European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 17, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 22 a the stars and stripes sunday february 17,1991 Walton goes live by Larry s i Ewar los antics times a Little less than a year ago Bill Walton lost the use of his Ait Les. On March 15, 1990, in the third major operation on. His painful Ankles in three years the hones were fused. That Means the Ankles no longer ilex. Walton a feet. Are locked in position a but after six months on crutches the intense pain he had for years is a in a the Luckiest Man alive a said Walton who no longer needs the crutches. A i can walk ride a bicycle and go to sleep pain free. A my heart really goes out to people who suffer from chronic pain. Only someone who has experienced it knows How bad it can the latest surgery,1 besides eliminating. Walton Spain also ended any Hope that he could play basketball finally it was time to get serious about another career. Somewhat Surpri singly he chose broadcasting. Maybe More surprising is How Well he has done. A one season stint with a local los Angeles station in the Early 1980s did not go particularly Well. But Back then a basketball career was Walton a driving Force not broadcasting. Now he spuling All his Energy into his new Endeavor and the results have been positive a As Urcla s commentator this season on prime ticket a Southern California based Cable network he has been Opin a Iona cd informative articulator also he has been lured by lbs. Next week the network will name eight broadcast teams to work the Mcaa tournament and Walton will be a member of one of them. Walton did an audition for lbs with Jim Nantz during Uscky recent Victory Over Urcla at the los Angeles sports Arena. Because of space limitations near the court Walton and Nantz had to do the practice run off a Monitor i n t h e clip per locker room. Apparently things went Well. Walton in t doing too badly for someone who grew up with a stuttering problem although there is barely a Trace of it. Today. A a a a commentary Walton 38, said at started to go away about 10 years ago after he spent time with Marty Glickman a Veteran new York sportscaster who for several years served As a coach Quot to no cd a announcers. Walton a close Friend Ernie Vande Wegh and Glickman Are longtime friends. Glickman who played basketball at Syracuse in the 1930s, got to know Vandeweghe when he played at Colgate in the �?T40s. While Glickman was visiting Vandeweghe in California in the Early �?T80s, they r visited Walton in san Diego before he _ had done any kind of broadcasting and Vandeweghe thought Glickman might be Able to help Walton with his speech problem. He was right. Glickman today is Semi retired he still a announces the new York jets games on radio teaches a broadcasting class at Fordham University in new York and has a business in which he advises prospective sports announcers. He was at Home thursday recovering from hip replacement surgery when he got a Call from a reporter asking what he had done for Walton. A gosh that was a Long time ago a Glickman said. A a in a surprised Bill even of he remembers All right., a Marty Glickman deserves a lot of credit a Walton said. Said Glickman a a in a kind of surprised. I really did no to know 1 deserved so much credit. Its very Gratifying to know twas Able to help. �?o1 think what i told Bill is the same thing in be told others who stutter or stammer. That is a slow Down collect your thoughts before you a people can think a lot quicker than they can speak. Some people have to learn to slow Down their thought pro a a cess.�?�. .��?�.����. A a a a a a a someone else Walton credits is Keg time Abc sportscaster Charlie tories whose Home in la Jolla is less than a half hours a drive from Walton a Home near the san Diego zoo. A i just can to say enough about what Charlie has done for me a Walton said. Walton arid Jones talked last Spring. And Walton mentioned his interest in broadcasting Jones one of the All time Nice Guys in the business offered to help. The first thing. Jones said was to get an audition tape. They made one at a san Diego studio. The next was to get Walton an agent. Jones referred him to his own agent Martin Mandel of san Francisco who was Able to make we Altony Deal with prime ticket. 1 but Jones help did to Stop there. Walton takes tapirs of games he works to Jones House and the two sit for hours critiquing Walton a work. ,.1. Quot what we work on is mechanics Quot Jones said. A the Content Sall Bill a. A we talk about All kinds of things a his on camera presence i appearance his clothes his makeup a Bill Walton concerned about clothes and makeup a yes people do change. A a in be matured a said Walton whose Well groomed appearance belies his farther Long haired bearded image As a peace activist. A i m still Bill Walton but life a experiences have changed some of my thinking a his Outlook today a a different time a different War a is More modified. A i still oppose any kind of War but Saddam Hussein is a serious threat a he said. Once considered a Recluse Walton is now More outgoing and Friendly. Said Jones a a he a great with people. He a just a very very Nice Walton who has a seven bedroom "steri-btitlhome7 is the single father of four boys 9 through 15, Walton who has been divorced about three years said the boys also spend time with their Mother in nearby Del mar. John wooden is among those pleasantly surprised by How Well Walton is doing As a broadcaster. A. A a a i say 1 am surprised a the former Urcla coach said a