anyone can look at the facts and figures presented in this study and say this is  the colleges Are deceiving themselves by continuing to insist they arc dealing in Amateur sports Mcgurt said. At the big Lime level the colleges Are trying to administer what arc essentially professional sports with Amateur