European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 23, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Saturday june 23, 1990 the stars and stripes a a a Page 25commentary Europe can keep world cup thugs imagine you Are on the committee organizing the Host role in the 1994 world cup. You watch sail can and Turner network television reports about English dutch and German thugs or excuse me a hooligans a terrorizing parts of Italy. You be read the reports of scores of English dutch and German soccer hooligans being arrested detained and deported for fighting and destroying cars and property in the name of soccer enthusiasm. We Are told these English chaps Are unfortunate and Down on their Luck yet they can put together the Cash to Fly in Masse from England to the med. Hmm you also note that Only 2 percent of american households watched our most important world cup game a and our Best performance in 40 years a the 1-0 loss to Italy. While More than 80 percent of italians watched it. If in Mon this committee and hosting the world cup goes hand in hand with defending american cities against these hooligans id Tell fifa soccer a world governing body thanks but no it just ainu to Worth somebody getting killed Over something As insignificant As a soccer game. Think about it. Just look ahead to the american sports landscape for june �?T94. Its the Middle of the baseball season for 28 teams including the two new National league teams in Denver and , which will be playing in their second season. You think these cities will give a Hoot about soccer the Aba finals will be wrapping up. I doubt that Detroit will be going for its sixth straight Aba title by then. But unless the bulls blazers celtics or lakers get better who a to Stop the pistons by the Way Bill Laimbeer played great basketball in the �?T90 finals. Its amazing what you can do when you rebound the basketball off the boards instead of shoving it in someone a face Well also have the College baseball playoffs and olympic festival to get ready for the 1996 summer olympics in Atlanta keep the fingers crossed. This does no to even take summer blockbuster movies Beach trips and videos into account. Add the . Open Golf championship and the world cup just becomes one More Hill on the sports horizon. The world cup is King Over Here. Back Home it will be just one More thumb press on the sports fans Remote control. But Well take the masochistic approach and Host the cup anyway. Especially since fifa is letting wait Morrissette italian cop handles a soccer Hooligan in Cagliari. A cities with domed stadiums and portable grass get into the act. Domes grow like mushrooms in the states. What in the Devil Are we going to do about the invasion of the hooligans can . Customs agents get dossiers on a a known hooligans and Stop them at the airports we can take Italy a and banish Italy England Germany and Holland to an Island with Hopes that the italians would eliminate the British and one of the others thereby preventing them from advancing to a second round game on the Mainland. We have several options Hawaii Guam american Samoa puerto Rico the Bahamas . Virgin islands a or to make their trip Shorter the azores. Failing that we have several stateside options. We could move this group to a makeshift stadium with portable Sod in the parking lot of Caesars Palace in Las vegas. That Way the bookies could take bets on a Mother lode of options a 5-1 says the British will Start a fight. A Odds on whom the brits will fight first the dutch germans italians state police or Nevada National guard. �?o50 Bucks says the guard la kill pm. A Odds on whether the authorities will have to use tear Gas or Billy clubs to break them up. Or they could move the whole thing Over to that newly opened Castle in the desert the worlds largest hotel with More than 4,000 rooms a where they can joust it out. Casesar a could also stage this group in conjunction with wrestle mania x. Put the hooligans in a huge Cage with Andre the giant Hulk Hogan Randy a the Macho Many Savage the junkyard e of Rowdy Roddy Piper Etc. A then take bets on who a the last Man to leave the Cage. Detroit is another option either in the Silver dome or Tiger stadium. Since Detroi ters Tore up their City following the tigers �?T84 world series title and the pistons Back to Back titles they could make the hooligans feel right at Home. Other possible venues for world cup games Large open air stadiums with natural turf Are the Yale bowl in new Haven conn., just outside new York City Joe Robbie stadium in Miami candlestick Park and Stanford stadium in the Bay area los Angeles memorial coliseum Anaheim stadium and Frk stadium in Washington . Hmm. These Are some rough places for the bold and Brash British hooligans to Start some action in. Can you imagine