because Bill always had a Good work ethic and he is a very Brig Hittle halt Hiff in. He was a very Good student. �?o1 guess what surprises me is How Well the Speaks. You know he used to have a speech Impett tent. You know it now would you a file Bill Walton with retired Jersey. Smooth enough for cd West pointers Battle Mideast worries by John Kakkis map sportswriter 1 West Point n a suddenly sports done to seem quite so important around Here except maybe As an escape from reality. That escape never lasts Long because the reminders of War Are everywhere. A when we re on the court All we think about is basketball Quot said Mary Langen Dorf of Dalton mass., a Junior guard on the women s basketball team. A but the War has changed the entire atmosphere of the Academy. Everybody who used to watch cartoons or to for relaxing now they re tuned in to can. Everyone knows when the reports come on. Everyone talks about Quot the s All they think Quot during our free periods if we get into class a Lille Early in no a always on Quot said Todd Tamburino senior co Captain of the ice hockey team. Quot you can walk into every other room in the Barracks and there a some kind of news program on in somebody s room. Everybody a always exchanging hockey practice no longer relieves the built in anxiety of the service Academy atmosphere As much As it used to especially when word arrives Aliaj to former teammate has been sentor right in the persian Gulf Butch Brennan class of 197b Darryl Macdonald �?T86 Mike Chenette �?T88 and Todd Traczyk 90, who went overseas three weeks ago. A when he Traczyk went it really hit Home a said hockey coach Robb Riley whose father coached army hockey 36 years a tenure that included Vietnam War a years Quot a a a a a a 7. Until Traczyk headed for the Gulf a your Guys did no to have teammates that they knew of who were Over there a a Riley said. A that hit Home to everyone. You could just see it in the expressions on some of the Guys when they heard he was Over there a wow this thing is for real a a a senior Forward Paul i Taggerty was one. A that could he me a said. Haggerty a native of West Hartford Conn. A Todd was my Lin mate last year. Everyone is kind of shocked. Its kind of like a family Here and they re like an Extension of our family. A a everything a up in the air right now. But when i talk to my family it makes me realize that within a year i could be on the front lines of for Sophomore Scott Gardiner a Forward on the Junior varsity hockey team the War has hit his Detroit area Home his brother a corp Al in the marines was sent to the Middle East in october. A it really did no to hit me that hard until they attacked a Gardiner said. T remember that night 1 was kind of in Shock for a while. Nov i listen to the radio every Day try and keep track. Who knows maybe the ground attack wont happen. 1 can t let it affect me too much because this place keeps you Busy. But in a constantly re a a on the surface things seem about the Sanie. Underneath its a different Story. A a it a made the players mature real pick and grow up real Quick. They be never had that pressure a Riley said. Always known that when they jute go in the army and i Tever Branch they re in will determine where they re stationed. Everything will be kind of taken care of. Now its totally out of their control and that s something they re trying to Deal Ion a recent visit to Yale the hockey teams bus was adorned with anti War leaflets Langendorf and her teammates Are wearing yellow ribbons on their uniforms. With numerous West Point graduates among the troops in saudi Arabia a full scale ground War could result in another tradition one from an unpopular War being brought Back. During Vietnam there were announcements every Day about grads who had been killed a Haggerty said. A if this thing develops 1 can see where that could become a daily occurrence again a a we be had a moment of silence before each game we be played since the War. Broke out. It makes you realize there s something More important than a hockey games. All your Effort is going into the hockey game but its always there in the Back of your a i know at least eight people who used to wrestle Here at West Point that Are Over there a said . Pasteur a senior wrestler from East Lansing Mich a we write them letters we Send stuff to them11 a food articles about How Well the wrestling team is doing. Its bearable but. Its difficult. You can to concentrate. Every time you turn on the to you see something about it.�?�. At West Point the hockey basketball and wrestling teams practice and compete in a Multi port Complex called the Holleder Center. It is named after Don Holleder a former football and basketball Stac who graduated with the class of �?T56 along with Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf the . Commander in the Gulf a place be honouring Holleder killed in action in Vietnam a in 1967, hangs on the lobby Wall. So does a painting of him Clad in combat uniform a Belt Laden with hand grenades at his Side a Rifle in his hand. Inside is Tate rink named for Joseph Tate class of �?~41, and his brother Frederic class of 42. Both were hockey Letterman both became pilots during world War 11 and both were killed in combat at a get 25. Adjacent to the rink is Christl Arena Home of the Basic thayl and wrestling teams. It is named after Edward Christl jr., who was killed in Austria in 1945. 7 a now you walk by that plaque and you might take a minute to actually read it and reflect on it and where you might be in a year or so a Haggerty said
