European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 5, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday january 5,1990 the stars and stripes Page 23thyearmmfhzurbriggen\ what did we Leain from 1989? if nothing else we Learned How Tough it is to spell Don Majkowski and Arantha Sanchez two of the hot new names. Which is a decent Way to preface this fifth annual spelling Bee wrap up the Abc of sports. A american football conference. This Loop took a beating for advancing a wave of 9-7 teams to the playoffs. Mediocrity you say sure but one of those clubs is Pittsburgh and i picked the steel cars to reach the acc final in this very column last year. One More Victory and i wish i had bet the ranch. B Bubby Brister. He should go by Broadway Bubby even if he a in Pittsburgh. 7he Steeles quarterback is the Joe Namath of these nil playoffs. C Chang. Michael s five set Combacker Over no. 1 Ivan Lendl in the French open was the upset of the year. D defense. Its the key to Minnesota s pending upset of san Francisco in saturdays pfc playoff. E Everett. Jim will fire the rams past new York in frigid giants stadium on sunday. If you think that a upsetting watch Buffalo Blacken the Browns afternoon saturday. F Foreman. If George preaches turning the other Cheek to his Texas Church congregation he does t practice it. This Man of the doth continues to Pound boxers to the Canvas. He stretched his winning Streak to 19 since ending his 10-year Layoff in 1987. Come Jan. 15, Foreman faces the perpetual comeback fighter Gerry Cooney. The Billing a the preacher and the  g gambling thanks to Pete Rose we now know of another illness on the base paths alongside drugs and booze. H hurricanes. Miami is positively no. I in College football. Notre Dame Isnit no matter How loudly the Irish cry. Neither is Florida state no matter now hard the seminoles try to forget their opening two losses. I Indiana. The basketball hoosiers Are headed for a fourth National title under Bobby Knight. This season. Guaranteed. 9 a j Johnson. Magic is so convincing on the basketball court Orlando named its team after him. Or something to that effect. K Karlsruhe. The pacers pounced on Wiesbaden for the army basketball championship of Europe. Considering that i Wiesbaden won it in 1987, 2 Karlsruhe had never won anything and 3 the pacers lost game i of the series at Home this was one of the greatest upsets in Usa eur finals history. L Lindy Infante. The coach turned a 4-12 Green Bay palsy into a 10-6 contender. And you thought Majkowski was the magician. M Martin. From the reports of his Christmas crash Billy lived by the drink and died by the drink. What a waste of a Man who could have been a Hall of Fame manager. N Mcaa final. For basketball hoopla its Tough to top Michigan s 80-79 overtime Triumph Over scion Hall. Rum Al Robinson clinched it at the line for the wolverines but they  have been close without the bombing by Glen Rice the former Albert Schweitzer tournament stud. O Oakland. The athletics graded a plus. They survived a Maze of injuries to win the american league West. Once healthy they routed Toronto and san Francisco in the postseason. P poor Philadelphia. The pompous press can to give the City a break even when its teams win. I wrote in August that the eagles had never reached the super bowl when in fact they were in the 1981 nil title game. Sports illustrated wrote in october a in the 1980 world series Willie Wilson actually played pretty Well in Kansas City a six game loss to St.  no 1980 was the year Philadelphia a Phillies won their Only world sends title. Q quake. Since the giants Kevin Mitchell and will Clark could t shake up the world series san Francisco s earthquake did. R Rhein main. The rockets won their second straight air Force football championship of Europe. They managed it even after trashing their successful rap of 1988 a Kool Moe decks Quot How do you like me now a in favor of . Hammer s a turn this Mother  s sportsman of the year. If not Joe Montana for his super bowl and regular season heroics then Boris Becker for his Wimbledon and Davis cup dominance. T Thomas. Isiah and his fellow pistons showed the Aba exactly How to handle the lakers. U Usa eur. While Gen. Crostic Saint canned the Usa eur championships sports Boss Don Claycomb uttered nary a Peep. Maybe if someone had questioned Saint to his face he would have let the Usa eur championships live just As he did the army a youth sports program. V Vikings. Their draft Choice filled Trade for her Schul Walker will look Fine if they finally win a super bowl. But if Walker keeps tiptoeing into the line As if it were electrified it will be a Lousy Deal for Minnesota. W world cup. The . Soccer team is headed for Italy in 1990. Four years hence the United states will Host the cup. If soccer is Ever to get a foothold in America now s the time. X a rated. Evidently that s How the Weirdo Manning the an controls viewed John Taylor s winning to catch in the super bowl. Instead of cutting away from a spot the an Genius a whoever he was a made us miss the 49cr clincher. Y Yount. Robin and his fellow baseball players caught hell for grabbing s3 million