the hooligans mixing it up with the bloods or crips in l.a.? hooligans in Harlem Southeast . Or downtown san Francisco since Joe Robbie stadium is almost Brand new and has 75,000 seats the �?T94 world cup semifinals and finals could be held there. Italy and the . Advance to one semifinal i know this is stretching even fantasy but let your imagination run free please and alas its England and Colombia in the other. Now the Dea already has the England colom Bia game staked out for other reasons. England manages a 1-0 Victory and the hooligans celebrate England strip to the final by mixing it up with colombian fans in the parking lot a who also happen to be there for other reasons. While the brits resort to rocks Sticks and bottles the colombians instinctively whip out uzis ak-47s and grenade launchers and. Maybe fifa can do us All a favor by Banning England from world cup play. What if the pistons win the Aba title while the bits Are in town the stars and stripes Lendl Hopes to make Racket at Wimbledon by Frederick Waterman Wimbledon England up a Tennis history is unforgiving. As Ivan Wndle knows a Wimbledon Victory is the anal Standard for greatness. Eight grand slam titles four years As the top ranked player and $16 million in earnings Are insufficient for a lasting place at the Pinnacle of his sport. That is Only on the Centre court of the. England club where the championships Start monday. Twice Lendl has watched a victorious a Pannent hold aloft the winners cup to Ine cheering crowd. This year he has son himself to becoming that peruse 30-year-old czechoslovakian of use u a likelihood of another erf t Penn order to practice on ass. Lendl whose strengths Are his Asenime ground strokes has worked to his in an attacking strategy Sharpen volleys and improve his footwork. Ugh a Lek Abs it his training was evident Champion Quot a a Wimbledon claim t a is afterwards Becker conceded lends preparation has been Superb a the just played like a perfect player on grass. One Good thing is he can to play if Lendlr a persistence and preparation Are not rewarded Becker is the most Likely spoiler. At age 22, the West German has already won Wimbledon three times a largely because his overpowering serve wears Down an opponents game and Confidence. Beckers game is naturally aggressive and he charges the net at every Opportunity. Seeded second he has additional motivation because of his first round loss at the French open. Stefan Edberg the third seed won Wimbledon in 1988, and at his Best he can beat anyone but when self doubt creeps in the swedes game disintegrates. Last year he was the first Man m 66 years to lose the opening set of a Wimbledon final by a 6-0 score. The top seed at the French open Edberg was a first round loser there when he struggled with his serve and backhand. If Wimbledon goes according to form Edberg would meet Lendl in the semifinals. Beckers semifinal opponent if each Wiam Pion Boris Becker in straight sets to seed plays to expectations would be no. Atm the grass court tournament at 4 John Mcenroe. The american is still a a the finest Shoemaker in Tennis but his last major title was the 1984 . Open. Ivan Lendl has won eight grand slams. But never at All England club since then he has not shown the conditioning consistency or temperament needed to Triumph at a two week tournament. Also hard serving Goran Ivanisevic a French open semifinalist would be a formidable third round opponent. Andres Gomez who won his first major title at pans two weeks ago is a Superb player but often at the mercy of his emotions. Seeded fifth he comes to Wimbledon without the desperate desire that carried him to Victory at Roland Garros though he Hopes the French Triumph is a More of a Sunrise than a Sunset for his Smith runs clinics the football invasion continues. Safe is hosting Southern Cal coach Larry Smith Atlantic coast conference official Mike samples and Texas christians Trainer t. Ross Bailey As part of the commands football clinics which started this week at Pitburg a. Smiths entourage is at Rhein main a site of a recent nil Uso tour for a Safe clinic monday and tuesday. Smith and co. Fly to Raf Chicksands England on wednesday for a clinic that runs through Friday. Smiths credentials include spoiling to Schembechler a Farewell at Michigan with a us Victory in the 1990 Rose nip collegians Prague Czechoslovakia a Bill Dickmann a Home run in the Bottom of the seventh lifted the Mannheim Amigos to a 7-6 Victory Over Williams College mass in the Prague International baseball tournament Friday. Dickmann a Homer made a Winner of Glen Murray who appeared to be on his Way to a 6-5 loss when Dickman stepped to the plate. Dickmann a Homer knocked in the two runs necessary for the win. Raphael Merced belted a pair of homers and Martin Helmig had one
