European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 18, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday october 18, 1991 the stars and stripes b Page 25shriver still haunted by surgery by Ron Mckinney staff writer Fil Derstadt Germany a year after arthroscopic surgery corrected an unstable shoulder Pam Shriver is still reeling from the repercussions of the injury. The game is Back said the 33rd-ranked Shriver but the serve has lost some of its zip and her Confidence has wavered some particularly at crunch time. A i think my Quality of play is not far removed from when i was say three through eight in the world a Shriver said wednesday at the porsche grand prix Tennis tournament in Fil Derstadt. A a it a just a Little Confidence and people i wish they did no to play As  take that Day As an example. Shriver opened her first round match against Isth ranked Nathalie Tauz iat with a pair of aces in her first service game. Tauz iat was serving for the first set at 5-4, 40-15, when Shriver dug in deep to win four straight Points for those four Points it was the Shriver of old driving approach shots in the Corners and crushing angled volleys. Shrivers spirited body language exuded determined Confidence As she swept the last three games of the first set. But it did t last. When break opportunities slipped away in the second set Shriver s game took the deep dive this time. Her shoulders sagged and a running dialogue to herself did nothing to motivate her. By the third set Shriver s serves were falling harmlessly into the net and she racked up double faults instead of aces. Score the match for Tauz iat 5-7, 6-3, 61. A i had some chances to stay on top and then i got negative especially in the third set a Shriver said. A my Confidence in third sets is terrible a in be Only won one this whole  this latest setback takes nothing away from shrivers comeback. Her ranking dropped to no. 115 before she won three rounds at the Lipton players championship last March. But while she Hasni to returned to the top 10, which she occupied from 198089, it has t been a bad year. Shriver 29, won three Gold medals at the pan am games won her 22nd grand slam doubles title with Natalia Zvereva at the . Open and had singles wins Over Helena Sutkova Zvereva and Helen Kelesi. A a in a really pleased a Shriver said. A if Pam Shriver in be already done As Well As in a going to do in this comeback its been a Success in some  shrivers greatest obstacle has been the loss of luxury of no longer being a seeded player. Because of that she faces any seed in a first or second round match. She lost to Martina Navratilova in the third round at the . Open Mary Joe Fernandez in the third round at Wimbledon and Monica Seles Katerina male Eva and Navratilova in second round matches earlier this year. A my losses a vent to been bad losses but i d like to raise the level of my game so 1 can beat some of these top players Quot Shriver said. Navratilova thinks it s just a matter of time before Shriver does that. A i think she s making Progress a Navratilova said. A it s rough starting Over again trying to work your Way up the rankings. It takes awhile. But 1 think she can get Back in the top 10  to get there Shriver plans to keep plugging away. A you just keep going Quot Shriver said. A you look for that Little breakthrough. You just look for any Little thing you can get a kick out  but for now Shriver would Settle for a Little kick in her serve. A my serve is not As dependable As id like a she said. A it becomes a problem because i m afraid to practice it As much As i d like because i can Only serve Only so much before it starts to get a Little  an ill at ease Alex Karras left listens As on air mate Frank Gifford right makes a Point to Howard Cosell. Abc novel idea evens score for Karras by Robert Lipsyte the new York times for three years wedged Between Frank Gifford who made him look fat and Howard Cosell who made him seem dumb what could the mad Duck do but plot his revenge one can Only imagine the fever in his brain i will write a movie a no a Book a that will expose this game this broadcast this network a no this country a for what it really is one Long commercial briefly interrupted by live action. The revenge a tuesday night football Birch Lane Pressman not be the worst novel Ever written. But to judge it As a novel is to miss the Point. Alex Karras called the mad Duck As an All pro lineman with the Detroit Lions has written with a screenwriter Douglas Graham a Story with paid commercials. The brands that pop up with televised regularity in the Book appear in the screenplay on which it was based and if the corporations pay on time will appear in the movie scheduled to go into production next year with Karras As Star. A great idea huh a chortled Karras 56, Migulish in tinted glasses a Gold Chain sock less slip on. A terrible idea a i said. A literature is supposed to be pure. What could you have been thinking of a a i was getting paid $90,000 a year to play football a said Karras a and i got $17,000 to shoot a commercial that took an hour and a half. That a when i figured it All  Between his Epiphany and his current Book tour Karras became a movie actor a blazing saddles a a Vic Tor Victoria and a sitcom Star a a Webster. But there was one memorably mediocre Patch his three seasons on a monday night  after Dandy Don Meredith jumped and Fred a the Hammer Williamson was pushed Karras was hired Over the objections of National football league commissioner Pete Rozelle who thought Karras offered the wrong image for so sacred an event. Rozelle had suspended him along with Paul Hornung for the 1963 season for gambling. But Karras had an engaging reputation mostly from books by George Plimpton As a locker room Mono Loguisto. He had kept his teammates Loose with tales of his past lives As George Washington a aide de Camp and As Adolf hitlers secret wife. In his first game in the Booth Karras looked Down at the steam rising off the shaved head of an Oakland Raider and said a a that Sotis Sistrunk from the University of  Sistrunk went on to make an off season living from that line and Karras was hailed As a wit. But he never came close to being that Good again. A nobody helped me a he said now. A i went in there wondering who i was supposed to be who i was supposed to talk to and no one Ever told me. A i tried to be freewheeling. Once i said that a Guy was so Good he had gotten a Cadillac in College and the control room went crazy. They screamed at me to remember that Ford was the games sponsor and paid our  As Marc Gunther and Bill Carter pointed out in their excellent a monday night mayhem Morrow 1988gifford was hostile to Karras when he first arrived in the Booth and Cosell while Friendly has never hidden his belief that two sex jocks in the Booth with him were at least one too Many. With such history we Are not surprised that the broadcasters of a tuesday night football Are Lance Allgood a former football hero a handsome airhead with an insatiable appetite to satisfy his female fans insatiable needs and Haywood a Ruellar smart and Ratchet voiced a the Man everybody loves to  the Book has been publicized As a Send up of Cosell and Gifford but Karras grins slips that Block and plunges on claiming that he expects both of them to appear in his movie. Cosell at first annoyed by the idea of the Book has been mollified by Calls from Karras and by Reading that a Ruellar is a the consummate professional sports  Gifford however seems not to be amused. Karras blinks of lushly and says he can to see Why. The Book and movie Are not about them he says but about the Dorky innocent within himself Lazio Horvath a candid like accordionist from Llama rack a Holiday inn lounge act addicted to to commercials. Lazio known As a the Jingle King a is brought into the Booth to save a tuesday night football Quot from the Boring broadcasters describing a Boring game. At this Point of course Alex Lazlo has his revenge on us As Well As the nil and Abc. Consumer groups have been pressing for government regulation of a product placement a the practice of sneaking Brand name products into films. A no no i love it a he chortled. A a it a what America is All