contracts. The next time you shake your head remember this Oprah Winfrey makes $30 million a year. That s thirty big ones. And she can to hit the curve Ball. Z Zurbriggen. Pirmin is on course to return to the top of world cup skiing. That is. If Snow returns to Europe a courses. The Star and Stropa Bucky Fox Buffalo on wild ride teetering Glanville sees Falcons Atlanta apr Houston coach Jerry Glanville met with Atlanta Falcons officials thursday to discuss the nil dub s vacant head coaching position. Glanville with one year remaining on his Oiler contract reportedly had j fanned interviews with the new York ets and Phoenix cardinals but both clubs said no. Quot Jerry Glanville has a Job and we respect that a cardinals general manager Larry Wilson said. A we have our list and he is not on  jets general manager Dick Steinberg has interviewed Michigan state s George per Les and confirmed he will interview Cincinnati offensive coordinator Bruce Coslet. Quot we have no plans to interview Jerry Glanville Quot Steinberg said. Glanville emerged wednesday from a 2 i hour meeting with oilers owner Bud Adams and general manager Mike Holo Vak and flew to Atlanta. The Falcons arc seeking a replacement for Marion Campbell. They also interviewed Steve Spurrier who later accepted the head coaching Job at the University of Florida Ana Washington redskins assistant head coach Joe Bugel. Glanville Isnit believed to be among the top candidates for the Falcons Job. He reportedly is on a secondary list along with Denver defensive coordinator Wade Phillips and Coslet. Houston lost its last three games of the season including sundays acc wildcard game to  26-23 in overtime. There had been speculation Glanville would be fired if the oilers did no to reach the super bowl. Up Jerry Glanville suffered sunday. During playoff loss to Steeles by John f. Nonfat Al Orchard Park. . Apr Kent Hull grinned when he was asked if the Buffalo Bills would forget their troubles As they begin the acc playoffs saturday against the Cleveland Browns 6 30 . On an radio and to. A i forgot All about it already Quot said Hull the Bills Center. A a you la have to refresh my  fair enough. Most recently was running Back Thurman Thomas Public castigation of quarterback Jim Kelly on Cable to. That hardly docs Justice to a season that started with High Hopes and ended with losses in four of six games. Actually an incident after last season hinted at the turmoil that would be on display this season. After the Bills lost 21-10 to the Cincinnati bengals in the acc championship game a discussion turned into a shouting match As the Bills filed into the locker room at Cincinnati s riverfront stadium. The two players involved were Veteran offensive lineman Joe Devlin and kick returner defensive Back Erroll Tucker. The Oral fireworks were of sufficient intensity that to analyst and former Bills player Paul Maguire Wasny table to conduct pos game locker room interviews. The 1989 nonsense began in Earnest during the Bills second game of the season a 28-14 loss at Home to the Denver Broncos that would Cost them Home Field advantage in the playoffs. With the Bills trailing 15-0, defensive end Bruce Smith went into celebratory convulsions after sacking Denver quarterback John Elway. That prompted a heated argument Between Smith and linebacker Cornelius Bennett that was caught by monday night football camera Crews. Another sideline argument followed when Kelly threw an interception on a pass that was intended for wide receive analysis Chris Burkett. Kelly was seen sawing at Burkett who had turned the wrong Way on the pass pattern. It was t the last controversy involving Kelly but it was the last involving Burkett who quickly found himself on the Bench and within Days released. He finished the season with the new York jets. Kelly separated his shoulder in a 37-14 loss to acc East rival Indianapolis. The next Day on his morning radio show Kelly blasted offensive tackle Howard Ballard for missing a Block that allowed Colts defensive end Jon hand to hit him causing the injury. Kelly was replaced by backup Bfrank Reich who won All three games he started and became so popular he actually out polled Kelly 3-1 in write in votes during buffaloes mayoral election. Perhaps the most bizarre incident in a season filled with weirdness involved two assistants who joined head coach Marv Levy a staff before the Start of the season. Wide receiver coach Nick Nicolau and offensive line coach Tom Bresnahan were reviewing game film after the Bills 34-3 Victory Over the new York jets oct. 22. Bresnahan reportedly was insisting that it was the play of his unit that led to the Victory. Finally Nicolau who is much smaller than Bresnahan. Apparently had enough and decked Bresnahan with a solid uppercut. He then grabbed Bresnahan in a Headlock and drove Nim head first into a Wall. The dented Wall needed to be repaired of did Brusnahan s face which required stitches. Amazingly Levy said. A Tom and Nick arc close friends. Who lived together for four or five months in the  so you Sec even if Buffalo loses to Cleveland on saturday fans will still have plenty to remember from the 1989 season